Day #14 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #14 of the 30 Days of Halloween Meme

The prompt is A film, a book or television series that scared you, gave you nightmares and/or kept you awake at night

The Haunting of Hill House - Mini-Series.

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In particular episode #6 - Two Storms...

"Two Storms” is not only the best episode of The Haunting of Hill House, it may be one of the best episodes for drama ever made. Told in what is essentially four single takes spanning both the past and the present. It’s a technical marvel and the staging is impressive, but what makes this episode so successful is that it is so rooted in its characters and allows them to just litigate the past.

The episode doesn’t further the plot, but it furthers the characters and becomes a turning point for the season. Not to mention the pure tension from both the horror and family drama that makes it impossible to turn from the screen. “Two Storms” is where The Haunting of Hill House goes from good to great. " - https://smashcutreviews.com/every-the-haunting-of-hill-house-episode-ranked/

Comments

[cjlasky7]

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

I read the book in one night. It haunted my dreams for days afterward. For me, the movie was a lark by comparison.

[shadowkat]

Wow. That might have been why? Reading it in one night. Thinking you did lots of skimming? I had it, but could never get myself to read it - I think because I saw the film first.

Weirdly, I've never been scared by books. I read the Shining, didn't bug me at all, but Kubrick's film...of course I saw it in a dorm during a break. My wing of the dorm was empty. We were in Colorado. There was snow on the ground. And it was deadly quiet. Not a film to watch in a huge building that is mostly empty.

I will state that Jackson's Haunting of Hill House is disturbing, as are the ghost stories by Henry James...

[petzipellepingo]

The 1976 version of Helter Skelter . I was home alone as the rest of the family was on vacation and the empty house was uncomfortable.

[shadowkat]

I can see that - having seen that film, also I read parts of the book.

[wendelah1]

When I was a little kid (age five, maybe?): Sleeping Beauty. Maleficent frightened me so much that I couldn't even walk through Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland. As an adult, I avoid horror films like the plague so they never get a chance to give me nightmares.