The Haunting of Hill House: What the reviewers think
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Our Must Watch reviewers this week are Scott Bryan, TV Editor at Buzzfeed, and Hayley Campbell, journalist, reviewer and host of the BBC pop culture Podcast “Unpopped”.
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Hayley says: "This is a must watch."
"Each character has a job or a role that is them dealing with childhood trauma, which is interesting in these times of writing about mental health.
"The writer character, who wasn't there for most of the scary bits, is trying to piece together the story for his book. The child who was the most scared of death now works in a funeral home as an undertaker - it's really clever.
"This is based on the Shirley Jackson novel from 1959; it was turned into a film in 1963 and again in 1999 - and I didn't find those ones scary, but I find this one terrifying because it really gets inside your head.
"The scary bits are so subtle, they really freak you out.
"It's not so much scary zombies - it's little, subtle things that are not supposed to be that way.
"I find The Haunting of Hill House extremely scary, and really, really good.
"This is a must watch."
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Scott says: "I didn't find it that scary."
"This is a drama that's set in a very creepy old house, and it looks at the trauma that the family who are living in the house experience. It's a flash forward/ flash back series.
"The weird thing about it is, because they flash forward and you see what their life's like now, all the horror and terror is a bit depleted for me because you know they get out of the house and are actually okay.
"When you're watching a scary film, or a horror-based situation, you have this idea that they might die at any moment - that's where the fear and terror comes from. I didn't find it that scary.
"This is a show you'll either find really terrifying from the off, or not.
"I didn't find it terrifying. I even turned off the lights in my room to replicate the scary effect."
Michiel Huisman speaking to Nihal on BBC Radio 5 live
