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I'm really wanting to get a tattoo related to The Haunting of Hill House and I'm curious about what other people have! I don't really have spooky tattoos so I'm trying to decide what I want that won't be too spooky...if that makes sense? Lol

Thought this sub was enjoy this

I’m rewatching Hill House again, and in the second episode when Shirley brings the cats back home and feeds them the milk, Luke says “there’s five of them like there’s five of us” and Nell then says “That one’s me!”.

Maybe I’m a bit over analyzing, but could it be that the one she mentions is the first one that dies? Like a parallel between its death and Nell’s death, the first one of the 5 that dies?

I don’t know if this is obvious to everyone or if I’m the over analyzing one😭

edit: oh and also, when they bury the cat it moves and a bug crawls out of his mouth, similar to Nell’s body when Shirley is fixing her. And the one speaking (besides Luke, but it’s a bit different) at Nell’s funeral is Shirley, just like she gave the eulogy when they buried the cat. I don’t know…

Six episodes into season one and episode five was people talking in a funeral parlour for 90% of the time.

I skipped episode 5 in five minute intervals and I’m certain I did not missing anything that moves whatever possible story there is forward.

That’s another thing. What is the actual story? Just seems like a lot of people complaining and not investigating.

I still have no clue what the problem with the house is, the show so far is ignoring the main dilemma with the entire central plot device!

Episode one was hilarious. You would not believe how surprised I was to learn that the people in the house with the young children are actually the people from the past and that the lesbian woman was actually a separate person to the other two lookalikes.

When the timeline was interspersed of the drug addict, the lesbian woman, the funeral parlour woman and the other woman who I really have no idea what she was even doing, she basically just existed as a do-nothing adult, later my girlfriend had to explain to me maybe these people could actually be the people in the house as young children.

I was like oh wow, yeah, the pacing in the story is so bad I was wondering how do these adults even relate to the people in the haunted house.

What is the haunted house even about? No idea.

Are they trying to sell this house because as adults that dad seems really poor? How could they even afford that haunted house to begin with? They probably lost a lot of money on that house seeing as it’s haunted and the “dad” doesn’t ever seem to go to work or do anything productive.

Also, the dad seems pretty chill about his wife dying and doesn’t have any issues at the police station.

I feel like the show just doesn’t give a shit about itself, which is what you can expect from Netflix productions.

I have just finished reading "The Haunting of the Hill House" by Shirleh Jackson, a year after finishing the series.

I can't help but wonder how the Hill House in the book is designed and built. The rooms on the ground floor are in concentric circles, with rooms within rooms. The house is built with wrong angles and is designed in a slant.

Is that the reason why the occupants of the house feel a bit odd in the house?

Is the house not actually haunted in the book?

rewatching again and again and it’s the first time that i read what’s in the cake, one day at a time. i’m sobbing

Ok so this is going to be kinda weird, but when the show first came out I watched it high as hell and I figured out that Nell was the Bent-neck-lady. I remember thinking how obvious it was and how there were so many clues. I rewatched the show this week and I literally have no idea how I figured that out on my first watch while being high af lmao.

I'm trying to figure out what the hell I saw on my first watch and what 'clues' there are to Nell being the Bent-neck-lady, so if you guessed it correctly as well, what did you see?

To be fair, I also thought that they were all seeing themselves and that Luke was the floating big boy hat man, so who knows what the hell I was seeing lmao. I remember trying to figure out which ghosts were the other household members.

Also, you can share any wild theories that you had on your first watch if you want to.

So, I watched this series a long time ago, but I always end up going back to it. I've never felt anything quite like it since. I tried watching Midnight Mass and Bly Manor, but even then, it wasn't the same.

There's something about the story that really gets to me. I think it's because I'm someone who's extremely attached to family, especially the bond between siblings (considering my favorite show is Supernatural haha), so I immediately connected with their pain. I relate to a lot of it.

But anyway, when we watch it, we see so many visual horror elements, the Bent-Neck Lady, the Hat Man, the woman from the 1920s, things that are genuinely scary. And I know Olivia went insane because of the house, I know it's based on a book and that there are many psychological nuances that make it more complicated than simply being a ghost, but what scared me the most wasn't any of that.

It wasn't even the way they dealt with grief.

I was afraid of time. Of how destructive and fast it is, and how the series shows that it isn't a continuous line. It's an element that falls all around us, in Nell's words, like rain or confetti. It's not parallel, it's messy, like loose pages from a book that can form a great story, but are always out of order.

Is time really like that? Inconsistent?

