The Reel Rejects - THE HOUSEMAID (2025) MOVIE REVIEW! – ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED INSANITY! – FIRST TIME WATCH

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Starting point is 00:01:43 Whenever we have a video up, Tara, you were freaking out. Freaking out. You were freaking out. You were freaking out, man. Totally. That was such a fun ride. One of the best rides I've been on in a movie in a long time. You know, I made it fun of you because in the first two minutes, you're like, this is like one of my favorite Amanda C-free rolls.

Starting point is 00:02:03 I'm like, it's been like two minutes, Tara. And that is probably her best role I've ever seen. Thank you. I can call it. Like what a, what a wonderful ride of a performance that she gave because she's so sold the whole like craziness. And then you find out why you're like, oh my God. Because she, the whole, you have to believe she's crazy. You have to.

Starting point is 00:02:27 You have to. It can't seem like an act. And she can't. Sold it. She sold it. Which makes him seem that much more charming. And also, how believable was she? when she grabs Sidney's face and she's like,

Starting point is 00:02:43 fuck you. And then we're all cheering because Sidney's like, want me to help you and panicking these. And then they were like, yeah, get this, psycho be out. And oh my goodness, the twist and turns. Well, it's like in the first hour or something, before they got kicked out of the house,

Starting point is 00:03:01 it was like, this Andrew guy definitely seems weird because he's so subdued and he's just acting way too, like something was up with him and so the movie the movie does a good job because it presents itself like some weird erotic book adaptation movie like oh they're gonna sleep with the

Starting point is 00:03:18 house made it's gonna get so it sets it up in a way where they know what you're gonna be predicting with this film like okay she's kind of crazy she's gonna be like like one close and like those or those like crazy you know women from those 90s throw or horror movies she's gonna go bananas

Starting point is 00:03:34 and try to kill but they we're supposed to like root for Sydney Sweeney and Brett and Sclanar to get together. Right. And then so it's like playing out. It's happening so fast. I agree. But it's like something's weird about this.

Starting point is 00:03:47 That's kind of what makes it like charming. Even when it's like odd. You're like something like it's amusing even when it seems off in parts of the pacing or the filmmaking because you're like, I don't know why. Even when it seems like kind of bizarre, because everything is bizarre, it all works for me. It all works. It's like when it's intentional or not, it's really. freaking works for me at every second, you know?

Starting point is 00:04:09 Totally. Totally. I feel like with in the beginning, when we first see, uh, Sigfried and she's like there and she's like playing this, um, like, uh, uptight lady who's like rich married to a rich husband. I'm like, even part of that was part of the acts because then you see her later with her daughter. She's not really like that. No. And I'm like, that's wild. And then you know what? I'm, I did not think that C.C. would fully know. I thought there would be a little bit of Cici going like, wait, we have to go back to Dad. But the fact that they write it in where Cici goes, we have to go save Millie. Yeah. We have to go get her. She knew the whole thing. And I did think it was weird. I didn't call it out when she's playing with the dollhouse. She's playing with a dad that goes, having juice is a privilege. blah, but there's consequences. And she was moving the dad, not the mom,

Starting point is 00:05:12 even though it was the mom, I think who said it about the juice or something, right? And that could have, I could have picked up on that, but like, holy crap. There's probably so many things in here that I really love that they didn't address. Like I called the weird hair chandelier

Starting point is 00:05:28 from the beginning and then I got closer to be like, I think that's people hair. And I love that it was just like pluck them out. And because dumber movies would have been like pluck them out. And then also like, we have to see him tie it together and make sure he makes a note that you see where I'm putting the hairs up here in the chandelier. Like, we didn't need to do that. Yeah, I love the writing. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:48 The whole, the whole movies like dealing with characters who are someone different underneath the surface that like all three of them. They're that, you know, like Millie comes across kind of kind of shy and cheapest. Come to find out she's kind of like a violent individual when it comes to standing up for like justice. And then Amanda Seafreed, Nina is not actually crazy. You know, she's a really depressed woman who feels trapped. She's scared. Who doesn't feel trapped. She is scared.

