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Abigail Bishop (Emily) in Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) dir. John D. Hancock
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day 23 of horror: my list to underrated essential horror films
#horror#horror movies#curse of the demon#the seventh victim#ganja & hess#alucarda#dementia 13#let's scare jessica to death#horroredit#moviesedit#filmedit#cinema#halloween#check warnings before you watch any of these#the old dark house#the serpent and the rainbow#paranoiac#the golem#vampires#countess dracula#the devil rides out#island of lost souls#mad love#mill of the stone women#the walking dead#the ghoul#kiss of the vampire#spider baby#tourist trap#squirm
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There's still a haunt on the hill...
In my previous post, I dug through the ghostly chain of adaptations of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" starting by its various movie incarnations. But I am not done...
Because in 2018, Mike Flanagan released on Netflix his massively successful television series, "The Haunting of Hill House".
Flanagan's television series was strongly influenced by "The Shining", another major haunting-story of the 20th century, first marking American literature under the pen of Stephen King...
... Then marking American cinema by the movie adaptation of Stanley Kubrick.
Mike Flanagan never hid his passion and love for "The Shining", both the Kubrick and King versions, and it is for this reason he was the man behind the 2019 movie "Doctor Sleep"....
... an adaptation of Stephen King's sequel-novel to The Shining.
And fascinatingly, a lot of details and ideas of Flanagan's "The Haunting of Hill House" (or its sister-series, "The Haunting of Bly Manor") were reused for his Doctor Sleep movie...
But, speaking of Stephen King, did you know he made his own "The Haunting of Hill House"? Well, almost... He and Steven Spielberg worked on a project in the 1990s: a remake of The Haunting/a new movie adaptation of "The Haunting of Hill House". Unfortunately this movie never came to the light of day, as the two men split apart due to creative differences...
However this did not stop Stephen King from reusing the unused/unfinished script/concept for his "Haunting of Hill House" adaptation, throwing in a lot of elements from his own "The Shining", with several nods to the real-life Winchester Mansion, and tadaa! The result was 2002's mini-series "Rose-Red".
Stephen King has very often praised Jackson's novel. In fact, in his eyes it is one of the two greatest ghost stories of American literature... Alongside Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
Do you recall Henry James? Sure you do! From the previous post... He wrote the "Ghostly Rental" story, that itself got adapted in 1999 into a horror movie called "The Haunting of Hell House" - confusing Jackson's "Hill House" with Matheson's "Hell House".
Do the links stop here? NOT AT ALL! Flanagan's "The Haunting of Hill House" was supposed to be the first season of an anthology series about ghost stories. This project got cancelled, but not before a sister-series to "The Haunting of Hill House" was made... a second season called "The Haunting of Bly Manor", which is a loose adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw".
AND THERE'S MORE! Because you see, before being re-adapted by Mike Flanagan, "The Turn of the Screw"'s most famous adaptation was a 1961 movie called "The Innocents". A movie which also became a classic of black-and-white haunted house horror movies, just like "The Haunting" that was released two years afterward... Film critics, cinema theoricians and movie enjoyers all agree that the two movies have to be compared, with something of a sibling relationship to each other.
"The Turn of the Screw" - and more specifically the 1961's "The Innocents" movie - also had a huge influence on one of the greatest Spanish moviemakers of the 21st century: Guillermo del Toro. In fact, it was to pay homage to both the classic of Gothic that was "The Innocents", and the behemoth of the traditional horror that was Kubrick's The Shining, that he decided to create his own Gothic horror movie... The wonderfully horrifying "Crimson Peak", released in 2015.
And not only does Crimson Peak unites The Turn of the Screw with The Shining (Guillermo also invoked the influence of other massive horror movies, such as The Omen or The Exorcist) - but this movie also is the final union, the ultimate blooming of Jackson and James' works. Because del Toro's original intention for this movie was to pay homage to the "two grand dames" of the haunted house movies... 1961's The Innocents, and 1963's The Haunting. The two ghostly tragedies finally united in one Gothic movie...
Well... To be fair, the uniting of "The Haunting of Hill House" and of "The Turn of the Screw" had already happened long before del Toro's Crimson Peak, but with a much less famous and successful movie: 1971's Let's Scare Jessica to Death... A cult piece (despite its lukewarm reception), it was created with only one goal in mind: recreating a psychological horror story with ambiguous implications, in the style of James' The Turn of the Screw, and Robert Wise's The Haunting.
(Think we're done? FOOL! Just you wait...)
#the haunting of hill house#mike flanagan#stephen king#shining#the shining#horror movies#rose red#guillermo del toro#crimson peak#let's scare jessica to death#the turn of the screw#the innocents#the haunting of bly manor
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Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) dir. John D. Hancock
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Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) | Dir. John D. Hancock
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), dir. John D. Hancock
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
John Hancock
USA, 1971
★★★
A good (slow) time.
Plus, Zohra Lampert is really something.
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let’s scare jessica to death (1971) dir. john d. hancock
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Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971) dir. John D. Hancock
#let's scare jessica to death#70s#1970s#horror#horroredit#film#filmedit#movie#moviegifs#editsm#gifsm#this is my fav movie i've watched in a long time
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let's scare jessica to death (1971) directed by john d. hancock
"I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don't know which is which."
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2639. Let’s Scare Jessica To Death
This is called “Let’s Scare Jessica To Death.” Stop, will you, stop, please.
She kept Jonathan around to scare her. In the morning, he’d be ready with a news article about a chemical spill that had contaminated a local river.
Later, he’d ask her if she heard about the celebrity who was murdered by her stalker.
In the afternoon, poolside, he read out loud an article about how cerebral aneurysms can be linked to cups of coffee consumed during the day.
“Did you know one in nine people will die during a vacation?” he says without elaboration during dinner.
At night, she falls asleep quickly to Jonathan reciting a series of vague, ambiguous early symptoms of pancreatic cancer. She sleeps like a dead person. And her little watch will tell her in the morning she has scored a high sleep score.
#prose#fiction#story#let's scare jessica to death#jonathan#scary#dystopia#information#who knows#i don't know#news#madani art
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Zohra Lampert in Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) dir. John D. Hancock
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