With Halloween approaching, if you haven’t seen Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting Of Hill House yet, we can only recommend ! With its complex plot, dark atmosphere, the program was dubbed by horror master Stephen King ! So if you want to experience insomnia, crying or anxiety, this series is for you!
Indeed, 93% of Netflix users are satisfied with this new horror series by Mike Flanagan who had already directed Jessie, the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Available in full in the catalogue of the American platform, The Haunting of Hill House offers 10 episodes of 50 minutes each. Ideal for a binge-watching session in this fall season!
The story is about brothers and sisters who, as adults, find themselves with their father following the suicide of the youngest girl in the family. If the Crain family was the ideal family, it would sink the night the mother decides to commit suicide in Hill House. After this tragic episode, Hill House became the most haunted house in the United States The Crain brothers and sisters are then separated and try to rebuild their lives. But very quickly, as the years go by, the spirits of the past will resurface and risk ruining their lives again.
Directed by Mike Flanagan a master director in the field, we owe him among others Ouija 2, Inside The House or Not A Noise. Here, the filmmaker takes up the challenge of adapting Shirley Jackson’s best-selling The Haunting fortelevision.
Flanagan also succeeded, thanks to the performances of these actors, in in bringing back the fears of the daily lives ofviewers. Through these ten episodes that make up the series, The Haunting of Hill House surfs on the haunted house and a complex family story for addressing the themes of depression, abandonment and grief. Not forgetting to use quality special effects.
Viewed and approved by King
Finally, if you’re wondering if you should see this new series, you should know that Stephen King approved it ! Indeed, the master of horror has dubbed it on October 17th by announcing on his Twitter account that the series was close to the genius .
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The Haunting of Hill House, revised and redesigned by Mike Flanagan. Usually I don’t care for this kind of revisionism, but this is great. Close to genius, really. I think Shirley Jackson would approve, but who really knows.
For his part, Mike Flanagan was very touched by this comment as evidenced by his response to the American writer :
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Someday I will know how to respond to this kind of comment without whining like a child… but not today.
So if after all this, you don’t feel like watching this series…
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