She embodies anger, the second stage of grief, while Steven portrays the first, denial. Shirley now owns a funeral home and has a family with two kids.
Shirley refuses to take his money calling it ‘blood money’, but her husband does, behind her back, and so do the rest of the siblings. Growing up with lies and secrets couldn’t have been easy. Adding to this is the fact the siblings and especially their mother doesn’t come out looking very good, so we can expect a little family drama alright! But can you blame them? No one, the kids included, knew what happened at Hill House, especially the last night. Steven is a celebrated author of the Haunting of Hill House, which he based on the family’s experience at Hill House, except he doesn’t believe in ghosts. The house had successfully claimed one life, but things aren’t over yet. Olivia in a daze, distraught, and disoriented falls down the stairs with a little help from Poppy Hill and ends up dead, forever stuck in the house. He gets the kids out of the houses and drives away. He grabs the twins and races out of there pushing Olivia in the process causing her to hit her head. He arrives just as she is serving tea, but he is too late to save Abigail. But fortunately, Shirley wakes up her father and Hugh, realising what was going on, races to the Red Room, which was previously closed and refused to open despite the family’s efforts. (Yes, Abigail’s real and the daughter of the house’s caretakers). But Olivia is terrified for her children’s welfare and convinced that they would be safer if they all died and were inside Hill House, so she goes back to the house at night and mixes rat poison in tea and invites the twins along with Abigail for a surprise tea party. And follows her well into her adult life.Īs Olivia becomes increasingly disturbed, Hugh and Olivia decide that she should spend a few days with her sister. She is haunted by the ‘bent neck lady’ who ends up terrifying her at every turn. Nellie, the youngest of the five children, and Luke’s twin is one of the most affected. Luke is haunted by a tall man in a hat (he’s also batshit crazy but kind of perfect for Poppy Hill if you think about it) and also a girl in the woods named Abigail, although he’s friends with her and she isn’t exactly dead at least not then.
But as a kid, she ends up seeing her mother bloodied and rotting and screams for her to getaway. She can sense things just by touching them, which she puts to good use later on in life. She is ‘sensitive’, but not in the traditional sense. You get the picture, it was bad, we’ll just stop here. Oh and also, when she’s about to bury it, it starts moving except a bug crawls out of its mouth, freaking Shirley out. It ends up having very creepy rolled-back eyes. They all end up dying on her watch, except for one…good news? Not really. Shirley, the second child, takes pictures of everything around, trying to capture the good moments, but as fate would have it, she comes across some very sick kittens and ends up taking care of them.
He also tries to cheer up his mother, who had been acting a little ‘scattered’ lately, by fixing up a dresser only to have his mother shatter the glass. Steven, being the eldest, takes up the role of taking care of the younger ones, which is a bit too much for him as he’s a kid himself. The children deal with their own set of messed up things as the house basically feeds on their fears. And the only way to wake up is to kill them!
She’s also driven mad with fear of the ‘outside world eating her children’ and ‘being stuck in a horrible, horrible dream’, thanks to one of the resident ghosts in the house, Poppy Hill. It affects Olivia Crain the most and she ends up having migraines, hallucinations, and visions. They are stuck there longer than expected and the family is subjected to the hauntings. The Crains arrive at Hill House hoping to fix it up and sell it, but things don’t go exactly as planned. The story follows Hugh and Olivia Crain and their five children as they move into the Hill House. The horror drama was created and directed by Mike Flanagan with it loosely based on the horror novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. So now is the time to brush up on the first season of Haunting of Hill House, even though the second season is a standalone, especially since it was pure perfection. With almost half the year gone, we’ll probably be hearing about this from Netflix pretty soon hopefully! The new season began production on September 30th 2019, and according to Mike Flanagan, wrapped on February 21st 2020. The Haunting of Bly Manor is the highly anticipated second season in the anthology series, The Haunting of Hill House.