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It's just been announed that The Haunting of Hill House is getting a second series that's loosely based on Henry James's short story The Turn of the Screw.  Here's why that's a terrible idea. Hill House creator Mike Flanagan has revealed that The Haunting is set to become an anthology series – with its second outing focus on a different gothic pile with unwelcome supernatural visitors. While the decision to move away from the Crain family was a wise one, The Turn of the Screw is a regrettable choice of source material. Here's why. 1) The Turn of the Screw is not very good Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is a lyrical, poetically suggestive novel painting a delicate portrait of loneliness and mental fragility. Flanagan carefully crafted the book's strange and touching imagery into the series – from Nelly's cup of stars to Ruth's raining pebbles. While Jackson's novel was popular but not ubiquitous, ever

We've ranked the ten most toxic horror movie relationships via the medium of #couplegoals Instagram posts.  Relationships almost always head south in horror films. The lucky ones just realise they're not meant to be together. The majority end up killing their significant others and/or being horrifically betrayed by them. We're counting down from "less than desirable" to "you two should break up right now". Time to have a peek at the horror movie Instagram feed. 10) David & Alex, An American Werewolf in London (1981) So how did you two meet? He was a backpacker in hospital recovering from a werewolf attack. She was a softly spoken nurse who quickly succumbed to his American charms. The best part of their relationship: They're actually pretty cute together, so long as David isn't a hairy rampaging beast. Any hangups? David's killing sprees had a surprisingly minimal impact on his love life. Alex, loyal until the

New Netflix horror Velvet Buzzsaw involves various members of the art world elite meeting grisly ends. Yet why does their baroque suffering leave us cold? After all, the film boasts a terrific cast – including Jake Gyllenhaal and  Hereditary ' s   Toni Collette – and mostly well-drawn characters. Yet there's something about the macabre yet predictable slaughter that leaves us asking: "So what?" We're exploring why films with similar plots like Final Destination and Ringu fill the viewer with a sense of dread and leave them invested in the characters' fates, while Velvet Buzzsaw' s deaths merely invite weary shrugs. WARNING: Spoilers ahead Fatalistic characters One of the key reasons we don't care about the Velvet Buzzsaw 's characters' deaths is that they don't seem to care that much themselves. Much like how the unfortunate counsellers never seem to put up much of a fight in the  Friday the 13th  movies