Rather, what Shirley saw is yet another figment conjured up by Hill House, one that is meant to be a representation of her guilt.Ī similar scenario is that of Luke, foaming at the mouth and appearing to be dead, an apparition that both Olivia and Nell saw, his appearance acting as a premonition.
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She saw him a number of times through the season, but he is not ghost. Take the man that Shirley slept with for instance. There is Poppy Hill, the ghost with the bowler hat who haunts Luke, and the bed-ridden Hazel Hill, among a number of others, and while the majority of the apparitions are now permanent residents of Hill House, not every specter that the Crain siblings saw is. There are a number of paranormal elements in The Haunting of Hill House, the most prominent being that of the ghosts. When Nell tied the noose around her neck and jumped from the spiral staircase, following in her mother's footsteps, she jumped through time, unknowingly becoming the specter that haunted her younger self. "Everything's been out of order…I thought for so long that time was like a line…between the beginning and the end," Nell says in the final scenes of the season when the Crain siblings are trapped in the Red Room. That notion is enough to cause viewers to scream in confusion after all, how could Nell be seeing a future version of herself, the version of herself that eventually falls victims to Hill House? It turns out, the answer was given by Nell in the finale.
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It was one of the most prominent ghosts of the series and inarguably one of the biggest twists of the season.Īfter being introduced to the Bent-Neck Lady in episode one and after being shown how the spirit haunted both a young and adult Nell Crain, it was revealed in episode five that the Bent-Neck Lady and Nell were one in the same all along. Ultimately, the Red Room gave each character exactly what they needed, keeping them complacent in the face of the paranormal activity going on around them.
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"This room is like the heart of the house. And that every house has eyes, and bones, and skin, and a face," Nell says in the finale. The Red Room, thanks to the Hill House, changes, adapting to what each particular person needs, drawing them in so that it can "digest" them. While Hugh took a hammer and chisel to it, it remained close, only later to be revealed to have been opened time and time again for each member of the Crain family.įor Steven it's a game room for Shirley it's a family room for Theo it's a dance studio for Luke it's a treehouse for Nell it's a toy room and, for Olivia it's a reading room. Over the course of the Crain family's single and tragic summer stay at Hill House, the room behind the home's ever-locked Red Door remained a mystery. The Red Room (Photo: Steve Dietl/Netflix)
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This mystery, however, seems to be one that there is currently no answer to, though it would serve as an interesting storyline should The Haunting of Hill House be renewed for a second season. That plan was eventually scrapped due to a tight filming schedule and limited resources. We were going to open several episodes of the show with this kind of history, split out over the whole season, which would show you the construction of Hill House, the history of the Hill family, who everybody was," Flanagan said. "We had a whole history of Hill House that we were going to shoot. In an interview with Thrillist, director Mike Flanagan revealed that he initially intended to tell the history of Hill House. Ultimately, this is one question that we do not know the answer to. But how exactly did Hill House come to be haunted and why is it evil? With its towering walls and sprawling expanse of dark hallways, Hill House is the archetypal haunted house, and it has the ghosts and stories to prove it.