The Reel Rejects - SALTBURN (2023) MOVIE REVIEW – WE WERE NOT READY FOR HOW TWISTED THIS GETS! – FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

THAT BATHTUB SCENE BROKE US!! With Jacob Elordi's starring in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation + Euphoria Season 3 & Barry Keoghn set to star in The Batman II, Tara, John, & Little Jon give their Saltburn Reaction, Recap, Analysis, Breakdown, Commentary, & Spoiler Review!! Saltburn Full Reaction Watch Along   / thereelrejects   Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order Gift Someone (Or Yourself) An RR Tee! https://shorturl.at/hekk2 Tara Erickson, John Humphrey, & Jon Maturan react to Saltburn (2023), the provocative erotic thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman, Killing Eve). Shrouded in secrecy and buzz ahead of its release, Saltburn is positioned as a darkly seductive psychological descent into obsession, privilege, and power within Britain’s elite upper class. The film centers on Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer), a socially awkward Oxford student who becomes dangerously infatuated with the effortless charm and wealth of his classmate Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi – Euphoria, Priscilla). When Oliver is invited to spend the summer at Felix’s sprawling family estate, Saltburn, he’s drawn into a world of excess, manipulation, and unspoken rules—where fascination curdles into something far more unsettling. The ensemble deepens the film’s menace and allure, including Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, I Care a Lot) as Felix’s icy, enigmatic mother; Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Loki) as the aristocratic patriarch; Alison Oliver (Conversations with Friends) as Felix’s sharp and perceptive sister Venetia; and Archie Madekwe (Midsommar, Gran Turismo) as Farleigh, whose presence complicates the estate’s delicate social hierarchy. With Emerald Fennell’s signature blend of razor-sharp dialogue, moral discomfort, and lush visual storytelling, Saltburn has shaped up to be one of the most talked-about thrillers in recent years —inviting audiences into a world where beauty, desire, and cruelty exist side by side. Follow Jon Maturan: https://www.instagram.com/jonmaturan/?hl=en Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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hop ahead to make sure that this erotic gothic dramatic thriller doesn't have anything after the credits because you know this is the kind of movie where they would do that to us Salburn two saltburn too My doubt outy Bath tub bugaloo

That's so good You know Whose bath water would you drink Oh Oh Comment below All right All right gang Tara I'll throw it to you first

Yeah Saltburne Oh my god you guys I had no idea what I was in for. I think this is brilliantly written, brilliantly acted. I think the casting was perfect. I love the cinematography.

You know what's funny? It's like I love that they opened up on a oneer, but then throughout the entire film, they keep staying on shots, really nice tracking shots, which I love. But then also there's some like very artistic, I forget the director,

Wes Anderson type shots in there that are like mixed in there. in there, which are, I, I loved them. I thought they were beautiful and very artistic. And honestly, I get what the thing is about this film. I get why it's a big, hoekdaloo, hoogdala, freaking salt burn. It's not about putting salt in your well. He put a little bit of salt in all their wounds, though, I guess you could say.

Good point. I am very surprised by all of it. I loved it. 12 out of 10 John Maturin how you feeling brother oh man I'm processing so much like that is a very heavy

movie uh it was a thick boy yeah and every single inch oh yeah it's a girthy movie yeah I I have to I have to echo Tara's praises because

like visually it was stunning just to look at really lush as much as it was like intense to see some of the gruesome scenes which was a little intense the artistry of like the cinematography

and like all the shots were someone who appreciates like art yeah definitely I could I appreciate it every shot for sure like but yeah like Tara said the writing like I couldn't help but like feel for the main character

Barry Kogan's character Oliver like and then by the end of it I'm like like oh fuck this guy yeah so to get me on this snake man I know right and to get me on this

emotional roller coaster of like and then questioning my own like um my own emotions of rooting for him and like I just like I shouldn't have so um

but it was yeah it was an extremely fun ride I was laughing a lot surprisingly yeah so bonkers but yeah overall amazing movie I can see why people loved it I know it was a little divisive from my understanding.

