While Mike Flanagan has gone on to carve his own place in horror history with some excellent Stephen King adaptations plus the incredible Haunting of Hill House series; he had quite humble beginnings in the genre.
A product of this is 2016’s Hush, a passion project between him and wife Kate Siegel, which became a Netflix sensation on release but then slowly disappeared from the public eye after being taken off the streaming service.
Thanks to dedicated fans and Flanagan’s own raised profile in recent years, it’s finally got the Blu-Ray/4K release it deserves thanks to Arrow Video.
While it would have been easy to just release the film sans extras and have fans say thank you very much, Arrow have gone all out on this release which includes a black-and-white cut of the film known as the Shush cut, which offers a whole new perspective on its already nerve-shredding sequences.
In the film we follow Maddie, a deaf writer who is living in a reclusive house in the woods, who becomes terrorised by a man in a white mask, determined to mess with her before trying to kill her.
Flanagan references Wait Until Dark as a reference, but you can’t look past Halloween for some of its more creepy sequences plus the look of the killer and his penchant for wanting to play with his food.
The discs also include interviews with Flanagan, Siegel plus actors John Gallagher Jr. and Trevor Macey plus other members of the production crew and two commentaries tracks.
Despite being ten years old, Hush has lost none of its power and shows the potential which has been realised in Flanagan to craft effective scares but also tell interesting stories.
I cannot recommend revisiting Hush, and falling in love with it all over again.
Hush is released on 4K and Blu-Ray on 13 July 2026 from Arrow Video.
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