Paramount Home Media's The Haunting Of Hill House Arrives As Blu-ray And DVD Sets On Oct. 15

Paramount Home Media has something special for the Halloween promotional season this year!!   

Arriving on Oct. 15 are both Blu-ray and DVD collections of director/producer Mike Flanagan’s re-imagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 gothic horror novel, The Haunting of Hill House.

This ten-part series gives genre fans a full ten-nights of Halloween horrors on the run-up to October 31.   Or, if are so inclined, you can just binge-watch it … but what’s the fun in that?

In any case, filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Ouija: Origin of Evil … his film adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 novel, Doctor Sleep, opens theatrically on Nov. 6) expands the core haunting of the Hill House Mansion to follow the Crain family over a number of years as chronicled in Steven Crain’s autobiographic novel, “The Haunting of Hill House.”   Both Michiel Huisman (as Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones) and Paxton Singleton play the writer as both an adult and young boy.

As we come to know the Crain family, Hugh (Henry Thomas and later Timothy Hutton) and his wife Olivia (Carla Gugino), have purchased the old place to renovate it, sell-it and use the profits to build a house of their own based on Olivia’s design.   The Crain’s have five kids, including the aforementioned Steven and his siblings — Shirley, Theodora, Luke, and Nell — and get to know them as both kids and adults, who are still troubled by their childhood experiences in the creepy old place.

As to bonus chills, three of the episodes are extended and featured as “director’s cut” presentations, complete with optional commentary.

So successful was The Haunting of Hill House as an event series, that the concept has been renewed for a second season titled The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is based on Henry James’ 1898 Collier’s Weekly serial tale, “The Turn of the Screw.”