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Haunting of the Hill House- Horror genre needed this

Haunting of the hill house is an Netflix original horror series consisting of 10 episodes. Horror genre usually shines much better in Movie as a viewer can only handle so much in so short amount of time with all the jumpscares and anticipation. Horror movies have mostly been consisting of combination of cinematography with sound effects to provide scary scenes. Usually this is done in order to make us viewer feel surprised. Haunting of the hill house is also consisting of all of this but also has a nice well written story to follow and with budget of netflix . The series is about group of siblings who have moved in new house and they find themselves having some supernatural interaction with some unknown forces.Image result for haunting of hill house netflix
 Since there are 5 siblings and each have their own perception of the same events, the story is scattered in each episode. First 3 episode quite are alright as characters are introduced and story is being established slowly. After 4th episode is where viewer can say that characters have been developed enough for viewer to get attached to them emotionally. The episodes are in non linear order jumping back to time when siblings were young and now to present time when all of them have grown up while their past haunts them. There's just not 2 timelines which creates a little difficult to follow characters in first few episodes. But however the series after first few episodes picks up quite well. This is not just a show to make you scared by using cliche cinematic ghost revealing shots like any other horror movie. There is story here and characters feel alive and their struggles real. The episodes are directed in a way to keep many parts of the story a mystery to be discovered later but not fully. One mystery is not just answered or revealed one after another keeping us on the edge of our seats or couch ! Second half of series where tension and anticipation keeps rising. In between jumping back and forth episodes showing different event from different characters, some individual feels like left out which is not a bad thing to be honest as sometimes its better to focus on story as too many characters would clutter the screen. Jumping back and forth also means like any other show that each timeline would have its own screen filter to make it look old but for some reason Past timeline seems like without any filter but Current timeline seems like watching the show with dark blue tinted goggles on sometimes.


Overall the series is great not only in this genre but overall as well.
The ending of the show is definitely not disappointing or its up to the viewer to decide
The cinematography of the show is great and story told through such cinematography and non linear pattern is something new to this genre and should be done quite more often.
Highly recommended for Horror genre fan but if you are not then its about time you started thinking differently about Horror as genre.
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