A dumbwaiter is supposed to go from one level of a house to another. I'm a lot more familiar with the original book by the brilliant Shirley Jackson. I think the movie was just called The Haunting. The writing on the wall was right out of Haunting of Hill House, too. Loved the decapitated doll head in the closet. The other was season one's " The Benders." This was (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) only the second time that the Winchesters fought an evil that was just human. But isn't the breaking of the sixty-six seals and the impending apocalypse kind of important? What's happening with that? Yes, Dean and Sam on the road fighting evil, it's what the show is about. And what happens next? Can they get out of that mortgage? Talk about a housing crisis. And in the end, nobody seemed all that upset about their dead dog, much less Uncle Ted. Let's protect Mom and Daughter by putting them in the flimsy, scary shed.
I also really liked Dean lowering himself into that creepy hole in the floor chanting, "Please nobody grab my leg, please nobody grab my leg." Although Dean should have known better and not left Uncle Ted alone.
The best bit was Kate's hand being licked by something other than the dog, although it was lifted directly from the classic Haunting of Hill House. (Especially the wallpaper.) Even though there were many clues – a ghost doesn't slash tires and walk off with a trunkload of guns and equipment – I didn't guess that the girl was alive until right before she walked through the line of salt. Part of me wanted to slap him and yell, "Snap out of it!" I'm ready for Dean to get over his Hell hangover, too. Maybe Supernatural really does need supernatural elements to work for me. If anything, this episode proved that Supernatural doesn't need supernatural elements to be scary.īut even though it was technically excellent, chilling, and an effective metaphor for Dean's time in Hell (an imprisoned and tormented girl turning into a monster herself), I was oddly disappointed.
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