History Series / TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018

!!!And last but not least:

* EldritchLocation / GeniusLoci: Hill House itself, very much. But none moreso than [[spoiler:the Red Room. It's a place that becomes whatever the user needs--until it's inhabited by Poppy, a malevolent spirit that infects it with black mold and uses it against the protagonists.]]

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: While Hugh Crain did have (only) two daughters, they were not Nell or Theo, and no sons. Luke was distantly related to the Crains, and all are completely separate characters.

* TwinTelepathy: What Luke and Nell share, to a certain degree, often expressing itself in dreams and shared sensations.

Not to be confused with ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill''.

With its renewal for a second season, the show was {{retool}}ed into an {{Anthology}} series, with each season of ''The Haunting'' focusing on a different haunted house. The second season, ''Series/TheHauntingOfBlyManor'', is an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' and Creator/HenryJames more broadly. Though not premiering under ''The Haunting'' title, ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'' is the third installment, adapting Creator/EdgarAllanPoe works.

With its renewal for a second season, the show was {{retool}}ed into an {{Anthology}} series, with each season of ''The Haunting'' focusing on a different haunted house. The second season, ''Series/TheHauntingOfBlyManor'', is an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' and Creator/HenryJames more broadly. Though not premiering under ''The Haunting'' title, ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'' is the third instalment, adapting Creator/EdgarAllanPoe works.

With its renewal for a second season, the show was {{retool}}ed into an {{Anthology}} series, with each season of ''The Haunting'' focusing on a different haunted house. The second season, ''Series/TheHauntingOfBlyManor'', is an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew''.

* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:The house really screws around with time in order to get what it wants. The ghost of Nell being plunged into the past is what brings Nell's death in the first place. It also shows Olivia scenes of the future with her dead children but without context, ultimately resulting Olivia going insane.]]

''The Haunting of Hill House'' is a psychological and supernatural horror series by Creator/{{Netflix}}, loosely adapted from the [[Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse novel of the same name]] by Shirley Jackson. It premiered in October 2018.

* '''Theodora (Theo) Crain:''' The Crains' middle daughter, gifted (or burdened) with clairvoyance - she "just knows" things by touching something with her bare skin. She tries controls her ability by wearing gloves at all times.

* ReusableLighterToss: In episode 8, a lighter is tossed to start a fire[[spoiler:at Hill House, but despite a pool of gas, it doesn't ignite.]]

** Luke is this as well: as a child, nobody believes his various claims of having a friend named Abigail or having encounters with ghosts, and as an adult, he's the family BlackSheep due to addiction. Turned UpToEleven in his own episode, where he [[spoiler: breaks out of rehab to help a friend, only to have her steal his money and abandon him in a less than savoury part of town, which leads to him getting beaten up and robbed of his jacket and shoes. As if this weren't enough, he keeps seeing a ghost from his childhood, and without knowing it ''feels'' Nell's death through their [[TwinTelepathy psychic connection]].]]

* DysfunctionJunction: The Crains stayed pretty knit together, but their experiences at Hill House drove them apart and they all seem to hate each other. [[spoiler: It was made worse when Steve decided to publish a book about their experiences at Hill House and and isolated himself from much of his family]].

!!!The main characters:

* JumpScare: What else would you expect in a supernatural thriller?
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Mr. Smiley, who shows up to torment Theo in a vision. After two episodes of people mentioning terrifying apparitions that never show up, it's a shock to see one finally make an on-screen appearance (albeit as a hallucination rather than an actual ghost)]].

* AdultFear:
** Olivia is so tortured [[spoiler: by her nightmares and visions of her youngest children dying]] that she takes advice [[spoiler: from a ghost]] about how to protect them. This leads her to [[spoiler: attempt to serve them poisoned tea as a way of helping them "wake up" from their nightmares, which is Hugh's worst adult fear]].
** [[spoiler: The Dudleys have their own worst fear realized: Olivia poisoned and killed their daughter Abigail in her delusional state.]]

