Just finished The Haunting of Hill House, gotta say I fucking loved it. All these reports about people fainting/puking while watching is proper bullshit, it's pretty light in the horror department.
However, the show is really good at telling it's story, a well written proper spooky drama. Episode 6 was really fucking special cinematography wise, with some of the best long shot's I've ever seen. I recommend this to horror fans, and just fans of good tv shows as well.
Here is an answer to a question of an interviewer talking about episode 6, just about recording it, no actual spoilers;
That episode was part of our original pitch to Netflix. I’d said I wanted to do an episode that appeared to be executed in a single take. The reality of what that entailed didn’t become clear until we started rehearsing the episode. We shut down the company for over a month to choreograph and rehearse each of our five long takes. The longest was 17 minutes. There was no room for error at all, and if we made a mistake, we had to start over. We rehearsed for almost a month with our second team stand-ins before we even folded the cast into the process. By then, we had already filmed the entire episode with stand-ins and rehearsed the camera moves. When the cast arrived, I showed them the shots and said, “This is what we have to do.” It was the single hardest thing any of us on the crew had ever attempted, and it almost killed us. I remember sitting at monitor when it finally came time to actually shoot, and I was powerless to do anything but watch and hope. The entire crew had to work together, and if one element went wrong, we were cooked. It was harrowing.
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 3:09 pm