SHOCKTOBER: The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel drops on Netflix TODAY! Mike is joined by journalist and podcaster extraordinaire, Boyd Hilton, to discuss the series. The chat begins with a spoiler free section, followed by a more in-depth analysis of the first half of the series (episodes 1 to 5).
Music by Jack Whitney.
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Boyd Hilton is a podcaster and journalist. He's entertainment editor of HEAT and editor of PILOT TV magazine. You can find him on TWITTER
Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER
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| 0:00.0 | The Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy, Happy, Halloween, too |
| 0:24.0 | Bursch and my |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the Evolution of Horror. |
| 0:28.0 | My name is Mike, and as ever, I am your host. |
| 0:30.0 | Now if you're tuning in for the first time, |
| 0:32.0 | welcome, usually on this |
| 0:33.6 | podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at |
| 0:37.6 | particular sub-jomras across several weeks. We have already completed a series |
| 0:41.8 | on the evolution of the slasher, a series on the evolution of the ghost story, |
| 0:45.8 | and we've just this week finished a series on the evolution of folk horror. |
| 0:50.4 | Now we're on a little hiatus, a little break between series before the evolution of the zombie movie kicks off in January. |
| 0:58.0 | But, as you're probably aware, we are currently in the middle of October, the most important and exciting month of the year for us horror fans. |
| 1:06.1 | And there is so much incredible stuff coming out in the next few weeks and I couldn't really avoid it. |
| 1:12.0 | So what we've got for the next couple of weeks is I suppose a little Halloween mini series so you won't be getting episodes every Friday. They might not be as long as the usual episodes. They might be mini episodes, and they will just come out as |
| 1:24.4 | and when over the next couple of weeks between now and the 31st of October Halloween. |
| 1:30.8 | We'll mostly be covering new stuff, but we may also be covering a couple of |
| 1:34.1 | goldy-oldies when we get the chance. But today kicking things off we are going to be |
| 1:38.7 | covering a new TV series which dropped on Netflix today. It is of course the |
| 1:44.3 | haunting of Hill House. Now as I'm sure most people are aware this series is |
| 1:49.1 | based on the original novel the haunting of House, written by Shirley Jackson. |
| 1:53.0 | That novel has, of course, been adapted into a couple of films. |
| 1:56.0 | Firstly, the brilliant film directed by Robert Wise in 1963, and then the not-so-b brilliant adaptation by Jan de Bont in 1999 and this 10 part series is |
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