 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another episode of 31 days of Halloween as promised I am reviewing the hunting of Hill House Directed and adapted for Netflix by Mike Flanagan This one right up front. I absolutely loved it. It was amazing, but I still Still like Midnight Mass better. It was a more succinct story and I'm kind of It's kind of strange to me because One of the main complaints about Midnight Mass was that there were too many monologues. There's Just as many monologues in this one. It is drawn out over ten episodes Instead of the seven that was Midnight Mass I believe the haunting and blind manner which we're starting next week. Hopefully I can get it done before Halloween But that one is nine episodes They seem to be getting shorter and it was just announced that Mike Flanagan is going to be adapting a bunch of Edgar Allen Poe's work, which I'm super excited for And he's going to be calling it the fall of how fall of the house of usher. So first off I Love this I love this this series had nothing to do with the book They were Easter eggs sprinkled throughout we're gonna talk about Easter eggs They're here in just a second, but I love that they were Easter eggs sprinkled Like the names of characters so on and so forth, but for the most part, this is an original story I Of course, I'm not a fan of the book whatsoever So I was a little tentative going in until people started telling me Hey, it has nothing to do with the book and it doesn't there were some aspects of the book that I liked that They didn't include which is like gazing out a window at a certain thing and not being able to see it But you should be able to see it if you were outside That's probably one of the only parts. I liked about the book But I don't gel I don't jive with Shirley Jackson's work either because I didn't like we have always lived in the castle either so it's whatever We all have our likes and dislikes and she just doesn't she's never done it for me Anyways about the show This had some very very poignant scenes a Couple quotes I have before I get into the Easter eggs is the rest is just confetti That broke my heart that scene all of it all of the characters all of the actors are fantastic Except for the actor who played Steve whenever Steve let his emotions out and maybe it was maybe it was on purpose He seemed to overact. He couldn't quite he didn't gain any sympathy What so ever from me whenever he got upset not even when he viewed a certain person's body It just Steve really fell flat for me And he was kind of handled like the main character Anyways, the Steve was the only character that I didn't fully jive with but that's That's because I didn't care too much for the actor in his acting. That's just my opinion Another notable thing is there is I'm not going to tell you guys the the episode because I was spoiled for it It's still scared the hell out of me. In fact, I said on Twitter I screamed like a cat with its balls cut a cotton of ice But there is a jump scare in this series that is absolute. It's so so effective You it comes out of nowhere There's no like lead-up music or music or anything like that. It just boom. It's there and I shrieked I'm not I'm not ashamed to say it now. Let's talk about some Easter eggs I probably should have expected to see or hear or whatever that it seemed Okay, there's at one point in time now. This might be semi-spoilery. So you've already heard my opinion I'm not gonna say too much else about the show But I am going to talk about some some Easter eggs probably just the one because I don't want to spoil too much But if you're worried you want to go in completely blind Definitely definitely click away now. So minor spoilers in three two one spoilers I Made it rain rocks Olivia mentions Somewhere about the midway point of the series that she made it rain rocks This is very very clear That he is referencing Carrie because in the book and I believe in the absolutely horrible sci-fi adaptation of Carrie that Carrie makes it rain rocks There are also other little nods to Stephen King throughout of course The shining was inspired by the haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson So you can kind of see the full the full circle here and I appreciated a lot of the references Now the my final word here because I want you guys to go in if you're around here in the spoilery section It's whatever but I want you guys to go in as blind as possible It's this is one of those stories that I think is very important as far as grief How families deal with grief how families deal with a loss of a loved one? You know and I'm not just saying blood family It can be a group of people who have no blood relation whatsoever that you consider family my friend Darren Kapoff I consider him a brother my friend TC Parker. I consider her a sister I love these two to death my friend Nettie and her wife Jessica I love them so much. They are family to me and there's so many Wayne Fenland So many of you out there. I consider family and you're more important to me than blood I'm getting off on a tangent here but the importance of finding people or having people to rely on when your grief is the strongest and What and also the insidious? rot rotting Festering nature of grief if you if you hold on to it too long a big highlight to this one That I probably should have put up front but was Timothy Hutton Him and it's the kid that played Elliot. I can't remember his name. I just looked it up before I started this video I apologize but Timothy Hutton and the adult that the grown-up Elliot is There the way they portrayed each other because I'm sorry. I'm just gonna call him Elliot Elliot The younger Hugh I'll just say younger Hugh and older Hugh act the exact same, but they're played by different actors I thought that was Amazing I was very very happy with that for the longest time I was wondering why the Dudley's weren't being shown in the present day And then when it got to the point of present day, I was like, whoa with their makeup That's why they're not showing them. It was it was bad Especially for the of Horace the husband a Klairs was she They're kind of look like you ever seen in the mouth of madness When the the old the kids on the bicycle and then he turns into the old man That's like Klara looked like at the end and it didn't ruin the last episode for me but it did ruin the the touching element of the end of their story and I just really wish either they would have gotten older actors or just not done To make up at all and not in not included the scene That's just my preference Anyways because that scene was supposed to be super touching and it didn't because I was I was chuckling So was Dan and so was shell But yeah, anyways But I have you this is I guess that's where I'm gonna cut this off I don't want this to be too long. Most of you have already seen this So I'm just gonna go press on to the outro Have you seen the haunting of Hill House on Netflix if you have let me know if you loved it Hated it felt mad about it, but if you felt any of those things Let me know why in detail so that we can have a discussion, but until next time I have any you have been you This has been another episode 31 days of Halloween, and I cannot stop giggling giggling. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye