We've been on this journey for 10 hours a few minutes of hope was important to me." I think it's mean and unfair.' Once that gear had kicked in, I wanted to lean as far in that direction as possible. I came into work and said, 'I don't want to put the window up. I'd come to love the characters so much that I wanted them to be happy. The night before it came time to shoot it, I sat up in bed, and I felt guilty about it. Maybe they never really got out of that room. "We toyed with the idea for a little while that over that monologue, over the image of the family together, we would put the Red Room window in the background," Flanagan said. He said his original idea for the ending would have implied that the family never leaves, but that he changed it because it felt too "cruel." Flanagan told The Hollywood Reporter that he initially had a very different ending in mind. The season ends on a bittersweet note, with the characters coming out of the experience with a renewed sense of hope. The final episode of "The Haunting of Hill House" is different from the previous ones, in that it doesn't ultimately aim to scare. “We’re inspired by Baobab’s bold creative vision that redefines, deepens and expands storytelling about witches in a way that is transformative and entertaining and filled with humor and heart,” Ayo Davis, president, Disney Branded Television, said in a statement.A different ending had the family never leaving the house. Baba Yaga will serve as a starting point for episode one of the new series.”
The immersive experience features 2D pop-up animation, as well as hand-drawn and stop-motion styles and explores themes of empowerment and environmentalism. “The Baba Yaga VR experience and animated short is a contemporary portrayal of Baba Yaga, one of the most popular characters in Eastern European/Slavic folklore, an enigmatic witch who uses her powers to stop villagers whose settlement encroaches upon her enchanted forest.
Each witch-i-sode will comically explore and upend common misconceptions surrounding global witch mythology and lore from a mélange of cultures and perspectives around the world.
In the works for Disney+, Disney Television Animation is developing an animated anthology series titled “ The Witchverse,” with Deadline reporting today that the project is “based on Baobab’s Emmy-winning VR experience and animated short film Baba Yaga.”ĭeadline further details, “ The Witchverse is described as a global celebration of the international cultural phenomena of witches, their magic and their universal connection to nature. Which ending do you prefer? Happy or horrifying? “ In the version we ended up going with, I think it absolutely is real. But there was a lot of talk that this peace might not be real. “ One thing I can say is that we talked for a very, very long time about putting the Red Room window, that weird vertical window, in the background of this shot,” Flanagan told the site. Well, Flanagan explains to Thrillist, he toyed with the idea of adding that very same window to the background of the aforementioned shot wherein the family is celebrating Luke’s sobriety, which would’ve suggested that the family never truly did escape the house. The one thing that links each of those rooms together is a rectangular window on the far wall, a little visual cue from Flanagan that slyly hinted that the locations weren’t quite real, as the members of the Crain family thought, but rather a delusion. For Luke, a tree house lies beyond the red door, while it serves as a personal dance studio for Theodora. The titular Hill House is home to a special room locked behind a red door that serves as something of a sanctuary for each of the family members, taking on different forms for each of them. It’s a happy moment, but Mike Flanagan almost made the moment anything but with a slight-but-massive twist. In one final shot, the family is celebrating the 2 year anniversary of Luke’s sobriety, suggesting that he has finally overcome his demons in the way his sister wasn’t able to. Obviously, don’t read this article if you haven’t yet finished the series.įor a show that deals in death and horror, Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” has a decidedly hopeful ending, with the surviving Crain children being released from the prison that is Hill House and carrying on with their lives… presumably happier than ever before.