The house on haunted hill netflix11/15/2022 ![]() ![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels Herokiller and Herokiller 2, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. But for two seasons running now, it just works, and is the perfect precursor to Halloween this October.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Flanagan deserves to get a blank check from Netflix to keep telling as many of these stories as he has in him, even if at some point, we may need to move on from very specific, very haunted large houses. This modern reimagining of the Shirley Jackson novel follows siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house. While no, maybe Bly Manor does not live up to the heights of Hill House, I would still absolutely recommend it for fans of the first series. This practically feels like a new genre of horror in every way from the performances to the scripts to even the soundtrack. Perhaps not on the level of Hill House, but it’s something that works well in Flanagan’s version of horror, as it’s not just about scaring you or disturbing you or creating some hopeless situation for all the characters, as so much horror often does. But on many occasions, the show goes places you simply cannot predict, and by the end, I think most fans of Hill House will find that this journey has been worthwhile.īly Manor does have emotional resonance, both in terms of romantic relationships and familial ones. After training ourselves on Hill House, the twists and turns were somewhat easier to spot this time around, and many of our predictions did turn out to be right. My wife and I spent the duration of the series more or less shouting out different theories about what was happening. ![]()
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