10 Biggest WTF Moments In Recent Horror TV Shows
8. The Red Room - The Haunting Of Hill House
The most bewildering revelation and WTF moment from Netflix's paranormal extravaganza The Haunting of Hill House occurs in what is revealed to be the stomach of the insidious structure.
The surprise turn of events is that the so-called Red Room of Hill House, supposedly locked for years, has been open the entire time and malevolently feeding on the family. The room is able to morph to suit whatever form will keep a member of the Crain family inside the longest, as that gives the house longer to feast like a sinister parasite upon them.
The Red Room takes many alluring forms for the Crains; appearing as the perfect family space for Shirley, a dance studio for Theo and Luke's childhood treehouse amongst others, all of which play on the character's loves and are perfectly designed to snare them for more time. The true nature of the mysterious Room is a shocking twist that is almost impossible to see coming, leaving viewers in a state of awe-struck shell shock.
As the Crain siblings find themselves trapped in the belly of Hill House in the season's climactic episode, the WTF factor is finally underlined in bold as the true, nightmarish appearance of the Room is revealed; a dimly lit, decaying space with a tiny window and hideous dark mould crawling up the walls. It's a frightful sequence, made even more disturbing by the fact that the siblings initially appear to be locked in to face their doom by none other than the ghost of their own mother.
A thrilling finale that resulted in more than a few profanity-laced questions surrounding what had just unfolded.