They had to say it. Oh absolutely. Outside, a starving dog prowls, and in the. Over time, she has magnified her fears inside her mind her father, her broken marriage, her Moonlight Man. When she says it, he responds with what is pretty much the point of the film for me. The ending of Geralds Game has Jessie realizing that facing off with her monster is the ultimate thing she needs to do to be free of her past. While the dog isn't a St. Bernard, it does have a taste for human flesh, just like another King creation,Cujo. Yeah, and it was fun because we always looked at Jessie 2 as who Jessie needed to turn into by the end of this. Director: Mike Flanagan Summary After 11 years of marriage, things have kind of gone dead for Jessie ( Carla Gugino) and Gerald ( Bruce Greenwood ). It was a hard search to find Carla and I'm just so glad we did because if it had gone another way, I think the whole enterprise would've collapsed. [4], Principal photography on the film began on October 17, 2016, in Mobile, Alabama. King definitely had me pleading to find out if Jessie would survive her ordeal. We thought, to go through all this, the message we wanted to send was something that wasn't violent and wasn't a primal reaction, but something that took all of that, acknowledged and minimized it as much as possible, made it as small as possible and let her turn her back. The Shirley Jackson novel, of which I'm a devoted follower, the material that's in the novel can comfortably fit in a feature film, but expanding it for a season of television is pretty difficult. He is a crypt creeper who vandalizes graveyards by breaking into mausoleums and stealing jewelry. Gerald, a successful lawyer with an aggressive personality, has been able to reinvigorate the couple's sex life by handcuffing Jessie to the bed. Jessie crashes and is knocked unconscious. Her version of the Moonlight man has red glowing eyes (much like the eclipse). Gerald's Game is a story about all-too-human monsters Gerald is an insidious manipulator who controls Jessie in ways so subtle she doesn't realize until it's too late to escape.