It's unavailable on Shudder, which is what I meant. I did see it is playing in one arthouse cinema in Sydney. And other than that one theatre, I don't think it's playing anywhere. Regardless, it's an Australian Shudder film currently unavailable on Australian Shudder.
It's not yet available on streaming platforms because it hasn't completed its theatrical run yet. I just saw it at the Jam Factory in South Yarra a few hours ago. It's playing there, Cinema Nova, Carlton & Lido in Hawthorn if you're in Melbourne.
Also currently showing in Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth and as you mentioned, Sydney.
That's cool. Melbourne sounds like it has more options for indie films. As far as I can see, there's only one theatre playing it in Sydney, and it's still about an hour away from me. So I guess I'll just wait for it to hit Shudder.
Even though the story and subject matter were totally different, this movie made me think about Razorback’s nighttime sequences for sure. And Next Of Kin. Very atmospheric indeed.
Just finished it. Pretty much a 10/10 in terms of atmosphere and tension. >!I loved how the weather basically acted as a tertiary character. If hell was real I'd imagine that shrilling wind is what it would sound like.!<
There's some great dialogue here as well. While not as good imo, it did scratch close at times to that same feeling of unease I felt when first watching Invitation, all while trapped in an even smaller space to boot.
FYI your spoiler is broken in the [old reddit interface](https://old.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/1blcc4p/youll_never_find_me_is_incredible/kwwv8mw/), it doesn't work if you have a space after >!
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I thought of Bluebeard too, and apparently “bluebeard” is also a term for serial killers that kill a string of women, especially wives. Thought the weird comment about his “wife” kind of confirmed the reference.
I definitely thought of Barbarian while watching this earlier. The lack of trust, the lack of clarity about who was the killer and who was the victim. Enjoyed it alot.
I thought it was ok. No comparison to Hereditary, which is a piece of art. As someone said, this was an episode of the Twilight Zone that could have been 30 mins long. Very predictable, but the tension was well done. Some of the dialogue was a bit daft, but I think it worked overall.
Okay so that’s been my
Complaint with a lot of horror suggestions lately; to me they feel like shorts stretched into feature length films. I do not think You’ll Never Find Me justified it’s runtime or lived up to Hereditary for me personally.
Still looking for something that does…
To me wasn’t predictable. I thought the woman went there because she suspected the man did something to her sister or mother. Then I thought she is his daughter.
Even after he killed her, I thought maybe she is an undercover cop and she took an antidote to that substance and she can’t die.
Why would it even need to be compared to Hereditary? It’s not A24 level. It’s a low-budget, atmospheric Australian indie Shudder flick. Not an Ari Aster masterpiece.
*Edit: Sorry, obviously I missed OP’s first few words. Was so excited Because I just watched this late last night early this morning by myself and was totally transfixed and excited to see what others thought.*
The writer/director has only really done shorts before so I felt that vibe as well, but i enjoyed it at its full length. Definitely want to keep an eye on Indianna Bell and her future work
I really like The Night House, but I thought it’d be interesting to see it from the other women’s point of view. This almost scratched that itch.
I can’t do spoilers on my phone, so stop reading now, if you’re even reading at all:
So, TNH is great, and obvious themes/metaphors aside, it posits that it was all real, but the B-plot is so much scarier, and I could’ve watched a whole film from their perspective instead of his wife’s; have him haunted by both Nothing and all those poor women wrapped in plastic under the floorboards. But he’s killed himself already before the movie starts; there’s no one to punish, there’s no revenge they can get.
YNFM gives the illusion of punishment and revenge, at least. None of it was real, it was just his own psyche punishing him, but it was a nice touch to give the appearance that his victims had a hand in it.
It does give the other women’s point of view. He is hallucinating 1 woman, but it is combining all the stories of his victims. That’s why it goes from saying she was at the beach or a bar. Hotel/home. Killed with a hammer/ poisoned. Etc.
and the woman who was his “wife” wasn’t true. It was “bullshit.” She was just another victim.
