The writer and director Mike Flanagan has become a well-regarded name in modern horror, known for his TV versions of The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher . He's also made a couple of Stephen King adaptations, including the films Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep , and he's currently working on a new series version of Carrie .

Flanagan's latest movie, The Life of Chuck , is both a continuation of this trend and a bit of a departure from it: It's based on a 2020 King novella that draws on horror conventions without quite becoming a full-blown horror story. King's work can be unabashedly sentimental as well as genuinely scary, and this movie is a mystery with a maudlin streak. It hopes you'll be scratching your head at the beginning and brushing aw

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