But as a Netflix original film, Flanagan has the support and resources to spend a whole film inside a bedroom… and explore the darkest corners therein. Hardly the stuff of easy adaptation, the actual implications of why this woman has been stuck in one place, both in a horrifying moment of short-term survival and in a more abstract overview of her whole life, would likely make this tale of middle-aged despair “unfilmmable” to any number of modern studios. For here is a movie that’s focused essentially on a woman who can’t pull herself out of bed. In fact, the most daring thing about the picture is its exact smallness. No major special effects explode here, nor are there alternate dimensions there isn’t even a creepy dancing clown. To be sure, there is (arguably) nothing supernatural about Gerald’s Game, nor anything particularly “high-concept,” at least within the industry definition of that term. As the third major Stephen King adaptation in only a few months, Mike Flanagan’s Gerald’s Game is an intensely intimate nightmare-and perhaps the most effectively haunting of the three films.

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