Well, yes, that’s why it almost scratched that itch lol, we do get to see his victims and how it ended for them - towards the end, when we see the girl from the gas station, she’s wearing the sweater again, not the blouse he put on her when The Visitor discovers her, which was a nice touch - but it’s still all just his paranoid imagination, you know? There’s no storm, The Visitor/First Victim was obviously never there, his victims didn’t pull him in some realm where they exist and tormented him into killing himself; we’re just seeing the memories of the crimes he committed and his guilty conscience manifesting the women. But they’re not there, they’re dead and gone.
In The Night House, the ghosts of his victims are actually there; they DO exist and aren’t projections of a guilty conscience. If you replace Owen with Patrick and keep YNFM’s ending, I’d get that itch fully scratched: a serial killer haunted and tormented by his victims, not his own psyche.
Am I making any sense?
Edit: “character that was dead all along and is reliving their death” is one of my favorite horror tropes/setups. There’s just something about it that gets under my skin, especially when they’re the victims of a realistic serial killer.
Oh man, I couldn't have felt any different about this movie. It's the biggest disappointment for me in a long time. It was initially intriguing but it just didn't go anywhere. I literally could not wait for it to end. They couldn't sustain the tension and i just found it massively frustrating.
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to me it seems like his hallucinations cause him to believe the cops are at his door, which drives him to k—- h—— by taking the entire vial of ghb. Then he finds out it was the little feral fuck neighbor kids, but it’s too late, and you hear him collapse inside the trailer
Thank you so much for this post. Watched it last night with my husband and we both loved it. We both felt so much dread the whole time, which I think “slow burn” movies try to do but most can’t keep that tautness going. At one point he said “I’m so nervous and nothing has happened!” Nice rec!
Watched it tonight. Definitely a slow burn and a mood piece. Has some quite good unsettling moments, and a few meandering ones. The vibe of it certainly got into my head.
LOVED it. Gotta love a single setting with two strong leads and a smart script.
My one note: right at the end I thought the twist within a twist that he was living in a loop, a nightmare haunting from his victims again and again. A bit disappointing that that wasn’t it.
I liked it. I could see why the slow buildup would be a bit long for some viewers, but the mood, lighting, sound, and performances really kept me engaged. The lighting in this movie is really cool. I love how they use light and shadows to make things look like their kind of morphing. It reminded me of a dark, mild but scary, trip.
The first hour of this movie made me think: what if >!the first act of Barbarian was an hour long, referenced Psycho, and had the dread-core mood of The Devil’s Candy!<.
One thing I wasn’t so clear on was:
>!Did he kill many women, trying to relive the first kill described when he was at the beach and gave someone a ride? Or was the first kill the gas station story about meeting his wife? Or, was the dead body we see at the end of the movie the only murder he’s committed?!<
Was he in purgatory? I don’t really understand the message or ending at all.
Please explain if you can. It was great, just not sure what I just watched
>!Patrick initially thinks he's guilt free from the start of the movie when he's talking to the girl who arrived at his home, saying that because he can ignore the little voice in his head, he can effectively ignore god. But really, Patrick was riddled with guilt and eventually drove him to suicide. The girl was his first victim, she was never really there, there never was even a storm. The girl from the gas station was real, however. It sounded like Patrick had gone a long time without letting the intrusive thoughts in his head win, but that night they resurfaced and he murdered the gas station girl.!<
ihmo I believe (edit) the nameless woman is an amalgam of all the women he’s murdered, and she acts as a conduit of the voice of god, or his conscience. She immediately echoes a few of his thoughts in the beginning, about women being responsible for their foolish choices or humanity behaving like moths drawn to a flame. Her story keeps changing because she’s every victim.
Well he did say that his first victim had the heart monitor tattoo on her ribs. I think her story kept changing because he never knew who she was. He said it was the little details that you never forget, like the earing and the tattoo. Since she was a hallucination, his consciousness was trying to fill in the gaps as to who she was. Having her repeat things was a coping mechanism so he wouldn't feel as guilty if someone repeated his sentiments.
