The real terror of ‘Hill House’ lies in family trauma

Netflix really hedged its bets with this year’s Halloween fare, with plans to drop everything from Daredevil Season 3 to Sabrina in a matter of weeks – including a modern interpretation of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel The Haunting of Hill House.

At once veering away any prior adaptation of Jackson’s novel and paying tribute to staples of the horror genre, Hill House is an addictive slow burn of a binge that will have you biting your blanket in fear and tiptoeing in the dark. Yet even with all the ghostly frills of a horror classic, what stands out about Hill House is the haunting family drama at its center, and the questions of how the characters can escape the literal and figurative ghosts in their past.  Read more…

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