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At first glance,Netflix's New Serie,The obsession of the mountain house, seems to be your standard supernatural horror mystery. He has the usual scenario: a couple happily married with five adorable children moves in a Victorian mansion that is clearly haunted (As always, the real fault here is with real estate agents who continue to rent this murder cabin). At first, parents do not believe in children when they say they are terrorized at night by ghosts, but as the paranormal activity intensifies, they start to realize that there is something very bad Among them, especially once the mother begins to go a little nut.

But here are things really interesting: rather than simply saying this worried tale, the series focuses rather on what the psychological effects of all this terror could have on the children who had to live. The plot is fractured, cutting between the past and the current day, when the children now adults have to face the fateful night when their father precipitated them from the house and in the car, leaving his mother behind herself.

Steven Crain (Michiel Huisman) is a novelist writing about ghosts even if he does not believe in them. Nell Crain (Victoria Pedretti) Is a disturbed young woman who follows in the tragic traces of her mother in the very first episode. Luke Crain (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is addicted to heroin. Shirley Crain (Elizabeth Reasser) has a funeral home. Theodora Crain (Kate Siegel) is an ice queen that wears gloves to avoid intimacy. All treat experience on their own, and they do not do it well. And all are separated from their father, Hugh (Timothy Hutton), Who refused to reveal what happened exactly all these years.

This question certainly serves as a mystery of the thriller. But while the show is full of scenes inducing the stress of the people wandering in black corridors, the true dramatic tension comes from the complex dynamic of this very dysfunctional family. And the real question that keeps you seized on the screen is: Are these ghosts even real? Or are they, as Steven says in the first episode, simply the hallucinations of those who are mourning?

Read it to find out why everyone looks at this show (minor spoilers to come) and why you are totally absent if you have not started the frenzy. And for more things to watch on the night of fear, do not miss these40 best horror movies to panic to you totally.

The series is based on the eponymous Gothic horror novel of 1959 byShirley Jackson, which has been a finalist for the national book award and considered one of the best stories of literary ghosts published in the 20th century. While the adaptation of the film takes a lot of creative freedoms with the plot, it remains faithful to what has made the book so acclaimed: the tension between the characters and the way it explores the line between fantasy and reality.

Jacksonsays she had The inspiration for the novel while reading on a group of "psychic researchers" of the nineteenth century that have explored a supposed haunted home and reported their findings to the psychic research society. She then found a photo in a magazine of a house in California that seemed to match the description of the haunted house and, in a particularly fantastic twist, discovered her own grand-grandfather had built her.

The series opens with the opening paragraph of the book, whichStephen King Described as such: "There are few descriptive passages of the English language that are finer than this; it is the kind of silent epiphany, each writer hopes: the words that transcend somehow the sum of the pieces." The scenario, written byMike Flanagan, lives a lot to the prose evocative of the book.

This is a bit important that the actors are not household names (although they can be very well after that), because it allows them to feel even more like real people, and there is no questioning on their dramatic talents. The only person who is somewhat recognizable, in fact, isHenry Thomas, who plays the young crap of Hugh and whose breeze role was like the little boy in the blockbuster of 1982AND. It's a little older now and the fact that you can notquite Place where you know it really add many disturbing feelings you have while looking at it. (To be fair,Game Of Thrones The fans will recognize Huisman of his role as bad boy Mercenary Daarhio Naharis.)

The set design is also quite amazing, but the color palace and the camerawork is really amazing. There is a punch in the sixth episode (I did not spoil him for you, but believe me when I say that you will know when you see it), it's so good that I had to re-look three times in a row .

Some viewers have found the way the story is frustrating, because it is so disinterested, jumping between the childhood of the crine in the house and counting with her in the day. Scenes are repeated, shown from different perspectives of character and there is a variety of dream sequences. If you pay attention, it's worth paying, and there is no doubt that the film is very skillfully edited.

Jackson's book has been adapted to the front screen, more recently in the film of 1999The haunting, featuringCatherine Zeta-Jones andOwen Wilson. But while this adaptation is your popcorn thriller in short deurs, this is one of those shows that you will not feel bad about the time to spend time, despite the fact that it is composed of Ten episodes, each is at least one hour in length.

As a television criticDaniel d'Addario written of the series in Variety, "During an era of flashy jump and cheap, there is something to satisfy the construction of the fear that comes when we know that we will not see only the horror when the rest of the characters."

The series has so many scenes that seem raised immediately of a large family drama that you sometimes forget that you look at a ghost story unfold. But that does not mean that there are not many moments that make you jump from your bed. (Pro advice:Do not look at it before going to sleep.)

Given how much it focuses on family dynamics, as well as how humans sail on the loss of a loved one, there is a surprising amount of truly poignant moments that will make you cry.

There are not too many of them, because the series is much more manufactured than, say, aMr. Night Shyamalan Movie, but there are some real drops of jaws towards the end.

Often, supernatural horror films are not as frightening for people who do not believe in ghosts as they are convinced that they exist. But this series offers a lot of terror for skeptics because it approaches ghosts from the figurative point of view and a literal. As Stephen says in the very first episode, "A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a dream dream, a secret. Grievance, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most of what we want to see Most of the time, a ghost is a wish. "And we are all haunted by them.

You have been warned.