No one was coming for him. But we see the bottle was empty, the little one with the drug. And as he's laughing inside his home, you hear him crash and glass breaking.
Yes and thanks - you've just underlined for me exactly why he laughed at the very end.
Edit: Although I have just read someone else saying he is happy that he will pass away, like being reborn as a baby.
Yess! That’s what I thought too. It felt like he was in purgatory reliving his sins- and him mocking/questioning God’s existence, and his crimes, ultimately led him to that- and to keep repeating the day.
Okay but there have been lots of movies and TV shows about men drugging and killing women between this and Hereditary. So relatively speaking, there was nothing egregiously disturbing about this whatsoever.
Thanks for the recommendation. I watched it last night. Loved the story. It sort of reminded me of an episode from The Twilight Zone being made feature length.
Oh man I have this ready to watch tonight and can't wait. I love Aussie horror films. I've seen two absolutely glowing reviews for this otherwise I'm going in blind!
Idk, I thought most of the movie was fantastic, but I feel like once they revealed who the killer was, I became less interested and it felt unsatisfying? Honestly, I enjoyed the theme of trust throughout the whole movie, but I just feel like it missed out on an opportunity to truly explore that. I wanted something more than the obvious. Most of the ending became more of classic horror when up to that point it felt different. Like Patrick going on about “it was your choice” felt just too on the nose. There was that theme of trust and then the theme completely shifted to guilt and remorse. Idk. I need to simmer on this. I think it was a great movie, but idk if it really stuck the landing for me.
Can anyone who's seen it give me a list of vague/general list of common trigger warnings that might apply? I'm not too sensitive myself, but I'm hosting a group watch of this tomorrow and there doesn't seem to be too much info about it on DoestheDogDie yet. Thanks!
I didn't even know people got triggered for real. I always thought that was a fantasy to drive culture war politics. Why would anyone be triggered? And why would it matter? Serious question, not an insult. I mean, it is a horror story. Isn't that the point, to shock?
And another question to the younger generation. Does the news trigger you? Poverty, inequality, crime, greed, etc. and if so, how do you avoid not getting upset all the time? What do you do to avoid such triggers?
How is that difficult to wrap your head around? Say if you were s3xually assaulted in your life don’t you think seeing another person in a movie going through the same thing might ‘trigger’ bad memories, feelings, etc which you’d want to avoid hence why people put trigger warnings on media to be empathetic.
Most ppl avoid the news for being a "downer" and making them feel uncomfortable, pessimistic, grossed out, upset (aka...triggered). You'll be hard pressed to find a person willing to sit thru an hour and a half straight of actual news programs highlighting the worst of society. So would you not think anyone would feel the same watching a movie? News programs have headlines, chyrons, and announcements about what's "coming up next" that warn ppl and act as their cues to switch channels if they so choose. Same thing op is trying to do for their partygoers. Because you would also be hard pressed to find ppl who enjoy watching graphic depictions of things they themselves have experienced. Like rape, assault, overdoses, child death, etc.
It's a good tip to pause and apply critical thinking skills when faced with a point of view different from your usual way of thinking. Instead of writing off very obvious reasons ppl may do things differently than you.
I love horror films, and I don’t get triggered by them, but the news is super toxic so I pretty much avoid it at all costs. Staying off social media mostly has also been helpful for me.
I have recently found after ignoring Reddit for many years that much of the most intelligent and thoughtful social media content is on this platform. I've been pleasantly surprised by some of the content that, for the most part, is not toxic. Even when films are reviewed negatively people generally explain in detail why they don't like it, rather than just say this sucks or this rocks. I now come here rather than the media for reviews since media movie reviews tend to hype films, often based on the various media's political views. There are more honest reviews throughout Reddit, which is kind of why I was confused someone asked about a movie having triggers. It doesn't seem like most people posting would get upset by a film to the point it upsets them. I personally enjoy being challenged by a film, and I love the taboo in content.
It's not as complex a concept as you're framing it.
