The Haunting of Hill House
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One of the best turn in aMike Flanagan Netflix showseemingly reanimate a chilling scene from a 15 - year - honest-to-goodness obscure repugnance movie . Most of Mike Flanagan ’s works are either direct adaptations of repugnance novels or loose contemporary interpretations of a horror author ’s works . While he also has a few original picture likeHushunder his whang , some of his most popular celluloid andshows likeThe Haunting of Hill House , The Midnight Club , Gerald ’s Game , andThe Fall of the House of Usherare adaptations .
However , apart from just accommodate leger , short stories , and verse form , the horror auteur meticulously create narrative that brim with subtle mention and nods to an raiment of cinematic influences , horror image , and literary traditions . Something similar can be comment in perhaps the most chilling twist from one of his just Netflix TV shows . The twist is not only reminiscent of a terrifying prospect from an indie repulsion movie but also draws upon the intricacies and parallels found in well - written revulsion .
The Haunting Of Hill House’s Bent-Neck Lady Twist Parallels Lake Mungo’s Scariest Moment
InThe Haunting of Hill House , young Nell ( Victoria Pedretti ) is always haunted by a specter with a perverted neck . She names her the " Bent - Neck Lady " because of her terrific appearance . After Nell grows up , her husband Arthur fail from an aneurysm on an inauspicious night , and Nell fails to save him because of her sleep paralysis . As her grief surrounding Arthur ’s death suffer worse , she start believe the Bent - Neck Lady was responsible for for Arthur ’s untimely death . When she returns to her puerility home where she first started seeing the out to - neck dame , the haunt house give her a visual sense of her female parent , Olivia , cast a locket around her neck .
However , while experiencing this vision , Nell unknowingly puts her noose around her cervix and falls down the house ’s stairway before dying . As she falls , the retiring merges with the present tense , andThe Haunting of Hill Housereveals that she was the bended - neck noblewoman all this while . The Australian horror movie , Lake Mungo , presents a like kink in its closing arc where the cardinal fictional character , Alice , ascertain her own ghost a few days before drowning to death .
The movie suggests that , like Nell , Alice was probably scattered and terrified by what she witness , but probably understood everything when she died and the law of time vanished in the hereafter . consider how Mike Flanagan call up ( viaLetterboxd ) 2008’sLake Mungo"one of the enceinte sovereign horror films ever made , " it is potential that he attract some stirring from the indie horror plastic film . In his revaluation , Mike Flanagan also specifically bring up one terrifying shot from the film that made him " physically stand from " his couch , seemingly referring to the Alice ghost twist .
Mike Flanagan’sThe Haunting of Hill Houseis available on Netflix for cyclosis .
Two Other Acclaimed Filmmakers Also Drew Inspiration From Lake Mungo
Despite being relatively obscure , Lake Mungohas not only urge on Mike Flanagan but two other acclaimed horror filmmakers , Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead . In an audience ( viaScreen Anarchy ) , Mike Flanagan , Justin Benson , and Aaron Moorhead in brief discussed how much they admireLake Mungoand even recommended their audience to take in it . In another consultation ( viaFilmmaker Magazine ) , Justin Benson explained howLake Mungoand its fake docudrama style of motion-picture photography inspired him and Aaron Moorhead to createSomething in the Dirt .
AlthoughSomething in the Dirtis thematically different fromLake Mungo , it adopts the revulsion motion picture ’s pseudo - objective style . LikeLake Mungo , Something in the Dirtuses this fake documentary approach to research the dangers of half - truth and the ambiguousness of death and morals . The fact that Joel Anderson’sLake Mungoinspired brilliant horror director like Mike Flanagan , Justin Benson , and Aaron Moorhead try out that , regardless of how obscure a movie may be , its artistic and storytelling prowess can transcend its lack of visibility and give a sign on other creative mind .
Sources : Letterboxd , Screen Anarchy , Filmmaker Magazine
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generally based on Shirley Jackson ’s novel of the same name , The Haunting of Hill House follow the Crain family ’s experience in their beautiful - and deadly - home . With a narration told using two timeline simultaneously , The Haunting of Hill House chronicles both the haunting itself , and the long-lasting force it had on the Crain child as they struggle through maturity decades later . Directed by Mike Flanagan as the first entry in his Haunting anthology , The Haunting of Hill House features a big ensemble plaster bandage including Michiel Huisman , Elizabeth Reaser , Oliver Jackson - Cohen , Kate Siegel , Victoria Pedretti , Carla Gugino , and Henry Thomas .
Loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name, The Haunting of Hill House follows the Crain family’s experience in their beautiful - and deadly - home. With a story told using two timelines simultaneously, The Haunting of Hill House chronicles both the haunting itself, and the lasting effect it had on the Crain children as they struggle through adulthood decades later. Directed by Mike Flanagan as the first entry in his Haunting anthology, The Haunting of Hill House features a large ensemble cast including Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, Victoria Pedretti, Carla Gugino, and Henry Thomas.
