The only one I caught on my own was in theThey're really well hidden.
You basically have to see them by accident unless you're actively not watching the actual focus of the scenes.
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The only one I caught on my own was in theThey're really well hidden.
You basically have to see them by accident unless you're actively not watching the actual focus of the scenes.
The ending REALLY left a bad taste in my mouth. The shift was just.... it was jarring. I don't like Poppy, I don't think she fits the narrative at all, and the house itself is so much more than her. The house showed how powerful it is, and what it can do to manipulate you. It showed how it holds onto people, who are damned to forever walk through its corridors. That shit should be straight up Hotel California. You check out anytime you like, but you can NEVER leave. And it just follows you, no matter where in the world you go, haunting you and eating away at your sanity until you go back and try to confront the house. And then it fucks you up and you're stuck there for eternity.
Either that, or you find a way to destroy that house, which is the only real way I can see there being a sequel to this. But in the end, I'm hoping there ISN'T a sequel. The story for the most part is pretty good, and self contained.
Just finished ep. 5 and I dont think I've seen a single hidden ghost yet...
Just finished ep. 5 and I dont think I've seen a single hidden ghost yet...
There's 3 in the first episode when Steven and Hugh are coming down the stairs. Two on the right and one on the left side.Just finished ep. 5 and I dont think I've seen a single hidden ghost yet...
Pay attention to the statue at the corridor.The only one I caught on my own was in thescene.basement wall-repair
That's the one I noticed without even looking for it.
The ending REALLY left a bad taste in my mouth. The shift was just.... it was jarring. I don't like Poppy, I don't think she fits the narrative at all, and the house itself is so much more than her. The house showed how powerful it is, and what it can do to manipulate you. It showed how it holds onto people, who are damned to forever walk through its corridors. That shit should be straight up Hotel California. You check out anytime you like, but you can NEVER leave. And it just follows you, no matter where in the world you go, haunting you and eating away at your sanity until you go back and try to confront the house. And then it fucks you up and you're stuck there for eternity.
Either that, or you find a way to destroy that house, which is the only real way I can see there being a sequel to this. But in the end, I'm hoping there ISN'T a sequel. The story for the most part is pretty good, and self contained.
I thought it was okay but I wouldn't say I loved it.
It felt a heck of a lot like a Ju-On TV show to me with a focus on how the house can't be escaped and will manipulate time, reality, and peoples minds to get it's victims. I just found the motive of the house to be hugely inconsistent. Where as in Ju-On it's the curse that will inevitably kill anybody who enters it then uses people's likeness in Hilltop everything just seems random as heck down to who it goes after and the intensity it goes after them. I kinda hated it somehow had the ability to murder Nell's husband which it doesn't ever show again, it's suggested that it manipulates her by manpulating/fabricating the psychiatrist, then haunts her inside and outside the house. When you would have thunk her highly isolated screw up of a brother would be an easier target. I also found the best spook (Nell haunting herself) was something Ju-on 2 did far more elegantly.
With that said episode 6 was hugely impressive.
That wasn't good.
The episode 6 wasn't good: it adds nothing to the story.A 50 min of nothing.
The last episode was awful nonsense.(the red room?the ghosts?)
And it looks like a bad christmas tale that you can watch on tv.
As a show about mental illness and trauma it could have been interesting,without the gimmicks (the horror part,the red room thing,the ghosts )
The horror part wasn't good,(well nothing was scary but i suppose it wasn't meant to be)but yeah the last episode....terrible.
Loved absolutely everything but the final episode. The context and atmosphere just felt completely off from the rest of the series.
Just finished ep. 5 and I dont think I've seen a single hidden ghost yet...
I just finished and...mixed feelings.
I pretty much liked all of it except for the ending.
.Wtf why was it such a happy ending? Are just going to gloss over the fact that the house drove the mom insane to the point that she tried to kill herself and three children? Or everything else that happened in the history of the house? It shifted so hard into making the house seem like a good place since ghosts could stay there together and it's just incredibly jarring.
Was this posted? Mike Flanagan tweeted a looong thread about how exactly episode 6 was done.
Click on the tweet to read the rest. It's pretty interesting stuff.
It wasn't really a happy ending. From Steven's PoV as the narrator/author, yea he tried to frame it as such, cuz well, what else is he gonna say? Caught me off guard at first too. But upon rewatching those scenes, it's pretty clear that the house won. Thing that really sold it for me was when the father chose to go into the Red Room. Nel's all looking sad af that the house claimed another victim in her father:
while Olivia is looking straight at Steven, as if to say "We'll get you too one day."
If you think about it, the only people that tried to frame the house as being a good thing were all the people who were deeply troubled: Olivia, and the Dudleys. Nel didn't ask to become a ghost, and Hugh only did what he did so that Olivia would allow them to leave.
They managed to make it out, but the house still stands, waiting for its next victim. The way I saw it, the rest of the family is just trying to find some semblance of normalcy (Only thing you could say the house was good for was helping them face their respective issues/demons), cuz that's really all you can do when you manage to make it out of a freakin haunted house lol
It's more in the style of The Conjuring.Is this actual horror/frightening?
For reference, I didn't find Hereditary (a big recommendation here) to be scary at all.
VVitch was ok and The Ritual was ok too.
One aspect I didn't fully understand about Nell was:
why did she play herself?? The only reason she goes back to the house and dies is because she haunts herself?? lol it's obvious she immediately regrets it after she is hung because she's going back and trying to scream at herself but whyyyy
Nell was always going to kill herself. She tried to scream to tell herself not to do it at Hill House in my opinion.
She tells Steve that nothing would've changed what she did. The Bent Neck Lady wasn't great for her mental health of course, but Nell was probably doomed when her husband died so tragically.
The show does a good job of weaving the ghosts into actual mental health issues (schizophrenia, drug addiction, night terrors, etc...), and Nell's suicide is one of those in my opinion.
That movie fucked me up.