The Haunting Of Hill House 10 Hidden Details You Missed About The Tall Man
The Haunting Of Hill House: 10 Hidden Details You Missed About The Tall Man
The Tall Man is one of the scariest ghosts in The Haunting of Hill House, but what hidden details have fans missed about the Crain’s tallest specter?
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It was recently announced that The Haunting of Bly Manor would be arriving on Netflix on October 9. This is, of course, the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s landmark horror series, The Haunting of Hill House, from Mike Flanagan and based on the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name.
The haunts on Hill House were both supernatural and psychological, with plenty of ghosts infused into the inherited Crain family trauma. One such ghost in The Haunting of Hill House was The Tall Man, a surreal, lanky figure. While The Tall Man was obviously outwardly scary, there were plenty of hidden and obfuscated details about him that would not be apparent to viewers on first watch.
10 William Hill
First of all, The Tall Man is not actually named The Tall Man. Like The Bent-Neck Lady, the moniker is ascribed by a frightened child. However, The Tall Man did have an identity when he was a part of the mortal realm.
That identity was William Hill. His legacy in the show is obviously connected directly to Hill House, a long-standing familial building that eventually takes in the Crain family. While the Crains are the subject of the series, the Hills’ presence is felt throughout.
9 Product of Jacob
William Hill was not the first person to reside within Hill House, though. That honor instead belongs to his father, Jacob Hill, whose construction of the home set off a domino effect of terrors for those who inhabited it.
Jacob Hill began building the home a century prior to the events of the show, but the construction was muddled and forever tarnished by the death of his wife during the process. There were always horrors associated with a home that would eventually produce a stomach, but the death of his wife (and eventual fall from Jacob himself) were early signs of this plague.
8 Mysterious Children
William Hill descended from Jacob Hill, but the descendants of William, The Tall Man himself, are a bit more mysterious in terms of their origin. For example, one of William’s children is alleged to be the product of an affair he had with a maid in the home, but the clarity around this never surfaced.
Furthermore, the hidden detail of William’s children requires extracurricular probing beyond the Netflix episodes. His daughter died a death that is still debated, and his son was claimed by an unknown illness. It’s tragic how little is known about the lives and deaths of his kids.
7 Married To Poppy
Of course, William’s children were not solely his own. During his time on Earth, William was married to Poppy Hill, but this connection is not always made by fans who are too busy peeking through hiding hands at the ghosts on screen.
Poppy’s spectral presence is mostly defined by the resentment and evil she harbors as a reaction to the perils of her life on Earth. While William appears as a slender ghost with a bowler hat, Poppy tends to turn up as a flapper. But yes, during their human lives, William and Poppy were husband and wife.
6 Hated By Hazel
Poppy was not the only surviving relative of William’s, though. He also had a sister named Hazel, who was well established through extra Easter eggs from the series to be a bootlegger. It’s also well established that Hazel absolutely detested both William and Poppy.
However, the hidden detail of Hazel’s connection is that her barrel burning might suggest that she killed William and Poppy’s children. It’s a hidden detail that’s up for interpretation, but still deeply fascinating.
5 Asylum Time
William Hill is a character on The Haunting of Hill House who was always destined for an unceremonious end, tragically. From the beginning of his life, insanity overcame him, prompting Jacob to ship William away to an insane asylum.
While it was there where William met Poppy and he did manage to return to Hill House, he hardly improved his situation. The hidden detail in his background of the insane asylum suggests that William Hill’s fate was always foretold.
4 Craziness Or Guilt?
Sometimes, though, it’s unclear what drove William Hill insane the second time, pushing him closer to a death (more on that later) that was truly the mark of someone who was not mentally well. Some think he was just insane, but others thinking he was ridden with guilt.
The aforementioned hidden details contribute to the notion that William’s background contains a fair amount of infidelity and an illegitimate child. This affair with a maid might have been what sent William off the deep end.
3 Walled in the Basement
William’s death was one that was definitely the product of a man in a state of mental anguish, though. He walled himself up in the basement of Hill House and died a slow, agonizing death as a result of this.
While it may have been from insanity and it may have been from guilt, what matters is that The Tall Man killed himself in a horrific manner. However, it’s the manor that might have swallowed up his well-being, as the audience sees happen to numerous Crains. His death’s hidden detail is deepened by what eventually becomes of Olivia Crain.
2 Horror Amalgamation
This walling in the basement is a classic trope of Gothic 1800s to 1900s horror. “The Cask of Amontillado,” a short story by Edgar Allan Poe obviously features a similar story point (the entire crux, in fact), showing that Hill House played on more than just Shirley Jackson.
So many horror classics are involved in the amalgamation of William Hill’s characterization. At the time of the series’ release, he was likened to Slender Man. However, he also bears a great deal in common to old Roger Corman movies. Much of The Tall Man’s design is filled with hidden details to horror that came before.
1 Luke And The Bowler Cap
While there are plenty of hidden details that clue viewers in to the origin of William Hill and the design and function of The Tall Man, sometimes, his most secretive attributes are right in the center of the show’s development. Like how he becomes the ghost that haunts Luke Crain primarily.
Obviously, Luke’s thievery of the bowler cap is what sets The Tall Man onto haunting him. However, by learning about the hidden details of The Tall Man’s history, his attachment to material identity (and subsequent insane downfall from the loss of it) provides even more shading to his haunting. The details are hidden unless the viewers know where to look within Hill House.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/haunting-hill-house-hidden-details-facts-trivia-tall-man/
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