The Reel Rejects - BARBARIAN (2022) IS HORRIFYING!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:48 we just watched Barbarian. So make sure you do all the YouTube stuff. Hit the subscribe button. Don't forget to like. And most importantly, as the great Tara would say, don't forget to. Bring the back. Ring the bell.
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Starting point is 00:01:26 I feel this movie takes so many super interesting and crazy. crazy twist that you would never expect. Who did you trust less at the beginning, Keith or the house itself? How did you feel about AJ's character arc? Did your opinion of him change? Also, how did you feel about the mother's backstory? Was it what you expected? Thank you, Landon, for the question.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Yeah, I mean, this movie definitely threw a lot of curveballs, a lot of subversion of expectations, and I think that's what a, and also you actually give a damn about the characters specifically tests as well. I think that's what a good horror film should do. You know what I mean? It should have some jump scares in, not rely on jump scares, but, you know, go into emotional residency when it comes to the characters, build up suspense, and then also, if it's going to subvert your expectations, do it in a plausible and also in an interesting way.
Starting point is 00:02:19 And I think this film did a great job of doing that, because Terran and I were constantly thrown off, and the film, in my opinion, was extremely unpredictable. I mean we at first I feel like like with Bill Scarsguard character they did a really great job of making you feel like it something is socially awkward at least with the way he is just with the way he was just going off a little bit on and the way he was talking like something's a little off and then it's like wait did this guy like plant this all for her to come here and then he like kind of like you know like studied up on her or something and I really like how again was. the curball and then it was an interesting story structure too like after she finally got captured by what we might have thought was as i i don't know what i thought i thought maybe she was a zombie at first i didn't know i'm like just from the because it was such a quick cut of her but then we get into justin longs here i'm like oh okay who's his new care what's going on here and then oh he's the guy who it's it's his house i mean he owns it at least it's an investment
Starting point is 00:03:22 for him so you know there's definitely a lot of things that i didn't expect but in who did i trust us at the beginning keith or the house itself i would say keith i didn't trust him at first so i think they did a good job of that but as as the film kept on building like i was like a j is very convincing but because we already thought that we didn't trust a keith and then they threw us for that girl i was like i don't want to throw assumptions around with a j but i don't know i feel like they're going to do that again but this way the other way this time so right what about you yeah so they did a really good job the director i think zach specifically he's really he's nice he's like a little bit weird he's he's acting very normal like well this is weird i mean you don't look for a place
Starting point is 00:04:09 you're going to stay here and then like the next day when he's like wait there's something down there like the way he was delivering those lines i think he was directed specifically to be like you can probably make it sound a little bit to subvert our audience like the audience's expectations of like are you the one we should be worried about and they kept us like really on the threshold there which was really good um and still even when he goes down there he's going to help him like he's going to kidnap you he's the one that built the torture room nope um and also a j's character arc um i thought they did a really good shot of when they are near the fire pit with um the the guy who helped them and they have a dolly close-up show
Starting point is 00:04:56 shot of him and he's saying I might I might be a bad person I've done bad things I think I've done bad things but I'm going to fix them all I want to do is fix it I think that's the largest character arc that we got because then he throws her off of a building out of his selfish desire to want to stay alive and I don't know any other human unless they are fairly savage to be able to pick somebody off of a freaking building and throw them off. I would have just tried to jump off myself, like your cuckoo bananas. So I think his character arc, I'm like, you asked, like, did your opinion of him change? Not really.
Starting point is 00:05:42 I thought maybe he was going to confess by the fire of like, oh, I did a bad thing. Like, I'm sorry, whatever. He seemed kind of like he was on the edge of maybe being sorry. but then once I saw how he acted with with her with test at the end. I was like, no, he's a fallen sociopath. Screw him. And the mother's backstory, obviously not what I expected, but when we get the pickup of the weird guy shopping for plastic sheets and diapers,
Starting point is 00:06:15 we don't really know where it's going to take us. And then we get him clocking the girl. And you're like, oh, yeah, this is what that is. Like, it's not expected, but we knew, I think, where it was going. Yeah, for sure. And I like how they slowly built up to that. I know he didn't actually confess and say it, but they were slowly building up to it. Like, he's like, let me talk to her.
