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scaredsofmyguitar · 6 months

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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

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#the haunting of hill house #thohhedit #thehauntingsource #mikeflanaganuniverse #horroredit #tvfilmsource #tvfilmspot #cinemapix #filmtvcentral #filmtvdaily #tvedit #horrorsource #steven crain #shirley crain #mine*

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mikelogan · 10 months

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Gif Request Meme The Haunting of Hill House + 10: Favorite Familial Relationship

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Eleanor "Nellie" Crain + Shirley Crain

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persephone-plasmids · 5 months

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I feel like Hill House and House of Usher are teaching the same moral using opposite techniques.

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alice-blogs-things · 7 months

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Rewatching Hill House for the millionth time, and this time I'm thinking about Steve and Shirley, specifically Steve as Olivia's son and Shirley as Hugh's daughter.

Thinking about Olivia talking about telling stories to honor the dead, and Steve talking about his books as telling other people's stories, keeping the memories of the dead alive. Thinking about the fact they both saw the clock repair ghost, that the two episodes where he shows up are the two that are primarily from their points of view, Witness Marks and Screaming Meemies. Thinking about the Red Room door opening for the both of them, luring them in using their love for the twins. Thinking about how Hill House was Olivia's last architectural project… and Steve's first published book.

Thinking about Hugh's determination to "fix" everything, while Shirley talks about "fixing" the bodies she works on. Thinking about Hugh restoring houses, and Shirley restoring bodies, and the show directly comparing houses to bodies in the dialogue. Thinking about Shirley trying every key she's given to get into the Red Room to no avail, and Hugh trying to open the door with every tool at his disposal, also to no avail. Thinking about Hugh and Olivia dividing their architectural and restoration work so Hugh has the more hands-on, practical role, and Shirley and Kevin dividing their roles in a similar way.

I could keep going on both of these points, just. Yeah, even five years after it dropped, this show still gives me so much to think about.

#the haunting of hill house #thohh #steven crain #shirley crain #olivia crain #hugh crain

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thatweirdgirlyousatnexttoinmath · 6 months

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It's been almost five years since The Haunting of Hill House came out on Netflix. And it has irrevocably changed my life.

The depiction of grief. Addiction. Depression. Loss. Identity. Family relationships. Family dynamics. Healing your inner child. Having to deal with your inner child. The fact that in some ways you never really grow up, you're that exact same person inside that is dealing with all these increasingly complex and difficult things, trying hard to not let the child in you react because you know it shouldn't.

Thinking about Theo taking her gloves off. Nell going to therapy, putting in work, and still having her demons chase her around all the way to the end. Shirley's entire life and career being based around wanting to help people in their darkest moments the way someone helped her (though isn't that what they all do, too? Especially Theo). Luke as the youngest, being left behind or not believed and eventually having to find ways to self-soothe, which as an adult are not as health-friendly as other options out there. But it's what he had to do to cope. And Steve... everyone knows a Steve.

I know people have commented before about the five Crain siblings and the five stages of grief. But they also each experience those themselves, and in some ways the five of them simply display how much grief and living can do to a person. Juxtaposing the entire modern part of the series with them as children reminded me how much the things I do now can also be drawn back to little Me. The decisions I make, what scares me, who I reach out to. What haunts me? I may not have a big scary terrifying Death House in my past, but I mean... we've all got our version of a big scary terrifying Death House.

The tragedy of Hill House, the complicated love that's shown, the connections and relationships we have with our families, the world, ourselves. I cannot, will not, should not, would not forget it.

#hill house #haunting of hill house #thohh #the haunting of hill house #steve crain #shirley crain #theo crain #nell crain #luke crain #grief #thoughts #random #family trauma #tv #idk #anyone know what I mean?

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yellowsyro · 1 year

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Let’s start with some hill house fanarts

#the haunting of hill house #theo crain #art #Crain siblings #nell Crain #Steven Crain #Shirley crain #Luke crain

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dino-egg-oatmeal · 5 months

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My favorite hobby is using Instagram stories to create mike Flanagan related memes

Anyway-isn’t this literally the plot of episode four?

#mike flanagan #the haunting of hill house #hill house #luke crain #steve crain #nell crain #shirley crain #the hat man

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all-about-the-tea-parties · 9 months

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The haunting of hill house being about how the kitchen is the heart of the house, because that’s where we spend the most time together, and the red room is the stomach, and it’s where we spend the least time together, and how the place where you eat is where you love and when you haven’t been in home in a long while, you confuse being eaten for being loved

I mean how could you tell the difference? Your mother fed you and now your mother feeds on you and isn’t that what love is? If I can’t have the heart, I’ll have the stomach. That’s the way to the heart anyways. That’s where everything goes.

Food is everything and every child would be swallowed up by a wolf if it meant being everything to something.

Every child just wants to come home. Be welcomed home. Be called home. They’ll offer up space inside themselves to do it. Lonely and starving and wanting to prove they can share.

Nell hopes for coffee.

Luke buys burgers.

Theo eats with Shirley.

Shirley insists on family dinner.

Steven is an eater. He eats stories. (Stories live longer than people. Stories keep people alive).

Hill house makes eating sound cruel, to make the kids feel guilty for being hungry, to make them hungrier, and make them choose being eaten over eating.

But the kitchen is the heart of the house.

It’s where they eat. (where they give and take and share and keep and indulge and provide love).

Steven is shared stories, and in turn shares them.

Shirley makes family dinners.

Theo prefers to eat with her sister.

Luke fills someone’s stomach.

Nell is asked out for coffee.

#oh to be wake all night and rant about the haunting of hill house #the difference between love and possession #feeding someone and eating them #the haunting of hill house #netflix #nell crain #theo crain #luke crain #steven crain #shirley crain

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stuckinthedeadlights · 3 months

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