Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House" has become an absolute hit. Recently in an interview, the series' director Mike Flanagan admitted that he changed it's ending, because the original one would have been to cruel for audiences to endure. He explained, "We toy with the idea... [that] they never really got out of that room. The night before it came time to shoot it, I sat up in bed, and I felt guilty about it. I felt like it was cruel...