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Mike Flanagan conjures up some of his most frightening, emotional work to date in his gothic haunted house series for Netflix! “A ghost can be a lot of thi...

Is the new horror series a shocker or… a shocker?

Mike Flanagan reinvents a classic horror novel for Netflix. Read the Empire review.

Directed by Mike Flanagan, Netflix's new 10-hour 'The Haunting of Hill House' is full of scares, rich character explorations and helpful haunted-home renovat...

"The Haunting of Hill House" offers the unique opportunity of Netflix and chills. [Review]

For much of its titanic length, "The Haunting of Hill House," which premieres Friday on Netflix, does interesting things with character and atmosphere and ma...

The new Netflix Original Series "The Haunting of Hill House" is the best episodic horror series ever created, so get watching as soon as its release time hit...

The adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s funny-nasty psychological thriller abandons the pungent feminine anxiety that made the book so original.

Two new Netflix series, “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” both appeal to nostalgia and critique it.

In the series, which arrives Friday, the terrors of the haunted house are less prominent than those of the people and relationships in it.

A review of Mike Flanagan's new horror series based on the Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House.

Why Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House' strikes a nerve — and how its revisionist take makes it a cut above your average horror TV show.

This is a story about a family, and the house that broke them.    Hugh and Olivia Crain flip houses. They renovate old homes and sell them off, bui...

What is perhaps most beautiful about the series is the way it both subverts the haunted house genre and then wholly genuflects to its cliches.

As Halloween approaches, hopes are high that The Haunting of Hill House will be the new Stranger Things — or at least provide some costume inspiration for ...

The Netflix adaptation discards the authentic fear at the heart of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel.

Netflix may be the platform taking fullest advantage of the holiday

This is a must-watch for horror fans

The new Netflix series is scary and sentimental in equal measure.

Netflix's "The Haunting of Hill House" is an effective look at overcoming trauma, told through a sharply modern horror story.

Netflix weds the ghost story and the family drama with smashing success.

Mike Flanagan’s new series is a family drama first. That makes it all the more terrifying when the actual ghosts arrive.

It’s not a paranormal story so much as a meditation on the way trauma maims the living. And it’s scary as hell.

A series inspired by Shirley Jackson’s terrifying novel kicks off with a spooky episode true to Jackson’s spirit.

The horror series gets sufficiently creepy for a Halloween binge, even if it suffers from Netflix bloat.

Just in time for Halloween comes this 10-episode adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic — although much of it plays out like a spooky HGTV series.