[Laughs] Well, a good amount of that, there was a lot of exhaustion emotionally and physically, pretty much in story order. Jessie only escapes by remembering cutting herself accidentally on a glass in the aftermath of the eclipse, and her new life after the handcuffs is built on her using everything to power herself forward - getting past it but also using it. She apologizes for abandoning Ruth, acknowledging that Ruth had confronted her with a truth she could not then face, and hopes they can resume their friendship. Over time, she has magnified her fears inside her mind her father, her broken marriage, her Moonlight Man. [3], Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood were cast to play Jessie and Gerald Burlingame, along with Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken, Kate Siegel, and Chiara Aurelia. Jessie survived. This disorder can be influenced by life occurrences such as being in a war, abuse, assault, natural and unnatural disasters, military combat, and even accidents. The reader feels uncomfortable, they sympathize with Jessie, and, somehow, we come to understand the reasons she has hidden her secret. It needed to be in someone's mouth. She finally gets an explanation for her missing ring, that the person by the side of her bed that night in the lake house was no Moonlight man, but it was Raymond who happened to spare her. Visually, I don't think we even took it as far as he took it in the book. Jessie has her chance to confront her final tormentor, and does so on Joubert's first day in court. The book took me a few weeks to finish reading on and off. Jessie doesnt accept her death lying down in denial. I had the privilege of seeing Gerald's Game with the Fantastic Fest audience. "The people who were supposed to protect you from monsters turned out to be monsters themselves, and they almost killed you," Jessie reflects. In May 2014, Deadline Hollywood reported that Mike Flanagan had been set to direct a film adaptation. There's no Maine setting, no child with fantastical powers, no overly sadistic bullies - not even a struggling writer recovering from addiction trying to work through their block. [1] The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over. In the book, Jessie had her own internal monologue, but in the movie, manifestations of Gerald and herself speak to her throughout her ordeal. That was kind of the thing that turned it all around for me. [2], In an interview with Rue Morgue in September 2016, Flanagan stated that the film adaptation would be released by Netflix. Based on a novel by Stephen King, Gerald's Game comes to Netflix on September 29. Jessie's coerced acceptance that follows is as grotesque as anything else she has to do to survive in Gerald's Game. [1] The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over. He is a crypt creeper who vandalizes graveyards by breaking into mausoleums and stealing jewelry. Starring Carla Gugino as Jessie in one of the most moving performances of her career, as well as a chilling Bruce Greenwood as her husband Gerald, the film adaptation of Gerald's Game has easily become one of the best translations of a King work put to screen. This is the ending of Gerald's Game explained. Only on Netflix." [Full. This is a reference to The Dark Tower series and its Beam holding the universe together, as well as a double entendre pointing to the beam of wood over Jessie's head that supports the lifesaving glass of water. Netflix's Gerald's Game is a faithful take on Stephen King's dark novel - right down to its horrifying ending. We're kind of locked in the chamber with these stories now and I think that's a wonderful thing. Just hearing them all lose their sh*t is one of the most rewarding experiences I've ever had, but I think there's an intimacy to home viewing that's going to make Gerald's Game, and certainly worked very well for Hush. In the context of the movie Geralds Game, the Moonlight Man represents the monster under the bed for Jessie. The dog enters through the open door of the house. The metaphorical walls that her father forced her to construct around herself to protect him from accountability stayed up until the moment she slid her hand free of Gerald's actual handcuffs. Barry is a technologist who helps start-ups build successful products. The premise of the film and the novel (1992) is, for Stephen King, very simple. Joubert came across Jessie seemingly by accident, taking body parts from Gerald (which she assumed to be the actions of the hungry dog). We are shown a younger Jessie walking away as the eclipse clears and this metaphorically states that her days are going to be brighter going forward. Summary: While trying to spice up their marriage in their remote lake house, Jessie must fight to survive when her husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her handcuffed to their bed frame. Geralds Game (book and film) is not perfect. Jessie immediately wants to help the dog, and Gerald reminds her they're not there to