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Hill House cast members Annabeth Gish, Robert Longstreet, and Samantha Sloyan also turned up in Midnight Mass, as did Bly Manor actors Rahul Kohli and Alex Essoe. The first installment, The Haunting of Hill House, took its premise from author Shirley Jackson’s book of the same name. It starred Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Henry Thomas among a relatively well-known cast, with a closed-ended story that seemed to be a limited series type of show. The second installment in what seems to be a growing anthology series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, brought back Pedretti, Jackson-Cohen, and Thomas for a brand-new story, this one loosely based on the famous horror story, The Turn of the Screw. Netflix has "no plans" to drop a third installment in the Haunting of... Last year brought ghost story The Haunting of Bly Manor, and 2018 delivered The Haunting of Hill House in Flanagan's ongoing spooky stories.
Haunting of Bly Manor and Haunting of Hill House on Netflix
Flanagan's producing partner, Trevor Macy, told Vanity Fair of The Haunting of Bly Manor, "The process is the same, in that it's a literary remix," he shared. "You want to update the story, you want to find whatever fertile ground for elevating the character that you can in the source material, but we obviously took some liberties in updating it with a more modern setting." Ever better, like Haunting, the Midnight series looks to be another anthology. Although Netflix billed it as a “limited series,” Flanagan already has a follow-up, The Midnight Club, which finished filming in September 2021. Although the official Netflix Haunting social media accounts showed some activity in 2021, it turned out it was not to preview a new Haunting installment.
The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)
But it does mean there might be some time before Flanagan’s schedule is freed up for more Haunting. Halloween season is upon us, and thankfully, The Haunting of Hill House has a follow-up sequel series in Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, with several members of the original cast playing new spooky roles in this new spooky story. You’re gonna wanna keep the party going after you finish watching, so here is everything we know about The Haunting of… season 3. You can come out from under the blanket—what we do and don’t know isn’t that scary.
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In the summer of 1992, Hugh and Olivia Crain and their five children—Steven, Shirley, Theodora (Theo), Luke, and Eleanor (Nell)—move into Hill House to renovate the mansion in order to sell it and build their own house, designed by Olivia. However, due to unexpected repairs, they have to stay longer, and they begin to experience increasing paranormal phenomena, resulting in a tragic loss and the family fleeing from the house. Twenty-six years later, the Crain siblings and their estranged father reunite after another tragedy strikes them, and they are forced to confront how their time in Hill House has affected each of them.
Is a Third Season of The Haunting Anthology Series on the Way?
While Flanagan has begun production on another series (more on that, later), there have been widespread production delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. "The stories are boundless," Henry Thomas, who appears in both series, tells OprahMag.com. "Though Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor are both horror genre, they deal with so much more than your average horror genre piece. We're dealing with big themes."
If season 3 happens, it will feature the same cast, more or less.
Beginning with The Haunting of Hill House in 2018 and ending with the 2020 installment The Haunting of Bly Manor, fans have been hoping for The Haunting season 3 for several years now. Horror mastermind Mike Flanagan blew fans’ minds in a big way in 2023 with the release of the blood-soaked and emotionally harrowing The Fall of the House of Usher, which quickly became one of my favorite horror series of all time. And OMG, it could have been the best one yet, because he was aiming to put his signature spin on the works of literary icon Richard Matheson. When I adapted Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House as a Netflix series, there was much talk about how to continue the Haunting anthology. We followed Hill House with The Haunting of Bly Manor, based on numerous ghost stories by Henry James. Had there been a third season, I wanted that season to be The Haunting of Hell House.
If you ever happened to hear his music or read his comics/short stories, you have his sympathy. Flanagan’s “Hill House” star Kate Siegel is appearing in “Midnight Mass” opposite Zach Gilford, Hamish Linklater, Annabeth Gish, Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan, and Henry Thomas, among others. Flanagan is already working on an adaptation of the 1994 young adult novel The Midnight Club for Netflix as well as a series called Midnight Mass. This is not connected to or part of the Hill House and Bly Manor anthology.
When would we get The Haunting of… season 3?
Bly Manor, Hill House Season 3 Has to Wait Until After 'Midnight Mass' - IndieWire
Bly Manor, Hill House Season 3 Has to Wait Until After 'Midnight Mass'.
Posted: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Take Bly Manor's tagline, "Dead doesn't mean gone." In another horror work, this sentence would be purely foreboding. Within the context of Bly, though, it raises the notion of connecting with loved ones after death. I highly recommend checking out Flanagan’s blog because he’s shared many insightful posts about his work, including his frustration with Netflix for being so against releasing physical media.
Haunting may not be around the corner—but another Flanagan project is. Production on Flanagan's next Netflix horror series, Midnight Mass, began in August. Midnight Mass will feature two Haunting regulars–Henry Thomas and Kate Siegel, who happens to be Flanagan's wife. Netflix is home to two of our favorite haunted house shows—and more could be on the way.
That’s partly why his latest, The Midnight Club, was never conceived as The Haunting of Brightcliffe Hospice. In fact, the idea of including it as another installment of his acclaimed Haunting anthology was never even on the table. Without a greenlight or plans for a third season, it's impossible to know when a new entry in the series would premiere.
When asked to decide whether Hill House or Bly Manor is scarier, Jackson-Cohen is torn. "They feel equally haunted. I don't know how much I'd want to live in either," he says. "Hill House is really not a properly operating house. At least in Bly the lights work," she says. There are countless famous books about houses in which human and ghostly inhabitants coincide.
Fall of the House of Usher is coming soon to Netflix, and the first two seasons of The Haunting are still available to stream (and also available to buy on physical media). Flanagan confirmed that he is “happier” focusing on other things right now, and because he’s no longer involved with Netflix, it wouldn’t make much sense for the show to continue without him. Thankfully, The Haunting is an anthology show, so you can watch the two seasons available without worrying about cliffhangers or loose ends. I'm definitely not going to stop hoping for the day when Hell House's rights are freed up, but that's only assuming the Midnight Club creator will be first in line to snatch them up.
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