All are strangers to both the Lorens and each other, with their only commonality being their lust for money. David Trent ( Alan Marshal) who specializes in hysteria, Nora Manning ( Carolyn Craig) who works for one of Loren's companies, and the house's owner Watson Pritchard ( Elisha Cook).
The guests are test pilot Lance Schroeder ( Richard Long), newspaper columnist Ruth Bridges ( Julie Mitchum), psychiatrist Dr. So much of Flanagan's adaptations are about finding new-yet-familiar ways to retell classic stories, and Essoe excels at that as a performer.Frederick Loren ( Vincent Price), an eccentric millionaire, invites five people to a party he is throwing for his fourth wife Annabelle ( Carol Ohmart) in an allegedly haunted house he has rented, promising to give each $10,000 with the stipulation that they stay the entire night in the house after the doors are locked at midnight. Essoe's ability to perfectly recreate and continue the part of Wendy Torrance might come in handy for whomever she ends up playing on The Haunting of Bly Manor. In Doctor Sleep, Essoe took over the role of Wendy Torrance that was originally played by Shelley Duvall in The Shining. While Alex Essoe was not a part of The Haunting of Hill House, she is worth mentioning in this discussion. Like with Siegel, we don't know anything about Parker's role in The Haunting of Bly Manor, but she'll be there - in spectral form or otherwise. Parker not only played small parts in Flanagan's Doctor Sleep and Oculus, but she was also one of the two leads in Absentia, arguably Flanagan's first success writing and directing a motion picture. One of them, dressed perpetually as a flapper who goes by Poppy Hill is played by Katie Parker. There are a number of ghosts haunting the halls of Hill House. Where Crain cared very deeply for his children, Wingrave keeps his niece and nephew at a distance. It's notable that this role is very much the opposite of Hugh Crain. On The Haunting of Bly Manor, Thomas will be in the role of Henry Wingrave, the wealthy uncle of two orphaned children who are the subject of The Turn of the Screw. On The Haunting of Hill House, Henry Thomas plays a husband struggling to help his wife deal with mental illness, and a father desperately trying to protect his children from the consequences of that mental illness. He's also set to star on Flanagan's upcoming series, Midnight Mass. In addition to his work on The Haunting of Hill House, Thomas stars in other Flanagan horror stories including Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald's Game, and Stephen King's The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, in which he plays a bartender who looks suspiciously like Jack Nicholson. Let's take a look at who from The Haunting of Hill House is returning for the successor series, The Haunting of Bly Manor.įor many people Thomas will always be Elliott from E.T., but his career is substantial and it's safe to say that Mike Flanagan is a big fan. Then again, each season of American Horror Story is drastically different from the one that came before, and that hasn't stopped Ryan Murphy from using a number of the same performers over and over again. In true horror anthology style, they also share a number of the same actors in new roles.ĭespite the shared DNA, The Haunting of Hill House and The Turn of the Screw (the story upon which The Haunting of Bly Manor is based) are fundamentally different haunted house stories, so it's perhaps a bit surprising that Flanagan brought back so many cast members for a second rodeo. At first glance, the two stories have a lot in common: They are both created by Mike Flanagan, and they are both loose adaptations of their source material. The Haunting of Bly Manor is the title of the follow-up series. It's official: Netflix's hit literary horror series, The Haunting of Hill House, is getting the anthology treatment.