You have probably already heard about the recently released hide under your blanket chilling series: The Haunting of the Hill House on Netflix.
This series is a recreation of the 1959 gothic horror novel by Shirley Jackson. It follows a family of five siblings who grew up in one of America’s most infamous haunted houses. The family managed to move out of the house as young children, but after a tragic event, the siblings are forced to reunite, bringing back the haunted past, and with that the Haunted Hill House.
I do not want to spoil anything for you all, so here’s some history on Hill House.
Jackson’s novel was based on the chilling tale of a socially repressed Eleanor Vance, who headed to Hill House to partake in an experiment involving paranormal activities. Eleanor and company (who in this series are siblings and not lab rats in the experiment) are portrayed as true flesh-and-blood people, and the fears they encounter in Hill House are the intimate fears we all deal with at some point in our lives, such as fear of loneliness, fear of love, fear of ourselves, fear of the unknown, and so on.
That is why this gothic horror is a chill to the bone, and led it to win various awards, and made this Netflix series so popular.
I have watched the first few episodes of the series, and I got to tell you, it’s one of the most terrifying horror series I have EVER watched. Just look at this…
I am definitely sleeping with the light on tonight.