Pic of the Day

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The amazing @ojacksoncohen 🙌👏👌in between takes on set of The Haunting of Hill House

A post shared by Michiel Huisman (@michielhuisman) on May 7, 2018 at 10:55am PDT

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Having been nearly a year since it was announced I keep forgetting that Netflix is currently in the process of shooting a series based on Shirley Jackson's horror classic The Haunting of Hill House that stars two MNPP-faves in Michiel Huisman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. The former posted this picture of the latter on set just a wee bit ago on his Instagram - PS Michiel's posted several very pleasant shots of himself (as if there's any other kind) over the past couple of weeks so you should probably be keeping an eye on that...

In related news I re-watched Karyn Kusama's 2015 horror film The Invitation last night and holy hell does it hold up. I'd worried that knowing where things were going would tamper my appreciation of the movie, since so much of watching it the first time (here's my review from way back when) is about not being sure where it's going, if it's heading where you think it might be heading, but that is not the case I am happy to report.

Foreknowledge of the outcome actually somehow makes re-watching the film even more upsetting; seeing all the signs present themselves and the characters willfully ignoring or avoiding them out of a misplaced sense of social responsibility makes everything even more sickening... and I mean 'sickening" as high praise, obviously. If you've somehow managed to miss this movie until now I really recommend firing it up. It's streaming on Netflix! Easy peasy.

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THE INVITATION is barely three years old and it should already be considered a stone cold classic, one of the greatest horror films of our time - both a blood red shriek of grief and a black comedy about meeting your new boyfriend's ex pic.twitter.com/cjgUVIMmkj

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 7, 2018

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Kusama's next film Destroyer with Nicole Kidman and 

Sebastian Stan really can't get here soon enough for me.

Look at these pics of Seb & Nic on the set! (via)

The Huisman of Hill House

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I don't want to turn my few hours per day not inside NYFF screenings into 1) me talking about how busy I am with NYFF screenings and 2) a series of posts on trailers that've been released while I was in those screenings, but here we are and it's my second one of these today. Oh well. The least I can do as I catch up is also share that lovely photo of Michiel Huisman in a turtleneck and oh hey how about this gif of him in that Potato Peel Pie movie of his?

Jesus, this man is such a freak. I hate him. (I love him.) Anyway we're posting Huisman because we've got the trailer for the Haunting of Hill House series Netflix is premiering on October 12th to share, which has him opposite Carla Gugino and Oliver Jackson- Cohen and so forth, see our previous posts here. Watch:

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Michiel Huisman Five Times

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My great big work-load got chopped in half this weekend due to this cold that won't quit, and so I ended up marooned on my couch for more than I'd been anticipating -- not too shabby a fate when all ten episodes of Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House just dropped, it turned out. Did anybody else plow through it like me? 

As was clear from my breathless posts leading up to it I was looking forward to the series - Flanagan's time and again proven himself better than expectations - but I was still surprised by how scary and, surprisingly, moving, I ended up finding the show. I don't want to say too much since the series is only four days old at this point and I'm sure many of you need to catch up, but I will share this tweet...

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Awesome 🙏✌️

— Michiel Huisman (@Michiel_Huisman) October 13, 2018

... which uh yes got that response from Michiel Huisman himself. (Not to mention liked by both Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Carla Gugino, too.) Much humor was had in my household this weekend about me eloping with Michiel, believe you me. Anyway I posted some of this photo-shoot before but I think the rest of the shots got lost when our old Tumblr got deleted, so hit the jump for them, and if you have thoughts on the show hit the comments...

Good Morning, World

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Let us all come together to wish Oliver Jackson-Cohen a very happy 31st birthday today! Oliver was last seen being oh so dashing and gay, oh so gay, opposite James McArdle in the WWII half of Man in an Orange Shirt, the BBC's recent homosexual miniseries that also starred Julian Morris and some lady named Vanessa Redgrave. We covered it quite a bit, click through here for that.

Next up for Olly, and I somehow crazily missed this fantastic news, is Netflix's mini-series version of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House - when we last heard the series was going to star Michiel Huisman, which was exciting enough. But there's been a lot more casting since then - the ten-hour series will also star Oliver here, not to mention Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas, and Timothy Hutton. The series will reunite two of those folks - Gugino and Thomas - with their Gerald's Game director Mike Flanagan, who is running the thing. (And that's a creepy reunion between actors if you've watched Gerald's Game by now, which I sure hope you have.)

Anyway back to the Birthday Boy Oliver - I love how gratuitous that shot there is of Oliver buttoning up his trousers, don't you? I throw the word "gratuitous" around a lot but that is truly, lovingly gratuitous. props to the folks who made the shitty Dracula series a couple of years ago, which is what this is from. Anyway click through our Oliver archives for lots more!

Pics of the Day

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Netflix has released the first batch of photos from their upcoming miniseries adaptation of Shirley Jackson's book The Haunting of Hill House - see the rest at EW. As we've covered extensively the series is from Gerald's Game director Mike Flanagan and it stars Michiel Huisman and Carla Gugino...

... and Oliver Jackson Cohen and yadda yadda other people yadda. That threesome is plenty for us! Anyway Netflix also announced that the show will drop in forty-six days, better known as October 12th, just in time for the spooky seasonal greetings of All Hallows. Boo!

The Haunting of Michiel Huisman

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I love the thought of hirsute Dutch beauty Michiel Huisman being our latest Scream Queen, don't you? Last year the Game of Thrones hunk starred in Karyn Kusama's fantabulous film The Invitation (which gave me many a tossing turning night) and his chest co-starred opposite Blake Lively (which is its own sort of nightmare) and now he's signed up to lead the cast of the new House on Haunted Hill adaptation that Netflix is putting on. 

We already told you about this project back in April when it was announced but let us now recap -- Shirley Jackson's classic book (about a group of psychically sensitive folks camping out in a thought haunted manse) is being turned into a ten-hour series for the streamer by director Mike Flanagan. Flanagan previously made the Ouija sequel, which was totally shockingly decent, and before this series is out he'll have released his film version of Stephen King's marvelously scary book Gerald's Game with the ace perfect casting of Carla Gugino in its lead.

Michiel is the first cast-member that's been announced - I believe he's playing the role that Russ Tamblyn played in the great 1963 film and that Owen Wilson played in the 1999 abortion, although they've changed the character's name. (I mean just look at the color schemes in those two pictures above to judge which movie worked and which one didn't.) The character is the remaining heir of the house who is behind bringing everybody in to see just how haunted it is. And I guess we'll have to wait and see if they knock his head off in the fireplace this time or not...