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| Topic | I'm going to watch a Horror Movie every day in October |
| PrivateBiscuit1 10/12/20 7:50:34 PM #103: | DAY 10: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV Series) On Netflix So I absolutely love The Haunting of Hill House (I'll probably make a small blurb about that later!) and was extremely excited for this follow-up series. There are strong horror elements in this, but it is absolutely a gothic romance, and it's an amazing one at that. The Haunting of Bly Manor follows an American girl in the 80's moving to Britain to be a caretaker for a pair of kids in a creepy mansion. The kids act strangely, there are strange occurrences in the house, and it all seems decidedly random. Nothing is random. Because this show is crafted so meticulously that each question you have will be answered by the end. It crams so many amazing details into this series and while it doesn't hit it's stride until episode 5, when episode 5 is done, it's a deluge of following through on every single thing they set up in the first four episodes, and it does it masterfully. You shouldn't go in expecting a ton of scares. When they do scares, they do them effectively. When they want you to be unnerved, it does it effectively as well. But this is where you need to understand it's different from Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House is a story about coping with death, and moving on. Bly Manor is about acceptance of death. It's a poignant look at just... acceptance. Death is inevitable. Death isn't fair. But death doesn't mean you need to give up. It's about embracing the beauty in life, and what you had, and not taking any of it for granted. In ways, it overlaps with those themes from Hill House, but it makes something stunning by weaving together each character's point of view of death. When Bly Manor is at its best, it creates something beautiful. I don't want to get into it too much, but I could talk about it for hours. The Haunting of Bly Manor is a wonderful gothic romance with scares peppered in. Just watch it. It's better than anything American Horror Story craps out on a yearly basis. Rating: 9.5/10 --- I stream sometimes. Check it out! www.twitch.tv/heroicbiz/ ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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