adopt an animal. When Jessie is young and watching an eclipse, her dad asks her to sit on his lap because that arouses him. The Walking Dead: Did the Carol/Morgan Scene Go Too Far? (Photo: Intrepid Pictures/Netflix) Warning: This post contains spoilers for the film version of Gerald's Game. Based on the Stephen King novel, Gerald's Game is about a woman who is handcuffed to her bed during a sex game with her husband, and after he dies unexpectedly from a heart attack, she is left alone and must fight to survive all the while hearing strange voices and experiencing hallucinations. When she confronts him at his arraignment, however, we learn they may share a strange connection; upon seeing her, he breaks out of his handcuffs and says "you're not real, you're only made of moonlight" - exactly what she thought he was. Jessie hadn't realized how much that event with her father had shifted the course of her life until she ended up handcuffed to a bed with police-grade cuffs, a hungry stray dog, and a serial killer watching her sleep at night. You may have also seen/heard him on the Total Geekall podcast, unaffiliated YouTube channels, BBC Radio and CBC News. Read More. To hammer this home, the film has her address the letter to Mouse (her younger self, retroactively providing the pre-teen hope) and the final shot even shows the 2017 eclipse ending, a neat visual coda to the message. To avoid too many questions from the press, she lies saying she had amnesia and couldnt recollect anything. Consider the following facts: 1.) I'm sure as a fan you knew the eclipse was the same eclipse in Gerald's Game and Delores Claiborne. Because we weren't really using music in the film almost ever, all that sound design is just front and center. Pair that with horror maestro Mike Flanagan as director and a far-reaching central performance by Caral Gugino and you've got one of his best movie adaptations. How did you direct Chiara Aurelia about what was happening in the eclipse scene? I think the person who was the least upset by it was Chiara who got a little impatient with us as we went through. 3.) Jessies emotions, her excuses, and her inward justification are imperative to the novel and her progression as a character. If there is a problem with Flanagans film, then, it is this ignorance of reality. So, to the ending. Most of his "backstory" comes from self-suggestion in Jessie's mind; while trying to rationalize him as a trick of the light (or moonbeams) she begins to view him as an embodiment of death. While Gerald's ghost continues verbally abusing Jessie he calls her "Mouse," a nickname her father used which triggers a memory of a traumatic childhood experience she'll have to relive in order to survive this new trauma. He then informs her that she is beginning to suffer from dehydration and fatigue. [Co-writer Jeff Howard] told me that theHaunting of Hill House show you're developing for Netflix is more of a family drama with scares. I think that's the tradeoff you gain when you give up the theatrical component for projects like this. Years later, she marries a person much older than her because its the only dynamic shes ever known. While the concept of the Moonlight Man is inside Jessies head, the person she sees by the side of her bed is Raymond. It causes the forehead to bulge and abnormally long arms that dangle almost to the knees. Jessie did not want join her mother and her siblings on the day of eclipse and wanted to stay with her father. When she sees Raymond, he looks back at her and says Youre not real. Delirious, she removes her wedding ring and gives it to him for his trinket bag before leaving. Starting as a simple sex-gone-wrong thriller, it turns into supernatural chiller, repressed-memory drama, torture porn horror - and that's before we even get to the jaw-dropping ending. "If we don't tell your mom today, we can't ever tell anyone," Tom warned Jessie. Well be reviewing new horror film and TV as well as posting both sustained and briefer pieces that make the case for whats interesting about current and classic horror. I think there times we actually had to cover up the extent of the bruising on her wrists that was just natural from those horrible cuffs. [1] Everybody involved in the movie was incredibly reluctant to complain about anything after about week two, just watching what poor Carla had to endure. "We both know you've been sleepwalking since you were 12 years old," Jessie's alter says. Of course, there's another side to the story. But thanks to director Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep), who is becoming something of a Stephen King auteur, the story made it onto Netflix subscribers' screens in a way that is equal parts horrifying, compassionate, and ultimately darkly beautiful. And now, in the midst of Gerald's game, she wants to stop, but he won't. As she smashes Gerald's water glass and begins slicing through the skin on her wrist and up into her palm in order to remove skin and slide out of the handcuff, Jessie