Each of the main Shirley Jackson movie, it was classified

The author Sherley Jackson was a unique path in the American imagination, as it formulated horror stories that weave supernatural elements with stories about sadness, shock and mental illness. Throughout her life, she published six novels and more than 200 short stories, along with notes, but it is surprising that there were only five modifications to films and TV for her work. Of course, many others were inspired by Jackson, but only four movies and one TV series actually seek to adapt her work in some way, with varying degrees of success. (There is also a version of Josephine Decker “Shirley”, which is a fictional version of the author’s life, where it is Played in a huge turn by Elizabeth Moss))

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There is something that can be appreciated in each of these works because the source material is very rich, but some Shirley Jackson modifications are much better than others. Therefore, let’s take a look at them from worse to the best, starting from the oldest adaptation: Hugo Haas Noir 1957 “Lizzzie”.

Jackson’s oldest modifications are also the weakest, albeit only because it is the lesser story of Jackson and retracted the limits of the times. Based on Jackson’s third novel, “The Bird’s Nest”, Haas follows a young woman named Elizabeth (Elianor Parker) who has three separate and distinctive characters: The Shy Elizabeth, The Flatile Lizie, and Beeth, the mixed mixture of the two. Dr. Riches (Richard Bon) should try to help her to become Beth permanently, because both Elizabeth and Lazy are destroying herself in their own ways.

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Although the matter was issued in the same year as “the three faces of Eve”, which won the Academy Award, and also appeared on a woman with multiple characters and three identities, “Lizzzie” has mostly became a footnote in the history of films. Jackson itself had a mixed reaction to the film, reading the scenario at one point, finding it, and comparing it with “Abbott and Costello movieAfter that, I later watched the movie and told a friend that “I thought it was very good”, and “improved a lot” on the first scenario I read. It will be interesting to see a female who takes on “Dr. Gaykal and Mr. Hyde” with a psychological development that was adapted to the contemporary masses, and while “Lizi” deserves his great moments, the “bird nest” deserves another snapshot on the screen.

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Opinions about the movie Jan De Bont 1999 “The Haunting” is greatly divided, even among critics here in /movie. While some viewers believe it is so One of the worst reformulation of horror in all ages (It is a new edition of the 1963 movie of the same name, both of which depend on Jackson’s novel of 1959 “The Haunting of Hill House”), and others found many of his sake in this camp, but it is very cool. seriously, “Distinguished” is a visual joy With some very massive production design and truly unique range. Even if the shows conducted by the stars Lily Taylor, Wowen Wilson, Catherine Zeta Jones, William Neeson are not really anything, “The HAUNTING” is really something that can be seen. The haunted film house is a sprawling manor with some really amazing rooms, including a type of circular room with the walls with identical copies and the spinning floor, and a corridor with a flowing current that only exceeds by moving from a step in the form of a book to another, and a giant fireplace that hides a secret door.

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Although “The Haunting” is a lot of fun to look at it and can be very fun if you are in a specific flavor of the camp in the late 1990s, it is also weaker than “Hunting of Hill House” to a large extent.

“We have always lived in the castle”, and it is one of the most exact representations of the novel that was ever developed. The scenario almost follows the beast of Beat, after the “Taissa Farmiga” and Constance Blackwood (Alexandra Dadario), who could not be more different but are bound by a terrible secret that chases their family. They are also ostracized by society, and when their charming cousin Charles (Sebastian Stan) suddenly appear, he threatens to divide the sisters and pay the rest of the family. The offers range from decent to wonderful and enormous production design. “We have always lived in the castle”. Unfortunately, it’s also very separate and cold because it tries to imitate the Mimic Mercat novel, which does not work completely.

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Like many films that rely on novels that contain the protagonist Krawy, “We have always lived in the castle” seem to miss some vital elements by the lack of dialogue or internal ideas of Meririkat. (Frankly, this is the biggest issue with “Hunger Games” movies Likewise, since the Katniss Voice is a vital part of these books.) “We have always lived in the castle” a good and adapted movie, but it may have been possible to use some adjustments to make it work better for the screen.

Jackson’s Fifth novel, “The Haunting of Hill House”, is an excellent nature and psychological film about a group of people who have extraordinary experiences who come to the haunted home as guests of researcher Dr. John Montage, only to retreat mentally through some supernatural power. In the 1963 “The Haunting” movie, Dr. John Marcway (Richard Johnson) replaces Dr. Montage, but otherwise, the film is somewhat accurate for source materials. The Theio (Claire Bloom) was certainly transferred and that the supernatural elements of nature became more mysterious – with the idea that the personality of the perspective, Neil (Julie Harris), was mentally unstable, and many of the things she saw were in reality just elements of her fragmented mind – but she is still very accurate.

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“The Haunting” is excellent, and there is a good reason for the exit Martin Scorsese ranked it as the best movie in all ages. It is full of wonderful offers and it was It was partially photographed in a haunted hotelWhich makes Jackson’s story in life without deviating away in any way. Some of the effects are dated and difficult not to wonder how this wonderful Gothic palace appeared in color, but the “The Haunting” version in 1963 is a wonderful ghost story, Wonderful movie on mental illnessAnd the great adaptation of the novel. There is only one thing: the Mike Flanagan series “The Haunting of Hill House” Netflix Limited is somewhat better.

“The Haunting of Hill House” in Flaanagan is a fairly loose adaptation of source materials, taking the names of characters and features and appointing them to one very haunted family. Victoria Pedretti is the smallest Crain and still has some psychological abilities, although completely different reasons in the series from the novel or any of the other modifications. Crain Hill Hill House is haunted by it, Literal and metaphorically, in a show searches for childhood shock and sadness and more in a supernatural environment. The Netflix series in Jackson’s larger themes of the entire body of working behind “Hill House” only to create a very tragic and frightened Gothic horror story throughout the ages.

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Sometimes adjustments can improve the source material while maintaining its heart, such as “An interview with vampire” and “Hannibal” television Offers, which changed time tables and characters but feel like the best possible adjustments. “The Haunting of Hill House” is one of those rare beautiful offers that It works better on the scenes of repetition Because there are many fine layers of storytelling. It is a shameful thing that Flaangan moves from Jackson in other seasons of the “The Haunting” chain, because he clearly understands its emotional resonance through the American Gothic stories. It will be great to see him treating more of her work.