Mike Flanagan’s supernatural horror collection “The Haunting of Hill Home” arrived on Netflix in 2018 to widespread acclaim. The story, primarily based not directly on Shirley Jackson’s traditional novel, largely concentrates on the exploits of the Crain household throughout two completely different timelines. The primary showcases the household’s paranormal experiences in Hill Home after transferring into the constructing, whereas the second offers with the trauma and lasting results a long time later after they fled the house.
All through her time in Hill Home, Nell (Victoria Pedretti and Violet McGraw) is haunted by a spectre known as the Bent-Neck Woman. This ghostly determine seems a number of occasions to her as a toddler and grownup. Midway via the primary season, Nell goes again to Hill Home to attempt to confront her previous, in a final effort to rid herself of the Bent-Neck Woman. Whereas there, she experiences a imaginative and prescient of her household and useless mom, earlier than accepting a necklace that’s later revealed to be a noose.
As she falls to her demise, Nell experiences each earlier time that she noticed the Bent-Neck Woman, solely this time from the angle of the spectre — realizing concurrently the viewer that she has been haunting herself the entire time as a warning of her final destiny.