I loved Hill House and the book Turn Of The Screw is the best ghost story every written but.. I'll start with the negatives.
Why have ALL the recent TV Horror and SciFi series I've watched have a gay sub-plot? (Man In The High Castle, V-Wars, Altered Carbon, Project Blue Book and this.) Are we being indoctrinated in some way? Note to producers: 99% of people accept gays and you don't need to force feed an agenda on us - if it's not essential to the story then DON'T contrive to add it!
How does Henry Thomas get work? He couldn't convince me to eat wine gums... and I love wine gums. He must have a great agent or have a lot of dirt on some people.
The essential thing in every production I have seen are the two children and you need very good actors to carry the parts off - neither were very good in this IMO
The guy playing Quint seems to alternate his accent between Irish and Scottish with a bit of Geordie at some point - the actual actor is none of these. Talking of accents why to Henry Thomas and his brother have totally different accents?
After 20 years in Advertising and Marketing I know that it's very easy to re-hash something that already has a massive fan base, it certainly cuts down on promotion costs. But then you should also include the things that made the original successful. Turn Of The Screw, The Innocents and every remake since has used the central theme of the sexually frustrated spinster and Miles being possessed by Quint and tempting her - totally missing here - maybe it's not PC or "woke" but it's the whole theme of the book.
If the writers/director/producers wanted to butcher the original story to this extent then call it something else and let it stand on it's own merits (if there are any) Henry James would be suing if he was alive.
Positives - if the original book/films didn't exist this would be decent entertainment - but they do and you can never watch this and NOT compare them 4/10 .. and I'm being nice.
Why have ALL the recent TV Horror and SciFi series I've watched have a gay sub-plot? (Man In The High Castle, V-Wars, Altered Carbon, Project Blue Book and this.) Are we being indoctrinated in some way? Note to producers: 99% of people accept gays and you don't need to force feed an agenda on us - if it's not essential to the story then DON'T contrive to add it!
How does Henry Thomas get work? He couldn't convince me to eat wine gums... and I love wine gums. He must have a great agent or have a lot of dirt on some people.
The essential thing in every production I have seen are the two children and you need very good actors to carry the parts off - neither were very good in this IMO
The guy playing Quint seems to alternate his accent between Irish and Scottish with a bit of Geordie at some point - the actual actor is none of these. Talking of accents why to Henry Thomas and his brother have totally different accents?
After 20 years in Advertising and Marketing I know that it's very easy to re-hash something that already has a massive fan base, it certainly cuts down on promotion costs. But then you should also include the things that made the original successful. Turn Of The Screw, The Innocents and every remake since has used the central theme of the sexually frustrated spinster and Miles being possessed by Quint and tempting her - totally missing here - maybe it's not PC or "woke" but it's the whole theme of the book.
If the writers/director/producers wanted to butcher the original story to this extent then call it something else and let it stand on it's own merits (if there are any) Henry James would be suing if he was alive.
Positives - if the original book/films didn't exist this would be decent entertainment - but they do and you can never watch this and NOT compare them 4/10 .. and I'm being nice.