Is It Real? The Creepy Mansion in The Haunting of Hill House

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• Top 10 Movies
• 'The Veil' Review: Steven Knight's FX/Hulu Thriller Series Can't Keep Up With Star Elisabeth Moss
• The King Tide Review
• The “Schitt’s Creek” mansion in Toronto is for sale (again). But you’d need Rose family money to afford it
• Hill House’s dark allure
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• Is It Real? The Creepy Mansion in ‘The Haunting of Hill House’

Although propulsively crafted for binge viewing, Haunting of Hill House is still structured episodically, each hour putting primary focus on a different character while simultaneously filling in narrative gaps from as many as four or five different windows of time. Context and perspective are emphasized as the keys to unraveling pieces of a mystery. It means that certain characters and actors virtually disappear for long stretches of time and certain relationships don’t always build as clearly as they should, but it also means each actor gets a showcase episode or two. More important, it allows the show to examine varied experiences of childhood tragedy. Were it not also a haunted house story, it could just be an absorbing drama about the intersection of family trauma, individual responsibility, mental illness, addiction and real estate, like the unholy union of This Is Us, Intervention and Flip or Flop.

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Flash forward from 1963 to 1996 and two titans wanted to get together and make a horror movie. Steven with a V Spielberg approached Stephen with a PH King with the idea to make a haunted house picture together. Being of similar ages and tastes growing up, they agreed that The Haunting was the alpha and omega of ghost stories and that it should be the basis of their movie along with more elements from the novel.

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Montague hopes to find scientific evidence of the existence of the supernatural. He rents Hill House for a summer and invites as his guests several people whom he has chosen because of their experiences with paranormal events. Eleanor travels to the house, where she and Theodora will live in isolation with Montague and Luke. Casablanca is a product of golden-age Hollywood—a slick movie, no doubt, which makes it easy to underrate. From its opening chase through the streets of the title city, to the poignant and all-time memorable ending, there’s nothing here that doesn’t work brilliantly, with off-the-charts chemistry among all the main characters, not just Bogart and Bergman.

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Yes, there are a lot of jump scares of the sort you can grow to anticipate when the sound drops out and silence begs to be filled with screams. Hard scares carried by musical stings or the abrupt introduction of something disturbing into the frame are balanced with well-executed gore-driven scares and moments grounded in primal fears of bugs or darkness or aloneness. The gaps between the major reactive moments are still pregnant with unnerving misery and occasional bursts of levity, meant to disarm you ahead of the next shriek. The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson.

The couple described music playing in the basement despite there being no sound system installed, strange smells permeating throughout the house, and things disappearing in the night. The interior shots were filmed on a set, and they look nothing like the interior of Bisham Manor, which is far from creepy. In fact, Bisham Manor is a popular and charming wedding and event venue, so it’s safe to say it’s attracting visitors for non-evil purposes.

While Bly Manor, according to James’ short novel, is welcoming and warm, bearing no signs whatsoever of anything evil lurking inside it, Hill House is a different story. Now, the two parts have nothing to do with each other in terms of plot, but you’ll get to see some familiar faces from the first series. We recently covered the new Haunting of Bly Manor, director Mike Flanagan’s so-called sequel to the epic mini-series The Haunting of Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House Blu-ray and DVD will include three extended episodes and director commentaries. We chat with Alex Essoe about working with Mike Flanagan on both of his upcoming Netflix projects. Here are a few of the most compelling miniseries based on books to watch right now.

While Millie Bobby Brown's Nightmare on Elm Street film has been proven to be a fake, this does not mean the long-running horror franchise has nothing in the works. Just this year, she starred as the lead in Netflix's tentpole film, Damsel, and is next set to appear alongside Chris Pratt in 2024's The Electric State. A new trailer seems to suggest Millie Bobby Brown is set to star in a Nightmare on Elm Street movie in 2025.

Liam Neeson does a pretty decent job here with what he is given and is pretty much what you’d expect from the man at this point. Bruce Dern, for as small as his part is, adds a gruff, almost classic Hollywood appeal to the film and it would have been nice to have him in more than the few scenes he is in. The story itself is an interesting one even if it strays from both the 60s film and the book’s source material in a few major ways.

