Mike Flanagan could also be a family identify to horror followers now, due to hit Netflix exhibits like “The Haunting of Hill Home” and “Midnight Mass,” however his first Netflix film (kinda), was a low-budget Blumhouse thriller starring Kate Siegel as a deaf creator warding off a serial killer with a crossbow throughout a suspenseful dwelling invasion.

“Hush” could have been solely out there on Netflix ever since its debut in 2016, however apparently that deal is ending, as a result of it is vanishing from the service on April 7, 2023. Hopefully, it will likely be made out there elsewhere, on bodily media and/or different streaming companies, as a result of “Hush” is certainly one of Flanagan’s greatest movies. Impressed by the suspenseful traditional Audrey Hepburn traditional “Wait Till Darkish,” the place she performed a blind lady menaced by a homicidal Alan Arkin, “Hush” is sensible, environment friendly, fashionable horror filmmaking. Siegel is a formidable protagonist, considering her method out of a collection of lethal conditions, and John Gallagher Jr. is creepy as hell because the mysterious villain who views his newest quarry as an irresistible problem.

Flanagan would go on to direct the Netflix authentic Stephen King adaptation “Gerald’s Recreation,” which mercifully does not appear to be going anyplace (it is superb), and the formidable “The Shining” sequel, “Physician Sleep,” however this early thriller exhibits the horror luminary on the top of his powers, even with a decrease funds. “Hush” has lengthy been top-of-the-line horror motion pictures out there solely on Netflix. It’s going to be top-of-the-line horror motion pictures wherever it turns up subsequent, too.