Netflix viewers have reportedly been ‘so scared they had to leave the room’ after watching the platform’s terrifying new documentary that ‘redefines horror’.
Diving into real-life supernatural events, True Haunting, directed by James Wan of Saw and The Conjuring fame, draws from contributors’ accounts of paranormal encounters they’ve experienced.
The initial three episodes, known as Eerie Halls, depict the tale of a former student, Chris Di Cesare, who was tormented by a spirit profoundly connected to his past.
It takes viewers back to 1980s New York, when Chris made friends with Jeff Ungar, who lived down the hall and always wore a camera around his neck.
Before long, Chris begins to hear a voice whispering his name on campus, and after catching glimpses of the supernatural presence, he seeks Jeff’s assistance to capture it.
The second narrative, unfolding over two episodes and titled This House Murdered Me, highlights a family’s ordeal with supernatural forces as they attempt to renovate their dilapidated Victorian house.
Netflix viewers have reportedly been ‘so scared they had to leave the room’ after watching the platform’s terrifying new documentary that follows true stories.
The second story, spread across two episodes and titled This House Murdered Me, tells the story of a family terrorised by supernatural entities
They are forced to enlist the help of paranormal investigators and demon-hunting specialists to help them deal with the ghosts.
Suffice to say the dramatisations of the two stories have left viewers ‘terrified’.
Taking to X after the series dropped on the streaming service earlier this week, one penned: ‘Scared me pretty damn good.’
A second chimed in: ‘I binged it today and one word, GOOSEBUMPS. The first story freaked me out,’ while a third added: ‘It has me hooked.’
‘As a horror film fanatic who NEVER gets nightmares I will tell you all, watching two episodes of that Netflix show True Haunting ABSOLUTELY gave me nightmares,’ a fourth wrote, while a fifth said: ‘Constant chills down my spine.’
A sixth concluded: ‘It’s not Insidious level of scary but it has that eerie kinda feeling that makes you wanna leave the light in your room on.’
It comes after Netflix viewers claimed they were left with ‘nightmares’ over a new horror series that rocketed to the top of the charts after fans ‘binged every episode in one day’.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story, created by Ian Brennan, hit the streaming service on October 3.
The action is based on stories from contributors who claim to have experienced hauntings
Viewers opened up on how the series had given them ‘nightmares’ and left them terrified
The eight-part show is the third season of crime drama Monster, which follows on from Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
‘The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood’s most iconic on-screen killers,’ Netflix’s synopsis reads.
Gein, who was known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was a murderer and body snatcher who exhumed corpses from graveyards to make a ‘skin suit’ from the bones and skin of the dead.
He told police after his arrest in 1957 that he used the skin suit to ‘become’ his dead mother.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story stars Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein. The actor is joined by the likes of Suzanna Son, Vicky Krieps, Laurie Metcalf and Tom Hollander.
Monster was originally created by Ryan Murphy, who was the showrunner for seasons one and two. Writer Ian took over for the third season.
Speaking about taking on the role of Ed, Charlie told Forbes: ‘There was an enormous amount of trepidation and fear initially.
The first three of the five episodes, in a story titled Eerie Halls, recreates the story of former student Chirs Di Cesare who was haunted by a spirit with a deep connection to his past
‘And then it was just trying to understand him, trying not to judge him, trying to find the truth and find the man behind the monster.’
He added: ‘What we did over and over throughout was ask ourselves why Ed did what he did.
‘We definitely didn’t want to sensationalize this or make a show that was gratuitous or definitely not glorify what he did.
‘It was really about, in the tradition of storytelling, trying to understand ourselves and say, like, “What makes a monster?”‘
Meanwhile he told Hollywood Reporter: ‘I read every single book that had been written about him, and there was a lot of books.
‘I read all of the court transcriptions, all of his medical records. And then I read the scripts over and over to understand what would drive a human being to do some of the pretty wild things he did — pretty despicable acts.’
True Haunting is available to stream on Netflix now.
