10 Horror Movies To Watch If You Love The Haunting Of Hill House – Screen Rant

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House series then make sure to check out these 10 horror movies with similar themes and origins.

In 2018, Netflix released its original series The Haunting of Hill House, based on the 1959 haunted house novel by Shirley Jackson. The Netflix series changes things up by taking the original characters from the story and making them a family that lived in the house, which destroyed their lives in the past.

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The Netflix series also flips from the present-day to the past, showing how the horrors inflicted on the children continued as they all became broken adults, still haunted by this evil house. For fans who loved The Haunting of Hill House, here are 10 movies you need to watch.

The first movie to see if you loved The Haunting of Hill House should be the first movie based on Shirley Jackson's novel. Don't bother with the remake from 1999, which was less than impressive, but the original might be the scariest haunted house movie of all time.

Directed by Robert Wise, The Haunting was a close adaptation of the novel and was scary because it didn't show the ghosts, simply letting the tension build to an unbearable level.

Horror author Stephen King has called Shirley Jackson'sThe Haunting of Hill House the best haunted house novel of all-time. He then set out and wrote his haunted house novel inThe Shining.

While the Stanley Kubrick movie based on the book is not very faithful and took the attention away from the haunted hotel and put it on a broken father, it is still one of the best horror movies of all-time, whether in a haunted house setting or not.

Mike Flanagan did a great job when he adapted The Haunting of Hill House. However, what he has proven outside of that is that he has become one of Netflix's top horror directors. One of his best horror movies on Netflix is the 2016 film,Hush.

In this movie, a woman lives in isolation when a home intruder shows up to kill her. However, when he sees that his target is deaf and mute, he decides to play with his prey, and things don't work out as he hoped.

WhileThe Shining was not a loyal adaptation of the Stephen King novel, the sequel that came decades later,Doctor Sleep was a sequel that somehow was able to connect King's story of a haunted house with Kubrick's story of a broken man. The kicker is that the director is Mike Flanagan.

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In this movie, little Danny is an adult, and he followed his dad's footsteps into alcoholism. However, now recovering, he finds a little girl with the Shine and helps her when monsters come to take her. This all ends up back in the Overlook Hotel, where everything comes to a close.

Two years beforeMike FlanagandirectedDoctor Sleep, hedirected another Stephen King novel adaptation in Gerald's Game. This was another Netflix movie and starredThe Haunting of Hill House's mother, Carla Gugino, as a woman who goes on a vacation with her husband to a secluded cabin in the woods.

However, during a kinky sex game, he dies, and she ends up handcuffed to the bed with something outside waiting.

The movie that made Mike Flanagan one of the hottest young horror directors in Hollywood wasOculus. It might come as a surprise to know that this horror movie was one of the rare success stories of WWE Studios, although they did team up with Blumhouse.

This movie is about a haunted mirror that takes place over two timelines, 11 years apart, and a brother and sister, and the effect the mirror has on them.

The Others is a similar movie toThe Haunting of Hill House, but one that is a lot more subtle and haunting. In the film, Nicole Kidman is a mother named Grace, who lives in a remote country home with her two children in the aftermath of World War II.

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The two kids have a disease that does not allow them to go into bright light, including outdoors during the day, and Grace hires three servents to help keep their house. However, when she believes there are other presences in the house, she will do anything she can to protect her family.

One of the most successful movies for Blumhouse came in 2013 with The Conjuring. The film was so successful that it spawned its own movie universe with sequels, prequels, and spinoffs. However, that first movie is still a fantastic horror movie.

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, and in this movie, they head into a haunted house for one of their scariest cases.

InThe Haunting of Hill House, veteran actor Timothy Hutton starred in the series as patriarch Hugh Crain in the present-day era of the story. For another horror appearance for the actor, head back to 1993 and see him star in the Stephen King adaptationThe Dark Half.

In this movie, directed by horror maestro George Romero, Hutton plays Thad Beaumont, an author who discovers that his pseudonym, George Stark, has come to life and is trying to kill him when he tries to retire the pen name.

Mike Flanagan took a very gothic slant when designing the wayThe Haunting of Hill House looks. If there is any filmmaker that has perfected the art of gothic horror, it is Spanish filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.

In 2015, Del Toro made his gothic horror movie in Crimson Peak, starringMia Wasikowskaas Edith Cushing, an aspiring author, who goes to a remote Gothic mansion and tries to understand the ghostly visions in this new home.

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Shawn S. Lealos is a freelance writer who received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies. He has worked as a journalist for over 20 years, first in the world of print journalism before moving to online media as the world changed. Shawn is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle before relocating to Texas and has work published in the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma Gazette, Vox Magazine and Loud Magazine and on websites like The Huffington Post, CBS, Time Warner Cable, Yahoo, The Movie Network, Chud, Renegade Cinema, 411mania and Sporting News. Shawn is also a published author, with a non-fiction book about the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers and has begun work on a new fiction series as well. Visit Shawn Lealos' website to learn more about his novel writing and follow him on Twitter @sslealos.

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