Mike Flanagan is bringing back a relic of the 2000s – the director's commentary – in the best possible way for horror fans
Jul. 11, 2024Mike Flanagan is bringing back director’s commentaries with his new podcast
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Remember DVD commentaries? Sure, they haven’tquitegone the way of the media dodo just yet, but in a world of podcasts, chit-chats, and gimmick interviews, it appears that a director sitting around to talk shop – or more, in the case of Ben Affleck on Armageddon – is a relic of the past.
Thank goodness, then, for horror supremo Mike Flanagan. The director, best known for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, is launching Directors Commentary, a new podcast that aims to be part-interview, part-director’s commentary.
“I’m so excited to introduce you all to DIRECTORS COMMENTARY, my new podcast with Spectrevision Radio,” Flanagan wrote on Twitter.
“In each episode, I’ll interview a filmmaker about their career, and then watch one of their films with them for a real-time watch-along commentary track that can be played with the film itself. Our first episode, featuring Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett… and their wonderful film Ready or Not.”
Mike Flanagan isn’t just sticking to podcasts, however. He haswritten a segmentfor Shudder’s popular V/H/S anthology. Kate Siegel, Flanagan’s wife and collaborator, is directing.
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