Starting point is 00:06:37 And then he actually left a voicemail when he was drunk. Kind of. There was like, dude, you left a voicemail. And there were, again, you didn't actually say you did it, but there were some. But he kept saying, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Yeah. There was, I mean, if you are completely innocent of doing anything, what are you sorry about?
Starting point is 00:06:52 right so and then and then we get the whole like i'm either a bad person or i'm a good person who's done bad thing i forgot forgot what the line was but again and then you see that he actually threw her off the thing in his selfish desire like you said to stay alive and like okay you clearly have done this nefarious and awful thing to megan i believe her name was so that was fascinating it's also fascinating to see the the power dynamic and shift on trusting strangers and what you do in situations when in survival situations too is very fascinating to see and scary at the same time what people will do to survive it's it's really unsettling you know so but a fascinating film for sure so yeah thank you for the question no lannon appreciate it all right blue good boy colton what are your thoughts on the lack of dog casting and either of these movies not sure what you mean by either is there another they're might be if there's a second one we haven't obviously gotten to it yet um well if there's a lack of dog casting i'm glad because there that means there's no i mean i'm sad that there's no cute dogs
Starting point is 00:08:00 for us to see but i'm happy that there's no dogs for us to see get mangled or eaten or torture or whatever so glad about that what about i think um the cages with the dog food bowls gave us enough of like oh and i think to in a horror movie to allow your imagination to to get carried away with little aspects of the script like that is a smart move because number one I was like it could be pigs although I don't think they'd fit in the crate my first instinct was a dog to be like oh they help them clean up like the guts or something right or they could attack the people to help them get them so they can kill them easier there's so many things that go through your brain without seeing it so I think it was a good move on their part yeah absolutely
Starting point is 00:08:49 okay resonance z hopefully you guys were able to watch the movie without seeing any trailers i did not did you didn't see any trailers i didn't even i don't watch trailers yeah i didn't even hear about this like i said at the beginning i thought this was a spinoff of conan or something i didn't know i think that this is one of the movies that really benefit from going and blind as both of us did speaking of which did you feel like the air bnb set up at the beginning was going to set up the rest of the movie instead of the twist later on Bill Skarsgaard did an amazing job playing someone who could have been good or bad. Yeah, I agree. I mean, yeah, I thought that I thought someone was, I didn't know what to take from the Airbnb.
Starting point is 00:09:30 I did think that was what was going to be the setup. Like someone purposely sent both of them in so that they could be tortured there and then killed. So that's what I thought was the setup. So yeah. So to answer it very, very shortly, yes, I did. Do you think the Airbnb thing? And someone sending them both in? Like I said, you know, I called it out prior while I was watching the movie is that I thought
Starting point is 00:09:53 that Keith owned the property. He put out the Airbnbs knowing it did research because he knew about her documentary so that he could get her to go there and be like, oh, this is weird. We're in the same spot. Definitely was not the case. Bill Scarsgaard, as I said, as it went to mid parts of his movie, he obviously got a little bit creeper when she came running back up and is like there's a freaking bed and a and a camera and he's like wait wait wait explain to me like wait what's down there a bed in a camera and he's like but wait
Starting point is 00:10:26 just tell me and i'm like why are you asking her to explain wouldn't you be freaked out right now like that's what made him extra creepy and i absolutely agree with you that obviously scars guard is a perfect person to cast in this because he's really great at going like oh yeah he's a nice guy he's just awkward in the beginning he's talking too much she makes him nervous but then once he goes down there you're like no he built the i mean at least i was saying i'm like he built that room and he's going to kill her like so they did subvert expectations really well in this film and i appreciate that definitely all right from j rush and what up jay does watching this make you want to see weapons now i don't know what weapons is it's a film maybe that's what they're
Starting point is 00:11:12 saying it's the next part yeah because we did get that question earlier asking what are your thoughts on the lack of dogcasting in either of these movies? So I'm guessing that's what the question is pertaining to. We haven't gotten to weapons yet. We haven't gotten to weapons yet, but sure. I assume we'll watch that. Yeah, we'll pretty much watch anything here that we get asked of. But yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:34 I love Barbarian. Oh, from Jaden Rhodes. I love Barbarian. I love the cut to black and the tone change when Justin Long shows. Seeing what happens to his character feels so good to watch. And I think he played that character. good my question is did you all like the change in tone or did it feel jarring no it definitely didn't feel jarring I think like for a film like this that is so unpredictable and it subverts your
