# What is the best movie written or directed by Mike Flanagan?

> A crowdfunded debut sits beside two Stephen King adaptations, a Netflix home invasion and this year's DC body horror. Every film here has Flanagan's name on the script or behind the camera.

*By YPB Team · Published October 31, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-movie-written-or-directed-by-mike-flanagan*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Doctor Sleep** — score 1000/1000
   The 2019 Stephen King sequel to The Shining, following a grown-up Danny Torrance as he protects a girl with the same gift.
2. **The Life of Chuck** — score 733/1000
   Flanagan's 2024 Stephen King adaptation that tells one man's life backwards in three acts.
3. **Absentia** — score 599/1000
   Flanagan's 2011 crowdfunded debut about a woman whose husband reappears after seven years missing, linked to a tunnel near her sister's house.
4. **Oculus** — score 599/1000
   A 2013 haunted-mirror horror in which two siblings try to prove an antique mirror drove their parents to violence.
5. **Clayface** — score 599/1000
   The 2026 DC Studios body-horror film co-written by Flanagan, about an actor whose disfigurement turns him into a shapeshifting villain.
6. **Hush** — score 0/1000
   A 2016 home-invasion thriller about a deaf writer stalked by a masked killer at her isolated house in the woods.
7. **Before I Wake** — score 0/1000
   A 2016 fantasy-horror about a foster boy whose dreams, and nightmares, become real while he sleeps.
8. **Ouija: Origin of Evil** — score 0/1000
   The 1967-set 2016 prequel about a widow's séance business and a Ouija board that brings something into her home.
9. **Gerald's Game** — score 0/1000
   Flanagan's 2017 Netflix adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a woman handcuffed to a bed at a remote lake house.

Tags: movies, horror, stephen king, mike flanagan