Review: Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House
Embed from Getty Images *Some spoilers ahead* The Haunting of Hill House is Netflix’s latest offering of horror. The ten-part series is loosely based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. The series focuses on the Crain family and flits between their time as a young family living in the eponymous Hill House and the present day, as well as various points in between, focussing on how living in the house has affected each of them. Each of the first seven episodes focuses on a different family member, with the final three rounding off the family’s story. We see how the house haunts each of them, not just while they live there, but years later as the children become adults and struggle to move on with their lives. We meet Hugh and Olivia Crain as they move their five children (Steve, Shirley, Theo and twins Luke and Nell) into the Massachusetts mansion with the plan to renovate and sell it before summer is out. As we move through the series we also meet dif...