It's almost time to be terrified by a brand new horror series on Netflix – and what's about to drop is apparently nothing like scary shows you've seen before.

The Haunting of Hill House, which is based on the 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson, will be ripping up the rulebook on the horror genre and its cast can't wait for you to see it.

Actor Michiel Huisman told Digital Spy that the series is more than just a "straight up horror show".

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"[It's] also really a family drama. And both those are sort of fighting for first place," he said. "And I thought that, for someone like myself, that would be an amazing way in to the story, and also I would like to watch that."

His co-star Oliver Jackson-Cohen agreed, saying that the show's director Mike Flanagan "was doing something that kind of hadn't been done before".

"Instead of following a horror formula – like [a] family move into house, awful things happen, they move out – he's focused on, 'No, what will happen to those kids? What would actually [have] happened to those kids?'" he said.

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"I'm sure people will tune into this and want a cheap scare, but he's completely shifting the genre and changing what you can do within the genre. You can create a family drama within this genre and [have] it still be scary and it still be moving and it still be affecting."

And there's no danger of viewers not caring about what happens to people in the show, because these are no disposable horror characters.

"You get the character development of a ten-episode series but you get the horror aspect of a movie," actress Kate Siegel said. "You get the best of both worlds.

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"By the time the back end of the series is happening and you're terrified, you are terrified because you know these people, not just because of the ghosts."

The Haunting of Hill House focuses on a group of siblings who grow up in one of the most famous haunted houses in the US.

After they become adults and are all forced back together in the face of tragedy, they must confront the ghosts of their past – both metaphorical and real.

If the trailer is anything to go by, this is going to be one scary ride...

The Haunting of Hill House launches on Netflix on October 12.

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