At one point, when Henry's talking to Chiara and recommending they tell her mother what happened, he says, "I think we should just take our medicine" which is what Jack Torrance would call after Danny Torrance as he chased him through the halls of The Overlook Hotel. What did the dad do in Geralds Game? We actually filmed both of those scenes, we had almost no coverage in the bedroom except for the closeups. Like Gerald, her father is also a lawyer and therefore he knows how to shame a victim and to make a deal. A married couple, Gerald and Jessie Burlingame, head out to a remote lakehouse to try and rekindle the flame of their relationship. Oh, absolutely. Discuss how the theme of masculinity is portrayed in the first three chapters of Miguel Street. It's some of the most uncomfortable noise and we just crank it right up.". Now that Meredith is gone, it is business as usual at Grey Sloan Memorial. The blurred lines and harsh truths of Kings book portray such a real situation. Gerald's Game sees a grown up Jessie in literal restraints, while across the lake and years earlier, Dolores struggles to escape her circumstantial chains, trapped in an abusive marriage- the women must commit brutal acts to free themselves. Ethan has written for Horror Homeroom on Hulus original series, Castle Rock,Annihilation, and horror documentaries. I dont know why but from the start i always thought he was her father. Even die hard King fans are very split about how they feel about that coda so I expected the same reaction to the movie. Stephen King's 1992 novel Gerald's Gameexplores the terror of being trapped, both physically and mentally, which earned it the reputation of being impossible to adapt to film; Mike Flanagan's interpretation was heralded as a success, despite some key differences between the book and movie. The titular game comes in the form of Jessie being handcuffed to a bedpost, giving Gerald complete control over her, a concept that clearly excites him. "We always looked at Jessie 2 as who Jessie needed to turn into by the end of this," said Flanagan, referring to the empowered, walking manifestation of herself that Jessie hallucinates during the waking nightmare. Initially, his owner had abandoned him inMaineand driven back to Massachusetts, simply because he didn't want to pay for the dog's license. Gerald does not garner much sympathy in Flanagan's film, but the character appears even more villainous in King's book.