On its most basic level, Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” is a horror series. But the tricks it plays on viewers minds have less to do with the literal ghosts peppered throughout the 10-episode show — which was renewed as an anthology by the streaming service — and more to do with the frights hidden in the minds of the Crain family that inhabited the titular haunted house.
And “Hill House” star Oliver Jackson-Cohen tells TheWrap that’s exactly what creator/director Mike Flanagan was going for when he developed the series.
“He wanted to make a drama that was about childhood trauma and how that, in itself, is horrific and horrifying,” Jackson-Cohen, who plays Luke Crain on the series, told TheWrap in the above interview.