The success of filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s 2018 Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House made up for an infamously bad horror movie misfire that arrived almost two decades earlier. The Netflix series is inspired by Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House, an iconic work of horror literature and one of the most influential entries into the psychological horror subgenre. The Haunting of Hill House was a daring, ambitious horror story that played with the narrator’s subjective perspective, making it ripe for film and TV adaptations that have varied in their interpretations of the ambiguous and frightening tale over the years.