It was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been made into two feature films and a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series. The doctor, Luke and Theodora explore the library with the treacherous spiral staircase, but Eleanor has a severe reaction that prevents her from entering. Leaning over the veranda to look at the library's tower, she becomes dizzy and is caught by Markway, who speculates that he should send her home, but Eleanor protests, blaming the house rather than her nerves. That evening, Dr. Markway discovers a cold spot outside the nursery room. Despite all these occurrences, Eleanor feels a tentative affinity to Hill House.

Startled, she nearly falls to her death before being rescued by Markway. Dr. John Markway narrates the history of the 90-year-old Hill House, which was constructed in Massachusetts by Hugh Crain as a home for his wife. She died when her carriage crashed against a tree as she approached the house for the first time. Crain remarried, but his second wife died in the house from a fall down the stairs. Crain's daughter Abigail lived in the house for the rest of her life, never moving out of the nursery room. The companion inherited the house, but later hanged herself from a spiral staircase in the library.

She finds Crain's hidden office and learns that he extensively used child labor in his cotton mills. He tortured and killed several orphans in his home, then burned their bodies in the fireplace. She surmises that these children's spirits are trapped in the house, providing Crain with an "eternal family". Dr. Marrow is skeptical of Nell's claims and soon reveals his true fear study to the group, but after a statue tries to drown him, he realizes Hill House is haunted.

Victoria Pedretti is one of the newest faces of horror, having starred in Netflix's You and The Haunting anthology. The infamous "bending door" scene was achieved by constructing a prop door composed of rubber. While filming, the bending effect was cause by having a number of stagehands push on the door. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from contemporary critics, but was a financial success, grossing $180.2 million worldwide against a production budget of $80 million. Directed by Mike Flanagan, Netflix's new 10-hour 'The Haunting of Hill House' is full of scares, rich character explorations and helpful haunted-home renovation tips. That night, on Markway's insistence, Theo moves into Eleanor's room, and they fall asleep in the twin beds pushed together.

I remember seeing Robert Wise’s seminal classic The Haunting as a rental and was admittedly a little bored. I then got the opportunity to see it at the old Bay theater in Seal Beach and suddenly I got it. It’s truly a masterclass of old school horror filmmaking where what isn’t seen is better and creepier than what is shown on screen. The movie, released in 1963, was based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House released four years prior. That title is probably a little more noticeable to recent fans as the brilliant show from Mike Flanagan was indeed also based on the work.

In line with mentioning that movie, the effects on The Mummy still hold up but here they look worse today than they did when they premiered. This isn’t uncommon as most CGI of the time was sketchy to make work well and most of it has not aged in a positive manner. Phil Tippet helped with some stuff and I hope it was the practical stuff or set design because all of the CGI stuff here looks rough. I’ve mentioned it multiple times on this channel, but CGI comes in waves of quality both good and bad.

The Haunting of Hill House is an American supernatural horror drama television miniseries created and directed by Mike Flanagan, produced by Amblin Television and Paramount Television, for Netflix, and serves as the first entry in The Haunting anthology series. It is loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. The plot alternates between two timelines, following five adult siblings whose paranormal experiences at Hill House continue to haunt them in the present day, and flashbacks depicting events leading up to the eventful night in 1992 when the family fled from the mansion. The ensemble cast features Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, and Victoria Pedretti as the siblings in adulthood, with Carla Gugino and Henry Thomas as parents Olivia and Hugh Crain, and Timothy Hutton appearing as an older version of Hugh. Screenwriter Gidding, who had worked with director Wise on the 1958 film I Want to Live! He perceived the book to be more about mental breakdown than ghosts, and although he was informed after meeting author Shirley Jackson that it was very much a supernatural novel, elements of mental breakdown were introduced into the film.

Lili Taylor is a good actor but her scream in bed is one of the least convincing horror screams I’ve heard in a movie and as good as most things look, the makeup for Crain in his old photos is so laughable that it takes the horror, and audience, right out of the movie. The culmination of the acting being a detriment is the lifeless reaction to Owen Wilson being decapitated in the fireplace. The way Liam Neeson looks away with a cringe is exactly how I feel about watching this movie again.