Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House' is the horror show you simply cannot miss!
It's October, and that means one thing - audiences will be slapped across the face with a tsunami of horror movies and television shows, many of which will quite possibly have no right of branding themselves as such. All the major streaming services are getting into it as well, with Hulu all set to launch 'Into the Dark' on October 5 and Netflix similarly offering subscribers the likes of 'Malevolent,' and 'Riverdale' spinoff 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.' And while each has a unique selling point, it's 'The Haunting of Hill House' that you should focus on for a variety of reasons.
The series is an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's seminal 1959 gothic-horror novel of the same name, which is considered to be one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century and which has already been made into two feature films and a play. But fans who expect the Mike Flanagan-directed horror series to pay homage to the iconic novel are going to be disappointed because the name is where the similarities end. And that's not a call to grab your pitchforks and tiki torches as, rest assured, Flanagan is no novice, and the trailers very much indicate that 'The Haunting of Hill House' will have quite a few surprises in store.
