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  PLOT SUMMARY: Bestselling author Veronica is trapped in a terrifying reality and must use her wits to survive.  It was said that if you know your history, you will never repeat it. The reason you are taught history is so you can learn from the mistakes made in the past and make sure that those errors that tormented people are never repeated. It makes sense to be in awe of bygone eras though. Erase the tyranny and the genocides and the hate crimes, and the suppression of certain groups of people, I can imagine people must long for the simple life where there weren’t too many issues cropped up by modernization. No internet, no urgent need to pry in people’s private lives, no desperation to see how many people liked your post and then getting depressed when you didn’t reach your target approval rate. No phones. No need to contact anyone if you don’t want to. Visits to friends if they’re not neighbors was often an arduous task made on foot or horses and took a long time.

  Secrets rarely stay buried for long. Everyone has something they want to hide from the world, and sooner or later, it comes out, sometimes at the worst possible time. While the reveal of some secrets can feel liberating, most of the times, it is devastating to have it being revealed to near and dear ones. Adult Steven and Hugh arrive at Hill House to find Luke unconscious. Before they can do anything, Steven is shown a nightmarish vision of his wife. He awakens to find Theo and Shirley in the red room with him. Hugh was right, the siblings were a meal to the house who wanted to finish it. The siblings are forced to confront their deceits and we see why Shirley is haunted by a man raising a glass at her. She had met him during a conference some time ago and had cheated on her husband with him. Luke dreams about being in a room where his mother, young Nell and Abigail are there. Olivia tries to get him to stay but Nell advises him to leave. He awakens, gasping for breath just a

  A mother’s worst nightmare is perhaps finding out her children are in danger. She would go to any lengths to prevent anything terrible happening to their kids. But if one lives in a haunted house, that sensation may not exactly be true. That ill-feeling has probably been fed by a malicious ghost. In a flashback scene, we see Olivia grappling with a tremendous dilemma where she can’t tell real from illusion anymore. She watches her kids Luke and Nell sleep and wishes they would stay their innocent selves forever. The next instant when she walks into the other room, she finds herself in a morgue. As viewers, we know it is where Shirley does her work. On the table is grown-up Nell and Luke. They get up from their tables and spook Olivia. Olivia is troubled because although she can’t be a hundred per cent sure what her kids will look like when they grow up, deep inside, she knows it’s the twins and it has generated a deep fear within her. Hugh advises her to take her break sooner

  There’s nothing like being a grown-up and having a fight with the family. As kids, it is easier to express anger through actions or calling each other mean names. When you grow up, there is the need to show constraint, to handle problems on your own. You can’t sob because society expects you to behave in a mature manner. You cannot call each other names and throw tantrums, because you’re not immature, are you? All that is left is to hide your feelings and hope your family understands you’re going through a tough time. But when there is common grief, not everyone is going to understand the other. Everyone expresses and processes grief in their own way. Nell’s twin Luke has disappeared and of course, everyone assumes he’s gone to kill himself. Steve and Hugh immediately set out to go look for him, while Shirley insists on staying and waiting to find out if Luke has indeed stolen her credit card and plans to use it. But Theo is still there too and they get into another argument.

  Funerals can be tough for families and even more so when you have to reconnect with estranged family. Hugh finds it difficult to get through the day, because all these years, he’s hidden the truth from his children regarding Hill House and what actually happened to Olivia, their mother. Hugh seems to be able to see Olivia, or she lives in his imagination. He dresses up and converses with her like she’s alive. Then when he’s in the car, reaches out to Shirley, who is still in a bad mood after what she saw last night with her husband and Theo. She refuses to be consoled. Olivia tells Hugh not to interfere and she knows her kids better than him. He meets Theo and does better with her. She feels regret at what Shirley saw but knows she won’t get a chance to talk to her. In the past, Hugh finds a leak and goes to the basement to find the source, but he can’t find it. Steve offers to help, but when the fan comes on just as Hugh’s wondering what happened to it, his hand gets caught

  Family gatherings can be stressful, even more so when you have unresolved issues with some relatives. For the Crains, their family gathers for a funeral of a loved one and they are all traumatized by it and whatever happened in the past. A flashback shows the Crains in the house when the storm hits and the chandelier falls. Hugh worries that the family may be harmed by the force of the storm that is smashing windows. In the present, the family comes together for the funeral, but it isn’t long before they all get into an argument, their pain raked by watching Nell in the casket. Steve claims that Hugh lied about their mother Olivia’s mental condition. She had gone insane and had committed suicide. That madness must run in the family which is why Nell too committed suicide. Hugh maintains that wasn’t what happened to Olivia but Steve thinks he knows best. In the past, the storm causes a blackout and Nell disappears. The kids stay downstairs while Olivia goes look for her daught

