r/HauntingOfHillHouse

Has anyone checked out Widow's Bay? I like it so far - definitely giving me some Flanagan vibes (especially Midnight Mass, mainly since it takes place on an island, but also some other stuff), just more humorous.

Honestly one of the best shows I've watched in years. The writing is incredible....every mystery has a payoff, every character feels real, and the ending actually ) .

10/10 writing
10/10 characters
10/10 music
10/10 ending

i mean bro suggest me some good series like this .. bro the series how do i expressss.. honestly one of the best

of the finest writter i have seen

I'm getting my first tattoo soon. Hopefully in a few weeks. I want a Hill House tattoo inspired by Nell. I was originally thinking of getting the quote, "the rest is confetti" but now I don't know. I've seen people get her cup of stars, but I don't think I'd like to go that route. Any suggestions?

I have no one to talk to about this! I can’t believe I didn’t watch this sooner!! Had to sit there and just process it for a bit. I wasn’t ready. Is Bly Manor just as good?

This feels like watching Fire Walk With Me for the first time. Good god this was so, so sad; first time I've cried at any piece of media in a good couple of years. Most definitely in my top 10 TV episodes of all time, maybe top 5. The tone shift from horror to tragedy/thriller was done so well, and all of the themes of family/intergenerational trauma are at their most effective here.

Bravo, flanagan.

My husband may never forgive me…we were SO confused the ENTIRE TIME, but we didn’t think to check if it was episode one. I guess my question is do we even bother going back and watching the season… 🤣

I've left a comment about this recently, but feel compelled to talk about it on its own. There has never been a piece of art that gave me as much excessive comfort as what Mike made with this show. A little background, but I grew up in this house in the middle of nowhere on a road where people died ALL the time, both murders and excessive car wrecks, and I actually can't give too much info on this because I recently discovered that my encouraging locals to talk about the creepy stuff that happened on that road has given Google enough info to immediately reveal the location, and a lot of people have been murdered up there and the families prefers it not get brought up. My personal deal was having a very abusive mother who managed to convince us that our father was actually the issue, and who intentionally wedged all us siblings apart. We have all been navigating adulthood very caring of each other but very very splintered.

We ALL have a very funny and telling relationship with this show, including my evil mother, who imagines herself as Hugh, which is hilarious, but I digress. We all make the pilgrimage to our cursed childhood home about once a year, something we were all secretly doing and didn't know the others do, like we have each thought it the scene of a crime that might reveal more truth if we just keep going. I took my dog with me once, and when we hit my house and notorious multi murder house beside it, he stood up in the passenger's seat, hackles raised and anxiously panting until we got to what people call the "good" end of that road. It's unnerving if you're the eldest skeptic always on the hunt for "proof" of more to have your dog betray you like that.

I will rewatch this show every time something really hard happens in my life, and it helps EVERY SINGLE TIME. Doesn't matter what the thing is. Two nights ago, something very triggering happened, and it sunk me into a severe funk all day yesterday, and I have already been dealing with an unmanaged autoimmune arthritis flare while I wait to see a specialist. I was in the pits. I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I had been couch rotting for about an hour, unable to just DO anything, and my partner got up and turned the TV on. I saw her type "hi" on Netflix and when I say that I saw THAT, knew what she was doing, immediately heard the opening notes and monologue of the show in my head before she even started it, and started feeling immediate relief. We finished the first episode, and the tightness that had been making it hard for me to sleep had already dissipated. I actually got a good night's sleep, and woke up to some of that "triggered body ache" already dissipating. I'm probably going to go home and finish watching.

I just find it so impressive that I, someone who does not spook easy, found the show very, very unnerving while I was watching the first time, partly because it tread so much familiar ground in mine and my siblings' lives, and partly because I think it's genuinely a good spook- but only the first time. I haven't been able to feel it as anything but a life affirming "it'll be okay" since then, and did even as finishing that first watch. It always makes me feel like the nightmare nonsense inside me is a little calmer, but Rose Red and The Haunting were also childhood repeaters I could never drop, and Hill House feels like the eventual full fruition of what I loved best in those, a massive conversation itself for another time.

Before this, The Babadook was my comfort horror, and I still adore it, but I don't know that there will ever again be a piece of art that does for me what this show does. I feel lighter today, and yesterday I was in an utter panic about how much I did not want to keep going at all, and it feels so silly to have a TV show affect so much, but good art really is the best medicine so often, and all the best help I have ever gotten has been having a piece of art that helps contextualize and sort my feelings, especially as an autistic woman that struggles with that. Any of y'all have that with Hill House, or anything else? Unfortunately, Steven Universe was a go to calmer as a teen, and it also still works, though less effective than Hill House lol.