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What’s going on guys - as always I’ll be your spirit guide Jack Finch - as we once
again head up to that horrifying house on the haunted hill - creek open the door to
the red room - and take a look at the Top 5 Haunting of Hill House Fan Theories That
Will Blow Your Mind.
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Now I hope I’m not harping on - but as some of you may well know, Mike Flanagan’s latest
Netflix masterpiece - The Haunting of Hill House - is perhaps my favourite conversation
topic at the moment.
If you haven’t checked out our latest video on what makes Hill House so damn good - then
make sure you take a look, we’ll leave a link at the end of this video.
Since it crept up on us and blew us all away, The Haunting of Hill House has resonated in
the minds of horror fans the world over - and had us all scrambling over what the hell was
actually going on in the Red Room and whether there was something more to the Crain Family.
Well, let’s find out shall we?
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On with the show.
Kicking off at Number 5 - The Black Mould
(Insert clip: Hill House Episode 7, Hugh checking out the black mould in the basement.)
In Episode 7, Eulogy - following the incredibly tense Two Storms episode - we find Hugh tearing
the house apart after discovering that it’s riddled with a strange, inconsistent mould.
Not any old mould either - of course, this is the Crain Family - it’s highly toxic
black mould - pretty much a death sentence for anyone in the property business.
Well - as the remaining episode’s unfold - the black mould narrative kind of gets unresolved,
and we never truly find out it’s purpose as a device within the show.
One theory suggests that the Black Mould is much more important than it may seem - and
ultimately, was the real downfall of the entire Crain family.
You see, black mould can cause irreparable psychosis in the human brain - and on the
surface it may have lead to the Crain family hallucinating the haunting of Hill House.
I mean - that kind of sits with the whole stranger than fiction narrative of the show,
and give us real, physical evidence of the paranormal happenings that take place - but,
I don’t know, that’s kind of a cop out as far as I’m concerned.
However, reddit user CyberToaster goes one further - and they suggest that the black
mould is a completely supernatural entity in itself.
Throughout the show the house itself as referred to as a living being - the Red Room is it’s
stomach, the walls and pipes are it’s skin and veins - so what if the black mold was
Hill Houses brain? - it’s very DNA?
An ancient monster that’s lingered far longer than the ghosts of Poppy and The Tall Man.
It would explain away a lot of the shows supernatural phenomena - and give practical meaning to
Nell’s and Olivia’s dream - as well as Luke trying to set fire to the house to no
avail.
It’s interesting - but I’m not sure if I’m convinced.
Well - what do you guys think?
Coming in next at Number 4 - Blue Is The Warmest Colour
And no - not that film - we’ll keep this PG-13.
Let’s talk about colour palettes for a moment.
One thing that stuck with me after finishing the series was Mike Flanagan’s incredible
use of colour throughout each episode - and how it perfectly managed to balance the subtle
shifts through time - the past and the present, as well as alluding to a much more important
purpose.
In cinema - colour is an incredibly powerful form - it subconsciously suggests tone and
emotion, giving life to a scene oftentimes before we’ve even realised it’s intention.
If you look back through Hill House - you’ll notice the vivid demonstration of two very
important colours.
Red, and blue.
Although the spectrum may not be as obvious or deliberate in some instances - it’s always
there.
The warm, vibrant tones of red, orange and yellow - often representing the comfort and
warmth of childhood.
And the cold, oblique shades of blue.
However, all is not as it may seem - because as we know, in the show - Red is the enemy
of the Crain Family.
It’s what they’re simultaneously running away from and also hurtling towards - The
Red Room.
It’s the colour blue where the family finds their strength and make reparations - which
is interesting, because blue is often associated with psychic power and supernatural sensitivity.
The colour blue is the Crain Family’s one weapon against Hill House, often manifesting
itself around three particular characters.
Which leads us to our next point.
Swinging in at Number 3 - The Three Sisters.
Got you again.
Sorry, it’s a bad habit.
I also had to put it in, because one of the few scenes where we see Shirley, Theo and
Nelly all together - kind of - which is interesting in itself.
I don’t want to read too much into it - but the real point is that the Three Sisters are
perhaps the most important characters in the show, and the real reason why the Crain family
ultimately saved themselves.
