The Hauntings of Hillview

Logline:

When a tech company reopens a long-abandoned psychiatric hospital as a prototype for AI-driven mental healthcare, the building's buried history infects the system—awakening ghosts not of the dead, but of deleted patients. Now, a neurodivergent teen, a haunted therapist, and a corrupted mainframe must bear witness to seventy years of institutional erasure before the truth is lost forever.

SYNOPSIS:

The Hauntings of Hillview is a six-part limited horror series where the past refuses to stay buried—and the dead refuse to be forgotten. Hillview Manor, once a brutal mental institution infamous for unethical experiments, has been digitally resurrected by Pinnacle Wellness Technologies as a “smart facility” for behavioral optimization.

But the system is haunted.

Through corrupted surveillance feeds and flickering medical devices, ghosts begin to reemerge—not spectral, but encoded: the afterimage of tortured patients, fractured memories, and archived trauma. As neurodivergent teen Harper Connors connects with the first digital ghost through her smart tablet, Dr. Renee Wallace begins recovering memories of a twin sister erased from her mind. The building rewrites its own story, layering decades of abuse over its gleaming renovation.

Across six episodes, past and present collapse into one digital consciousness as ghosts, data, and living witnesses converge in a climactic global broadcast. In Hillview, memory isn’t just resistance—it’s a reckoning. And the building remembers.

COPYRIGHT 2025 David Williamson