Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.
Direction
Flanagan's debut: maximum dread, minimum budget.
Acting
Parker and Bell sell sisterhood through exhaustion.
Writing
The tunnel rules are never explained—and that's the horror.
Director
Mike Flanagan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot for $70,000 in producer Courtney Bell's actual neighborhood, with her real pregnancy written into the script.
Flanagan later called this his 'proof of concept' for Haunting of Hill House—the same DNA of family trauma + supernatural horror.
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