Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House' director explains how he kept the show's biggest mystery hidden

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November 1, 2018 9:07 PM

Mike Flanagan, the director of Netflix's "Haunting of Hill House," revealed how he kept the secret of the Red Room hidden from the audience.

Warning: Spoilers for "The Haunting of Hill House."

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There are plenty of mysteries in Netflix's hit new horror series, "The Haunting of Hill House," but the biggest was hidden in plain sight the entire time.

That means that director Mike Flanagan had to go to great lengths to keep the secret of the "Red Room" hidden from the audience. Throughout the first season, the characters are unable to open a red door when living in the haunted Hill house as children. When they return to the house as adults, they finally discover that they had each actually been in the room countless times, and it acted as their own personal spaces that nobody else could unlock.

Flanagan told The Wrap that to conceal what the Red Room was from viewers, the set was "constantly refined."

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