Season 2 of The Haunting of Hill House is underway, which means it is the best time for fans of the original series to consider adding in a re-watch to their schedules. Though the two shows aren't connected, The Haunting of Bly Manor is set to release on October 9th and will feature many members of the original cast of the show playing new roles.
Mike Flanagan, creator of The Haunting of Hill House, has created a number of different films that all encompass the same strangled atmosphere and tone in his work. Each piece nearly as horrifying and dark as Hill House itself. Alongside a much-needed re-watch of the original series, ingesting some other films similar to that of The Haunting of Hill House would be the perfect way to wait out October 9th and The Haunting of Bly Manor.
10 The Autopsy Of Jane Doe
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a film about two coroners who are given a new body, a Jane Doe, and attempt to uncover how she died. But with each new discovery, leads to new questions. This film resembles Hill House in when regarding Shirley and her job to the coroners of the film. Both the series and the film go into the hows and whys of the post-mortem and mortician jobs, describing to audiences what exactly goes into it. This film also enjoys painting a picture, much like that of Hill House. The film never flashbacks to the horrors the body had faced, instead audience members only hear of them in cryptic detail.
9 Hush
Hush was created and written by husband and wife duo, Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel (Theodora from Hill House). Kate and Mike work together often, as Kate usually stars of cameos in Mike's works. This project was a complete collaboration between the pair as Kate co-wrote and starred in the film. Hush has many of the same elements as Hill House. It makes the audience aware that the character feels safe in her own home, but that now is being tested. The film follows Maddie Young, a deaf author who lives alone in a pretty secluded house. She knows the thumps and vibrations of the house, but someone distrubes that as they break in, attempting to kill her.
8 Relic
Relic is an Australian horror film all about a mother, her daughter, and granddaughter. This film takes the dysfunctional family trend in horror movies and ups it tremendously. This film enjoys speaking in metaphors, much like Hill House.
In Hill House, Steve swore his mother and sister were mentally ill and that Luke had been severly damaged from his childhood. He believes the bent-neck lady and all the other ghostly horrors the three of them saw in Hill House were just a manifestation of their poor mental health. Well, Relic takes that idea and plays with it a ton. The horror in this story is the manifestation of dementia. It takes the real-life horrors of the illness and twists it, giving the illness a physical and horrifying form.
7 The Haunting
The Haunting (1999) is actually based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House novel, which the series is also a lose adaptation of. In the novel, four strangers meet at Hill House in order to conduct a summer-long paranormal investigation in order to prove that the supernatural does in fact exist. The characters are that of Eleanor (Nell) Vance, Theodora, Luke Sanderson, and Doctor Montague. The film takes a similar route as Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) invites three stranges to Hill House for a sleep study on insomnia. His real plans, however, are to scare the guests in order to learn more about them. That task becomes easier once the housemates learn that Hill House is haunted by ghosts.
6 Gerald's Game
Gerald's Game is another creation of Mike Flanagan and is an adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. Flanagan once again worked with both Bruce Greenwood, who cameos in Doctor Sleep and was uncredited as one of the hidden ghosts in Hill House, and Carla Gugino who played Olivia Crain in Hill House. This film follows a husband and wife who go to their secluded vacation home to try and spruce up their love life. But after handcuffing his wife to the bed, and leaving the front door open, Gerald gets a sudden heartattack and dies on top of Jessie, who is left alone with no way of escape and no one around to help.
5 Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep was directed by Mike Flanagan based on the Stephen King sequel novel of the same name. This film, and its original story, are a direct sequel to Stephen King's The Shining (another film to add the the watch list if you haven't seen it already). This film is less about the horror like its predessor is, and more about the story of those with the shining within them. Ewan McGregor plays an older Danny Torrance from the original and must help a new friend he has made who shines brightly for all to see. Flanagan takes elements of his work on Gerald's Game and incorporates it into this film to give audience members the feeling that they, like all of King's works, are set in the same universe.
4 Ouija: Origin Of Evil
Ouija: Origin of Evil is the sequel film to Ouija but is actually better and more developed than its predessessor. The story of Origin of Evil is based on the real mythos of the Ouija Board Demon that is said to be welcomed into hauntings by acting as desceased loved ones through a Ouija board, which is exactly what happens in the film.
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The actresses who play Shirley and young Shirley in The Haunting of Hill come together as mother and daughter and once again work with Flanagan as Doris, the young girl being possessed by a demon who pretends to be her desceased father, and Alice. After they welcome the demon into their home, it slowly starts to reveal its malicious intent.
3 The Invisible Man (2020)
The Invisible Man (2020) starred none other than Luke himself, Oliver Jackson-Cohen as the invisible man in the film, Adrian. This story is dark and deals with a toxic relationship plagued by abuse. After faking his death and remaining invisible, Adrian haunts and alienates his wife, Cecilia by making everyone around her believe that she has totally lost it. This alienation is really similar to Nell's alienation in the series and will make audiences wonder if their is a deeper psychological twist or if there really is a horror plaguing the protagonist.
2 The Invitation
The Invitation stars Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, as David. Audiences of this film wont really know what is going on until the conclusion of the story but will definitely feel the creepy cult-like atmosphere of the characters. Will and his girlfriend attend Will's ex-wife (Edna) and new husband (David)'s dinner party in Will's old home. Talk about awkward, but Edna, David, and Will seem pretty okay with one another with no hard feelings. But Edna and David seem really differnet after their long vacation away from home, and they have new, yet strange friends over for the dinner party. Edna's behavior throughout the film is very similar to Olivia's during her decent into madness by the house. They both question their beliefs and their actions but not before it is too late.
1 Hereditary
Hereditary is another dysfunctional family movie that started the craze of the genre and has a wide fan-following. The film is considered to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time and has a number of things going for it. It is horrifying for what it is and doesn't add cheap gimicks or jump scares to add to that, much like The Haunting of Hill House and focuses on the ghosts created by grief. The horror surrounds the family and lingers, driving them all mad in their own ways. This film takes the heart within Hill House and stomps on it.
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