  Have you ever woken up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, seen a silhouette of something you couldn’t recognize and immediately came to the conclusion that the monster from your dreams has followed you in the real world? Then you turn on the lights and it is just a coat or a backpack you dumped on a chair, and you berate yourself for keeping a messy room. As a kid, that unidentifiable shape is frightening. As adults, maybe we will be quicker to recognize the objects in our room eventually. As a kid, Nell wakes up several times at night, after her move to Hill House, to see a bent-neck lady standing at the foot of her bed, or even hovering over her. When she tells her parents of what she saw, they too assume she has an active imagination and is seeing something else in her room as a ghost. The bent-neck lady follows her into adulthood, and Nell faces the additional issues of sleep paralysis. She meets with a sleep technologist, Arthur, and mistakenly assumes he’s ask

  There have been instances in comedy movies wherein twins have a special bond with each other that extends to them feeling each other’s pain. That makes for plenty of comedic sequences where one would hit his head, only for the other to also feel that. Or perhaps in an action scene where one will be captured and the other has to fend off the villain by using twin reflexes. But in a horror sequence, the twin “thing” takes a whole other meaning. By now we know that Nell is dead, so what happens to Luke? Did he feel it? He must have, right? Luke has suffered his own trauma in childhood. He befriended a girl called Abigail but since no one else has seen her, they assume she’s imaginary. His mother Olivia has found a box of old clothes and things in the attic and Luke immediately takes a liking to a bowler hat. Adult Luke is battling an addiction problem and is in rehab. He is 90 days clean and intends to stay on the road to recovery especially after he was turned away from Nell’s

  Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and felt like someone has touched you? Sometimes, it’s just a twitch, a spasm, your body experiencing a sudden jolt when it hasn’t been able to slip into sleep. Other times, it is actually from the other side touching you. We see Theo sleeping on her bed, clasping someone’s hand. She thinks it’s her little sister Nell who was awakened by a nightmare and now needs comfort. Then suddenly she feels something is off and opens her eyes, and turns. It isn’t her sister. There’s no one on her bed apart from her. After that incident, Theo develops a strange ability to feel and see things before they happen. Adult Theo is a child psychiatrist and trying to figure out her patient’s mystery monster MR Smiley. She wears gloves at all times, even when she’s being flirtatious and intimate with a girl she meets at a bar. It is obvious Theo has intimacy issues. She lives in Shirley’s guest house and like her other siblings, is too, guilty of not

  The most difficult thing to do is to say goodbye, especially when it is a loved one. When we meet Shirley, she seems like the logical, sensible girl who cares a little too much. When the family finds a box of kittens in a hut near the mansion, she insists on adopting them. The parents are in two minds about taking in sickly kittens but lets her keep them because she promises to take care of them. Giving a pet to a kid can be tricky. They are delightful companions, sure. Unfortunately, animals do not live as long as humans. Now try explaining the concepts of life and death to a kid... Shirley takes good care of the kittens and makes sure they sleep in her room and are given milk every day. Adult Shirley owns a mortuary. She takes care of all funeral arrangements, including embalming corpses and getting them ready for open caskets. She is haunted by a man who keeps raising a glass at her but we don’t find out who he is until the last episode. Shirley is kind and emphatic to all

  We all have stories about the houses we’ve lived in since childhood. Something or the other has usually happened, whether it is a happy occasion or a sad one. Or it is about a window at an odd place in the house. Maybe a balcony that was too narrow. Or an apartment without a balcony and the hassles faced with putting out clothes to dry. Perhaps one of the houses you lived in had a plumbing issue, an unexplained crack in the wall, a rat that lived in the last place you thought to look. Something has always happened in a house that you’ve lived in, and that is why houses become parts of your soul. This also why some people believe that your good or angry vibes are left behind with the house when you move. Sure is fodder for tons of horror stories. The Haunting Of Hill House is an exceptional story that does focus on the house; it is the haunting of Hill House after all. But it is more about the impact the haunting had on five kids and how it paved the road for the choices they made as

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PLOT SUMMARY: Following an incident where Cole learned that his babysitter was a cultist, he tries to move on and survive high school. But the past has a way of creeping up on him.  As kids, who among us haven’t played with the neighborhood kids? At some point, even with the lack of communication we must have at least watched the neighborhood kids grow up and feel like you almost know everything about them. And then comes a day when everything you thought you knew about someone, turns out to be completely wrong. We never really know our neighbors, do we?