Jessica Schmidt

I must agree with those who say to give this series a thorough watch-through before giving a final verdict. It does indeed have "haunted lighting" and uses the occasional jump scare (or jump scare tease) but it also employs a sort of psychological fright. Don't take this one at face value. If I had to give it a genre I'd definitely call it a psychological thriller... just with some spooky ghosts thrown in. The beauty of The Haunting of Hill House is that it causes us to face our childhood fears and later dysfunctions in adulthood, "the ocean of childhood dreams", which, in my opinion, is much scarier than any cheap horror film with grown men playing fictitious monsters. In this one, the monsters are made "real" by creation of the subconscious mind to cover up real life horrors that the main characters cannot bring themselves to face... or maybe the ghosts are real - you get to decide.