{"id":22087,"date":"2018-10-31T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=22087"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:19:32","slug":"the-haunting-of-hill-house-thrills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/entertainment\/2018\/10\/31\/the-haunting-of-hill-house-thrills\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haunting of Hill House Thrills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Netflix\u2019s new series \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d released on Oct. 12, 2018 as a full series. The show was comprised of ten one-hour long episodes, each focusing around one of the main characters until it came to a head in the finale. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The show focuses on the Crain family, composed of Olivia and Hugh, the parents, and Theodora, Shirley, Steven, Luke and Nell, the children. The series is loosely based off of the novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0In the novel, she refers to the house as a body, and this same metaphor is prevalent throughout the entirety of the show. <\/span><\/p>\n

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE BELOW<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The Crain family moves into a new house, named Hill House, over the summer months while Olivia and Hugh \u2013 who are home renovators \u2013 work on getting the property ready for resale. The children are varying ages, the oldest roughly thirteen, while the youngest \u2013 Nell and Luke, the twins \u2013 are only six or seven. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0At first, they\u2019re excited to be staying at the house. It\u2019s big, with lots of rooms and space to explore. However, over the course of their stay, things begin to happen in the house. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0First, Nelly begins to see a ghost she refers to as \u201cthe Bent Necked Lady.\u201d Then, Luke begins experiencing nightmares of a tall man who floats above the ground and moves by a cane. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Over the course of each episode, it moves from flashbacks to the house, each labeled appropriately leading up to the \u201cfinal night.\u201d In the modern day, viewers get to see how the events at Hill House left the children of the Crain family scarred, and in turn caused issues later on in life. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Steve is now a writer of ghost stories, having investigated several haunted well known places such as The Queen Mary ship, and has written about his time in the Hill House as well. Shirley is a mortician and funeral home director, running her business out of her home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Theodora is a child psychologist who wears gloves because of an issue with touch, which we later learn is because she inherited her mother\u2019s ability to sense things about people through touching them. Nell had gotten married, watched her husband die of an aneurysm and has started to once again see \u201cthe Bent Necked Lady.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Luke is a drug addict who has been to recovery three times with no success and their father, Hugh is almost non-existent in their lives. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0The trigger point that sets off the story for the Crain family is the death of Nell, after she returns to the Hill House and apparently commits suicide. The story takes off from there, and the ghosts from the past come back to visit. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d is a slow burn, but what it lacks in pace, it makes up for in story and thrills. According to an article on Buzzfeed.com, some people found the scary parts of the episodes so intense that they passed out. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The ending of \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d finally sheds some light on what went on in the mysterious Hill House and what exactly happened the night that six of the Crain family members finally escaped. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Olivia Crain had become \u201cpossessed\u201d in a sense by the house. She had begun to believe that it was her forever home and that leaving would only cause her and her family pain. Due to this, Olivia began to act strangely, often doing things that were out of character for her. She often times would wake up unaware of what had happened. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0One such instance occurred when she woke up on top of Hugh, a screwdriver pressed to his neck as if she were about to stab him. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0After Olivia\u2019s condition deteriorated past the point of saving, Hugh realized he had to get the kids out of there. The final straw occurred when Olivia staged a tea party for Nell, Luke and Luke\u2019s friend Abigail, who was the daughter of the caretakers. She poisoned the tea and served it to the children, but only Abigail drank it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0When she fell on the floor, dying from the poison, the children realized there was something wrong with the tea. Hugh came in just in time to stop Nell and Luke from drinking it and rescued them from the house along with the other children. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0It is revealed that Olivia killed herself and is now the one in control of the house as a spirit. She wants her children to come back to her, still believing the house\u2019s lies that her husband took them away to harm them by exposing them to the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Nell is now part of the house as well but is aware enough to save her siblings and free them from the house\u2019s and Olivia\u2019s grasp. The show plays with the idea of life being non-linear in that things from the future may be in our past just as our past is in our future. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Overall, the slow burn of the show mixed with the psychological and physical scares makes for one of the best shows this season, and certainly a win for Netflix. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d is a representation of the type of show Netflix strives for \u2013 enthralling, captivating, yet just short enough to leave you feeling satisfied without a long drag. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Haunting of Hill House is now streaming on Netflix. <\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Jeri Hensley<\/strong>
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