Starting point is 00:06:13 And then this Andrew guy is a total psychopath, but on the surface. But the good part about all their acting is that when they are interacting with other individuals, you have to believe like, yeah, I get why Andrew is able to charm everybody. You have to be able to believe that. All the personalities of whatever the acts are or the other side. of their personalities. It only works if... If they're very believable. If they're very believable in the side of them,

Starting point is 00:06:41 that it may not... That is just the surface. Because a lot of times in movies, they let on too much. I agree. I agree. But I thought they were... Because we could have seen it coming

Starting point is 00:06:50 with her in the beginning, right? Because she was so good. But what they did with Andrew, I thought it was just the right line to let you know, like, something's weird about this guy, but I didn't, like,

Starting point is 00:07:01 in the first hour, we weren't like, he's the crazy. He's really the crazy one. If anything, I was like, maybe he's like a little bit crazy with her, but I didn't know, like, neither one of us was like, he's the one who's the real psychopath of it all. And you know what I'm thinking right now? I'm remembering this shot and I didn't call it out in the beginning. When Amanda first freaks out, we're like, oh, my God, this is so soon.

Starting point is 00:07:24 She's doing the plates, right? The camera goes to downward to his point of view. Remember, when he goes to grab her off the ground, Amanda Sifery, and the counter is here. and he looks at Millie. And we see his eyes and he looks up at her. It's very quick. The camera cuts to his POV and it's a handheld camera. And we see the counter and we see Millie.

Starting point is 00:07:46 And I went, that's weird that we went POV and then we go back to her. It wasn't jarring in any way. It wasn't like, oh, it was a choice. And that choice, I think, is murderer POV. Psychopath, POV. Fellow rejects, starting something new isn't just hard. It can be absolutely terrifying. When we started our merch line, there were so many what-ifs. What if no one buys anything? What if I don't know how to run a store? That is why I'm genuinely

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Starting point is 00:09:23 Like when it recontextualized that whole first hour. Like when you first meet Andrew, when he shows up with the daughter and he's like staring at her for a prolonged. time when she's cleaning. The way, the first interpretation is like, oh, you might be worried for her because of who Nina is. Yeah. Come to find out that it's such like the bait. Because like the casting of Sydney, sweetie and Amanda Cepry is really smart because they look

Starting point is 00:09:46 alike. Agreed. You know? Like, and one just feels like a younger version of the other one. He thought they were the same person for the first hour of movie. I did like, I thought like there was a reason why they, I mean, they wanted you to think something along those lines. Not supposed to personality directly, but.

Starting point is 00:10:02 obviously there's a type obviously like what who fits the mold who would be the one to desire and be the replacement. Totally. So I thought they did a really smart job there. And structurally, it was a really cool structure. The way they mess with it first being in Millie's perspective of experience and all these horrors and being the victim seduced. So that way you really understand when you go into that temporary flashback montage period of understanding when Nina's writing the letter to, CC and you're seeing how her whole story developed, you get this little short film

Starting point is 00:10:36 watching how it all unfolds, you know? Sometimes I did think like Millie was not making the smartest choices, you know? Like obviously with the phone, like, come on, you should have put that together. You need to see what kind of psychopath you're dealing with, right? She'd be tracking you. You know, and falling, but you know, but it's like some stuff you end up

Starting point is 00:10:52 forgiving, like, oh, Andrew and Millie hooking up, like, why are you two both so stupid? And don't you know, Nina would be able to figure this out? I was like, but Nita wanted that to happen. Nina wanted it. She set it up. There had, and here's the thing, Nina was so smart to find, this is where the, where you, there are some holes in there where we go, well, wait, they juiced it. This whole thing about the phone, why she'd take it.

Starting point is 00:11:13 But then on top of it, they still made Nina very smart in finding someone who was on parole and could not leave. Yeah. This is literally her last chance, right? So now all of that lottery comes in where it's like she was 10 steps ahead and I really like that. Yeah, smart. So smart.

