Like the scariest creatures, the house is just hungry. Really, the house isn't so different from other iconic horror monsters it's a zombie devouring brains, a vampire sucking blood, a shark chomping guts. The house convinces you to take part willingly, persuading the living that reality is a dream and the only way back to waking life is through death. They're like fuel for a fucked up machine. Ultimately, that seems to be the house's goal, to trap as many wayward souls within itself as possible, feeding off whatever misery was within them in their final moments. It got most of the Hill family, most grotesquely William Hill, who bricked himself behind a wall in the basement in 1948. Anyone who walks through the front door is susceptible to one hell of a paranormal mind-trip-hallucinations, delusions, lost hours, momentary jumps through both space and time-and if you die there, you belong to the house for good, as evidenced by the many wonderfully terrifying souls that pop up, often literally, throughout the series. It's the archetypal haunted house because it just is. One of the best-and most horrifying-aspects of The Haunting of Hill House is the lack of a concrete explanation for how the evil inside this place came to be. RELATED: Mike Flanagan's Netflix Shows Ranked From 'Midnight' to 'Manor' Namely, the Crain siblings, a much more fucked up version of Arrested Development's Bluths with horrific trauma replacing witty banter: horror author Steven ( Michiel Huisman), mortician Shirley ( Elizabeth Reaser), semi-psychic psychologist Theodora ( Kate Siegel), addict Luke ( Oliver Jackson-Cohen), and his twin sister Nell ( Victoria Pedretti), who takes her own life inside the walls of Hill House.īelow, I'm going to try my darndest to make sense of all the horror, death, and mystery that befalls the Crain family, including what the hell is actually going on with Hill House itself, what happened to Olivia Crain ( Carla Gugino) and why exactly Hugh Crain ( Timothy Hutton) covered it up, what's inside the house's mysterious Red Room, and what were the true identities of The Bent Neck Lady and Luke's imaginary friend, Abigail. But overall, Flanagan's dark, sprawling story is less concerned with the ghosts inside the house and more with the people who made it out (mostly) alive.
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