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I read because Dani accidentally kicked the little doll representing Viola, she woke her up. And it's also been moved several times later on.
[quote](And, before someone jumps in to point out the obvious, yes, I'm aware that King's book owes a lot of its inspiration to Shirley Jackson's book so it's a 'snake eating its own tail thing'...)[/quote]
Stephen King's Rose Red is admittedly based on Shirley's book, so THoHH just "stole" back from him :)
Yeah, I think they also watched the korean movie "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003). It's reminding me a lot of the series atmosphere-wise but the most obvious is the korean bent neck lady haunting one of the girls.
A second thing are the bright red wardrobe doors (the wardrobe playing a significant role).
There are other minor similarities but that'd spoil too much...
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
In The Shining both twins were ghosts, in Hill House only one of them was, but still, there were twins.
And when Shirley entered her "Red Room", the hotel bar, I immediately thought of The Shining's bar scene.
The woman in 237 turns from beautiful to rotten (except it's only in the movie?), in Hill House the (main) ghosts keep changing the same way back and forth.
OK, these are just minor similarities.
Sometimes THoHH reminded me a lot of those japanese horror movie ghosts (long dark hair and no face, the crawling on the floor...)
Better for you, really. It's been annoying me throughout the whole series. (Almost) no one would have noticed he had darker eyes than Timothy.
I've been quite irritated about the goats ;) but I'm assuming that the family had been in a way infected and thus connected to the house and its "inhabitants", so the ghosts could still "communicate" with them.
The Tall Man kept haunting Luke when he was wandering in the streets, taking and counting seven steps, then turning around and the man had followed him. He wasn't as tall but I think it was him (at least in Luke's head) until he turned into "someone else" (don't wanna spoil it)
Maybe it's just been a happy ending for the Crains and the Dudleys (they were the only colourful spirits in the house). Every other ghost is still tormented.
Maybe the House is like a mother, panicking when its children (inhabitants) are leaving (moving out) into the "darkness", like William who was sent away and came back with an insane wife (Poppy).
Maybe the house has put its paranoia onto Poppy and later Olivia. That might be the reason why it wants to kill/wake everyone in it. To protect them from fear, pain and grief of the outside world. And the ones who are accepting it (the deseased Crains and Dudleys in the end) can "live" on in harmony.
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