Starting point is 00:11:58 expectations in all the right ways I think it was like proper to do it especially with his character and I mean we were talking about it too in real time as we were reacting to I think like the music and like the way the the film was shot and lit it really just made it just it created the atmosphere of just I mean give you a torturous feel for sure but just an unsettling vibe the entire time like this film was definitely a slow burn and like I wouldn't I wouldn't say dragged in any way but just like when you're in a horror film and like you feel like the you feel like you are resonating with the characters in terms of like you want them to get through this because you as an audience feel like you're in it with them like that's when it's like holy shit this
Starting point is 00:12:43 feels so real. And I think the filmmakers and the production design, everyone gets so much credit because, like, you really do feel like you are in the film with these characters. And I really love the way, like, this is, I normally don't like stuff that is extremely dark. When it comes to stuff being lit, I normally don't like darkly because I'm like, I can't see anything. But I think for this type of film, it really sets the atmosphere. It sets the tone. And, like, it's the way, like, that creepy character like there's a reason he built it like this and also just like it again it just sets the the tone and adds to the atmosphere and i don't know i kind of dug it what about you i think justin long did a great job and yes the change in tone was jarring we cut to black and then it immediately goes to an ocean he's in a porch it's sunny and he's singing and i'm like what in the actual f did this just turn into a film where it's like a trick-or-treat film or i'm like wait did we get out of this and now we're falling just in long and then but then it clicked when i called it when he went into the real team i was like oh my god he owns the house once we find out he's in detroit then we know the story is going to be connected
Starting point is 00:13:53 there but one and then once they connected but i think the jarringness of that it's meant there's meant to be a juxtaposition there i've cut to black and here we go we're not can continue with that until he gets back to that house and he is absolutely effed but meanwhile we are thinking the entire time is this guy has he assaulted someone like and does that mean he knew what is down there right we're dealing with so many things right now because we saw scars guard on a freaking knees that was scary as hell he's now dead we know that woman's there but then we see the guy right track in the woman and we're like we think it's him but then and then you're like but just in long he owns the house does he know like there's so many ways that you can you can go about it in your brain of like
Starting point is 00:14:41 trying to figure out the puzzle and i uh i appreciated how weird and how uh what a really hard left of a turn that was and then it took us right back to square one but i do like the contrast between all that darkness and then going to a nice sunny shot like that and also too i think it gave us the audience too like a little levity to breathe like holy crap we just went through all this and like had to see like again what i assumed was pop Possibly isn't because I didn't know anything about this movie. I didn't know like it was just someone who had been living down there for so long and then had kind of deformed as a result. But it was just like it was just again, it was nice to get a little breathe from that for a few moments.
Starting point is 00:15:24 And then to see the way they connected and interweaved it. I thought it personally, it didn't feel jarring to me. I thought the, I was kind of like, wait, what's happening here? Not the way they connected it. It wasn't jarring. Like I said, I think it's a really good plot move and story move. But the cut to was jarring. black to beach sunny singing from what we just saw i feel you weird i feel you i just again
Starting point is 00:15:47 it was interesting i needed a break from that horror moment so for me it was okay but i i totally feel you oh my ha ha ha ha ha ha four oh two now that you've seen scard's guard not as the villain how do you like his acting in this horror film or films in general i actually have not seen the it films other than the first i guess five minutes with the spoiler look with the George scene. So, I mean, he was in that five minutes was incredible, but I've only seen him as well in John Wickford, and he is terrific in that. I think what this film just shows is what incredible range he has as an actor. And I think they also utilize his strengths, like, hey, we know the audience is going to be subverted here. And we know they're going to think
Starting point is 00:16:28 you're a villain at first. Let's utilize that. Let's utilize your strengths. But we know that, you know, because you're such a talented actor, that, you know, we're going to make you, uh, you know, have you be the good guy here in general and play off of that. So let's turn you creepy and nice. But then, you know, we'll have that twist happen. So, again, they got us with that. But I think he's such a versatile actor. He's got incredible range.
