If you have been following The Movie Mensch for a while now, you know my passion for the 2018 masterpiece of horror television that was The Haunting of Hill House. That came from creator and director Mike Flanagan and his latest in his “Haunting” series that will air on Netflix, has unveiled its first rather unnerving trailer.
Set to the spooky tuneage that is the most unique of takes on Motley Crue’s Home Sweet Home, the trailer takes us inside a new house that is under some serious haunt. The Haunting of Bly Manor is a whole new season of horrors that is based on a literary giant’s terrifying work. Just as The Haunting of Hill House was based on Shirley Jackson’s iconic novel, Bly Manor comes to us based on the iconic Henry James story The Turn of the Screw.
We’re introduced in the above trailer to the Wingrave family. They live in Bly Manor, a massive estate whose ghosts are not finished with the occupants or anyone really who visits!
Cannot wait for The Haunting of Bly Manor, which hits Netflix on October 9.
Here’s the full synopsis:
From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes The Haunting of Bly Manor, the next highly anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to care for his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen (Rahul Kohli), groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve) and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller). But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.
Producing partners Flanagan and Macy drew from the iconic supernatural stories of Henry James, to create the ensemble drama which also stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, and Tahirah Sharif. The series is executive produced by Flanagan and Macy for Intrepid Pictures, along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television.