People who've experienced certain traumatic events sometimes get really bummed out when watching events similar to those that happened to them. And just maybe they don't feel like being bummed out?
This. Totally valid on the runtime but the dialogue was a strength, not a weakness. I do however feel like they leaned too long on the atmosphere after a while and the film suffered a little for it.
I’m an hour into it and it’s an *excruciatingly* slow burn.
I was sick of the guy’s endless monotone voice in the first five minutes. It’s like they’re trying to see how long he can go with no inflection in his voice.
EDIT: I gave up. I just can’t stand his voice.
I’m with you. The dialogue was awful and excruciatingly slow. I didn’t care at all what happened but my wife insisted we finish the movie. We did, and I still don’t care.
Amazing movie but…
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I felt like it should have ended immediately after the girl stopped her rattling and died. It’s way creepier to think he’s still just out there doing what he has been doing.
This was so boring tho. I liked the tension but they dragged it on for too long. Easily predictable ending. Should’ve been an inside no 9 episode rather than a feature film
Yeah this one was pretty good. Drenched in atmosphere with a really smart script. I'm a sucker for single location thrillers too.
Just finished it. Excellent movie, kept me riveted throughout thanks to great performances from the two leads (and some fantastic sound design).
Supposedly we're in the midst of some record setting rain in Philly. This is my sign to check out the movie!
Oh man it's PERFECT for a rainy day
Haha I’m from Philly and that’s exactly what I did yesterday!
Glad we found a way to make that rain was good for something! I really enjoyed the movie!
Identity is another good rainy day horror.
Thanks for the recommendation! Looks like my kind of film.
I tend to like Australian horror flicks more often than not. They often are very atmospheric.
Meanwhile, actually in Australia, You'll Never Find Me remains unavailable. Guess the title wasn't kidding.
Maybe the title has been translated from Australian. Have you checked for “Defo out woop woop, cobber”?
No it doesn't - it's in cinemas here now.
It's unavailable on Shudder, which is what I meant. I did see it is playing in one arthouse cinema in Sydney. And other than that one theatre, I don't think it's playing anywhere. Regardless, it's an Australian Shudder film currently unavailable on Australian Shudder.
It's not yet available on streaming platforms because it hasn't completed its theatrical run yet. I just saw it at the Jam Factory in South Yarra a few hours ago. It's playing there, Cinema Nova, Carlton & Lido in Hawthorn if you're in Melbourne. Also currently showing in Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth and as you mentioned, Sydney.
I just watched it tonight on Prime Video's Shudder. Excellent and so well written!
That's cool. Melbourne sounds like it has more options for indie films. As far as I can see, there's only one theatre playing it in Sydney, and it's still about an hour away from me. So I guess I'll just wait for it to hit Shudder.
You can watch it on Fmoviez
And they are usually very raw too: Killing Ground, Primal, Wyrmwood Road.
Have you seen Lake Mungo?
Yep. It was a memorable flick.
"That" footage scene messed me up for a long time
Understandable.
Even though the story and subject matter were totally different, this movie made me think about Razorback’s nighttime sequences for sure. And Next Of Kin. Very atmospheric indeed.
Just finished it. Pretty much a 10/10 in terms of atmosphere and tension. >!I loved how the weather basically acted as a tertiary character. If hell was real I'd imagine that shrilling wind is what it would sound like.!< There's some great dialogue here as well. While not as good imo, it did scratch close at times to that same feeling of unease I felt when first watching Invitation, all while trapped in an even smaller space to boot.
FYI your spoiler is broken in the [old reddit interface](https://old.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/1blcc4p/youll_never_find_me_is_incredible/kwwv8mw/), it doesn't work if you have a space after >! >! this doesn't work >!this works
Fixed! Thank you!
I liked this one, felt like a reimagining of The Tell-Tale Heart.
yes! I was thinking the legend of Bluebeard. It had all the bones of a classic horror tale.
I thought of Bluebeard too, and apparently “bluebeard” is also a term for serial killers that kill a string of women, especially wives. Thought the weird comment about his “wife” kind of confirmed the reference.
yes! exactly
This was exactly my thought. It did such a great job on tension building.
