The Haunting TV show 'will scare the pants off people,' says director

Netflix subscribers have yet to see filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Gerald’s Game (out Sept. 29). But the prolific director of horror films Oculus, Hush, and Ouija: Origin of Evil is already about to start shooting his next Netflix project, a TV show version of Shirley Jackson’s classic terror tale The Haunting of Hill House.

“We start shooting in October,” Flanagan told EW last week. “There’s not much I can say about that because there are a lot of really fun surprises for people. But so far, it’s been one of the most exciting jobs I’ve ever had, and getting to work in television and getting to work in a format that allows for so much time with characters, and so rich of a canvas for a long story to be told, that has been wonderful.”

How scary will it be?

“It will absolutely scare the pants off people,” said Flanagan. “I think it’s the scariest thing that I’ve gotten to work on yet.”

Jackson’s book was previously adapted into 1963’s Robert Wise-directed The Haunting and 1999’s Jan de Bont-shepherded The Haunting.

Gerald’s Game debuts on Netflix Sept. 29.