THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Featurette Focuses on The Creation of The Incredible Sixth Episode
Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House is a horror masterpiece. I’m currently going through and watching it a second time and I’m actually enjoying it even more because I’m noticing a lot more things that I didn’t notice the first time around. There’s a lot ghosts in the background!
Episode 6, which is titled “Two Storms”, is the best episode of the entire series. That part of the story completely blew me away in the most unexpected ways. It packed one hell of an emotional punch. The episode was also a technical marvel as it was assembled to look like one continuous, traveling shot.
We have a must watch behind-the-scenes featurette for you to watch today that reveals how The Haunting of Hill House episode 6 was created. Director Mike Flanagan and his team would spend days getting these shots ready because they would go through 18-page scenes without any cuts!
Flanagan explains that every single shot was “the product of hundreds of people executing hundreds of tasks.” In an interview with Vulture, Flanagan opened up about bringing this episode to life saying:
“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.”
It’s pretty incredible to see what this team of talented individuals accomplished with this series and this amazing episode. The Haunting of Hill is easily one of the best things that I have seen this year in any form of entertainment. If you haven’t watched it yet, do yourself a favor and check it out. You won’t be sorry.
Now, enjoy the this new featurette.