10 Amazing TV Scenes Shot In One Take
5. Two Storms - The Haunting Of Hill House
Loosely based on Shirley Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House was Netflix's attempt to scare the living snot out of all of us.
Directed by horror aficionado Mike Flanagan, Hill House did incredibly well and even spawned a follow-up series, The Haunting of Bly Manor. Its acting was praised, its plots were praised, as was the camerawork on the show.
This episode in particular.
Titled Two Storms, the sixth episode of Hill House follows the central family across two separate timelines. One set of events is taking place in the past, the other in the present day. Oh, and there's a storm in each of them. Clue's in the name.
Whilst the episode is filmed to look like a single uninterrupted take, it's actually five uninterrupted takes stitched together. Pfft, amateurs.
Joking aside, this is seriously impressive, especially when you consider one of the takes is 17 minutes long. To achieve this remarkable feat, the two main sets were built with this episode specifically in mind. The set was also closed for a month whilst the crew walked through the script without the actors.
An extremely complex arrangement to create an episode with a seamless sense of flow.
Oh, the irony.