The horror-themed setting in a room not only brings a momentous tension to the audience but also explores many hidden angles in character psychology.
Gerald's Game follows the series of Stephen King's novels set for release in 2017. Unlike The Dark Tower and IT, which was released on the big screen, Gerald's Game was produced and distributed exclusively by television. Netflix started on September 29.
Gerald's Game was Stephen King's best-selling novel in 1992. The story that Stephen King had said was difficult to film, due to the heavy psychological factor that characterism struggles with. His fall is to find a way to survive rather than a story line with many characters, actions to be easily depicted with images. So no one expected Mike Flanagan, the director of the horror films Ouija: Origin of Evil, Before I Wake, to succeed with Gerald's Game. But Mike Flanagan did it, and did a great job of conveying the spirit of Stephen King in the novel without the usual haunting prowess in the horror genre.
The plot of Gerald's Game is quite simple. The middle-aged couple Jessie (Carla Gugino) and Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) have long had no sex life together due to work, and many reasons that any married couple get married long time will also encounter. They decided to renew their relationship by going to a deserted house by the lake to relax, and try new things in the bed story. The place is not deserted, there, the scream of a person falling into space and swallowed but not reach anyone.
Jessie 'gets' her husband tied her hands in two bars standing at the top of the bed. They want to play "50 shades", overcome the limit to find pleasure. However, Gerald died of a heart attack. And Jessie was tied up, without a shackle at an unknown place, next to only a hungry wild dog who craved fresh meat. How could Jessie escape and face the extreme fear that can make anyone panic?
Co-writer Jeff Howard, the director of Flanagan, has been smart enough to put very little detail to make the film logical and logical. Gerald is suffering from excessive use of Viagra drugs, Jessie's reaction to Gerald's overdose has hidden her psychological trauma as a child, the story of a sexually abusive father she has never spoken to. With whom. In this way, Flanagan creates the smoother narrative that can bring the fullness of the ideas conveyed by Stephen King in the novel, which is a psychological thriller.
Stephen King's story is narrow, with almost two main characters, and an illusion imagined by Jessie about Man Made from Moonlight, thus finding a way to bring it to the screen. a problem not easy. Flanagan chose to bring Jessie's disturbing thoughts to life. That is to create the illusion of her dead husband living up to talk to her, and a self-conscious and cautious version of Jessie also appears to protect her from the very negative debates of her husband.
By doing so, the story of the film takes place in a very narrow room, which is very smooth in character psychology, reveals the past, and especially shows how Jessie battled herself to survive. . Not using any jumping-scare or anti-hasty artifacts, instead, the director uses horror in situations where death and pain are always on the prowl to stretch the spirit of the audience. , creating curiosity about how Jessie would free herself.
Actress Carla Gugino has had the best role in her career. She expresses extremely well the mental state constantly being challenged from anger, panic, to calm and assertive. The film brings a survival situation where characters in one way or another have to accept physical pain to overcome themselves. Gugino has done all that. Terrible image in the third is really not easy to see for all audiences. But it was satisfying because it was the only way out of the dead.
Flanagan also brings a few small surprises about what is real and what is bad. Therefore, Gerald's Game is not a typical low budget horror film, but a stand-alone piece of work, invested by a director who is really talented and serious in the process of making his film.
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Gerald's Game follows the series of Stephen King's novels set for release in 2017. Unlike The Dark Tower and IT, which was released on the big screen, Gerald's Game was produced and distributed exclusively by television. Netflix started on September 29.
Gerald's Game was Stephen King's best-selling novel in 1992. The story that Stephen King had said was difficult to film, due to the heavy psychological factor that characterism struggles with. His fall is to find a way to survive rather than a story line with many characters, actions to be easily depicted with images. So no one expected Mike Flanagan, the director of the horror films Ouija: Origin of Evil, Before I Wake, to succeed with Gerald's Game. But Mike Flanagan did it, and did a great job of conveying the spirit of Stephen King in the novel without the usual haunting prowess in the horror genre.
Jessie 'gets' her husband tied her hands in two bars standing at the top of the bed. They want to play "50 shades", overcome the limit to find pleasure. However, Gerald died of a heart attack. And Jessie was tied up, without a shackle at an unknown place, next to only a hungry wild dog who craved fresh meat. How could Jessie escape and face the extreme fear that can make anyone panic?
Co-writer Jeff Howard, the director of Flanagan, has been smart enough to put very little detail to make the film logical and logical. Gerald is suffering from excessive use of Viagra drugs, Jessie's reaction to Gerald's overdose has hidden her psychological trauma as a child, the story of a sexually abusive father she has never spoken to. With whom. In this way, Flanagan creates the smoother narrative that can bring the fullness of the ideas conveyed by Stephen King in the novel, which is a psychological thriller.
Stephen King's story is narrow, with almost two main characters, and an illusion imagined by Jessie about Man Made from Moonlight, thus finding a way to bring it to the screen. a problem not easy. Flanagan chose to bring Jessie's disturbing thoughts to life. That is to create the illusion of her dead husband living up to talk to her, and a self-conscious and cautious version of Jessie also appears to protect her from the very negative debates of her husband.
Actress Carla Gugino has had the best role in her career. She expresses extremely well the mental state constantly being challenged from anger, panic, to calm and assertive. The film brings a survival situation where characters in one way or another have to accept physical pain to overcome themselves. Gugino has done all that. Terrible image in the third is really not easy to see for all audiences. But it was satisfying because it was the only way out of the dead.
Flanagan also brings a few small surprises about what is real and what is bad. Therefore, Gerald's Game is not a typical low budget horror film, but a stand-alone piece of work, invested by a director who is really talented and serious in the process of making his film.
Read more:
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