So, but yeah, how about you, John? Yeah, I guess I could see why, just because it is a very rye and kind of, it's got a nastiness under the surface that is part of the compliment to the fact that you're in all these gorgeous, gaudy, you know, settings and you're, you know, at the height of the upper crust. you know, you're in a social strata where like just the circumstances of life don't matter and you live in the sort of like elevated fantasy universe and to have the movie be such that you

meet this guy and you feel bad for him and you're like oh you know he's just alone in this you know, right university experience and you know he's he's a little bit of fish out of water because he doesn't have the affluent background and then to come to find that the whole movie is you know the illusion

is like they because they chose not to show us a few things. You know, we are in a position to sympathize with this guy until you start to realize like, no, I think he's, I think he's slowly just working his way. Black Widow styled through this old family, just, just

swallowing him up and turning all their insecurities and their vulnerabilities inward on themselves and each other. He's just like, he's literally dancing through just tweaking little things and ingratiating himself places and using these people's like collective

obliviousness and their collective need to feed this, you know, life, this, this, you know, sort of fabricated life that they lead. It's interesting because we've been watching Bridgetton lately. And, you know, part of that, very different. But, like, part of that is that, you know, we're in this purview of society where you're, you know, with the upper crust, you're with the people who are living the lap of luxury and have, like, little to do all day because they don't have to work for anything. So they're just, like, looking for ways to fill time and looking for way. Like, this felt sort of like this anarchic yeah

I don't even know how to describe it it just feels yeah like this weird exercise in infiltrating this like inviting very seductive but toxic environment and just burning it to the ground like it's this weirdly nihilistic

but it feels that the you know this is a movie that I'm excited to kind of sit and ponder and talk to people about and, you know, decode, because, you know, obviously there's, you know, stuff there that you can reflect on. But, you know, the way it all comes together at the end, and it's like a saw movie, you're just looking back going, geez, like, and you think it's fascinating. I like that they leave you on this note of, like, pondering what the true nature of any of this was because, you know, Quick seems so, like such a sociopath. It seems like there's not even a real human inside. He feels like this imp or this otherworldly. you know, it's weird.

When he's wearing the antlers, it does take on this like midsummer night's dream thing. Like he's some kind of, yeah, fawn, this like impish fawn come to wreak havoc. And so, yeah, it's, even though it's grounded in the semi-present, it feels like an older kind of movie. And yet there are times where the back and out

feels like you're in some kind of weird Greek, Roman god fantasy thing. Yeah, the maze kind of helping. right well yeah and you have all these motifs and stuff like that from all these you know upper crust you know uh i forget what the name of of these kinds of very doughton abbey-esque mixed with like burgerton yeah yeah it's like class stuff and it's all about yeah it's you know the people who live here and the servants and you know this kid that they've got who's their half cousin brother guy who's like also semi part of the family but is also like benefiting off of them and

and they're all willing to fall into this guy's trap. And it is like... An archaic upper class. Yeah, and it's fascinating because at the outset, you think it's going to be this weird, like, twisted up love story about Barry Kogan and Jacob Belorty. And yet Jacob Alorty is just sort of like this weird conduit for all this other stuff. And it's like, as much as he's fixated on him early on,

after a certain point, it feels like he kind of gets to everybody else around him. him first and kind of creates all this havoc and chaos and then once you know it's over and you know and Felix is completely rejecting him then all the death you know dominoes start to topple over

and uh god I'm definitely gonna be thinking about this for a while I know yeah really dense it'll stick with you yeah yeah really wild and just a fun roller coaster too like I do like because because this is wearing a lot of gothic textures

and stuff like that and it's wearing a lot of again, you know, this has a lot of the earmarks and motifs of like a high class British drama. And yet it is so pulp and it is so in ways sinister and twisted and almost like trashy. Yeah, dude. This is this fascinating flavor. I get, yeah, it's like I can certainly see how this would be repellent to some people. And I can certainly see how this would be a deliciously wicked time to spend. True.

I guess I'm somewhere in the middle because it's like it's hard to like anybody. True. And there are certain characters you want to like more than others. You almost feel sad. It's like you start feeling sad for Barry Cogan.

And by the end, you kind of feel sad for this family who you know, kind of made their own bed but also was so oblivious to his machinations. This is just kind of sad.

Right. And the poor Roseman Pike, poor Richard E. Grant. Right. So far removed. This is twisted, man. Yeah. This was wild.

I would be thinking about this. For real. and it was hot right guys yeah all this summer yet we got a lot of barry cogan there at the end

did you guys like seeing barry cogan naked oh yeah I liked him live up to the hype for you guys yeah the dancing dude that was a classic

I love a wacko dance sequence yeah we got that for sure so we got a lot of risky business times like the X rated movie yeah got a lot good cinematography in here a lot of good

score music as well as needle drops. This had like so clearly like I had fun with this partly because clearly Emerald Fenno and she's doing Weathering Heights next which you know is going to be her own take on that too and I'm excited based off this to see what that looks like but you can tell she's taking in a lot of these I again what I always forget what it's something and something I don't know British class stuff of manners like it's you can tell you can

She's soaked up so much of that and is using that to inform this. And yeah, it does feel like a nightmare version of like a call me by your name or some kind of coming of age. It's like a, instead of a coming of age, it's like a withering of age. Like this dude comes of age by consuming and destroying.