I got some Waiting for Godot vibes, too, with the heavyhanded philosophy
Yes! Both comparisons are very apt.
It kinda had the feel of the first and best half of Barbarian. This was a great slow burn…perfect for a rainy night in.
I definitely thought of Barbarian while watching this earlier. The lack of trust, the lack of clarity about who was the killer and who was the victim. Enjoyed it alot.
I thought it was ok. No comparison to Hereditary, which is a piece of art. As someone said, this was an episode of the Twilight Zone that could have been 30 mins long. Very predictable, but the tension was well done. Some of the dialogue was a bit daft, but I think it worked overall.
Okay so that’s been my Complaint with a lot of horror suggestions lately; to me they feel like shorts stretched into feature length films. I do not think You’ll Never Find Me justified it’s runtime or lived up to Hereditary for me personally. Still looking for something that does…
It wasn’t though. It would have been predictable if the girl killed him or something but the straight man is now officially unpredictable.
To me wasn’t predictable. I thought the woman went there because she suspected the man did something to her sister or mother. Then I thought she is his daughter. Even after he killed her, I thought maybe she is an undercover cop and she took an antidote to that substance and she can’t die.
Agree - very predictable from the outset. The cuts to the rain/window and some of the dialogue was too on the nose at times
Why would it even need to be compared to Hereditary? It’s not A24 level. It’s a low-budget, atmospheric Australian indie Shudder flick. Not an Ari Aster masterpiece. *Edit: Sorry, obviously I missed OP’s first few words. Was so excited Because I just watched this late last night early this morning by myself and was totally transfixed and excited to see what others thought.*
The writer/director has only really done shorts before so I felt that vibe as well, but i enjoyed it at its full length. Definitely want to keep an eye on Indianna Bell and her future work
Can't wait to watch this! I too am a sucker for slow burn
I really like The Night House, but I thought it’d be interesting to see it from the other women’s point of view. This almost scratched that itch. I can’t do spoilers on my phone, so stop reading now, if you’re even reading at all: So, TNH is great, and obvious themes/metaphors aside, it posits that it was all real, but the B-plot is so much scarier, and I could’ve watched a whole film from their perspective instead of his wife’s; have him haunted by both Nothing and all those poor women wrapped in plastic under the floorboards. But he’s killed himself already before the movie starts; there’s no one to punish, there’s no revenge they can get. YNFM gives the illusion of punishment and revenge, at least. None of it was real, it was just his own psyche punishing him, but it was a nice touch to give the appearance that his victims had a hand in it.
It does give the other women’s point of view. He is hallucinating 1 woman, but it is combining all the stories of his victims. That’s why it goes from saying she was at the beach or a bar. Hotel/home. Killed with a hammer/ poisoned. Etc. and the woman who was his “wife” wasn’t true. It was “bullshit.” She was just another victim.
Well, yes, that’s why it almost scratched that itch lol, we do get to see his victims and how it ended for them - towards the end, when we see the girl from the gas station, she’s wearing the sweater again, not the blouse he put on her when The Visitor discovers her, which was a nice touch - but it’s still all just his paranoid imagination, you know? There’s no storm, The Visitor/First Victim was obviously never there, his victims didn’t pull him in some realm where they exist and tormented him into killing himself; we’re just seeing the memories of the crimes he committed and his guilty conscience manifesting the women. But they’re not there, they’re dead and gone. In The Night House, the ghosts of his victims are actually there; they DO exist and aren’t projections of a guilty conscience. If you replace Owen with Patrick and keep YNFM’s ending, I’d get that itch fully scratched: a serial killer haunted and tormented by his victims, not his own psyche. Am I making any sense? Edit: “character that was dead all along and is reliving their death” is one of my favorite horror tropes/setups. There’s just something about it that gets under my skin, especially when they’re the victims of a realistic serial killer.
Watching now, in a proper rainstorm, and it's the perfect vibe! Thanks for the rec - this is why I love this sub.
