[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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[rivia]

i think it's hard to really compare the two, they're by largely the same people with the same cast, but i think the show had a very different feel compared to hill house. i do wish they'd stop marketing the show like some SCARES EVERY MINUTE horror fest when it absolutely is not that show and then folks go in expecting that and find what the show actually is super boring.

i absolutely adored both and didn't find much of it scary, in the jumpscare kind of way, but there were certainly horrifying things that happened in the show. both of them had me ugly sobbing by the end, possibly more for bly manor because the story about owen and his mom and his grief after she died from dementia hit hard since that's something i'm still going through.

i almost never pick up on terrible accents though so maybe that's how i stayed invested in it.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like no one is capable of marketing a Gothic Romance correctly. It's always SCARES SCARES SCARES which no, the scares serve the story and a lot of the time they're more sad or poignant than scary.

[rivia]

yeah, and frequently that's what sticks with you more, like luke going down the dumbwaiter like a dummy and getting the jump scare of his life was like, scary but him unknowingly feeling his sister's body die after she's killed (him talking about his neck hurting and feeling cold and stiff) is something i find much more horrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, it had the same cast?!

(Also, ugh so much of it had me crying. Like, I hated Peter so MUCH for what he did to Miss Jessel, but at the same time, that scene with him and his mom had me ugly crying.)

[rivia]

victoria pedretti (dani and nell), carla gugino (the narrator and olivia, henry thomas (henry and hugh), oliver jackson-cohen (peter and luke), kate siegel (viola and theo) are in both.

right? hill house has been my go to for when i just wanna ugly cry, like everything with nell just fuckin hurts and then in bly i feel like it was dialed up even more, like i can't even explain why some of it makes me cry but oh man.

[sparklywalls]

I love Gothic Horror/Romance and am tired of it being done incorrectly or marketed incorrectly (see also: Crimson Peak) - as I said above I’m not as gripped yet (though I am only a little way into Bly Manor) but am totally wtf about the slowness complaints. That’s the last thing I’d complain about at this stage.

There is nothing wrong with a slow burn that builds dread and tension slowly and that’s what Hill House mostly did. Yet even then all anyone seems to go on about is that bloody car scene so I think it means people who haven’t watched it yet expect some big scary thing. The trailer for Bly Manor perhaps created a similar impression. Idk.

[rivia]

If you're still just on ep 3, there's a few upcoming ones that are just wonderful and mostly self contained but very interesting. It's honestly kind of baffling why Netflix has failed at marketing both shows correctly, I guess sad, melancholy horror is harder to convey in a trailer.