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Finally, Luke discovers the words HELP ELEANOR COME HOME written in chalk in the halls. With each event, the group grows more suspicious of Eleanor, and Eleanor is terrified by the thought that the house is singling her out. Within the movie itself there are only a couple that jumped out. One of them is Liam Neeson’s characters archaic brick of a cell phone that he drops while hanging from a banister while trying to save Nell.
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The movie, released in 1963, was based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House released four years prior. That title is probably a little more noticeable to recent fans as the brilliant show from Mike Flanagan was indeed also based on the work. Flash forward from 1963 to 1996 and two titans wanted to get together and make a horror movie. Steven with a V Spielberg approached Stephen with a PH King with the idea to make a haunted house picture together. Being of similar ages and tastes growing up, they agreed that The Haunting was the alpha and omega of ghost stories and that it should be the basis of their movie along with more elements from the novel.
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It’s easy to lose one’s way and become trapped in parts of the house they’ve never been in before. However, unexpected repairs necessitate the lengthening of their stay. At the same time, they begin to experience increasing paranormal phenomena that results in a tragic loss and the family fleeing from the house.
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Fearing for her safety, Montague and Luke declare that she must leave. Eleanor, however, now regards the house as her home and resists. Montague and Luke force her into her car; she bids them farewell and drives off, but before leaving the grounds of Hill House, she propels the car into a large oak tree to her implied death. Emma Baldwin, a graduate of East Carolina University, has a deep-rooted passion for literature. She serves as a key contributor to the Book Analysis team with years of experience. Some of the themes explored in the novel include the power of suggestion, the influence of the past on the present, the nature of fear, and the relationship between the supernatural and the psychological.
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Because from that moment on, the House has a very real personality. It feels twisted, wrong, just off by a small small margin, just enough to make you uncomfortable. Of all of Shirley Jackson’s works, “The Lottery” is considered to be one of the best works of horror ever written. The story is a chilling depiction of a small town’s idea of justice that’s read in schools around the world. Gothic horror often contains elements of romance, madness, and violence, as well as psychological and philosophical questions.
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The House becomes more familiar because Eleanor is growing to love it in a mad, frenzied way. The humans become more distant because she’s becoming isolated from them and she’s being corrupted more and more by the house into hating them. After all that, her finally snapping at the end makes sense and becomes scarier. ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ by Shirley Jackson is a must-read horror novel about four people who decide to investigate the many reports of ghosts in Hill House. The characters of Shirley Jackson’s classic horror novel are quite different from one another.
It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. Some similar short stories include Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu.” Many modern authors are still writing in the genre, such as Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del Toro, who have produced new works of horror for a contemporary audience. Dr Montague, an anthropologist whose true passion is the supernatural, rents the supposedly cursed titular building in order to investigate the existence of psychic disturbances. His guests are the house's heir, Luke, and two women with previous experience of the paranormal, Theodora and Eleanor.
They become almost more distant, their motivations a bit more hidden and even more malevolent. Theodora goes from Eleanor’s best friend at the beginning to steadily being described as proud and envious and jealous of Eleanor. Eleanor and Theodora, begin to break down and Theodora is paired with Luke towards the end. ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is one of the best gothic horror novels of the 20th century.
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His two companions are Eleanor Vance, a young woman scarred by an experience she had with a poltergeist when she was a child, and Theodora, another woman who supposedly has psychic abilities.
Crain designed Hill House as a series of cloistered, maze-like concentric circles that are almost impossible to navigate. Tragically, Crain’s wife never set foot into the house; she died when her carriage overturned in the driveway. Bitter and depressed, Crain stayed to raise his two daughters in the house. Over the years, the daughters fought over ownership of the house, and the house eventually landed in the hands of the older sister’s caretaker, a young woman from town.
But, even as she leaves, she realizes that there is nothing she can do to get away from the house. Eleanor suddenly accelerates into an oak tree, feeling as though she’s totally lost control of her actions. In the last pages, Jackson explains that Dr. Montague published a paper explaining everything that happened in Hill House, and no one believes him. Hill House has two caretakers, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, who refuse to stay near the house at night. The blunt and single-minded Mrs. Dudley is a source of some comic relief.
During the watch for this review, I found myself looking around the screen admiring the set rather than paying attention to the movie and had to rewind a couple times. The main conflict of ‘The Haunting of Hill House‘ by Shirley Jackson is the conflict between the human main characters and the supernatural phenomena occurring within the home. This is particularly true for Eleanor, who forms a terrifying bond with the house while she’s there. This classic horror novel begins with Dr. John Montague renting out the haunted Hill House, a well-known home filled with supernatural occurrences. Hoping to prove to the world of science that supernatural/paranormal phenomena exist, he picks two people to help him record the many terrifying experiences that occur in the house. Dr. Montague explains that the house was built eighty years ago by a man named Hugh Crain.
I remember printing many listed directions to get to where I needed to go and if you missed a turn, you were not given instant alternative directions. Not supernatural phenomena themselves, we’re left unsure to some degree as to what Hill House actually is or what inhabits it, but how the house destroys Eleanor. You see it stripping away her sanity, bit by bit, layer by layer until there’s nothing left. You see it isolating her, tearing them apart steadily to eventually crush Eleanor. That’s scarier than anything else in the book, how Hill House takes every insecurity of Eleanor’s, her abandonment issues, her isolation and turns them against her.
Even the house itself attempting to rebel looks like a cartoon and not in a good way. While the story is interesting, the actual script and the deliveries and performances by the actors falls very flat. The culmination of the acting being a detriment is the lifeless reaction to Owen Wilson being decapitated in the fireplace. The way Liam Neeson looks away with a cringe is exactly how I feel about watching this movie again.
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