Starting point is 00:16:56 And, I mean, this just shows he can, honestly, you can do anything he wants to. He's a great actor. I think a lot of it has to do, too, with not only the tone in which he speaks, a lot of it is in his eyes. He just does a great job animating himself. Like, you can see it, too.
Starting point is 00:17:09 A lot of times when I was watching him, I was just looking into his eyes. I'm like, dude, he scares the shit out of me. But I'm watching him. Like, that's why I couldn't tell with him, too, whether it was him speaking. I was just looking in his eyes. He does a great job for that. What about you? Yeah, I think any actor should be able to do that.
Starting point is 00:17:26 I think that, you know, obviously not seeing him as the villain. They did a great casting job. Obviously, horror people love horror films. They're going to go see the horror films. They're probably going to be aware that Scars Guard is Pennywise. right so it may have are there may be already some set expectations of like this is going to mess with the audience because he's really good at playing a really creepy villain but then obviously really good at playing like a nice guy who's like this is weird i mean i i guess you can come in
Starting point is 00:17:59 not like he's overly creepy right in the beginning and they they make sure that to at first he makes a tea she doesn't see him we leave it there They do a close-up on the tea. I'm thinking there's poison in there, right? But then he comes out. He's sitting at the table. He's like, I thought, you know, you didn't want me to open it. Like he's, he has anxiety.
Starting point is 00:18:19 And you're like, oh, maybe he's just a really nice guy. And the way that he delivered that anxiety versus relaxed versus, I think the director wanted him to kick up the creepiness when she runs out of the basement so that we're thinking, is it him? Is he about to push her bag down there or not? Yeah. And they did a really good job just building. to that, but also, you know, middle of that, uh, put us at ease where we're like, I think we trust
Starting point is 00:18:47 him now. So I thought it was great. Yeah. No, like I said, I until the moment that he had his head, like shot into the wall or thrown into the wall by that, uh, by the woman, like I just kept on going, yeah, he's good. My mind was just going both ways. Yeah. And that's, that's good writing. Totally. Yeah. Reject Nation. I have officially lost over 45. pounds this year. I'm still working on a couple of extra goals for body composition development. I'm proud to say I've done it with no injections, no crash diets. Just pure discipline, consistent training. And yeah, fuel with fuel. But yeah, when I started back in January, I was like 218 pounds. And now I'm averaging between
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Starting point is 00:21:09 All right, from Brady. Thank you for the question, bring, for being a royal reject. Seeing Barbarian in the movie theater was one of the most wild theater experiences for me. I went in blind to it, and I was shocked by every twist and turn. My question for you guys is, what are some of your craziest, most memorable movie theater experiences? Great question, Brady. Oh, boy. um craziest i mean i can remember some like the fun ones like avengers end game
Starting point is 00:21:43 whenever once or even infinity war when like thor shows up and like in all just the fun fan moments like that but i'm trying to think of like the craziest oh my god i just thought it's go ahead it's funny we just have you seen the departed by the way uh i don't remember he's leonardo caprio right yeah i don't remember okay well there's a moment that y'all know because i don't want to spoil it for Taryn case she ever does react to it on the channel. There's a moment in that film where things happen, and I remember being like, whoa, oh my God, holy crap, I think y'all know what I'm talking about. So I'll leave it at that without context, but again, I'm pretty sure you, y'all know what