later comments on the realization she made while doing so: She's been living a metaphor ever since that summer of the eclipse. That was the tough part. Since she could never fully admit just how monstrous her father was, neither could she admit it about her husband. It didn't feel right to be introducing new characters into this equation to try to get some of that out, even though that's one of the paths the book had taken. Both books center around complex and compelling women as they navigate deeply haunting hardships, which tie them together in unexpected ways. Apr 28, 2023, 2:22 PM PDT. When she says it, he responds with what is pretty much the point of the film for me. He's covered a wide range of movies and TV shows - from digging out obscure MCU Easter eggs to diving deep into deeper meanings of arthouse fare - and has covered a litany of set visits, junkets and film festivals. So not only does she keep it a secret, the agony continues for her because of the way shes made a choice for her life partner. At first, Jessie is only horrified at her husband's death and fears the humiliation of being discovered semi-naked and handcuffed, but she quickly realizes the situation is far more dire: it is unlikely that she or Gerald will be missed for several days, no one will think to look for them at the lake house, and all the usual lake residents have gone for the season. King's other isolation horror masterpiece The Shining also pops up in Gerald's Game when Jessie's dad says, "We have to take our medicine," paraphrasing something Jack Torrance was heard to say in the throes of his violent rages. She refuses to believe the figure is real but Gerald says the figure is Death waiting to take her. 'Gerald's Game' Director Mike Flanagan On THAT Scene And Other Spoilers And Easter Eggs [Interview]. We drop a couple titles in there. Not that it mattered much - it was determined Gerald died of a heart attack, not her pushing him off the bed - and afterward, his company covered up the sexual elements of the case; essentially, the truth was repressed. We all know that the night is always scarier than the day naturally because the unknown, unseen elements are more significant. He suffers from the rare disorder acromegaly, which happens when the pituitary gland continues to release too many growth hormones after a person's adult skeleton has already fused. Shes haunted by his presence every night. How did you get her lips to look so dry for her final day on the bed? I felt that without all of that at the end, it's going to divide people about whether or not they felt liked the movie required it or not, I think without that coda, everything in the movie just means a little less. Gerald's Game is not the typical horror story. While most of "Gerald's Game" takes place in the bedroom Jessie's trapped in, there are a few scenes that involve a change of scenery. Many victims of such abuse blame themselves, especially when the abuse is at the hands of a loved one. Oh, absolutely. Even die hard King fans are very split about how they feel about that coda so I expected the same reaction to the movie. My name is Jessica. She learned from the news about a serial killer with acromegaly who digs up crypts, stealing bones and jewels, and has sex with and eats the faces of male corpses; this explains why he didn't harm Jessie in the house and why Gerald's face was disfigured. Jessie acknowledges that she had been allowing her fears to manifest into something that was far larger than what she could handle. Jessie took those acts of (often sexual) violence quietly and kept them to herself, just as she did with her father. She calls him the Moonlight Man and keeps saying "You're not real.". Equally importantly, Gerald's Game is about a sex game gone terribly wrong, resulting in Jessie's husband's death and leaving Jessie handcuffed naked to their bed. The dog is real and is actually in the room with Jessie the whole time. They had to say it. Gerald's Game opens innocuously enough, with Jessie and Gerald packing small bags for a weekend away. Based on the most pressing question that Ive received from people about Geralds Game, it seems the element that has gripped peoples heart is the Moonlight Man and the actor who has played it. That's when we had the idea that the last line of the movie, which is, "You're so much smaller than I remember" is actually the first line we hear young Jessie say about the lake house with her dad. It is extremely tall, and as it walks out of the shadows she sees its skeletal face and widemouthed grimace. Bleeding profusely, Jessie manages to drive her car to the nearest neighbors, crashing it before passing out. Sexual assault has never before been so keenly tied to the forefront of the social consciousness. Her path out of the house is blocked by the Moonlight Man, who she still thinks is a hallucination. One of the primary differences is that the tension you create in an environment when you're working for Netflix isn't going to be