This year’s best Netflix thriller reveals controversial new trend
Mike Flanagan is a man of change. His Netflix original work, midnight mass‘ was an instant hit, but it really shines when it’s given material, whether it’s a Stephen King novel or an old horror classic. Now, in his recent work, Flanagan has developed new ways to adapt classics. This experiment paid off in his last Netflix series. Although this series is derived from classical literature, Derivative word.
Flanagan’s journey with Netflix began like this: The Haunting of Hill Housebased on the novel by Shirley Jackson, but he tried something new with the second Haunting series, Ghost of Bligh Manor. The title comes from Henry James’s influential novel, rotation of screwsthe story was a sprawling epic that took notes from various James novels.
Ghost of Bligh Manor was the first Flanagan series to adapt multiple works by the same author.
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Rather than focusing on a single work, Flanagan designed a multi-layered story structure. The main adaptation includes side plots and flashbacks adapted from other parts of James’s bibliography. This idea is midnight club, which took horror author Christopher Pike’s portfolio and turned it into a semi-anthology. The show’s structure, in which hospice teens tell scary stories, is based on one of Pike’s novels, and each story they tell is based on a different novel.
Fall of the House of Usher I have completed this model. Edgar Allan Poe created a wide variety of stories and poems. “The Fall of the House of Usher” provides inspiration for the doomed pharmaceutical company’s composition, but other stories inspire each episode and each Usher’s demise.
These adaptations are from the faithful (an adaptation of Victorine’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”) very Though loose (“The Goldbug” goes from cryptic travelogue to wellness-girl-boss fable), each one pays homage to the original through a new addition to Flanagan’s formula: Easter eggs galore. ing. All the major characters are named after Poe’s works, and even Camille’s catchphrase, “Damn Toby,” refers to a character in Poe’s Never Bet Your Head with the Devil.
Did you notice that Verna’s name is an anagram of Raven?
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Although this is Flanagan’s last Netflix series (he moved to Prime Video, dark tower), this adaptation style could (and should) become an entire micro-genre for Netflix; the streamer owns the entire Roald Dahl catalog, and its successful adaptation of Wes Anderson’s short stories Take his short stories. “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” allows you to write a story and use it as a structure device for more short stories. This is about the machines that can be used.
The public domain also offers a number of well-known portfolios that could make for a great Flanagan-esque series, even if it’s not explicitly horror. Through series in this same vein, we can introduce a whole new generation to the works of Austen, Shakespeare, Doyle and Dickens. Flanagan may be leaving Netflix, but it’s unlikely that his influence on television adaptations as a whole will be the last.
