Every Mike Flanagan Movie Ranked from Worst to Best, According to IMDb

There’s a little bit more than a week left until Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck hits theatres worldwide, marking the director’s third collaboration with Stephen King.

Now that there’s more to wait from Flanagan and King’s duo, some might get interested in the director’s other adaptations of King’s novels or rather different stories that Flanagan brought to the screens before.

Here’s every single movie directed by Flanagan which you can spend the time with until The Life of Chuck arrives in theatres.

7. ‘Absentia’ (2011)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Absentia holds scores of 87% and 49% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 5.8/10

Flanagan’s debut horror feature follows a woman who gets suspicious about a mysterious tunnel near her home and starts seeing its connection to her husband’s death.

When she and her sister embark on their own investigation, some terrifying truth about supernatural forces is exposed, also revealing more about another mysterious chain of local vanishings.

6. ‘Before I Wake’ (2016)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Before I Wake keeps scores of 67% and 48% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie rates 6.2/10

The horror mystery movie follows a couple of Mark and Jessie who adopt 8-year-old boy Cody after their own young son’s tragic death.

When Cody tells Jessie that he has trouble sleeping, she doesn’t pay much attention to that, but soon realises Cody has a supernatural ability of turning both his dreams and nightmares into reality.

The couple decides to take action when their dead biological son suddenly appears in their living room.

5. ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ (2016)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Ouija: Origin of Evil has scores of 83% and 58% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie’s rating is 6.2/10

Set in 1967, the movie sees widow Alice and her daughters accidentally summoning a sinister spirit while running a séance scam.

When Alice’s youngest daughter Doris becomes possessed and unleashes terrifying supernatural events that spiral out of control, the family must confront their own fears and try to send the evil spirit back to the other side.

4. ‘Oculus’ (2013)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Oculus holds scores of 75% and 54% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 6.5/10

Starring Karen Gillan in one of the roles, the movie follows siblings Kaylie and Tim who are still haunted by the mystery surrounding their parents’ violent and tragic death 10 years prior.

When Kaylie becomes convinced that their antique mirror, known as the Lasser Glass, is behind the tragedy, both she and her brother get into the mirror’s evil spell.

3. ‘Gerald’s Game’ (2017)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Gerald’s Game keeps scores of 91% and 70% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie rates 6.5/10

Based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, the movie follows a married couple who seeks ways to rekindle the spark in their relationship by arranging a getaway weekend in a remote cabin near the lake.

However, when the husband suddenly dies of a heart attack, his wife is forced to survive while staying handcuffed to the bed without a key.

2. ‘Hush’ (2016)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Hush has scores of 91% and 73% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie’s rating is 6.6/10

Flanagan’s slasher film follows deaf-mute horror author Maddie Young living in the woods and suddenly being attacked by an intruder who tries to break into her house.

With no other person nearby to help her, Maddie decides to turn her disability into an advantage and outwit the masked killer in a deadly survival game.

1. ‘Doctor Sleep’ (2019)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Doctor Sleep holds scores of 78% and 89% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 7.3/10

A sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 hit horror The Shining, the movie follows the events years after the original film’s finale, seeing grown-up Danny Torrance meet a young girl with similar psychic abilities.

Together they have to confront a dangerous cult that looks for children with the “shine”, which will also result in Danny’s battle with his own inner demons.