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let's you read this one. Jane Rhodes says, I've seen this once a few years ago and there were two scenes that really stuck with me since then. The bathroom scene and the period scene. Yes. I could agree with you. I'm curious, just fresh of the off the heels of it,

did these scenes stick with y'all and or did other scenes stick with Yil Mar? I mean, that certainly stuck with me. Definitely. I knew there was a bathtub thing in this moment. movie. That's the one thing I had heard coming in. I did not know about the period scene.

And that was like erotic and twisted all at the same time. There is a, I, you know, again, it's a good metaphor for like how this movie operates because like in one breath you're like, this is unsettling and strange and sort of like,

I can't tell if this is about to turn really, really sour or bad or, or and then like a moment later you're like but there's something like weirdly steamy and erotic about this unsettling thing it's very striking he does say in that scene i'm a vampire and like ultimately that's what he is right such a good line yeah it is like a vampire movie honestly it's a vampire movie that doesn't go full bore into genre like they invite him in he drains all their souls eventually takes their physical forms as well and then eventually ends up as like this count

in this big old estate. Right, right, right. It's hilarious. Definitely. Oh, any other scenes? Any other bodily functions that stuck with you? Well, Jaden, you forgot how he juiced the dirt. Yes, I'll see that same thing.

Okay, and that was a big one. These all stick with me in a great way. Okay? I do agree. A bit erotic, a bit, a bit, It's steamy at times, but there's others that I'm, like, probably strongly going to be thinking, what in the actual fuck? God, him dancing, too.

The dance, the dance, definitely. Some of those, just some of those montage shots where you're just like looking at the sweat on Jacob Allurty's collar or whatever, you know. A lot of bodily juices in this movie. A lot of juice in this movie. I have to give it to Barry Keogh. he really committed to actually Humping the dirt.

Yeah, he did. That looked... He put it in there and he got grooving. Yeah. Again, it was one shot so it's like there was no edit... You know, like the going down period scene.

Yeah. Okay, you could totally Hollywood it and be like, oh, that's blood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does, like it really... Weirdly, like, that whole thing at the end where he's like... That what was...

I wasn't in love with him, but I loved him. I loved him. I loved him. I loved him. I loved him. It's like this thing about hung up. Like it is again it Remind me of like nos ferratu like I am a hunger

And it's like yeah you don't know if he actually had any Honest to goodness human emotions for this guy And yet like right even after he's dead He's still like fixated on him as this like Love trophy or this physical cathartic release of like I don't know if he's getting off on the death or the memory or both Right thank God he's buried nearby

So morbid and he like that is the moth thing It's like he's drawn to death or he's like a harbager of death. Yeah, goodness, fascinating. CR. Thanks for chiming in. Terry, you want to read from CR? Bodily fluids aside how much money would someone have to pay you to lick a bathtub drain? A vomit emoji is what CR put.

And I would agree with you. I am... How much money? Okay. 50 grand. Sure. I don't think anybody would go that high. I would go higher, but I'm like, no, not going to go any higher than that.

I was going to say. 50 grand. I need a few commas. You need six figures at minimum? Probably, like, yeah. 100K at least. I mean, they didn't say licked the whole thing. He just did a quick click.

He did a quick click. I'll do a quick click for 50,000. Are we copying the scene? Because he like, yeah, he like slurped. No, I'm not going to slurping. This guy said, like. Is it the same kind of drain? Is it like a, you know, a grated drain?

What kind of drain is it? Oh my God, I can't. Now I'm thinking it's dirty. It hasn't been clean. You guys. Yeah, whose juices are we looking to? Oh my God. I don't want to know.

