Midnight Mass, the most recent restricted horror sequence coming to Netflix from The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Mike Flanagan, arrives tomorrow. It’s actually excellent timing for a pre-Halloween binge. But when you’ve devoured Midnight Mass—starring Hamish Linklater, Rahul Kohli, Annabeth Gish, and extra—the place else are you able to flip to get an additional Flanagan repair? io9 has some concepts.

If you don’t wish to make investments the time rewatching Hill House and Bly Manor (or his Stephen King sequence, Gerald’s Game), the filmmaker’s feature-film listing can also be, unsurprisingly, heavy on horror storytelling that shares some acquainted traits together with his Netflix hits. Here are our 4 favorites.

Where are you able to watch Absentia (2010)?

I first noticed Flanagan’s function debut—which he wrote, edited, and directed—in 2011 when it was making the horror movie pageant rounds, and it caught with me. When he began making a lot larger movies, I remembered his title and had an “Ah yes, that’s the guy who made that skin-crawling Absentia movie that gave me nightmares” epiphany. The excellent combo of mundane setting (a suburban neighborhood with an entry tunnel on the finish of the block) and uncanny state of affairs (that tunnel is not what it appears), Absentia additionally makes nice use of characters who really feel like actual folks: a weary lady (Courtney Bell) who’s lastly prepared to maneuver on from her long-missing husband, each legally and emotionally, and her equally weary sister (Katie Parker), whose makes an attempt at staying sober are challenged when the supernatural makes an sudden look. Absentia is streaming on Shudder.

Where are you able to watch Oculus (2013)?

Movies about haunted mirrors aren’t all that unusual—Snow White received there first, however you would make a mini-festival with 1969’s Fear No Evil, 1974’s From Beyond the Grave, 1980’s The Boogeyman, and 1993’s Amityville: A New Generation, and this movie, primarily based on a brief Flanagan made in 2005. The implied “reflecting the evil within myself” message these tales lend themselves to can typically really feel heavy-handed, and whereas Oculus isn’t fairly on the extent of Flanagan’s biggest works, it nonetheless crafts a deeply disturbing story exploring themes that clearly fascinate the filmmaker, since he’s returned to them a number of occasions. These embrace fraught sibling relationships, the overwhelming temptation to return to a location the place a Very Bad Thing has occurred (though you realize you shouldn’t), and the concept a horrible household trauma can reverberate for years in alarming methods—particularly when that trauma includes one thing malevolently supernatural. The solid features a pre-Guardians of the Galaxy, post-Doctor Who Karen Gillen and Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff, in addition to Annalise Basso (who’s additionally in Ouija: Origin of Evil) and Kate Siegel (who’s been in virtually every thing that Flanagan, her partner since 2016, has carried out since). Oculus is streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Where are you able to watch Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)?

Clue will probably at all times reign supreme as the best film primarily based on a board sport, however Ouija: Origin of Evil is so entertaining it greater than justifies its existence. No small factor contemplating it’s the prequel to 2014’s Ouija, a film that made us lengthy for the Eighties extra of Witchboard and completely didn’t want any form of follow-up. However, we’re glad it received one, as a result of the top end result introduced Flanagan (who directed, edited, and co-wrote with Jeff Howard) along with future Hill House stars Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, and Henry Thomas in a Sixties-set story of a widow with two daughters, one Ouija board, and a household house with a hell of a darkish secret buried within the basement. Ouija: Origin of Evil is streaming on HBO Max.

Where are you able to watch Doctor Sleep (2019)?

Much like Ouija—however for fully completely different causes—no one was actually crying out for a sequel to The Shining. But Stephen King wrote one, and happily the inevitable sequel discovered its means into Flanagan’s filmography, bringing us a movie that pays homage to each King’s unique and sequel novels and Stanley Kubrick’s much-loved (by everybody besides King, seemingly) 1980 movie. Doctor Sleep would possibly not be as scary as The Shining, but it surely’s a visually dazzling showcase for Flanagan, who by some means makes dread, despair, decay, and a plot that includes lots of people going into their very own heads really feel dynamic and thrilling, to not point out lush and beautiful. He’s clearly discovered a really fruitful area of interest within the realm of Netflix horror sequence (after Midnight Mass, he’s received one other sequence, The Midnight Club) however finally—hopefully—he’ll return to the large display one among today. Doctor Sleep is streaming on Amazon Prime.

Midnight Mass begins streaming on Netflix on Friday, September 24.

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