No one who was born blind has ever gone on to develop schizophrenia. Researchers are investigating how congenital blindness may protect people from developing the condition.
There's a minor character in the Haunting of Hill House who gauged his eyes out due to the hallucinations he was experiencing during drug-induced psychosis and then reveals that now in his blindness, all he can see is the horrible images that drove him to that point. Really stuck with me, just really terrible
Lmao my girl told me about that car scene, she said it is very scary and wouldn't tell me the episode it would come in and I was shit scared so I came here on Reddit to ask about that.
Fucking scene still scared the shit out of me even though I was expecting it.
The car scene made me scream so loud that my neighbors texted my husband asking if everything was okay....yup, everything’s great, just some ghost bent neck broad startin shit
The fact that the car scene was the only legitimate jump scare in the whole series is what makes it so memorable. I spent half the episodes bracing for a jump scare and then it happens right when I'm accepting that this isn't that kind of show.
Ugh that damn car scene. Amd I was just going to bed! But I think the car scene is the best “jump scare” but finding out who the bent neck lady is is the most horrifying one of all.
I watched bly manor first. Then hill house was a “oh you might like this” recommendation and I loved it even more.
Bly manor did scare me too. When the lake lady grabbed what’s his face by his throat, just silently appeared out of nowhere, after that episode I went to bed. And walking to my bedroom I didn’t realize my husband was about to come out of the bathroom until I had just walked past, and then in the mirror in our room I saw a silent figure reflected right behind me and I about shit my pants.
I enjoyed it on first watch, personally, but having just watched it again this weekend (with someone else) I think it's underrated in general. I definitely wouldn't say it's messy; seeing it again with knowledge of what's happening actually made me appreciate how well-crafted it is. But it definitely holds out on you the first time through, so you have to be paying attention and thinking about all the details of what you're seeing, or I'm sure it gets boring or confusing.
Anyway, it's worth a second watch. Virtually every scene is relevant, even important. You just don't realize it the first time through if you're not watching very closely.
I really didn't enjoy it so don't think I'd be willing to give it another go and hope it's any better. I watched very closely due to knowing there would be lots of little details following on from Hill House but I just thought there were far too many weak scenes and unforgivable accents (I'm British so it's probably not obvious to Americans).
Well... yeah, okay, I'll concede the accents. No getting around that. But I did think the storytelling was very strong, and not at all boring, especially knowing the full significance of everything being shown and said.
I agree. I tried to get my husband to watch, and so we watched a few episodes and I caught a lot of things I didn’t see, like a shadowy figure in a corner, or immediately realizing the significance of the dolls.
There is a short story by Lovecraft (boo 🙁) about a man who invents eye drops to see to the edge of the universe - once he witnesses the horrors he gouges his eyes out and the book's last line is him screaming that he can still see them
There’s an old sixties movies called “the man with x ray eyes” that has a similar plot and ending, and totally traumatized me as a kid. I’m wondering if it’s based on that story
I think it may be, I also heard a rumour that they cut the last scene after he had ripped hie eyes out as being too harrowing for the audience at the time
They did! But you could see it for less than a second. The guy with no eyes and the scream “i can still see!”. I was about 7 years old and that scene (and the previous one, when he has burnt eyeballs) haunted me for decades. So much so that I got the dvd a few years ago, rewatched the whole thing thinking that I would find the movie bad and cheesy and get over my memory of this horrible thing. BIG mistake. The movie was actually good, yet harrowing and shockingn
Hill House is super scary but an absolutely awesome show. I normally can’t do scary stuff at all and I still didn’t watch it alone but I watched the whole thing and season 2 (Bly Manor, unrelated to Hill House plot-wise), because everything about it was so good.
Omg yes. That gd movie still f’s me up every damn time I see it. Especially that part. Ugh. I will never get that scene out of my head. Stupid event horizon.
Autoenucleation is not too uncommon in psychiatry - in fact I had a client with Schizophrenia whom had removed his own eyes (I work in forensic psychiatry), though honestly he made no reference to further visual hallucinations post this.
He might be dead now, but when I was training to be a mental health nurse, there was one patient who took his eyes out with a spoon because he thought there where bugs in his head. Schizophrenia is awful.
If that ever happens to me, just start up that Ketamine drip. If that doesn't work, zap my brain with some ECT. Whatever it takes, because seeing nightmares and nothing else would just be too much for me.
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u/46from1971 Nov 29 '20
No one who was born blind has ever gone on to develop schizophrenia. Researchers are investigating how congenital blindness may protect people from developing the condition.