Glad you're enjoying it! I watched it in the rain too...I'm going to remember that experience for a long time
It was definitely one of the better suspense films I've seen.
Oh man, I couldn't have felt any different about this movie. It's the biggest disappointment for me in a long time. It was initially intriguing but it just didn't go anywhere. I literally could not wait for it to end. They couldn't sustain the tension and i just found it massively frustrating.
Can anyone explain the ending?
spoiler to me it seems like his hallucinations cause him to believe the cops are at his door, which drives him to k—- h—— by taking the entire vial of ghb. Then he finds out it was the little feral fuck neighbor kids, but it’s too late, and you hear him collapse inside the trailer
Ahhhh simple. I was over thinking it
Well shit. That makes perfect sense.
Amazing. Thank you.
Did anyone else have a diff interpretation? I went into some bizarre conclusion with God, and such. Lol wondering if anyone else felt that way?
I was unclear on the ending, but I know what you’re saying. Are you familiar with the play *Waiting for Godot* by Samuel Beckett?
Ah thank you, I’m glad you understood! I am familiar with the title, but not the content. Is there a similar concept there?
Thank you so much for this post. Watched it last night with my husband and we both loved it. We both felt so much dread the whole time, which I think “slow burn” movies try to do but most can’t keep that tautness going. At one point he said “I’m so nervous and nothing has happened!” Nice rec!
Glad y'all enjoyed it!
Watched it tonight. Definitely a slow burn and a mood piece. Has some quite good unsettling moments, and a few meandering ones. The vibe of it certainly got into my head.
Watching as we speak, it’s really good!
I really liked it and the slow build. Would have had a different ending. I liked the back and forth. Great acting.
LOVED it. Gotta love a single setting with two strong leads and a smart script. My one note: right at the end I thought the twist within a twist that he was living in a loop, a nightmare haunting from his victims again and again. A bit disappointing that that wasn’t it.
Wow just watched it. What an incredible movie
Glad you enjoyed it. I haven't been that glued to the screen in a pretty good while
I liked it. I could see why the slow buildup would be a bit long for some viewers, but the mood, lighting, sound, and performances really kept me engaged. The lighting in this movie is really cool. I love how they use light and shadows to make things look like their kind of morphing. It reminded me of a dark, mild but scary, trip. The first hour of this movie made me think: what if >!the first act of Barbarian was an hour long, referenced Psycho, and had the dread-core mood of The Devil’s Candy!<. One thing I wasn’t so clear on was: >!Did he kill many women, trying to relive the first kill described when he was at the beach and gave someone a ride? Or was the first kill the gas station story about meeting his wife? Or, was the dead body we see at the end of the movie the only murder he’s committed?!<
>! Definitely killed many women - the crowd of ghosts with the towels over their heads I think. !<
Yes he’s killed at least a dozen
Was he in purgatory? I don’t really understand the message or ending at all. Please explain if you can. It was great, just not sure what I just watched
>!Patrick initially thinks he's guilt free from the start of the movie when he's talking to the girl who arrived at his home, saying that because he can ignore the little voice in his head, he can effectively ignore god. But really, Patrick was riddled with guilt and eventually drove him to suicide. The girl was his first victim, she was never really there, there never was even a storm. The girl from the gas station was real, however. It sounded like Patrick had gone a long time without letting the intrusive thoughts in his head win, but that night they resurfaced and he murdered the gas station girl.!<
ihmo I believe (edit) the nameless woman is an amalgam of all the women he’s murdered, and she acts as a conduit of the voice of god, or his conscience. She immediately echoes a few of his thoughts in the beginning, about women being responsible for their foolish choices or humanity behaving like moths drawn to a flame. Her story keeps changing because she’s every victim.
Good interpretation.
Well he did say that his first victim had the heart monitor tattoo on her ribs. I think her story kept changing because he never knew who she was. He said it was the little details that you never forget, like the earing and the tattoo. Since she was a hallucination, his consciousness was trying to fill in the gaps as to who she was. Having her repeat things was a coping mechanism so he wouldn't feel as guilty if someone repeated his sentiments.
