You probably missed this modern horror legend's best movie 10 years ago

When you ask a horror fan for their favorite work from director Mike Flanagan, they’ll probably point right to The Haunting of Hill House or Midnight Mass. I go back further: Flanagan’s suspenseful psychological horror-thriller Hush, now 10 years old, shakes up horror tropes in a way that is sure to surprise seasoned scare seekers. Anyone on a steady diet of horror films knows the Final Girl — a trope in which the last woman standing is left to either escape or confront the masked killer. She’s bruised, battered, and forever changed by the harrowing events she’s been through. Hush has its own final girl with Maddie Young (Kate Siegel), whose life is changed forever when a masked man turns up at her door after murdering her friend and decides to torment her. However, Flanagan added a twist to his protagonist: Maddie is Deaf and non-verbal, the result of contracting meningitis at age 13. The result is a tense and spine-chilling horror that I’ve always enjoyed because of how much story it tells from a single location, but it’s resonated with me even more since I was diagnosed with auditory processing disorder in my mid-20s. The depiction of disability in horror is a mixed bag. Sometim