I already committed $50,000. There was juices in there. That was the peach. That was a peach of a bathtub. I'll tell you what. And the thing is Jacob Allorty is the one character who seems, maybe like a real human being. He's the one guy who seems like an actually

maybe kind, thoughtful guy. Yeah, yeah. Everyone performs for you and yet you seem like the one human in your whole family. That makes the whole thing like more tragic by the end because you think that Jacob Allorty is going to be this like main character. And yeah, this is like subject of love. And yet in some ways he feels like somewhat more

removed than a lot of the other. carry like the other family members it's like you see from their perspectives and like what their tortures are way more than you see him yeah once we get in the house felix is like in a distant memory yeah he's like he's around and he's felix and he's great and he's part of the web of all the things but it seems i yeah for some reason i thought he was going to be like the point of so many things were yeah once you get to saltburn itself yeah uh j rushden question thank you for chiming in jay what celebrity would buy would you buy

which celebrity's bathwater would you buy please watch this movie 100 FD's knowing too late too late I drank a gallon of coconut milk before we sat down this I drank some egg no okay anyway

what bathwater what celebrity are we bathwatering up besides Jacob Lordy because that's not fair yeah who's bath water we drinking Ted Danson Sure

Tom Cruz Tom Cruise Tom Cruise Tommy Possible? Let's go. Tommy Possible. Sure. Okay. Okay.

Tommy Possible. I think I can't answer this question. Maybe Paul Rudd's bathwater. Ooh. I think Paul Rudd would have nice bathwater. Paul Rudd is a great choice for bathwater. We have very pleasant bathwater. So is Tommy Possible.

Tommy Possible. Yeah. Good John. Good John, you choose. Ah, this is rough. Uncle good, Hank. Oh, I don't want it. You can make a girl like a hot,

girl or a hot guy. Christina Hendricks bathwater. Oh, that's good bathwater. Pam Greer bathwater. All these answers are good. That's funny bathwater. Yeah, I don't know. It's coffee.

She played coffee. Yeah, that's true. I can't answer this. This is tough. John, who's that? Water, damn it. Oh, good Lord. Who's cool?

Yeah. Who's cool? Oh my gosh. He's the coolest guy right now. Bring up a list of just like the top 100 actors. Top 100 actors. You're fine, bread pit. Oh, yeah, yeah, he chose.

He chose. He chose. He went Brad Pitt. Now we can't. He committed. He committed. All right. All right.

Okay, hold on. Actors. Okay, top 100 actors. Click it. Denzel. Okay, we got Leo, Jack Nicholson, Dustin, Marlon Brando, Daniel Day Lewis, Al Pacino. I'm not drinking Pacino's bathroom. Oh, Tom Hanks.

You know, I mean, it sure would be very wholesome bathwater. Russell Crowe, Harrison Ford. Champagne. Let's see, let's see. These are all like classic actors. Some of these are really old bathwater. Ray Fines Bathwater. Be pretty sick.

See, Tommy? My Tommy Possible was on there. There you go. Let's do famous actress. Let's see. Cover the gamut. Maybe Tilda Swinton. Natalie Portman would be great water.

Sure, great. Natalie Porman, great, great bathwater. Kate Blanchett, out there for it. Of course. Dermann is good. Meryl Streep. Oh, classic bathwater. We'll drink that.

We'll drink. Scorney bathwater, also good. Charlize Sairn. We'll drink that too. We're doing better on this list. We're doing a lot better. We're doing a lot better. Okay.

Nicole Kidman, I drink that water. I mean, you know. Bath water tastes good in a place like this. Okay, I love this. Okay, yeah. Okay, we got to Margo Robbie. Everybody wants to drink that water. I mean, Jacob Lordy's going to drink her bath water in the Wethering Heights.

Yeah. Can be a break. Jessica Chastain, a good one, too. Oh. Yeah. Does that come out? Does Weathering Heights come out like tomorrow? Angeline Jolie.

Oh, duh. Oh, there you go. Or order me a couple bottles. Absolutely. Uh, I think, isn't it, um, Valentine's Day? Oh, comes on. John Madden here for Valentine's Day. Carrie Mulligan in like two scenes, too, was crazy.

I know, yeah. She was here for like a minute and then she, like, died off screener. Yeah. Oh, I wonder if he had anything to see. I wonder if he did that, too. Yeah, he must have done that. Uh, anyway. Well, I love this movie.

I had a lot of fun watching it. I'm glad I got to watch on the channel because some of that shit was, Like most of my face I couldn't even say anything I was just like Yeah Well because shook it It took me a second

But I just realized that Carrie Mulligan is Is the lead of promising young woman Isn't she? Okay Yeah yeah Yeah Which seems equally as fun As this movie

It's yeah There's some tragedy Yeah there's pretty intense Yeah tragedy Nah guys It's gonna be a blast If you want us to react To see you just leave it down

In the comments below Gang Do you have any other stray thoughts before we hit the road here? Not I'm fine. John. I'm good. Well, gang, leave us your bath water list. Who's drinking it up? Who you drinking?

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