Meanwhile both Haunting shows reinvent well-known stories — Hill House is based on the iconic Shirley Jackson novel of the same name, while Bly Manor is inspired several Henry James works, most
TheHaunting of Hill House cuts back and forth in time, finding the adult Crain children in crisis while going back to their youth in Hill House over the course of a doomed summer. Things at Hill
Staircasesare often used in horror to ramp up the tension, as well as to offer a semblance of hope, however misguided. Tripping up is, of course, a potential peril; falling down another. Something might even be unleashed, as in the case of 1982's Poltergeist. And the scuttling 'spider walk' from 1973's The Exorcist is among the film
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