Critics are raving about the show.
As the Halloween season nearing, streaming services and television networks are gearing up for horror offerings and Netflix seems to have hit the jackpot. The streaming giant's upcoming horror series The Haunting of Hill House is reportedly dubbed as 'the first great horror TV show.' The 10-episodes-long series has got a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.
Based on Shirley Jackson's iconic novel of the same name, The Haunting Hill House is a modern retelling of a group of siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house in the USA.
The cast includes Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel and Victoria Pedretti, Lulu Wilson, McKenna Grace, Paxton Singleton, Violet McGraw, and Julian Hilliard.
The series is directed by Mike Flanagan who is known for movies like Hush, Oculus, and Gerald’s Game.
Here's what critics have to say.
GQ's Tom Philip -
Hill House isn't just scary, but a seriously well-structured and well-considered story about the persistent insidiousness of trauma and the tragedy of not fully knowing another person. The siblings all share a deep pain, but that pain manifests and is expressed in different ways that often end up hurting the others. In its quieter moments, Hill House finds room to explore some heartbreaking dynamics around family, mental illness, addiction, and pain.
Variety's Daniel D'addario -
With brutal effectiveness, “The Haunting at Hill House” will fill viewers’ hearts with dread, not at the ghosts and apparitions that do, indeed, play a role, but at the wages of time and of pain that’d be easier shared but that’s impossible to talk about. The clever idea to widen the aperture of a horror tale — to tell the story after the haunting seems to have ceased — has given viewers a very special show, one that knows the scariest hauntings are not by ghosts but by memories.
Forbes' Merrill Barr -
The best thing this series has going for it, however, is not any one of its elements individually but rather how they come together as a whole in connection to the October television season. This is a horror show through and through. Family drama or not, it’s a show out to scare and on that front, it succeeds from the get-go and makes for perfect Halloween bingeing along with everyone’s various slasher movie marathons.
TV Fanatic's Carissa Pavlica -
The blending of the classic novel and the modern family twist work very well to update an already breathtaking fright fest. The yearning for acceptance and need to be loved within the family cannot be matched. It brings to life the character arcs in ways the scientific investigation never could.
TV Guide's Sadie Gennis -
The opening lines of both Jackson's novel and the series state that Hill House exists "under conditions of absolute reality," and this appears to be what the Crains are confronted with across the series, and what they spend so long running away from. The house strips away the pleasant lies we tell ourselves until all that's left is a truth so staggering that maybe no one can bear to face it and maintain their sanity. But what becomes clear in Hill House again and again is that one can never escape their reality; they will merely run for so long until they accidentally come full circle, charging directly toward it and only realizing what they've done when it's already too late to change course.
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