I for sure noticed. I was increasingly impressed with Flanagan as the series progressed (having never seen any of his other stuff) but that was the point where I was like, 'this kid is going places.'
The jump scare in the car in the second to last episode is one of the best I've seen in anything in a long, long time.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, November 5, 2018 8:35 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My gf often yelps when we're watching scary stuff but she SCREAMED and jumped out of her seat when that happened. So yeah, very well done.
― Sizzlean Dion (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 November 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
i think i did notice some tracking shots, in particular the dad walking from the funeral home to the house. assumed it was cgi obv.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Monday, 5 November 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
(PS There is a v impressive super long take action sequence in the new season of Daredevil for those who are fans of long takes and don't hate superheroes.)
― Sizzlean Dion (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 November 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
It took me a few minutes into the episode, but by the time Hugh walked from the funeral home into Hill House while looking for the bathroom I was like, "Wait, there haven't been any camera cuts yet, right?" and from there I got totally into it. Frankly this hour of TV put the whole technique to better use than Birdman.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 5 November 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
The end was fine, good even, in terms of story but they fucked up the tone and way overexplained what you were supposed to take from it. Wasn't enough to ruin a great show by any means (though the song was cutting it close).
I thought the house was certainly trying to deliberately kill people as it wanted more ghosts, and was using the crazier ghosts to achieve that end. But it turned out being a ghost at Hill House isn't the absolute worst thing.
Way, way better than a movie about a ~spooky mirror~ has any right to be.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.)
You're mad, spooky mirror is a great premise for a movie.
https://goo.gl/images/pYHVMC
― chap, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
http://notcoming.com/images/features/dead-of-night/4.jpg
― chap, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link
If you like the last line I don’t know what to say. Perhaps there’s a bias among those of us who’ve seen earlier versions/read the book?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
Yeah, but...again, this isn't the book. I mean, I get that it shares a title and trivial elements with its predecessors, but otherwise I don't know why you're comparing the two.
― Sizzlean Dion (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
Even within the show - what happened to the house that changes it from 'walk alone'?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
^^^
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
Not read thread yet but hopefully kid who plays young Luke has an exciting career behind him
― coetzee.cx (wins), Sunday, 11 November 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
I was talking about this at the pub and a friend of mine said how much she liked the ending! She didn't want the ending to be sad, apparently.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
I dont mind a houseful of happy ghosts! But it just felt like such a WtF after the rest of the show?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 11 November 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
same!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
I think I actually muttered something like "what is this, the end of a Scrubs episode!?"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
hee
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
Lol yeah that’s exactly what it feels likeThis and Gerald’s game are the only Flanagan things I’ve seen and both have scenes that are so syrupy (in presentation as well as in conception) that you wonder if he’s taking the piss. It’s not just the ending here, the flashback of nell’s relationship with the sleep tech was like it too. In gg it’s just the ending, which comes from the book - I remember Flanagan saying in an interview “it’s not my job to fix Stephen King’s story” which uh check again cause I think you’ll find that is exactly your job. When I started watching this I found it pretty heartening that he had apparently changed his mind about unfaithful adaptations, as it might mean the dr sleep movie has a chance of actually being good, but based on this maybe he wouldn’t have come up with anything better for the last 15 minutes of gg
― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 12 November 2018 07:09 (five years ago) link
Just to add a note of dissent, I saw what they were doing early on in ep 6 and thought it was impressive overall but the tradeoff with the one-take thing is that some of the performances became a little, ahem, ropy, esp in the big funeral home argument
― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 12 November 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
just finished this - everyone otm that huisman is terrible in this, compared to how great everyone else is, esp since the story sort of pivots around him.
the jump scare in the car when the sisters are on the way to the house scared the shit out of me!!! the most literal jump scare i've ever seen. would've been great in a movie theater.
one question: did anyone else notice the girl watching young hugh as he's breaking through the bricks to find the skeleton? when he's in profile, she's in the background, peering around the wall, and has long white hair. i read a vulture recap of that ep and the writer somehow noticed hugh's shadow was "off" (i didn't notice this) but didn't see the girl??
