Haunting of Hill House Everything The Red Room Pretended To Be (& Why)

Haunting of Hill House: Everything The Red Room Pretended To Be (& Why)

The Red Room in Haunting of Hill House constantly pretended to be things it wasn’t, creating a special room for everyone in the Crain family, but why?

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The Haunting of Hill House’s mysterious Red Room constantly pretending to be something else depending on which member of the Crain family it interacted with. From the start of the show, the eerie Red Room frustrated everyone in the Crain family. No one could understand why it was locked. Not even the house’s skeleton key (or a hammer) could open the big red door. Throughout the story, however, each one of the Crains, excluding patriarch Hugh (Henry Thomas/ Timothy Hutton), found themselves spending a great deal of time inside the room–they just didn’t know it.

Created and directed by horror master Mike Flanagan for Netflix, The Haunting of Hill House skillfully handled one of the show’s most shocking twists by hiding it in plain sight. The always-locked Red Room was secretly designing rooms catered to each of the Crain children and their mother Olivia (Carla Gugino). It did this over and over to lull the Crains into a false sense of security. The Red Room was locked, but it needed the Crains to spend time inside so it could feed off of them. They each had their own room perfectly suited to them to spend time in, and there was a sinister reason why.

The Red Room needed to become the room that each family member wanted most to ensure they spent plenty of time inside. It wanted them to get comfortable so it could take its time feeding on them. Only when the house was ready to finish them off completely would the Red Room open its real door and let them see inside. This happened in “Screaming Meemies” when Olivia walked into the room and brought Nellie, Luke, and the Dudleys’ doomed Hill House daughter Abigail with her. It happened again 26 years later in “Silence Lay Steadily” when the Crain family woke from nightmares to find themselves in the Red Room once again. This time, they were all able to see what it really looked like. The Red Room in The Haunting of Hill House was there to slowly feed on the house’s residents, but it could only do so if they were comfortable enough to go inside, so it played pretend. Below is a full list of everything the Red Room pretended to be.

Nellie’s Toy Room

Nellie’s Red Room was her toy room. The only toys in Nell’s Red Room (shown during The Haunting of Hill House’s ending), were the types of toys she liked to play with. She had a dollhouse, stuffed animals, and curtains with pink tassels. Nellie always wanted to play tea party, and her toy room had a small pink and white table with a tea set on top. Nellie’s family hadn’t been in the house long enough to put together a toy room for her, but that didn’t stop the Red Room from making one. Adult Nell was the first of the Crain children to figure out the Red Room’s secret when she returned to Hill House and became a ghost after being murdered by Olivia.

Luke’s Treehouse

Luke’s Red Room in Hill House was his backyard treehouse. When the treehouse was first mentioned, it was described as the treehouse that Hugh built for Luke. Luke would sit in his treehouse coloring pictures and hanging them up on the walls. At one point, Olivia asked young Steven (Paxton Singleton) and Mrs. Dudley (Annabeth Gish) whether either of them had seen Luke, and Steve replied that Luke was probably in his treehouse. Olivia laughed, thinking Steve was joking. Steve climbed into the treehouse to tell Luke that their mom was looking for him. Steve then remarked that it never occurred to her that Luke was in his treehouse. Later on in the series, Hugh revealed to adult Steven (Michiel Huisman) that there never was a treehouse. He never built them one. The Red Room built Luke his treehouse, not his dad.

Theo’s Dance Studio

For Theo, the Red Room was a dance studio, an important detail about Theo’s character. The wooden studio floor was empty, and the little furniture that was in the room was pushed out of the way, against the walls. Theo played music and dance videos on the TV while she practiced. The studio even had large mirrors and a barre. Adult Theo (Kate Siegel) spent a lot of nights going clubbing at a bar where she could dance. Adult Shirley (Elizabeth Reaser) commented that there was a never-ending parade of women Theo would bring home from the bar, showing that she went there frequently. Theo even went clubbing after a particularly difficult day at work when she learned that one of her patients was being abused by her foster father. Theo went to the club because dancing was her way of de-stressing. Based on the home’s previous residents (who still lived there as both hidden, and not so hidden, Hill House ghosts), it wouldn’t have made any logical sense for Hill House to have a dance studio. Except there was a dance studio at Hill House because the Red Room created one specifically for Theo.

Steven’s Game Room

Steven’s Red Room was his gaming room. The room contained a beanbag, guitar, dartboard, skateboards, and a TV complete with video games. Big brother Steven spent his free time sitting in the beanbag chair right in front of the television playing video games. The house’s previous owner, an elderly, bed-ridden woman, did not need a room filled with modern toys and video games. Steven had a room where he could go sit alone and play games because the Red Room decided to make him one.

Shirley’s Family Room

Shirley’s Red Room was her family room. Shirley was the caretaker in the family. Adult Shirley, played by one of the few lead actors who didn’t return for Bly Manor or Midnight Mass, was the only one of the Crain siblings with children, and she followed after her mother. Olivia constantly drew blueprints for her family’s “forever home,” and grown-up Shirley did the same using a model she crafted. She wanted the perfect space for her family, so her comfortable space was a family room. It held books and craft supplies, a comfortable couch, and family photos. Shirley’s family room was her place to relax, but why would a small room that only Shirley used in a house they were planning to live in for just a matter of weeks contain framed family photographs of the Crains? The Red Room put them there for Shirley to make sure she felt safe.

Olivia’s Reading Room

Olivia was one character viewers thought deserved a better ending in The Haunting of Hill House, and like the others, she used her Red Room as a place to go when she felt stressed. Olivia’s Red Room was a reading room she used as an escape. She could sit and read in the quietness. In “Screaming Meemies,” Poppy stood with Olivia in her reading room and told Olivia that she loved what she had done with the room. Olivia asked Poppy if she was dreaming when Poppy told her that she used it as a dressing room then converted it into a nursery. Olivia wasn’t the one who made it into a reading room. It already was Olivia’s personal library because the Red Room made it that way.

The Red Room’s True Face

While creators worked hard to ensure the reveal wouldn’t be spoiled too soon, they did leave hints throughout The Haunting of Hill House, which was an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson novel. All the rooms that the Red Room pretended to be were shot from a similar angle to subtly show the uniquely-shaped vertical window. In the final episode, adult Nell (Victoria Pedretti) explained that the Red Room was the stomach of the house, but the Red Room’s real face had decaying walls covered in black mold. It needed to lure the Crains in so it could feed on them. They wouldn’t have spent time in a rotting room they knew would make them sick; thus, the Red Room constantly changed its appearance to be more pleasing to unsuspecting victims.

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