If you are in the business of making horror movies, and you get the seal of approval from the prolific Stephen King to adapt one of his novels for cinema, you know you are doing something right. The author is legendary for being very specific about which filmmakers get their hands on the rights to his books, and rightly so – his body of work is, quite simply, the gold standard. It comes as no surprise then, that when the award-winning creative team behind Oculus – writer-director Mike Flanagan, his co-writer Jeff Howard and their regular producer Trevor Macy - got the nod from King for Gerald’s Game, they shuffled their slate to make that their very next project.