Starting point is 00:11:33 It was smart stuff, man. And to the reveal, like, waiting until to understand why Millie was in prison, that way you get this, like, cathartic finale when she's standing up to him. Yeah. Because I like, I appreciated the movie

Starting point is 00:11:46 actually committed to violence, too. Me too. A lot of these movies, I feel like might have held back, or he would have been like, that's a little ridiculous. How'd they survived that. But they let the harm you felt. They let the violence feel uncomfortable

Starting point is 00:11:59 and sickening. And then it becomes like rewarding in the end and you buy it, right? Because one of the comments I made was I don't know why you're so head over heels

Starting point is 00:12:09 for Millie, considering like she hasn't been that she's not like the most interesting individual. And then she becomes extremely interesting when you find out why she is the way she is and where she ended up.

Starting point is 00:12:22 And then it wasn't even about like she is logically interesting. It's just the fact of how much interest she showed in him, you know, because you've got that insecurities. So yeah, I thought this was like a really smartly, smartly put together movie that was also really like, it was just wildly entertaining.

Starting point is 00:12:38 God, it really was. Because it was off to the races so fast. So quick. Right. Day one when she's hired and she's smashing shit. Oh my God. If she was actually like nuts, Amanda Seafrid, I might have been a little bit more critical of it. But because, you know, it's an actor, like, wow, that just makes any, any part that might have seemed weirdly.

Starting point is 00:12:59 rushed in the beginning just suddenly works completely. It works because it's not. It's not real. It's not real. It's totally fake. And she's like, I can't wait to get the F out of here. Yeah. And it makes it even more believable that she would take a piece of glass and be like, fake, be like, you don't want me here.

Starting point is 00:13:17 Like cut her hand or whatever. You're like, you got to commit. You have to commit to losing your, you know, cuckoo freaking bananas in front of this guy to make him want to leave you and replace. and replace her with, with Millie. Yeah. Which that's wild that it didn't even take that long. Yeah. It really did not.

Starting point is 00:13:38 That's how nuts he is. It didn't take that long at all. This is a movie that poses itself as a sort of type of like erotic, suspenseful movie. And then it totally flips it on its head. Even right down to the fucking like Enzo guy working in the garden. Right. Who is sexy pool boy working here?

Starting point is 00:13:56 Exactly. Like, why are you that handsome? I'm just helping him out. I thought. Just happened to be a super model. I know, right? And it's funny because when he come, when he, remember when he looked through the window at her?

Starting point is 00:14:08 And like, Guren Singh was like, I think he's trying to warn her. But there was like some horror aspect of like, what is he know? What is he not know? What is he saying? What is he not saying? Then when we get the actual truth about it, I'm like, oh, hell yeah. That's, uh, it's, I think it's very, very cool that he was like he had her back. He tried to really help her.

Starting point is 00:14:28 but of course Andrew found all the papers and all of that stuff. But I'm surprised. Oh, but it's not as though Andrew put it together that it was the groundskeeper that made the passports, right? Because I'm like, why wouldn't you just kill the groundskeeper? Yeah. Okay. So he fired him. Yes.

Starting point is 00:14:45 And I remember that, but I was like, because he didn't know that Endo was trying to help him. Either way, man, insane ride. So good. Sometimes cheesy, but in all the right ways, like creepy soap opera mother right down to the very ending of whatever the hell housemaid vigilante she's going to be. I don't know what this shit's happening. I'm for it, man. Just do whatever. I thought it was just so

Starting point is 00:15:08 fucking entertaining. This was a blast of a movie. So fun. Unpredictable and insane. I love to. Yeah, this was pure entertainment. Absolutely adored it. Agreed. What did you guys think about it? Were you taking it back on the ride as well? Leave your

Starting point is 00:15:24 comments down below. See you guys soon.

The Reel Rejects - THE HOUSEMAID (2025) MOVIE REVIEW! – ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED INSANITY! – FIRST TIME WATCH

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