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Case Study: Tugging the Heartstrings in THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Case Study: Tugging the Heartstrings in THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

SPOILER ALERT – do not read this article if you haven’t yet seen the entire first season of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. 

SECOND SPOILER ALERT – seriously, don’t do it. Are you still reading this? Have you seen the whole first season? Okay, let’s get into it.

Haunted house movies are a dime a dozen. If you look through a list of haunted house films (there aren’t that many haunted house TV shows, by contrast) they follow a similar template (people move into a haunted house, spooky things happen to them, repeat).

Yet, somehow THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE takes this template and endows it with powerful human drama. 

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