In Episode 3, Touch - we are subtly informed about the idea of psychic intuition - manifested
most prominently with a young Theodora, who gradually demonstrates the ability of psychometry
- the ability to obtain information about a person or object by touch.
And this is what makes up the bulk of this theory - the fact that Theo, Shirley and Nelly
are all physical representations of the past, the present and the future - a common device
in early horror literature, which fits neatly with the theme and Flanagan’s interpretation
of Hill House - and his admiration of Shirley Jackson’s original work.
Theo’s manifestation is the most obvious of the bunch - she serves as an insight into
the historical horrors of Hill House.
Shirley’s is perhaps more subtle - she is a mortician, obsessed with the preservation
of the dead and their living form.
She is the only Crain child seen taking photographs - preserving the present, and living in the
moment.
And then we have Nelly - a child who lives her entire life being haunted by the ghost
of her future self - and who ultimately leads the Crain family to their future resolution.
Next up at Number 2 - The Five Stages of Grief
And this theory - isn’t really a theory at all anymore, because it’s pretty much
all been confirmed as canon by Mike Flanagan himself.
The show manages to deal with death, remorse and regret in an incredibly responsible way
- and each episode manages to slowly give light to the truth like a coffin being slowly
lowered into a grave.
But like with many things in The Haunting of Hill House - there’s much more to it
than first meets the eye - and it lies with the Crain Family themselves.
They all represent the five stages of grief.
Denial.
Anger.
Bargaining.
Depression - and finally, Acceptance.
Firstly - Steve, the oldest Crain sibling - represents denial, the first stage.
He’s constantly refusing to believe what actually happened at Hill House as a child
- instead bolstering himself against the paranormal, actively trying to explain away the supernatural
with logic and rational thought.
Next, Shirley - who represents anger.
One of the show’s main plot points is Shirley’s grudge against Steve - as she sees him as
a sellout for divulging the families secret into a best selling novel.
She’s often the source of confrontation for the Crain siblings - even as a child.
Theo represents the third stage of grief, bargaining.
One of Hill House’s most intense scene is Theo’s monologue about not being able to
feel anything - and her bargaining with the universe to end her disconnection.
Luke’s is perhaps the most obvious - depression.
He visibly deals with emotion in a very visceral way, and his history of addiction is his characters
white whale throughout the show.
Depression is what formed Luke as an adult - manifested from the horrors he witnessed
as a child.
And finally - Nell, who represents acceptance - the final stage of grief.
In The Red Room - when confronting her siblings as a ghost, she explains to them - I love
you completely, and you loved me the same.
That’s all.
The rest is confetti.
Nell had come to terms with her own death, haunted throughout her own childhood - and
she comforts her brothers and sisters to do the same.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - The Red Room.
Now - here’s something that actually may blow your mind.
After the series has reached it’s final conclusion, we can look back with the realisation
that the Red Room presented itself to each child as a different space.
For Luke it was his treehouse, for Theo it was her dancing room - for Nelly it was the
games room - but when the siblings finally confront the real Red Room - each of them
are confronted with a vision that they had to escape.
What’s interesting in those final few scenes is that something in each dream is vividly
red - Steven’s jumper, Luke’s converse shoes.
But - hold onto that thought, because it’s in the final few scenes of Hill House that
suggests our happy ending - actually wasn’t happy at all.
At the finale, we see Luke surrounded by his family - proudly celebrating 2 years of sobriety
- free from his heroin addiction after confronting his inner demons, together with his siblings
in the Red Room.
But - take a closer look, because that cake - is vividly red.
The show’s creators have smirkingly hinted that this is true - but it’s heartbreaking
to imagine that not only did Hill House ultimately consume Nell Crain - it also managed to finally
kill her twin, Luke.
Starkly enough - this would play into Olivia Crain’s ultimate goal of killing the twins
and complete this theory.
Originally, Mike Flanagan intended for the show to end on a more ambiguous note - with
a scene of the surviving Crain family members gathered in front of a window that resembles
the one seen in the Red Room.
However, Flanagan ultimately felt that this was a twist too cruel - so perhaps Luke’s
red cake was a subtler way to suggest the Crain family didn’t have such a happy ending.
And - now I’m sad.
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