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With Gerald's Game available to watch, you can see for yourself whether truth is stranger than fiction. When Netflix announced they were adapting Stephen King's 1992 book Gerald's Game...
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The "Moonlight Man" Visited Jessie As She Was Helplessly Chained To The Bed
Gerald's Game was helmed by Mike Flanagan, one of the most prolific genre directors of recent years. He has become the go-to director for Stephen King adaptations, with Gerald's Game Doctor Sleep, and the upcoming The Life of Chuck. Many Stephen King readers believed Gerald's Game to be borderline unfilmable, but Flanagan managed to find a way to make the concept cinematic. The movie sees Jessie chained to the bed where she believes she is visited by a giant man dubbed the "Moonlight Man,"who...
Ed Gein Has Influenced Several Horror Movies
The big twist of Gerald's Game is that The Moonlight Man was real. Jessie learns her visitor is Raymond Andrew Joubert, a man the press dubs the "Crypt Creeper." Joubert suffers from a disorder known as acromegaly and is played by Carel Struycken (Twin Peaks). Gerald's Game Crypt Creeper earned his name from digging up graves to steal from the dead while molesting corpses. The Crypt Keeper from Gerald's Game is based on real-life killer Ed Gein, who murdered two women in the 1950s. Ed Gein al...
Mike Flanagan Looks At Real-World Horrors In His Movies
Mike Flanagan has mostly stuck to horror, and most of his movies and TV shows have been book adaptations.When it comes to Gerald's Game, the Ed Gein influence was already in Stephen King's novel. Doctor Sleep, also directed by Flanagan, is purely a sequel to The Shining, so doesn't ring true to real life much beyond the author's original inspiration for the location. However, some of Mike Flanagan's non-Stephen King movies might have had some real-life influences. Some obvious movies were 100...
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Jan 26, 2023 · Netflix. Though Mike Flanagan never met his hero, Stephen King, while working on the film, King did have a major influence on the film's production. Flanagan told The Independent that it was...
Oct 13, 2017 · It may be hard to believe that the horror of Gerald's Game could be based on any kind of truth. However, truth is often stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more obvious...
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Gerald's Game is a 2017 American psychological horror thriller film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan, and screenplay written by Flanagan with Jeff Howard. It is based on Stephen King's 1992 novel of the same title, long thought to be unfilmable.
May 27, 2022 · The bone-chilling Gerald’s Game was released on Netflix in 2017, and was based on Stephen King's 1992 book of the same name. The film tells the story of Gerald (played by Bruce Greenwood) and his...
Gerald's Game is a 1992 suspense novel by American writer Stephen King. The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over.
