10 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching The Haunting Of Hill House

10. Shifting Rooms In The Opening Credits

The opening credits of The Haunting of Hill House features a maze of shifting rooms. The immediate significance of this appears to be how it represents the complexity of the Crain family’s past. Their lives and memories within Hill House were so muddled and confused.

What if we take a more literal look at the shifting rooms featured in this opening sequence? After the revelation of the red room’s mercurial properties, those re-watching Hill House may realize that the show’s opening credits were foreshadowing this since the beginning. The shifting rooms we see in the opening credits hint at how the red room appears to be several different rooms to the Crains. The interlocking and rearranging hallways presented to us at the end of each episode's title sequence alludes this true nature of the red room.

Hiding a clue in the opening credits is nothing new, but one that pertains the biggest twist of the series? That’s bold.