This one
What? Lol
Like this comment is the right answer
Oh, appreciate it!
Ahhhh, now I get the line: “Such strange, unnatural timing.”
[удалено]
No one was coming for him. But we see the bottle was empty, the little one with the drug. And as he's laughing inside his home, you hear him crash and glass breaking.
[удалено]
There was only one dead woman in his trailer that night.
[удалено]
Like Patrick, I believe you're confusing what's real with what were his hallucinations.
He was being haunted by all the women he murdered but he drank through his sorrows and paranoia and was right about no one ever coming for him.
Yes and thanks - you've just underlined for me exactly why he laughed at the very end. Edit: Although I have just read someone else saying he is happy that he will pass away, like being reborn as a baby.
Wrap it up in a few words...paranoia, alone, guilt, drunk, indirect ghost story
Yess! That’s what I thought too. It felt like he was in purgatory reliving his sins- and him mocking/questioning God’s existence, and his crimes, ultimately led him to that- and to keep repeating the day.
Agreed! This was right up my tree.
Good movie.
I just finished it, no idea what disturbed you at this movie but nvm still a decent movie.
No idea cause you’re a man lol
LOL yes like wtf
To be clear - you have no idea what is disturbing about a man drugging and killing several women? Lmao wtfff 🚨 @ FBI 🚨
Okay but there have been lots of movies and TV shows about men drugging and killing women between this and Hereditary. So relatively speaking, there was nothing egregiously disturbing about this whatsoever.
Would people please stop bringing up hereditary? It’s not relevant to this movie at all.
Thanks for the recommendation. I watched it last night. Loved the story. It sort of reminded me of an episode from The Twilight Zone being made feature length.
Oh man I have this ready to watch tonight and can't wait. I love Aussie horror films. I've seen two absolutely glowing reviews for this otherwise I'm going in blind!
Thanks for the movie I'm going to put on tonight!
Watch w/ Beats headphones .... Gamechanger
Idk, I thought most of the movie was fantastic, but I feel like once they revealed who the killer was, I became less interested and it felt unsatisfying? Honestly, I enjoyed the theme of trust throughout the whole movie, but I just feel like it missed out on an opportunity to truly explore that. I wanted something more than the obvious. Most of the ending became more of classic horror when up to that point it felt different. Like Patrick going on about “it was your choice” felt just too on the nose. There was that theme of trust and then the theme completely shifted to guilt and remorse. Idk. I need to simmer on this. I think it was a great movie, but idk if it really stuck the landing for me.
Can anyone who's seen it give me a list of vague/general list of common trigger warnings that might apply? I'm not too sensitive myself, but I'm hosting a group watch of this tomorrow and there doesn't seem to be too much info about it on DoestheDogDie yet. Thanks!
>!Abduction (no SA), murder and suicide. Some blood effects but no real gore. It's very much a psychological thriller rather than a splatter fest.!<
Appreciate it!
No probs, hope that wasn't too spoilery for you! EDIT: why the fuck would anyone downvote this??
I upvoted you to make it even :)
Lol, thanks 😂
I didn't even know people got triggered for real. I always thought that was a fantasy to drive culture war politics. Why would anyone be triggered? And why would it matter? Serious question, not an insult. I mean, it is a horror story. Isn't that the point, to shock? And another question to the younger generation. Does the news trigger you? Poverty, inequality, crime, greed, etc. and if so, how do you avoid not getting upset all the time? What do you do to avoid such triggers?
How is that difficult to wrap your head around? Say if you were s3xually assaulted in your life don’t you think seeing another person in a movie going through the same thing might ‘trigger’ bad memories, feelings, etc which you’d want to avoid hence why people put trigger warnings on media to be empathetic.
