Aside from the scares and the emotions behind his stories, the best part of Mike Flanagan's TV shows is Carla Gugino.
The Big Picture A mother who can’t escape a haunted house. A widow who is forced to confront her inner demons. A wedding guest who has seen her share of ghosts. These characters are not one of the same, except for the actress that portrays them, which is the transformative and beguiling Carla Gugino. While director Mike Flanagan has worked with many of the same actors, the best collaborations are the roles Gugino takes on in his many horror projects.
The movie is based on the Stephen King novel thought to be unfilmable, Flanagan proved that to be wrong, and having Gugino as his star turned this into a claustrophobic thriller. A voiceover at the end will be another tool Gugino can use in later performances but for most of the movie, she talks to figures from her mind that either help or try to break her down. Gugino plays Jessie’s assertive doppelgänger who demands she stay alive while mocking the fellow hallucination of Gerald.
In times of stress for her character, Gugino muffles the sobs, her mouth closed tight to try to swallow them down. Her eyes get glassy as tears collect, but they don’t stream down her cheeks, or she doesn’t blink, as if trying so hard to hold her emotions in check. But this struggle can’t be defeated. Unlike Jessie in Gerald’s Game who howls and sobs which ends up liberating as it lets her release pent-up rage and despair, Olivia is consumed by the evil and manipulation of Hill House.
In Bly Manor’s purely gothic horror entry, the tragedy of the Lady in the Lake is told by the Storyteller, where there is minimal dialogue and color stripped away for a black-and-white purgatory. In Gugino’s soft-spoken voice, she describes the Lady’s plight where she does not rest in peace, “She would sleep. She would wake. She would walk.
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