THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Creator/Director: Mike Flanagan
Starring: Michiel Huisman, Henry Thomas, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, Victoria Pedretti, McKenna Grace, Timothy Hutton, Samantha Sloyan, Annabeth Gish, Robert Longstreet

The latest Netflix binge is the new mini-series The Haunting of Hill House. Writer/director Mike Flanagan adapts Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name, but puts his spin on the story. It’s been years since the members of the Craine family stepped foot in the mansion they grew up in. Why would they? It is extremely haunted and the site where their mother committed suicide. The five Craine children have grown up each suffering some sort of trauma from their past. Eldest son Steven (Huisman) is a best-selling novelist who wrote about their family’s ordeal to make money, but twins Nell (Pedretti) and Luke (Jackson-Cohen) have suffered the worst fate. Tragedy strikes their family again reuniting the Craines forcing them to deal with their past once and for all. Their relationships are fractured and may never be healed, but it allows for some honest confrontations with the hope they’ll make their way out of it like they did many years ago.

Here’s my review on “Twin Cities Live”