Starting point is 00:22:25 I'm talking about. So that was probably one of the most craziest moments I was not expecting, like, within like a three to four minute stretch of like, holy shnight, I can't believe that just happened. So I'd say the departed is probably like the one I'm thinking of right now. What about you? So the most memorable like movie theater experience for me would always be Arclight Hollywood. I spent way too much money there. It's now being closed down since the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:22:50 It was like a second home to me. I remember seeing in the dome the big theater, do you guys remember the movie by Darren Aronofsky, Mother? And it threw everyone off. That movie was so weird. and I went to the premiere, and they were like handing out posters and everyone's sort of like,
Starting point is 00:23:12 oh, it's going to be a horror movie. And then it was the movie mother. And people were like, people were a little bit mad about it. So that, for some reason, that went straight into my brain of just, I remember people walking out of that film expecting something very different from Darren and that film. And people were just,
Starting point is 00:23:36 like what some people were like literally raging in the bathroom i heard the girls like they were like what the like it was kind of hilarious so yeah there's that for you cool well let us know in the comments what are some of your craziest memorable movie theater experiences we'd love to yeah all right last question mattie is keith the creepiest nice guy ever or the nicest creepy guy ever what were your thoughts in the film's unconventional structure particularly the mid film shift in perspective Did it strengthen the film or disrupt your engagement? I was so thrown off when I first watch it, especially since it takes place right at the climax of the scary scene.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Yes. Also connect to that question, did you feel the film's tonal shift from tense horror to dark satire, worked cohesively or did they feel disjointed to you? Well, is Keith the creepest nice guy ever or the nicest creepy guy ever? I mean, I'll go with creepiest nice guy ever. because, I mean, he was a nice guy who just came off as creepy, right? So I'll go with that one.
Starting point is 00:24:43 I mean, he had good intentions. He was trying to do the right thing, although didn't make the smartest decisions, which I would probably say I would do as well. Like, I mean, and Tara answered that question when Roxy asked us for social media in a horror film, any one of the rejects who would probably die, right? And, you know, her answer very quickly was me. And I agree with her. I probably would, just from, you know, my decision.
Starting point is 00:25:06 vision making and all that so but i would say i would go with that what are your thought we we kind already spoke about it about that abrupt shift again just because of i like to get away from the horror stuff as much as possible because i get jump scared so easily it was like a breath of fresh air for you for me it was so and again because i like the way it connected you know in regards to the character and i really like seeing like what you might associate with being a nice guy like being a facade like this guy is kind of like a monster really with what he did with his actions just along and then how it again connected with the whole storyline of the home and you could even associate the parallels of like granted he didn't exactly do with the the guy who ended up
Starting point is 00:25:49 you know taking his own life down there but his actions were really like in defense uh or inexcusable like that guy down there you know what i mean he just had star power and was able to use that as a mask of getting women and then doing creepy nefarious things But again, it didn't, it didn't take away from the, you can make an argument again. I'm not going to argue with people who say, yeah, it really, it really took away from the tonal shifts and it just disrupted it. I'm not going to argue with it, but it didn't bother me. I thought, again, it was a breath of fresh air and it was nice to get a little levity for me personally. But what about you?
Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah, I think I was obviously thrown off in that moment. You're thinking, wait, what? Oh, okay. This is an artistic choice. It's a move that we don't normally see, which I always tend to appreciate if it works out, which in this film, it did. Because if we can change the point of view on a character
Starting point is 00:26:48 that we're somewhat attached to, right, and get to a completely different character, get distracted by them and then go, oh, they're in the house, and then get invested in that storyline. And then when we meet the lead character who we thought was going to be our POV, it's telling us to, and we almost jump out of our seats,
Starting point is 00:27:06 they've done their job in the way that it's making you forget about, oh, here's life on the outside, which we've kind of forgotten about when we see that neighborhood and the graffiti, and it's all boarded up. And you're like, what the hell is going on? That we get out of that for a moment. And when it takes us back, and for us to be legitimately very scared in that point of view still,
Starting point is 00:27:30 and now we have merged those two characters together. And we've done it successfully with a good story, although, yes, I was yelling and I always will, about please make the characters smart enough to turn off the flashlight and please take a weapon. Do not explore that if you don't have a weapon on you. Also, if we don't need to explore it, what are we doing? Like, I'm always going to say that,
Starting point is 00:27:54 but I feel like this was a great film because eventually, you know, Justin, he did look for a knife, cool um she kind of got on her she got it up here when she turned off the flashlight when she walked by the door i appreciated that so there's some stuff that yeah sure it was drawing but then it brings me back um and i i only think like the thing that would take me out of it like you're saying the experience is me going why are you not looking for a weapon i know you're smart woman you're here for a freaking job interview what is going on like make the character smart and that they can't like she tries to break down the door at the very end why was she not doing that before i want
Starting point is 00:28:35 to see characters try their hardest and we still keep them in that environment for sure right because we could have had her knock down that try to knock down the door she did it at the end didn't open it she could have done at the beginning could have tried to break the glass can't do it can't open it up but then she breaks it cuts her hand falls off i don't know and then she's still stuck in there there's many ways you could do it i still really really like this film that was the only thing that would take me out is those little things no i feel you i did like though how courageous and tenacious she was and how brave like both times she went in after like keith and a j and she didn't have like literally yeah she didn't have to no and i know you can make an argument
Starting point is 00:29:17 like why do that but i'm like she's got a moral compass and she's a good person so like i do appreciate and she liked keith yeah that was like her crush man yeah and understandably so like you knew about this this documentary like what guy is going to know about this and you're a good looking guy yeah you come off a little awkwardly in certain moments but like we all have you know certain things like that but again i did like i did like seeing her like you know have a moral compass and like you know doing stuff like that like again not probably not the smartest thing to do but you know you got to admire someone with that type of tenacity and bravery and i did i like i actually did like her and i wanted her to survive and i'm glad she did yeah and and in regards to what you're saying like from tense horror to like dark satire
Starting point is 00:30:00 i think you're talking about the satire that comes in obviously when justin long and the way he's delivering stuff that's a little bit when the satire comes in but to be truly honest with you it mostly was all horror to me and i think that justin long's delivery on that there was still fear underlying like i'm going to get the cops in here like you better believe what do you want i i can't understand you that was like the most satire it kind of got in regards to a tonal shift to me because i was just freaked out the entire time especially after the guy who was running after her say hey come here little girl he goes she's not the worst thing in there and you're like oh we're totally screwed so um i think it was tense for me like 80 percent of the time yeah i was just thinking
Starting point is 00:30:48 to i agree with you i was just thinking too like if a j who was an awful piece of crap and i'm so glad he got his comeuppance if he did survive the situation like i'm curious about like because he was already canceled right with hollywood and there i'm assuming there would have been more of a story too like okay so like this happened with megan whatever her name was and now like he's involved in a possible murder yeah totally he's true girl off a roof oh i mean we know the truth but like i don't know what he would have said because he could have pinned it on like the the woman who was like uh well of course yeah of course so but just just the fact that he was involved in another type of scandals i'm like that would have been fun for if he was able to afford a PR team and how convincing he was the way
Starting point is 00:31:36 he was able to like but that's great acting when he's like i'm so sorry he didn't have a i didn't have another choice like and he was trying to make her believe that she was going to kill both of us and i was like dude he's he's very believable and in that moment, which that's when we both went, oh yeah, you totally salted that girl. Yeah, yeah, besides the fact that he was like trying to throw off and save his own skin, but like that right there is the seal of like,
Starting point is 00:31:58 he for sure did that to that other one. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Anyways, uh, yeah, I think we covered all of it. We did, but, uh, and more. Yeah, let us know in the comments. What did you think of this film? And I guess there's a, it seemed like there's a sequel for us.
Starting point is 00:32:12 I assume we're going to be watching weapons or whatever you guys said. If that's a film, I'm sure we'll be on it. Yeah. So be on the lookout for that. And if you stuck with us this long, we appreciate it. Stay safe. Do not go in any torture dungeon rooms or anything. If you see them, call the cops, although it didn't really do much of us, you know.
Starting point is 00:32:29 Didn't do much here. Didn't do much here. So anyways, take care. See you guys.

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