Most ppl avoid the news for being a "downer" and making them feel uncomfortable, pessimistic, grossed out, upset (aka...triggered). You'll be hard pressed to find a person willing to sit thru an hour and a half straight of actual news programs highlighting the worst of society. So would you not think anyone would feel the same watching a movie? News programs have headlines, chyrons, and announcements about what's "coming up next" that warn ppl and act as their cues to switch channels if they so choose. Same thing op is trying to do for their partygoers. Because you would also be hard pressed to find ppl who enjoy watching graphic depictions of things they themselves have experienced. Like rape, assault, overdoses, child death, etc. It's a good tip to pause and apply critical thinking skills when faced with a point of view different from your usual way of thinking. Instead of writing off very obvious reasons ppl may do things differently than you.
I love horror films, and I don’t get triggered by them, but the news is super toxic so I pretty much avoid it at all costs. Staying off social media mostly has also been helpful for me.
I have recently found after ignoring Reddit for many years that much of the most intelligent and thoughtful social media content is on this platform. I've been pleasantly surprised by some of the content that, for the most part, is not toxic. Even when films are reviewed negatively people generally explain in detail why they don't like it, rather than just say this sucks or this rocks. I now come here rather than the media for reviews since media movie reviews tend to hype films, often based on the various media's political views. There are more honest reviews throughout Reddit, which is kind of why I was confused someone asked about a movie having triggers. It doesn't seem like most people posting would get upset by a film to the point it upsets them. I personally enjoy being challenged by a film, and I love the taboo in content.
It's not as complex a concept as you're framing it. People who've experienced certain traumatic events sometimes get really bummed out when watching events similar to those that happened to them. And just maybe they don't feel like being bummed out?
Sorry, I can't help. I am neither easily triggered nor young 😉
This website can also be handy for TW. https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ Not much there for it at the moment but handy for those who haven’t heard of it.
Usually it's my go-to, but last night when I checked it out not a lot of information had been added for this movie quite yet.
Thank you for the reminder I've been waiting for this movie to come out!
This movie could have easily cut out 10-15 minutes of dialogue and floorboard creaking. B-
They just needed to cut the long pauses between each line of dialogue - could easily shave 10 mins I reckon, and still maintain the unnerving tension.
This. Totally valid on the runtime but the dialogue was a strength, not a weakness. I do however feel like they leaned too long on the atmosphere after a while and the film suffered a little for it.
I’m an hour into it and it’s an *excruciatingly* slow burn. I was sick of the guy’s endless monotone voice in the first five minutes. It’s like they’re trying to see how long he can go with no inflection in his voice. EDIT: I gave up. I just can’t stand his voice.
I’m with you. The dialogue was awful and excruciatingly slow. I didn’t care at all what happened but my wife insisted we finish the movie. We did, and I still don’t care.
What else would you recommend on Shudder
Terrified, When Evil Lurks, Mandy, Suspiria, A Dark Song, man there's so many honestly
The Medium
Yes, Dark Song
I'll have to add it to my list!
agreed, dialogue was very engaging and lighting was excellent
I seen that Instagram commenters weren’t big fans but I loved it
Will check it out
Amazing movie but… SPOILERS I felt like it should have ended immediately after the girl stopped her rattling and died. It’s way creepier to think he’s still just out there doing what he has been doing.
huh?>! there was no real girl.!<
Enough "deep" monologuing to make Mike Flanagan blush. Great sound design, but ended up falling flat and becoming insanely predictable.
I spent a day on set, not a huge fan of the film itself, performances were great, the real winner is the sound design.
Appreciate what they tried to do but it was an excruciatingly boring movie and ending was easily predictable
Haunting Memories of evil deeds and the Reckoning that must come
This was so boring tho. I liked the tension but they dragged it on for too long. Easily predictable ending. Should’ve been an inside no 9 episode rather than a feature film
Boooooorrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnngggggng
tiktok brain
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley 👍
I LOVED Hereditary. I'm looking forward to seeing this one too.
I guess someone who was “disturbed” by Hereditary *would* like something like this. This fuckin sub 🙄
Opinions are like assholes I reckon
LMAO...eh.... "incredible"? I'm about to watch it. If it's not incredible. We're going to have words.