When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.

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• Mike Flanagan:

  Audiences have grown to equate being startled with being scared, and will complain that a movie 'is

• Mike Flanagan:

  A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more fright

• Mike Flanagan:

  For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally in

• Mike Flanagan:

  I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

• Mike Flanagan:

  At home, people are more likely to be distracted than in a theatrical environment. They're checking

• Mike Flanagan:

  Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to

• Mike Flanagan:

  I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experien

• Mike Flanagan:

  Well when I hear 'slasher' I think about the 80s.

• Mike Flanagan:

  Horror is fascinating because it's so seasonal and it's like you've got these periods where slasher

• Mike Flanagan:

  There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movi