![]() One sibling has succumbed to a life of drug addiction, living on the streets.įlashing between their time at Hill House as children, and the present as adults with problems beyond mere ghosts, the narrative has the dysfunctional family confronting their terrifying memories of what happened. ![]() Living separate lives, the siblings are loaded with personal baggage that compounds their problems. The experience at Hill House continues to haunt them as adults, flashbacks revealing what actually happened in the house they ran screaming from one night as children. Having escaped as children, the five grown siblings now face the realities of modern life traumatized by their supernatural brush with death. The tragedy forms malignant family dynamics that torment the siblings for years, haunted by tragic memories and frightening encounters. Their stay permanently shatters the family’s happiness. The mother, hauntingly played by Carla Gugino, doesn’t survive the sinister forces lurking within Hill House. Their five young children, three girls and two boys, are along for the ghostly ride. The Crains are looking to flip the dilapidated mansion after renovating it. Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story with twists and turns, methodically laid out Meshing elements from traditional haunted house stories and a basic premise that owes more to It than Shirley Jackon’s chilling novel, the Crain family barely survive their experience living at the macabre Hill House. The fine ensemble cast includes Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones), Carla Gugino, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas, and Kate Siegel ( Hush). This is horror made for adults, not teenagers. It is the farthest thing possible from the cheap and tawdry scares found in b-movies. The carefully crafted drama uses its sparing and effective horror elements as a hook instead of a crutch. Directing all ten episodes, Flanagan oversees a gripping family saga that happens to have a few ghosts in it. Taking elements from The Amityville Horror and Stephen King’s It, series creator Mike Flanagan ( Hush, Oculus, Doctor Sleep) completely re-imagines author Shirley Jackson’s iconic The Haunting of Hill House novel in this Netflix series. Supernatural Netflix Chiller Gets Super-sized For Blu-rayĪ dysfunctional family with five children barely survive a haunted house, only to be drawn in by the mansion’s evil power decades later as adults.
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