Will There Be Haunting of Hill House Season 2?
Netflix doesn’t release viewership information regarding their original content. Based on fan and viewer reaction, however, it’s not hard to imagine that its original horror series, The Haunting of Hill House, has been a massive success.
The Haunting of Hill House comes from acclaimed horror director Mike Flanagan (Hush, Oculus) and is a VERY loose adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic horror novel of the same name. The show follows the Crain family and their experiences at the titular Hill House and how the trauma of living with ghosts (literal and metaphorical) effects their lives as adults.
further reading: The Haunting of Hill House: Adapting a Classic
The show has been monstrously well received from the critical community and if the reaction to our coverage is any indication, it’s been well received from fans as well. This level of success usually means that a second season would be a given. Hill House, however, had a rather definitive, clear cut ending. Still, is it possible that Flanagan could be convinced to make one more return trip to Hill House?
Based on a conversation that Flanagan had with Entertainment Weekly, the answer could very well be yes! Flanagan had this to say about the possibility of The Haunting of Hill House Season 2.
I don’t want to speculate too much about season two until Netflix and Paramount and Amblin let us know if they want one. What I will say, though, is that as far as I’ve ever been concerned with this, the story of the Crain family is told. It’s done. I think that there are all sorts of different directions we could go in, with the house or with something completely different. I love the idea of an anthology as well. But to me, I felt like the Crains have been through enough, and we left them exactly as we all wanted to remember them, those of us who worked on it. We toyed with a cliffhanger ending and we toyed with other ideas, but ultimately, in the writers’ room and with the cast and everything else, we really felt like the story demanded a certain kind of closure from us and we were happy to close the book on that family. That said, I think more than anything, the show is about haunted places and haunted people, as Steve says, and there’s no shortage of either. So, there’s any number of things we could do, in or out of Hill House.
That’s notably not a no. Flanagan makes clear that the story of the Crains is done. The story of Hill House though…maybe there’s more to be done there. Hill House after all seems to be an immortal supernatural entity.
further reading: The Best Haunted House Movies and TV Shows of All Time
The rest of the interview with EW is worth reading for topics like the insane tracking shots in episode 6, the deeper mythology of Hill House, and what it’s like to adapt Jackson’s novel.
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