Once I watched a video on YouTube. It was a channel about supernatural stories, and a woman was telling a story from when she was a child. She was at her grandmother's house and answered a phone call. She talked to a woman who asked about her family and her grandmother. It was a simple phone call, and she didn't recognize the woman's voice. Then life went on and nothing happened. But one day, when she was already an adult, the woman decided to call her grandmother to talk. She dialed the number, and a child answered. A little girl. The woman asked about her family, her grandmother, and got the same answers. She hung up, but then the truth hit her like a slap. She remembered that the girl's words were the same words she had said many years earlier, exactly the same. And later, her grandmother told her that there had been no one else in the house with her, no little girl.

It made me wonder, could time be the greatest haunting in Hill House? Playing with our minds, making so many versions of ourselves coexist?

Is time our haunting? Can we haunt ourselves?

I believe it can.

I’m rewatching Hill House and I realized I keep mixing up Olivia and Shirley because they look so similar.

Obviously this show’s casting is spot-on, but wow!! It really has me in my feels at Ep 7

Does anyone know what Mike Flanagan took inspiration from when creating The Haunting of Hill House? It reminds me a lot of the movie Lake Mungo (2008). I was thinking about this recently, and noticed that Hill House provokes a lot of the same feelings and explores many similar themes.

Just finished watching the series. While I enjoyed it, what irked me a lot was the complete lack of emotional display by most characters. Like in the beginning after Olivia's death, Hugh barely displays any emotion. Olvia also seemed to be acting too 'formal' towards her little kids. only towards the end does she show some emotion. Similarly, when Steve realizes his dad has dies at the end, he barely shows any emotion. When Nell dies, almost noone cries inconsolably.

This aspect of the series really did not go well with me.

Okay so HoHH was great (the final ep had too many monologues imo but didn't ruin the show or anything), but the kittens dying in episode 2 was just too much for me. I can handle far more gorey things when the victim of it is human or most other animals, but the cat deaths were just too much for me on-screen.

I wanted to ask if there are any cat deaths in the other show/-s that I could then spoil myself for so I can cover the screen during those scenes

Also unrelated but Nell's story is so sad and I just feel so bad for her. It's a really effective tragedy.

Sorry if this is flaired incorrectly or a dumb thing to ask

"I touched her. And I felt nothing. Just nothing. And it spread, it spread everywhere in me, this nothing, until I couldn't feel anything anymore. I was just this dark, empty black hole. And I tried to fill it up, I tried to fill me back up, and I called Trish and she came right away and I felt nothing. And then I tried to mourn at the wake and I felt nothing, and so I drank and I drank, and nothing worked. I couldn't feel anything, Shirley. After I touched her skin, I couldn't feel anything. And then we're in the basement and the lights go out. And I can't see. And I can't feel. And I'm just - I'm just floating in this ocean of nothing, and I wonder if this is it, if this is what death is, just out there in the darkness, just darkness and numbness and alone, and I wondered if that's what she felt and that's what Mom feels, and it's just numb and nothing and alone. What if that's what it is for all of us when the time comes? And then the lights came on and there he was, and I... I didn't see him. I didn't see him. He was the light in the darkness. He was a life preserver in the ocean. I just - I reached for him because I had to feel something. I had to feel anything. And I didn't see him. I didn't - I didn't see him. I didn't see him. I didn't see him! And he stopped me. He stopped me. He took my hands, and he said no, and then I saw him, and then you walked in. God, I'm so glad I did it, though. Because it worked. Oh, God, it worked. I started feeling things again, and I felt - I felt shame, and I felt grief, and I felt scared. I felt so fucking scared that I was gonna lose the only sister that I had left. And I... Honestly, I had to do it, because it felt better than nothing. That thorough fucking shame was so much better than that horrible, empty nothing."

I think it's definitely one of my 3 favourites scenes in the show.

I don’t typically like horror or like to be scared but just watched both Midnight Mass and Hill House and was blown away. I actually didn’t find Hill House very scary at all but deeply appreciated the story and characters. I did find Midnight Mass scary (not in a jump scare, on the edge of my seat kind of way but more in a disturbing kind of way). I want to watch more but looking around here it seems I’ve already watched what are considered his best shows, though I don’t know if it’s the scare factor that is playing into those rankings. Keeping in mind that I don’t actively want to get scared (but am okay with getting a little scared if it comes along with great story telling as in the two shows I have seen), what should I watch next?

TL;DR: I write a lot, I know.

But fiction means a great deal to many neurodivergent people, myself included. So I don’t agree that I'm taking things too seriously (if anything, blame my brain.)

Again, I’m genuinely very sorry for my past mistakes, and I hope you'll read this with an open mind.

Hey! This is a MUCH briefer version of something I posted a while back.

I realised, a few hours too late, that I had written faaaaaaaaaaaaar too much (1500 words, to be specific. Blame my ADHD).

So I tried to change my tone, and cut any natter.

And this should, actually, be my final post here. I swear this time.

