The Rest is Confetti

Mike Flanagan on The Haunting of Hill House

Nellie’s final speech to her siblings in The Haunting of Hill House has stuck with me since the moment I first watched her give it.

“I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That’s all… The rest is confetti.”

After my most recent rewatch of this masterpiece, I stumbled upon a story that Mike Flanagan told on Tumblr back in 2022 regarding those f…