'True Haunting' Review: Netflix is Serious About Keeping Horror Fans Up at Night
- Romey Norton
- Sep 30
- 2 min read
By Romey Norton - September 2025
What Is True Haunting About?
Netflix’s True Haunting explores real-life supernatural stories with the cinematic edge of James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious). Produced by RAW and Atomic Monster, the series blends documentary storytelling with atmospheric dramatizations closer to horror cinema than traditional true-crime or ghost shows.
The series is split into two parts: Eerie Hall (3 episodes, directed by Neil Rawles) and This House Murdered Me (2 episodes, directed by Luke Watson). Together, these stories will unsettle even the most skeptical viewers. Each episode is roughly thirty minutes, so they could have prolonged and made them both an hour +, but this could have made the series feel like a film.
Unlike many paranormal docu-series, True Haunting has the visual polish of a feature film. Wan’s involvement is immediately felt. The recreations are shot with his trademark sense of dread; lingering shadows, sudden silences, and camera movements that make the audience feel like something is always just out of sight.
With each installment focusing on a specific haunting, the pacing avoids bloat. Eerie Hall builds slowly, stacking small, eerie details until the tension peaks. And even involves the famous Warren’s who come speak at the college of the student Chris, who is being affected. This House Murdered Me leans darker, examining the way a home’s violent history seeps into the present. Both arcs balance testimony with cinematic flair and do well in keeping the audience invested as they’re spread over multiple episodes.
Where other series rely on jump scares or shaky camera gimmicks, True Haunting invests in atmosphere and emotion. Because of this, the series is more interesting and intriguing than overly scary. With the classic mix of interviews with reenactments and use of real images and home video footage, the audience feels as if they’re being told a story by a friend. It’s comfortable, as well as creepy.
As chilling as the visuals are, the reliance on dramatic reenactments may not work for everyone. Skeptical viewers might find the stylisation distracting, while those seeking more investigative depth could feel shortchanged. At times, the line between documentary and horror drama blurs so much that it raises questions about how much is fact versus storytelling.
Is True Haunting worth watching?
Overall, this supernatural series is stylish, spine-chilling, and unsettlingly real. True Haunting is an interesting cinematic approach to the supernatural, with James Wan’s fingerprints all over it. While purists may wish for a drier, more evidence-driven format, the series delivers what it promises: goosebumps, unsettling true stories, and the eerie feeling that your house might not be as empty as you think.
True Haunting is launching worldwide on Netflix on October 7, 2025
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