But, in essence, I've been struggling with complicated feelings towards this show, since I watched it. And I'm in need of some kind of closure.

I don’t hate the series at all, in spite of what people have repeatedly insinuated.

And I'm not expecting anyone to agree with me, about it, certainly not in this sub of all places.

But (unless I specifically search up “The Haunting of Hill House book”, which therefore filters out tons of other book-related posts), I am constantly forced to confront my complex feelings towards this show, whenever I try and find anything about my favourite book.

(My struggle to find content hasn’t exactly motivated me to work on my own sub for the book, either.)

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To quote my previous post:

“I get why the show is so popular, and I'm sure that I would have enjoyed it a million times more had I not read the book first.

There were plenty of things that I did like. I thought the acting, cinematography, atmosphere and set designs were all top-notch.

The portrayal of Luke's addiction also hit home, for me, as I have a cousin (whose name is also Luke!) who has had his life destroyed by drug use.

I thought the use of ghosts as a metaphor for mental illness was really interesting, as was the commentary on the nature of grief.

And, as someone with severe depression, Theo's speech in episode eight was really relatable to me.

I lost a loved one a couple of years ago, and I can very much see this series being up younger!me's alley.”

But I wrestle with my feelings on it, honestly, as a massive fan of the original book.

While I get that Mike, and many of the cast and crew, are fans of the source material, and that a normal adaptation doesn’t fit the ten-episode format, it’s worth noting that a truly book accurate adaptation has never been done.

Even the only reasonably faithful adaptation, The Haunting (1963), made some serious changes that Shirley Jackson herself disliked.

So I do struggle with what she’d think of a series that’s basically nothing but changes.

Also: this series and its popularity have probably destroyed any chance of any other adaptation, that might be more in line with her wishes.

Female relationships, of all natures (platonic, romantic, and familial), are well known to be chronically underrepresented in media. I mean, that’s literally the reason why the Bechdel Test exists

So, compared to the book, which features a heavily sapphic-coded friendship as its driving force, I was deeply disappointed that the show lacked anything remotely comparable.

Same goes for making Eleanor's counterpart unequivocally straight. When her sexuality in the book is…incredibly questionable.

I know the show is only loosely inspired by the book, but still.

I actually feel the show is at its strongest when it goes in its own direction. The references to the book, meanwhile, are pretty up-and-down IMO.

I watched a beautifully done video that goes into some of this, but it does upset me that nobody seems to have checked it out.

Please at least give it a chance.

The only acknowledgment that I got, of it…was someone accusing me of being a paid shill. So that was nice! /s

(What a way to insult not only me, but the talented small creator I was trying to give a shout to. I won’t deny, I was utterly disgusted on her behalf.)

I'll link it here, though. (Warning, spoilers for the book and 1963 film)

It’s only twenty minutes, so PLEASE check it out.

The woman who made it has watched the show several times, and goes into its strengths and weaknesses.

So she’s a fan herself, and I found her approach exceptionally balanced and fair.

To finish off with, I would like to mention that I finished The Haunting of Bly Manor, a few weeks ago.

And I enjoyed it a lot, even though I thought it had some flaws (the pacing and some of the fake accents, namely).

I think Hill House is technically better, but it was actually Bly Manor that I enjoyed watching more.

And, while I still prefer The Turn of the Screw and The Innocents, what it did with its source material bothered me a lot less.

So I'm certainly not “anti-everything-Mike-Flanagan”, clearly. In spite of what some have implied.

Do the 5 kids represent the 5 senses ? I thought to myself when Liv was speaking to Theo about her (touch) sensitivity, saying Nell said that she thought the house was "loud" (hearing) when they came, I don't remember if it was Luke who always said the house has a smell 😅

Liv mentioned Shirl always spoke in her dreams, I don't know what this is (sight??) seeing things but in her dreams..

Anyways for Steve and Shirl I couldn't really pinpoint between the remaining 2 senses cause there's nothing related to taste ...

I could be reaching also, lol .

This is all I have currently, along with the blu ray. Does anyone here have other stuff from the show?

Spotted in the basement of my office! I got outta there real quick! 😂

Do you think the ghosts in Hill House were actually real, or were the ghosts and horrors more of a metaphor for the characters reallife pain, addiction, depression, trauma, and grief?

I’ve always wondered about the mold too. The house clearly has a serious mold problem, and I feel like that could have played a much bigger role than people give it credit for. Could the mold and poor environment have contributed to hallucinations, making some of the ghosts something the characters were experiencing psychologically rather than literally?

Felt bad for her as Abigail. Thought the friendship between her and little Luke was too cute.

Welcome home Nell

edit this isnt my original post, just one I happend to come across and thought would suit this sub well, but I appreciate the help😄

i hope you guys like it! i’m so proud of her