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posted 5 years ago by Sunny (13)
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... a "Red Room"-room? And he couldn't get into it on the night they returned while Steve could.
Olivia said "we" are the key, so does it exclude Hugh?
He saw Nell's ghost at her memorial service and his wife when the Forever House model had been destroyed, so he wasn't excluded from the effect the house had on the family, so why hadn't he been "digested" by the house (neither in the past nor in the present)?

Maybe the house didn't let him in in the present as he wanted to "steal" the children, but before that he never had his own "stomach room".

[–] ILJtheFirst (1926) 5 years ago

I could've sworn it was mentioned (in the past) that Hugh had an office. I know he was always working, maybe that had something to do with it.

[–] Sunny (13) 5 years ago

Oh, I wish they had shown a clip of that room...
I read somewhere that Hugh's "Red Room" was the cellar, but as it wasn't the Red Room (stomach) itself I could imagine that he's been in the guts of the house. I heard that there are many people who have Candida (a fungus) in their guts making them sick and the house has black mo(u)ld, also a fungus.
Maybe Hugh was one of those indigestible things (not believing in ghosts etc.) that pass the stomach and have to be digested in the guts.

Another part of the human body that can have a fungus is the skin. Walls=skin - but in this case the mold is on the INSIDE of the skin... confusing

[–] GreenLantern (183) 4 years ago

I can't take credit for the theory, but someone posted on another forum that trying to open the red room door was his red room. He always wanted to fix things and he couldn't get the door open and he kept trying and trying, keeping him attached to the room. It isn't the greatest theory, but it's something.

[–] EllieIlLuca (1) 3 years ago

The way I see it, the house didn't try to "corrupt" Hugh because it "knew" it wouldn't work. Not only he was far too much of a realist (he was, after all, the tether that kept Liv from floating away...) but I see his character as the one of the family who most of all was just who he was, always positive, with no real dark sides or things to wish for. His only wish was his family.
Of course this is, I repeat, just how I see it.

[–] Kaiser100 (48) 2 years ago

I agree. Hugh was the least vulnerable person in the family, an emotionally healthy adult, too grounded and rational for the house to target him. Hence he could not get into the Red Room.

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