{"id":22346,"date":"2018-10-22T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22346"},"modified":"2018-11-22T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:25:07","slug":"the-haunting-of-hill-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22346","title":{"rendered":"The Haunting of Hill House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A<\/span> couple of years back, a writer at the AV Club wrote an article talking about how film and television was experiencing a new golden age for horror.\u00a0 If we thought we had it good in 2016 & 2017, I don’t think its been a patch on the sheer breadth and variety of fantastic works we’ve had in the genre this year.\u00a0\u00a0Hereditary, A Quiet Place, Castle Rock, Annihilation,\u00a0Mandy<\/em>…the list goes on and each one different from the last.<\/p>\n

The Haunting of Hill House<\/em> is yet another outstanding horror series to be added to that list.\u00a0 Created by Mike Flanagan who is on some kind of roll at the moment having worked on\u00a0Gerald’s Game, Oculus<\/em> and\u00a0Hush<\/em> prior to this.\u00a0 It tells the story of the Crane family – Hugh, Olivia and their five kids – who move into Hill House in 1992.\u00a0 They intend to renovate the house and move on but get held up when they unearth some structural problems with the property.<\/p>\n

During their stay, the Cranes are spooked by a series of unexplained phenomena and this culminates in a night when Hugh dramatically rounds up the kids and drives out of the place in the dead of night.\u00a0 Olivia didn’t make it.\u00a0 Over two decades later, the kids are now adults and each one bears a different psychological scar from their time at the Hill House.\u00a0 When a fresh family tragedy strikes, the Cranes are reunited and find themselves drawn back to Hill House.<\/p>\n

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The Haunting of Hill House<\/em> is Flanagan’s best work to date.\u00a0 Even with his most derivative works like\u00a0Hush<\/em>, he showed a fine understanding of the fundamentals of what makes a great horror film, with a good sense of timing and building suspense.\u00a0\u00a0The Haunting of Hill House<\/em> is a far more original concept which melds a family drama with psychological horror that makes you uncomfortable, gets under your skin and leaves you thinking about what you’ve seen in the middle of the night.\u00a0 Some of the episodes occasionally revert to using jump scares but by far the best episodes of\u00a0Hill House<\/em> are the ones where the flashbacks look at the types of things that can really spook you as a kid, like the death of a pet or getting trapped in a confined space.<\/p>\n

Whats surprising about\u00a0Hill House<\/em> is how successful they are at blending the family drama with a horror story.\u00a0 I think structurally, using each episode to focus on a different member of the Crane family (jumping back and forth between ’92 and present day) was a good decision.\u00a0 The series feels like it is exactly the number of episodes it should be, no more, no less.\u00a0 Once the family comes together in the final two episodes, we have a great understanding of their motivations, their innermost fears and what drives them to do what they do.\u00a0 By the horror genre standards, these are some of the most well developed characters we’ve seen.<\/p>\n

2018 has been a bumper year for the horror genre.\u00a0 When it comes to tv shows, nothing was better than\u00a0The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2784,2802,2206],"class_list":["post-22346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-haunting-of-hill-house","tag-mike-flanagan","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22350,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346\/revisions\/22350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}