True Haunting – Docuseries Review | Netflix

TRUE HAUNTING on Netflix is a new documentary series with a paranormal horror twist. It’s even produced by horror master James Wan. This first 2025 release has five episodes covering two cases. Read our True Haunting season 1 docuseries review here!

TRUE HAUNTING is a new Netflix docudrama horror series with five episodes in the first season. These five episodes cover two cases, so you can essentially watch each case as a documentary feature.

James Wan is a producer on the series via his Atomic Monster production company. The docuseries includes dramatizations so well-made they could have been a horror movie. And yes, the very first case even includes Ed & Lorraine Warren of The Conjuring fame.

Continue reading our True Haunting season 1 docuseries review below. Watch the first five episodes on Netflix now.

“Eerie Hall” is the first case

This first case spans the first three episodes of this new paranormal horror docuseries on Netflix. Each episode is just around 35 minutes, so it’s an accumulated runtime of close to 1 hour and 45 minutes.

You could easily watch Eerie Hall as a documentary feature. Not least due to the story being very engaging and each episode ending with some new twist that you just have to follow up on.

In this case, the victim of the true haunting is a college student, and the Warrens come to the college for a lecture. So, yes, Ed & Lorraine Warren are actually part of this case.

In fact, they play quite a role due to the fact that Lorraine Warren refuses to shake our poor victim’s hand. That alone would creep me out so much that I think I’d be running for the hills immediately.

Eerie Hall was directed by Neil Rawles (The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies and Social Media).

“This House Murdered Me” is the second case

While the first supernatural case covered in True Haunting was told over three episodes, this one is shorter. Both in the number of episodes and overall runtime. This House Murdered Me is told over two episodes and runs just shy of 80 minutes combined.

The first story included Ed and Lorraine Warren, but this one has elements that reminded me of the house from The Conjuring. Not the story as such, but just certain elements of creepiness.

Also, the real-life father of this story looks a lot like Tom Savini, who many horror fans will recognize. He’s been in everything from Zack Snyder‘s 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake to From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and loads of cameo roles. You may have seen him in Terrifier 3 or Locke & Key.

This House Murdered Me was directed by Luke Watson (The Swarm).

Watch season 1 of True Haunting on Netflix now

This new Netflix horror docuseries comes from acclaimed horror director James Wan, not as a director, but as a producer. Still, it does have quite a few of James Wan’s signature moves. Either he was fairly hands-on or the directors were inspired.

This is far from the first Netflix docudrama in the paranormal horror niche, but it just might be the best so far.

Previously, we’ve gotten quite a few episodes of Haunted, which had both some hits and misses. The stories were usually strong, but not always the production.

With True Haunting, we’re getting fascinating stories, high-quality productions, and interviews with the people who lived through these terrifying experiences. In other words, we hear from multiple sources who actually experienced the paranormal events.

True Haunting premieres on Netflix on October 7, 2025.