Gerald's Game

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Gerald's Game

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2017

1h 43m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A woman accidentally kills her husband during a kinky game. Handcuffed to her bed with no hope of rescue, she begins hearing voices and seeing strange visions.

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Critics Consensus

Carla Gugino carries Gerald's Game's small-scale suspense with a career-defining performance.

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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

Carla Gugino delivers one of the best performances of the year in a faithful adaptation from Mike Flanagan.

Rated: A

Nov 16, 2019

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

Gerald's Game ultimately argues that monsters are real, and that they can only be defeated (or, at least, "minimized") through direct confrontation.

Oct 5, 2017

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Aja Romano

Vox

One of the best things about this movie is its smallness

Oct 3, 2017

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Joe Lipsett

Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network

Flanagan's thrilling adaptation shouldn't work, but the director's style, plus Gugino and Greenwood's acting, is never less than captivating. The coda works better in hindsight, particularly when it's presented as Jessie's Good For Her moment.

Rated: 4.5/5

Nov 2, 2022

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Daniel Howat

Next Best Picture

The performances and writing are so strong that it's the atmosphere that scares you more than anything. Gerald's Game is a great, tense film that doesn't pander or belittle you. It'll make you squirm in all the best ways.

Rated: 7/10

May 19, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Flanagan's direction is superb. Gerald's Game is a film that looks like it was storyboarded, and that those storyboards were followed in every detail.

Rated: 3.5/4

Feb 23, 2022

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Hugo S

A middle-aged couple go away for the weekend to a remote cottage with the purpose of reigniting their relationship. During a kinky sex game, the woman accidentally kills her husband. Handcuffed to the bed, she enters a state of delirium that awakes all of her inner demons and past traumas. "Gerald's Game" proves that a simple story and setting are sometimes enough to entertain the audience and still create an unconventional plot. A solid adaptation of one of the most enigmatic novels from Stephen King.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/25

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mathew b

Boring. Flat characters. No story line

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/25

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D. Hunter P

I didn't have any idea what to expect when I went in to this movie, but I'm very much a Flanagan fan. I loved how this was just a retrospective of the main female character's past. The beginning very much is just for shock value and to set up the situation. The flashbacks were creepy and horrific from a character perspective.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/09/25

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Fake N

This was a fun movie to watch, the characters felt fully thought out. The story is such a simple one to tell but incredibly rich with back story about our main character.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/18/24

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María C

Me mantuvo pegada a la pantalla, está buenísima.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/03/24

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For 2017: one of Carla Gugino's best performances based on the book by Stephen King it deals with a lot of disturbing content from repressed memories, childhood trauma, and mind games Jesse and her husband, Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) go up to a secluded cabin for a long weekend to improve their love-life but it takes a dark turn when he has a heart attack during the seduction and she's helplessly handcuffed to the bed with no means of escape she can suffer starvation, dehydration or risk getting torn to shreds by a rabid dog it's a mind game as she fights off her inner demons of what went wrong with her marriage to what happened when she was 12 years old there's some frightening imagery inside her head not to mention a very gory scene involving her escape, I actually turned away because it was so damn graphic the film takes some time to take off since it's confined to one area but Gugino pulls it off so well the choice is up to her to give in or keep trying our minds can trap us at any moment during a horrific situation but they also create monsters if we let them another fine Stephen King adaptation

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/30/24

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Synopsis

A woman accidentally kills her husband during a kinky game. Handcuffed to her bed with no hope of rescue, she begins hearing voices and seeing strange visions.

Director: Mike Flanagan
Producer: Trevor Macy
Screenwriter: Jeff Howard, Mike Flanagan
Production Co: Intrepid Pictures
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 29, 2017
Runtime: 1h 43m

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