Mike Flanagan Trivia | 34 facts about the filmmaker

Mike Flanagan is an American filmmaker and he is called one of the people that changed modern horror.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career thus far.

1. Mike Flanagan was born in May 20, 1978
2. He is an American filmmaker and partner in Intrepid Pictures
3. Flanagan’s work has attracted the praise of critics for his directing and lack of reliance on jump scares
4. Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, and William Friedkin, among others, have praised him
5. Flanagan is best known for his horror films
6. All of which he directed, wrote, and edited
7. His films include Absentia (2011), Oculus (2013), Hush, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin of Evil (all 2016), Gerald’s Game (2017), and Doctor Sleep (2019)
8. He is also known for having created, produced, and served as showrunner on the Netflix supernatural horror anthology series The Haunting
9. The series consists of The Haunting of Hill House (2018), a season based on Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name[8] and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), a season based on the horror novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10. Both of which he has directed, written, and edited episodes of
11. Flanagan also created and directed the Netflix horror mini-series Midnight Mass (2021)
12. As well as the teen horror series The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher
13. Flanagan is married to actress Kate Siegel
14. Siegel has been featured in most of his works since Oculus
15. They also wrote the screenplay of Hush together
16. Flanagan was born in 1978 in Salem, Massachusetts
17. His father was in the United States Coast Guard, and the family moved around often
18. Although he only briefly lived in Salem, it left an impression on him, and Flanagan retained an abiding interest in both the Salem witch trials and associated topics, such as ghost stories and horror fiction
19. Flanagan eventually ended up in Maryland
20. There he was a student at Archbishop Spalding High School and later attended Towson University
21. He graduated with a BA in Electronic Media & Film and a minor in theater
22. In April 2021, Flanagan was announced to be developing a film for Universal Pictures based on another Christopher Pike novel The Season of Passage
23. In July 2021, it was announced that Flanagan would adapt comic book series Something Is Killing the Children for Netflix
24. Flanagan will write and executive produce the series along with Trevor Macy
25. In October of that year, it was announced that Flanagan will create The Fall of the House of Usher, an eight episode limited series for Netflix that will be based on the short story of the same name and other works by Edgar Allan Poe
26. Flanagan will direct four episodes of the series
27. With the other four being helmed by his longtime cinematographer Michael Fimognari
28. Flanagan was formerly in a relationship with Absentia actress Courtney Bell
29. With whom he has a son
30. Since February 2016, he has been married to actress Kate Siegel
31. With whom he has two children, one son and one daughter
32. Flanagan spent years studying various religions
33. He described Midnight Mass as a passion project, one that was “deeply personal” and dealt intimately with Flanagan’s upbringing in the Catholic Church, and his eventual sobriety and atheism
34. His father served in the Coast Guard, during which the family lived on Governors Island