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16 Sep

Lady of the Manor

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Stoner-slacker Hannah (Melanie Lynskey) is hired to portray Lady Wadsworth (Judy Greer), a Southern belle who died in 1875, in a tour at Wadsworth Manor. Hannah, a hot mess, figures she can fake it —until the ghost of Lady Wadsworth appears! Lady Wadsworth tells Hannah it’s time to change her wild ways — and she’ll haunt her until she does.Rated: RRelease Date: Sep 17, 2021

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07 May

The Flash Wayne Manor Set Photos Tease Michael Keaton’s Return to the Gotham of Batman ’89

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DC Films’ long-gestating Flash movie is finally in production after years in development. While it’ll be nice to see the speedster headline his own blockbuster for the very first time, there’s no doubt the picture’s biggest draw is the return of Michael Keaton as an older, wiser Batman poised to become a mentor to young Barry Allen. Ever since the first reports of Keaton’s Gotham comeback dropped last June, fans have formed theories about what the actor’s return to the cape and cowl might entail as well as which Batman he’s playing. The answer might seem obvious but in a…

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13 Oct

How The Haunting of Bly Manor Pays Tribute to 1961’s The Innocents

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The first day at work for The Haunting of Bly Manor’s writers started with a field trip. Mike Flanagan’s team went out to the Amblin Entertainment screening room to watch a movie. “We did the same thing in [The Haunting of Hill House] with Robert Wise’s The Haunting,” Flanagan tells Den of Geek and other press outlets. “It’s a great way to start … to put up a really beautifully realized adaptation of the same source material, and to start talking to the writers about the things that I love about it and hear the things they love about it.”  For Bly Manor,…

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13 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor: Mike Flanagan Discusses Standout Eighth Episode

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The following contains spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor. When developing Netflix’s 2018 horror hit The Haunting of Hill House, writer/director Mike Flanagan always intended to film an episode that flashed back to the history of the titular house and spent time with all the former inhabitants before the Crain family arrived. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out. “We didn’t get to do it,” Flanagan says. “We’d written it, we’d cast it, we’d scheduled it. It got excised before we could shoot it as we struggled to try to get the season done on time and on budget. That was…

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12 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor: Lady in the Lake Explained

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. In the final episode of 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House, a sadly departed Nell Crain (Victoria Pedretti) explains to her living siblings what makes the red room in Hill House so haunted.  “The room is like the heart of the house. No…not a heart, a stomach.” For Netflix’s Hill House follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor, creator Mike Flanagan has a fresh explanation for what makes this latest titular haunted house a ghostly proving ground. It involves the trauma of a woman named Viola (Kate Siegel)…

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10 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor Timeline Explained

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. The Haunting of Bly Manor’s dream-hopping conceit allows the dead and the possessed-living to jump from memory to memory, reliving key moments of their lives. Some memories, like Peter Quint’s encounter with his mother, are traumatic, but others, like Hannah’s first meeting with Owen, are sources of comfort. One thing the memories share is a disorienting effect on us as viewers, left to piece together the puzzle of exactly when everything is happening.  You can’t count on the past, Owen memorably tells Hannah, but you can count on the…

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10 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor and the Anatomy of an Easter Egg

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. Shortly after The Haunting of Bly Manor, the followup to Netflix’s massively successful Haunting of Hill House, was announced, series creator Mike Flanagan made an intriguing promise via his Twitter.  We are already discussing how to up our hidden ghost game. https://t.co/rW4AW0LpF2— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) February 22, 2019 “We are already discussing how to up our hidden ghost game,” the prolific horror writer and director wrote.  Flanagan was referring to the fact that The Haunting of Hill House was positively teeming with ghostly Easter eggs. In many…

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10 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor Ending Explained

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The following contains spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor. While many have pointed out that The Haunting of Bly Manor is not quite as scary as its predecessor, it certainly has a more satisfying conclusion. The Haunting of Hill House seemed to lose its nerve in the final hour, delivering an ending that was too saccharine and unearned. On the flipside, Bly Manor concludes its story in heart wrenching, then bitter sweet fashion, revealing the identity of the series’ mysterious narrator, detailing the fates of the 1987-set characters, and expelling the spirits of the titular manor. Here is what…

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09 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Poignant Tale of Hannah Grose

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR. “I liked your story”, a grown-up Flora tells an older Jamie in The Haunting of Bly Manor’s finale. “But I think you set it up wrong just in the beginning. You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. It’s a love story.” Almost right. The Haunting of Bly Manor is two love stories: the centre-stage romance between Bly’s au pair and gardener Dani and Jamie, and the unrealised romance between housekeeper and chef, Hannah and Owen.  Both are tragic tales. Dani and Jamie’s marriage was unfairly – like too…

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09 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor Cast: Where You’ve Seen the Actors Before

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There’s a simple answer to where you’ve seen most of 2020’s The Haunting of Bly Manor‘s cast before: in 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House. Writer-director Mike Flanagan has a resident company of actors with roles across several of his horror projects, as shown by the significant crossover between these two Netflix series alone. Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas and Katie Parker are just some of the familiar faces appearing in Flanagan’s new Henry James-inspired spooky series Bly Manor. And here’s what else this bunch is known for on screen. Henry Thomas – Henry Wingrave Thomas’ most famous role…

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09 Oct

How The Haunting of Bly Manor Adapts The Turn of the Screw and Other Henry James Works

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. Henry James (probably known as Hank Jim to his friends) is one of the most prominent and prolific writers of his era. Originally appreciated for his novels like The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors, James is now best-known for his 1898 work The Turn of the Screw, an eerie, ambiguous ghost story novella that would become one of the most enduring Gothic horror texts ever. The Turn of the Screw has been adapted dozens of times into films, operas, ballets, and more. And James’s classic…

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23 Sep

The Haunting of Bly Manor Trailer Arrives to Mark the Beginning of Spooky Season

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We’re calling it: the Halloween season is here. The arrival of a “The Haunting” franchise trailer is every bit the harbinger of Halloween as a Mariah Carey carol echoing out from Target speakers is for Christmas. And what a trailer it is! Get you a franchise that loves spooky covers of pop songs as much as Netflix’s The Haunting does. If you’ll recall, the first full trailer for The Haunting of Hill House back in 2018 was accompanied by a piano rendition of Crosby, Stills, and Nash’s “Our House.” Now, for the first full trailer for Hill House’s followup, The…

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31 Aug

The Haunting of Bly Manor Unveils First Trailer and Release Date

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It’s been far too long since Mike Flanagan and Netflix teamed to liven up the spooky season with The Haunting of Hill House in 2018. Now, two years later, the Hill House legacy is finally set to continue with The Haunting of Bly Manor. Netflix today released a first look trailer at the Hill House follow-up and revealed that all nine episodes will be arriving on October 9. Give the trailer a look below, preferably with the lights dimmed and some candles lit. How refreshing it is to be back in the spooky world of… “The Haunting of” franchise? It’s…

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