* '''Hugh Crain:''' a housing contractor and all-around "fix-it" guy, whose intentions to fix and flip Hill House led his family into the situation it became trapped in.
* '''Olivia Crain:''' a talented architect, gifted with a bit of sensitivity to the supernatural -- something she passed down to several of her children.
* '''Steven Crain:''' the eldest Crain sibling and a successful writer, who always wants to do his best to help. Whether his help actually helps is another matter.
* '''Shirley Crain:''' the Crain's eldest daughter, a mortician who runs a struggling funeral home with her husband.
* '''Theodora (Theo) Crain:''' the Crain's middle daughter, gifted (or burdened) with clairvoyance - she "just knows" things by touching something with her bare skin. She tries controls her ability by wearing gloves at all times.
* '''Luke Crain:''' the youngest Crain son, Nell's (older) twin. He spent years self-medicating with drugs to keep his demons at bay. He's trying to get clean and do right by his family.
* '''Eleanor (Nell) Crain:''' the youngest Crain daughter, Luke's (younger) twin, who is being haunted by a entity she calls the Bent-Neck Lady.

* TheOner:
** Episode 6 is entirely built on this. Only five shots are used to assemble the whole episode, with one of them being 17 minutes long and shifting between the past and present with the aid of body doubles and a rigged set with elevators and hidden passages for the cast and crew.
** Episode 7 has a pretty long take just of Horace Dudley telling Hugh about his family's past with Hill House. It just slowly zooms in on him over the entire story.

** Episode 6 is a lot of this, with scenes often going 10+ minutes in solid, continuous shots.

-->'''--Nell'''

->''"There's a lot you don't know. I thought I could keep you kids safe if you didn't know, but for 20 years I've been holding the door closed because I knew there were monsters on the other side, do you understand me?"''

* TheNothingAfterDeath: [[spoiler:After being traumatized by Nell's ghost, Theo finally breaks down to Shirley and reveals that the reason she and Kevin looked like they were about to cheat is because after Theo had touched Nell's dead body, she was trapped in a state of feeling nothing. Her excessive drinking was driven by her desperation to ''feel'' something, and this desperation reached a fever pitch when the lights went out during a power outage, depriving Theo of ''sight'' and leaving her feeling like she was numbly floating in a void of absolute nothingness. When the lights come back on, she sees Kevin and latches onto him like "a life preserver in the ocean", and the ensuing flood of guilt, shame, and fear finally jolts her out of the spell. And she ''gladly'' accepts the consequences over the alternative.]]
-->'''Theo:''' [[spoiler:That thorough fucking ''shame'' was so much better than that ''horrible, empty nothing''.]]

* '''Steven Crain:''' the eldest Crain sibling and an aspiring writer, who always wants to do his best to help. (Whether that help actually turns out to be helpful is another matter.)

* '''Theodora (Theo) Crain:''' the Crain's middle daughter, gifted with an unusual ability to read the truth of a situation or occurrence by touching something with her bare hand and who desperately tries to shield herself from her gift by hiding away in a pair of gloves.
* '''Luke Crain:''' the youngest Crain son, twin brother of Nell, a drug addict who struggles with his own demons and trying to do right by his family.
* '''Eleanor (Nell) Crain:''' the youngest Crain daughter, twin sister of Luke, who is being haunted by a entity she calls the Bent-Neck Lady.

** Olivia is so tortured [[spoiler: by her nightmares and visions of her children dying]] that she takes advice [[spoiler: from a ghost]] about how to protect them, especially her youngest twins. This leads her to [[spoiler: attempt to serve them poisoned tea as a way of helping them "wake up" from their nightmares, which is Hugh's worst adult fear]].

* CharacterFocus: Each of the first five episodes focuses around the perspective of one of the main characters on the events that are transpiring. Episodes 7 and 9 focus on Hugh and Olivia respectively.

* CoolUncle: Of the female variety: Theo is the [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]] for her niece Allie, much like she used to be the CoolBigSis for the twins when they were children.