Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan

1978-05-20 Salem, Massachusetts, USA 35 Credits

Biography

Mike Flanagan (born May 20, 1978) is an American filmmaker best known for his horror work. Flanagan wrote, directed, produced, and edited the horror films Absentia (2011), Oculus (2013), Hush, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald's Game (2017), and Doctor Sleep (2019). He created, wrote, produced, and served as showrunner on the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Midnight Mass (2021), The Midnight Club (2022), and The Fall of...

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Clayface

2026

Writer

Writing

A Hollywood horror tale centering on a B-movie actor who injects himself with a substance to keep himself relevant, only to find out that he can resha...

Shelby Oaks

Shelby Oaks

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

The Paranormal Paranoids, a team of paranormal investigators, uncover a dark legacy and the far-reaching effects their investigation has as Mia search...

The Room Returns!

The Room Returns!

2025

as Peter

Acting

A green-screen reliant remake of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult film.

The Room Returns!

The Room Returns!

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

A green-screen reliant remake of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult film.

The Life of Chuck

The Life of Chuck

2025

as Mourner

7.3
Acting

In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes cont...

The Life of Chuck

The Life of Chuck

2025

Editor, Director, Producer

7.3
Directing Producing Writing

In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes cont...

Heart Eyes

Heart Eyes

2025

Thanks

6.4

When the "Heart Eyes Killer" strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine's Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple...

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

2024

as Self

7.3
Acting

Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of hor...

V/H/S/Beyond

V/H/S/Beyond

2024

Writer

6.7
Writing

The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/...

King on Screen

King on Screen

2023

as Self

6.9
Acting

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

Love You, Mama

Love You, Mama

2022

Editor

After the sudden death of her father, a young woman becomes haunted by the uncertainty of the world around her.

Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook

Doctor Sleep: Return To The Overlook

2020

as Self

Acting

"Return to the Overlook" is a behind-the-scenes featurette exploring the meticulous recreation of the iconic Overlook Hotel for Doctor Sleep. Cast and...

Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

2019

Director, Screenplay, Editor

7.1
Directing Writing

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te...

Gerald's Game

Gerald's Game

2017

Director, Screenplay, Editor

6.4
Directing Writing

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choic...

Dobaara: See Your Evil

Dobaara: See Your Evil

2017

Executive Producer, Original Story

4.7
Producing Writing

An official adaptation of the cult horror film Oculus. The film revolves around a haunted mirror. It shows the emotional journey of siblings Natasha M...

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Ouija: Origin of Evil

2016

Director, Writer, Editor

6.1
Directing Writing

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evi...

Before I Wake

Before I Wake

2016

Director, Writer, Editor

6.5
Directing Writing

An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.

Hush

Hush

2016

Director, Writer, Editor

6.7
Directing Writing

A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

Absentia: A Retrospective

Absentia: A Retrospective

2014

as Self

7.0
Acting

Documentary film on the making of Mike Flanagan's Absentia. Interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes.

Absentia: A Retrospective

Absentia: A Retrospective

2014

Editor

7.0

Documentary film on the making of Mike Flanagan's Absentia. Interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes.

Oculus

Oculus

2013

Director, Screenplay, Editor

6.5
Directing Writing

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

Absentia

Absentia

2011

Director, Writer, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dea...

Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan

Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan

2006

as Ghoul 2

6.5
Acting

A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.

Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan

Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan

2006

Director, Editor, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing Writing

A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.

Chainsaw Sally

Chainsaw Sally

2004

Director of Photography

3.9
Directing

Sally is a young woman living two lives: a calmly librarian by day, and a brutal serial killer by night where she randomly targets any man or woman wh...

Ghosts of Hamilton Street

Ghosts of Hamilton Street

2003

Director, Writer, Editor

Directing Writing

In this award-winning student film, a troubled writer questions his sanity as people in his life vanish without a trace - and it seems he's the only o...

Cold Harbor

2003

Editor

Four brothers, each lonely and alienated, reunite after their father commits suicide by drowning himself in the frigid ocean. Although the siblings do...

Still Life

Still Life

2001

Director, Writer, Editor

Directing Writing Producing

Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in the...

Makebelieve

Makebelieve

2000

Director, Writer, Editor

Directing Writing

Coming of age drama focusing on the loves, lives, and infidelities of four college friends, all while working in a production of Romeo and Juliet.

Peekers

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

When citizens in a small town start to go missing, a police officer faces off against a mysterious gang of grinning weirdos to find her son and keep h...

Inherit the Earth

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

A servant protector robot is tasked to protect a young girl.

Untitled The Exorcist Film

Untitled The Exorcist Film

N/A

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

A “radical new take” on the franchise, one that will be set in the Exorcist universe but will not be a sequel to The Exorcist: Believer.

Snapshot 1988

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

A teenager looks after an elderly lady who is losing her memories not to dementia, but to a memory thief called The Phoenician.

Revival

N/A

Producer, Screenplay

Producing Writing

Reverend Charles Jacobs, a minister in Harlow, Maine, who shares a secret obsession with boy Jamie Morton, a draw so powerful, it has profound consequ...

Epilogue

N/A

Producer

Producing

Set one year after the zombie apocalypse has supposedly come to an end, a desperate couple set out to find a cure for their infected daughter.