One-Liner: 

A family undergoes the paranormal activities in their old haunted house.

Genre:

This series is a Supernatural horror drama

 Background:

This series was aired on Netflix in 2018. The name of the series is an adaptation from the bestselling novel of the same name written by Shirley Jackson in 1959. 

Main Characters:

Michiel Huisman and Paxton Singleton as Steven Crain.

Carla Gugino as Olivia Crain

Henry Thomas and Timothy Hutton as Hugh Crain

Elizabeth Reaser and Lulu Wilson as Shirley Crain Harris

Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Julian Hilliard as Luke Crain

Kate Siegel and Mckenna Grace as Theodora “Theo” Crain, 

Victoria Pedretti and Violet McGraw as Eleanor “Nell” Crain Vance. 

Plot:

The story discloses to us the paranormal occurrences that happened in a villa in 1992. The house is possessed by a group of 5. They need to sell this house and make another house in the urban region. They show up at the spot to fix it however because of some unavoidable conditions, fixing is deferred and they begin encountering abnormal situations. One night they escape away from the house yet karma brings them back in the house following 26 years.

Season 1:

Season 1 recounts the story of a haunting house and family. Season 1 opens with Steven Craine who is the author. He composes a collection of memoirs of his family and his youth experience in the house under the hills. It is, later on, discovered that they used to live there yet they fled away from the villa because of paranormal exercises yet they left one most youthful young lady in the villa who bites the dust in the house since she was caught in that spooky house because of an apparition. Their recollections haunt them and after 26 years they show up in the house once more. Luke is another character that can see the paranormal exercises however nobody trusts him including his own family. He is also a fanatic that is the reason nobody trusts him. During the season it has been indicated that there is a room in the house that doesn’t appear in the outlines of the house. One of the relatives incidentally goes there and experiences a phantom who attempts to execute him. This season depicts two tempests looked by the Craine Family, one that occurred before and second in the present. One of the relatives bites the dust again in the season that is a young lady. They attempt to torch the slope house however couldn’t succeed. The riddle of the apparition and the house stays a secret till the end. This season doesn’t demonstrate the causes and consequences of haunting. As far as drama is concerned, it very well may be said securely that this season had not the happy closure.

Season 2:

Season 2 of this web series aired in 2020. In this season the story of Craine’s family isn’t carried forward another story has been recorded. Season 2 depends on the Horror Novel from 1898, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James an American British author. The cast of the subsequent season is Victoria Pedretti Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas, and Kate Siegel. The same actors are performing in season 2 but they have appeared under the new characters.

Reception:

This arrangement has gotten some positive rating from the pundits and has been selected in numerous honors and has won Fangoria Chainsaw Awards in the best web series class alongside Bram Stoker Award in Superior Achievement in a Screenplay and Saturn Awards in Best Actor in a Streaming Presentation classification.