Random thoughts about The Haunting of Hill House.
● Shirley feels guilty for stopping paying for Luke's rehab and that's why she is angry and rejecting him.
● The Haunting and Ducktales share the same universe. In the episode 10 season 3 of the reboot series Ducktales. We learn about "the most haunted house" named Hazel House. Like Hazel Hill.
● Hill without H is ill. I KNOW, I'm very intelligent... but it's funny that every member of the Hill family is ill and everyone who enters the Hill House is getting ill.
● What do you think of if I tell you about a story narrated in a disjointed way about a living labyrinthine house with surnatural creatures that drain families energy and using their fears against them to drive them mad and kill them?
House of Leaves, of course ! I wonder if Mike Flanagan read the book.
● Hazel killed Poppy's kids.
We know for sure that Poppy suspects Hazel of killing her children.
Her son was sick and bangs his head on the wall permanently, maybe he died of his disease... or maybe Hazel looses patience.
Her daughter seems to have suffocated/drowning for a pretty long time, and one day, she died. Maybe she had pneumonia, maybe she had allergies... or maybe she was poisoned.
We will never know the truth about Poppy's children death (it's possible she killed her own children, like her son died in her arms...). HOWEVER 🤨☝️
Hazel surely killed the Dudley's first daughter.
Horace explains to Hugh that Hazel forbade Clara to take maternity leave or slow down her work pace... she actually gave birth during her service. A particularly exhausting service during these months of pregnancy because Hazel's health was declining.
If Hazel had allowed Clara to rest during her pregnancy, her child would surely not have been stillborn. Soooo... maybe Poppy wasn't paranoid about the kids in Hill House.
● Why did Olivia saw 2 parents and 3 kids in her "déjà vu" moment ?
First there were the 2 Hills that built the house and their 2 children, William and Hazel. William had 2 kids with Poppy, a boy (who was is a wheelchair) and a girl (who died drowned in her own lungs. We don't know their names.
Hazel had 2 children (with someone we don't know) named Edward (the ghoul in the basement) and Jacqueline (the owner of the cup of stars).
So, why 3 children ? Another family killed in the house ?
Expose me your theories please !
● Comparison between Magritte "Prof", 1954 and William Hill standing figure.
● The yellow wallpaper.
"The yellow wallpaper" is a book from Charlotte Perkins Gilman who describes the story of a young woman and her husband. He imposes a rest cure on her when she suffers "temporary nervous depression" after the birth of their baby. They spend the summer at a colonial mansion, where the narrator is largely confined to an upstairs nursery.
After days, weeks in the nursery, she slowly became paranoid about he yellow wallpaper in the room.
She describes how the longer one stays in the bedroom, the more the wallpaper appears to mutate. With no stimulus other than the wallpaper, the pattern and designs become increasingly intriguing to the narrator. She soon begins to see a figure in the design. Eventually, she comes to believe that a woman is creeping on all fours behind the pattern. Believing she must free the woman in the wallpaper, she begins to strip the remaining paper off the wall.
I am watching the episode 4, "the twins" right now and when I hear the blind man describing how he went crazy seeing the "egg yolks eyes" everywhere and particularly in the wallpaper I immediately thought about the novel. BUT when I was coping Wikipedia I remembered the story and some part of the resume make me thinking of Olivia Crain.
Their stories are different but I see a pattern and I want you to let me know if you see it too !
● What if there were no ghosts in the house ?
What if the dead were dead but the house by consuming them while they were alive could copy 100% of their appearance and personality, like the Crain family recreated for Nell. Just to trap its prey like a predator. Poppy, William, Hazel and others could be just the house playing tricks and no soul is involved.
● What Theo felt after touching Nell's body is depression.
People tends to think depression is being sad but it's not true. Depression is a chemical phenomenon that shut down you brain. You can't laugh, you can't feel love, you can't feel anger, joy, sadness. Nothing. Depression is feeling nothing. Even you senses decline. The colours feels fade, the music feels like nothing, you can't enjoy your favourite sent or food. It's like a void or being trapped in a sensory privatisation room. You can restart your brain by overstimulation like pain, it works for few minutes or hours but the only solution is to rebalance your brain chemistry, like with antidepressants.
That's exactly what Theo experienced and she restarted her system with overstimulation by touching Kevin.
TO BE CONTINUED...
