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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
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I did catch that.
I expected this to be a really craptastic series based on the garbage Hill House movie from the late 90's/early 2000's. Was expecting it to be more goofy Netflix full of political commentary and terrible acting.
Wow. Couldn't have been more wrong. Acting, direction, story all were excellent. About 4-5 eps in I thought "this had to be a woman that wrote this." I looked it up and apparently is considered one of the best horror novels of all time.
How the **** did I never hear of this?
Why can't Hollywood adapt material like this? Mostly true to the story and keeping the heart intact?
I
have to read the book now.
And if ever there was a point they really get across it's "you can't really understand until you've lived it yourself." They use a mother being pregnant, a drug addict, the token psychic kid, ghosts, death of a child, etc to get the point home. There's some situation everyone can relate to in here.
This is, by far, my favorite horror series/mini-series ever. It borders on moments you think "oh damn, now it's going to get cheesy" and instead hits you with some really powerful moments. Some real "**** man, I don't want to think about that" moments.
In fact when it was over me and my wife sat and talked for 2 hours, in quiet, about things we have never shared with each other. And we've been together for 20 years.
And the "re-watch" factor only goes up when you can pay really close attention the 2nd time through and look for all the ghosts.