― just1n3, Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
https://imgur.com/vHcUzaK
― just1n3, Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
https://imgur.com/hy0QWUK
― just1n3, Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
yeah there's about a million of those background ghosts
https://screenrant.com/haunting-hill-house-hidden-ghosts-secrets-background
― Number None, Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
lol i didn't notice any of those other ones
― just1n3, Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Wanted: extras to dress in black, hang around in the background of scenes, and change position between takes
― calstars, Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
This is the scariest ghost in the series imo:
http://ugc-01.cafemomstatic.com/gen/constrain/750/2000/70/2017/08/25/11/4b/q5/povqa1em4g.jpg
― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 November 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
One thing about this is the way that even though it's not really an adaptation, just a riff on the concept/approach, it's haunted by the novel in interesting ways - so many things here come directly from the book but are used in completely different contexts: the lions, people being walled up, the cup of stars, there are tons. In the book none of those things have actual plot weight, they're things dreamed up by the dreamy protagonists, but there's a kind of thrill in seeing them crop up as tangible details (even though it's really just Easter egg literalism). And of course there are a shitload of direct quotes from the novel - this is why people are correct to complain about the last line being changed btw, it's completely absurd to say 'I don't know why you're comparing the two' when we're literally talking about several lines of text being lifted directly from the novel and being changed from something very good to something very bad
― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 19 November 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
I’m kind of astonished at just how bad the final episode of this was. Just...wow. Megalodon-sized shark jumping.
― latebloomer, Friday, 23 November 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
I haven’t felt this much hate towards a piece of entertainment in years
― latebloomer, Friday, 23 November 2018 10:00 (five years ago) link
Finally finished this, thank Christ. It felt interminable beyond the admittedly excellent episodes 5&6 and the ending - the smuggling in of a glowing afterlife, into something that was emphatically other - was cheap. You can almost imagine Jackson as one of the hidden ghosts, screaming silently into the blackness: no redemption! And this format does encourage idea that endless talking somehow stands for 'writing'. So much talking!
All that said the casting was good (even Huismans didn't offend me) and I thought the kids were particularly great.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 26 November 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Everybody has a dream. And, like Hill House, we must all follow our dream wherever it takes us.Some unpleasant people became part of Hill House's dream. But it cannot be blamed for that. Hill House was a success, in the end, wasn't it?
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
I actually love the idea that the last 15 mins is told from the House's perspective, but I don't think that reading is seriously supported in any way
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Another reason I think Jackson would shriek is that, after everything, it was (partly) about a classic hysteric: the devouring mother.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
Loved the statue head turn during the storm episode and I was hoping for more statue backstory.
― nashwan, Friday, 18 January 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
apparently season 2 is about the statue's troubled childhood
― Number None, Friday, 18 January 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
It's all one long take.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 18 January 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
Would watch a horror film in one take like Russian Ark.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
The ending was superb. It's about how keeping secrets affects the future. You can remain silent, thinking hiding sth will not affect your surrounding, but does influence your life. It was great.
― nathom, Friday, 18 January 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Dowd did you listen the Heavyweight episode where he tracks down the violinist who looked at the camera and “ruined” the single take in RA?
― just1n3, Friday, 18 January 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
No! I'll need to track it down. I certainly didn't notice it when I watched it. I lent the DVD to a friend of mine who died and I don't know how to ask for it back...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
(from his widow, obv.)
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
Or did you mean the first take? That makes more sense, sorry.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
A new Haunting is coming. Can you guess where it takes place? Listen closely... pic.twitter.com/vqzrd3z4NZ— The Haunting of Hill House (@haunting) February 21, 2019
― Number None, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
(it's an anthology show now)
― Number None, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
2020! (emits eldritch howl)
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
that's cool. he has to finish Doctor Sleep first (and I need to finish reading it. hope the movie is more interesting than the book so far)
― akm, Friday, 22 February 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
Anthology show probably the correct way to go.
― chap, Friday, 22 February 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
so apparently the new one will be landing around October probably. much of the same cast, based on a bunch of different Henry James stories with a bunch of different writers and directors. could be good!
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
oooooh excitingHas anyone watched “Shirley” (it’s on Hulu)?Definitely pushes the boat out but i thought it was really good & weird & disorienting. Elizabeth Moss is fantastic.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/shirley-jacksons-son-talks-to-his-fictional-mom-elisabeth-moss
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
I watched it last night, VegemiteGrrl. A disappointment: the sort of film that encourages a culture's most predictable conclusions about the nexus between a writer and her material.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link