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“Don’t ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to, I guess.” - Gerald, Gerald’s Game

Gerald’s Game (2017)

A married couple escapes to the secluded shore of Mobile Bay for a long-overdue weekend of sunshine, Sam Cooke, and viagra. The champagne is iced, the kobe is tender and dripping, clothes fall to the floor. And that’s when the handcuffs come out.

Since reading “Gerald’s Game” as a teenager, director Mike Flanagan dreamed of adapting the Stephen King novel for the screen. Despite the book’s reputation as one of King’s lesser works, an “unfilmable” psychodramatic inner monologue, Flanagan was undeterred, often carrying his tattered copy along to meetings.

Following the success of Flanagan’s Oculus (2013) and his three films in 2016 - Hush, Before I Wake, and Ouija: Origin of Evil - he finally had the clout to make his dream project a reality. On September 29, 2017, Gerald’s Game was released on Netflix.

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