The Life of Chuck has just won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, setting it up to continue a major Oscars streak.

After departing from Netflix to Amazon, Mike Flanagan is currently slated to helm four upcoming horror projects including a new Exorcist movie.

Mike Flanagan’s long-awaited Stephen King movie The Life of Chuck has premiered, and the early reactions are very strong. The new horror based on a novella from genre maestro King bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival and is currently sitting at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews.

Lake Mungo, a movie very much about mid-2000s cell phone cameras, may not need a glossy upgrade, but it deserves the honor just the same.

Mike Flanagan 's track record adapting the works of Stephen King isn't just impressive because the movies he has made are independently phenomenal works that reflect a perfect understanding of the source material;

And, yeah, when people talk about Lake Mungo, they always bring up its standout scene—no doubt, it’s the precise instant that inspired Flanagan to leap off his couch. It delivers, but it succeeds not just on its merits as a creepy jump scare,

Blumhouse and Mike Flanagan have collaborated successfully on films like Oculus, Hush and Ouija: Origin of Evil. Now the two horror forces will again come together for “a radical new take” of The Exorcist horror reboot. Flanagan told THR his goal is to make the upcoming horror film the “scariest movie” he’s made, and I’m shaking already:

Mike Flanagan reckons his new Stephen King adaptation is his best movie so far, and he's thought so since day four on set. The filmmaker, who previously helmed The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, says he knew sci-fi horror The Life of Chuck was "magical" after filming a dance sequence with lead Tom Hiddleston.