interrupted necessarily. A little bit. : Talking Barbarian (2022), A Return to Nihilism: Talking Smile (2022), Talk About NiJah, Get Stung: Unpacking Swarm, a Sweet Take on Slashers, Before Norman Bates: Talking the Spiral Staircase (1946), Rewilding A Thoughtful, Beautiful Folk Horror Anthology, Troll and Ecological Folk Horror in the Sacrifice Zone, Representations of Women in The Wretched (2019), The Monstrosity of Aging: Talking X (2022), The Bloodcurdling Book Club: The Woods are Always Watching. Gerald himself ends up dead, and protagonist Jessie Burlingame finds herself in a whole heap of trouble when she's still handcuffed to the bed. Ostensibly this suggests that Joubert didn't kill Jessie because he didn't know there was anything to kill - we already know of his skewed view on the world - but the similar wording connects the two greater. Click to browse all his film articles. It has not been announced for a physical DVD or Bluray release. Played by cinema legend Carel Struyken, Raymond Andrew Joubert is a serial killer, necrophiliac, and cannibal who's been working the area. His love for movies and production has led him to write his well-received film explanation and analysis articles to help everyone appreciate the films better. This is the ground zero of her broken mental state. On their way to the lake house the handsome couple listen to Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me" in the car as Gerald works to get his wife in the mood attempts that she quietly rebuffs, moving his hand away from her thigh and turning the music off. I was kind of hoping against hope there would be a secret Delores Claiborne adaptation that would come out sometime in the next six months that could really just link it all together officially for the cinematic world. Jessie crashes and is knocked unconscious. Gerald's Game: Directed by Mike Flanagan. We are exalted when she comes to face the truth and we feel liberated, with her, when she finally accepts her fathers role. Of course, Cujo was right there to be had. Even though the movies were 22 years apart, do you imagine they could still be the same eclipse? The symmetry of that felt for me like the right ending. I think we did two takes on each and called it a day. PTSD affects the lives of 8 million people worldwide, including children! The indecision of the protagonist and the mental games she must traverse help the audience to understand the deep repression of a terrible memory, thus providing insight to non-victims and, hopefully, a call to self-advocacy for those still alone in their suffering. As soon as Jessie gets to their cabin, she cuts up a steak to feed the starving pup. Gerald begins to call Jessie "Mouse", which triggers a memory of her father Tom, who affectionately referred to her as "Mouse." The website's critics consensus states, "Carla Gugino carries Gerald's Game's small-scale suspense with a career-defining performance. After that, he proceeds to touch himself fully aware that Jessie knows what he's doing. Then she got her Jessie 2 material for the day with a double cuffed to the bed. She believes shes going to die. Cookies help us deliver our Services. I can't separate those two stories in my head just being a fan. On review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 79 reviews, with an average rating of 7.60/10. Gerald calls the deformed man "the man made of moonlight", and points out a bloody footprint on the floor, making Jessie realize the figure may have been real. It's gnarly stuff. While trying to survive the weekend and escape, Jessie also recalls. This confirms that it was indeed him in the lake house and that she didnt see an apparition. "Jessie,. Director: Mike Flanagan Summary After 11 years of marriage, things have kind of gone dead for Jessie ( Carla Gugino) and Gerald ( Bruce Greenwood ). The bone-chilling Gerald's Game was released on Netflix in 2017, and was based on Stephen King's 1992 book of the same name. smart, strong, loyal, has justice. Gerald firstly gets a refusal for his handcuff idea, and secondly, gets a heart attack and dies, leaving a cuffed Jessie to figure her way out. With taut writing and stellar performances from the small cast that also includes Henry Thomas as Jessie's father and Carel Struyken as Raymond Andrew Joubert, Gerald's Game is a masterwork in the horror drama and survival horror sub-genres. Oh absolutely. RELATED: Stephen King Teases New Salems Lot & The Stand Adaptations. She's been repressing what he father did to her - both the sexual abuse itself and his victim-complex cover-up - since she was a child, always knowing it (she objects to Gerald calling himself "Daddy" during sex) yet never truly able to admit it to even those she allegedly trusts. Is this a very hard scene to watch? They're both suffering. Jessie mentions having gotten her period the month before her father molested her, and this event also caused major trauma in King's Carrie.

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