Netflix: The Haunting of Hill House

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**PondaNagura**

I had no expectation going into it other than likely being better than the 90s The Haunting movie.
Finished it last night, I liked most of it.
Ep 1-5 were solid to me, 6 and 7 were still good.

Spoiler:

**LordofHats**

For anyone who hasn't found all the ghosts hidden in the series yet here's a video from IMDB that lists them out: Link

I missed almost all of these. Many are hidden in reflections or shadows that make them easy to miss, but some are bloody obvious once you know they're there but subtle enough that I still missed them while watching the series. This is frankly the kind of stuff I always wanted in found footage horror films. Little bits and things hidden in the frames left and right, but well that genre is basically set to underachieve itself so w/e.

**hotsauceman1**

The show is less horror and more family drama with horror elements.
By the time they where at episode six, all horror was gone and replaced by drama. Know I did enjoy it until the end of the last 30 min.

**nels1031**

Season 2 confirmed:

(Via Bloody Disgusting)

Arguably, last year’s very best new horror project was Netflix and Mike Flanagan‘s “The Haunting of Hill House,“ a brilliant, beautiful and downright terrifying (loose) adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel. The debut season followed the Crain family and their nightmarish ordeal with the titular house, and Flanagan has promised that *their* story is complete.

But that doesn’t mean the Netflix series is ending at just one season!

Announced by Netflix today, a “new chapter” of “The Haunting of Hill House” will arrive in 2020, and a short video today teases the new haunting. Listen closely to the video below.

Additionally, Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall television deal with Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy. Following the success of “Hill House,” Flanagan and Macy will develop and produce new series exclusively for Netflix, including an all-new chapter in “The Haunting” anthology, with the next installment chronicling a new story with all new characters.

It would seem the next season won’t be set at Hill House, so we’re expecting that the title will not be “The Haunting of Hill House” but rather “The Haunting of [insert new location].”

UPDATE: Season 2 will be titled “The Haunting of Bly Manor,“ an adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Via Wiki, “the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.”

I'm pretty stoked. Loved the first season, despite its flaws and the usual "Netflix filler" episodes.

**LordofHats**

I liked the first season enough that I'll watch more, and I'm glad to see this going to anthology route. New material each season will keep things fresh until they run out of ideas.

**Casualty**

I don't know how to feel about this. Loved the first few episodes, disliked some of the later ones, and actively hated the last one.

I don't think Flanagan has good instincts for which part of his story is working - the story ultimately focusing on the redemption of by far the weakest actor and character in an otherwise stellar cast, for example, and at their expense - and which part needs surgery, and the ending was so poor I felt legitimately cheated I'd cared so much about characters who were paid off so badly. They've confirmed since it was a rewrite and the fact that was so clearly visible says it all.

I feel like a second season will only amplify the stuff I disliked about the later episodes, especially without the original book to riff around.

On the other hand, I really REALLY loved the stuff I did like. So... I'll try it anyway I guess.

**Necros**

I wouldn't call it terrifying, but I still liked it enough to watch season 2