Too Scary; Didn't Watch - CUCKOO

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

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That's right, totally for free on iOS and Android. That's right, totally for free on iOS and Android. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sami and I love watching scary movies. And so I watch them so that you don't have to. And we've got a crazy one today. Some might say, a cuckoo. Some might say a

little cuckoo. And if you want to jump right into our recap, there are timestamps in the show notes because before we get into it, we have some haunted housekeeping to take care of. The haunted house will not keep itself. We must- No. Constant upkeep. You do not want to leave that haunted house unkempt. And you know, the haunted housekeeping is that Helcella, like all good things, is coming to an end. This is our second to last episode.

You know, I knew it would end, but it felt like we had so much time. And- It felt like that. It felt like that. I can't believe that it's coming to an end. I mean, we'll still keep doing the podcast every week. So that isn't coming to an end.

But it does still feel like something is ending and I'm sad. Me too. But to end it, to close it out, we are doing one last live show on our Patreon on August 25th at 4.30 PM Pacific, 7.30 Eastern. We are going to be recapping Alien Romulus, which I have seen and I have loved. Yay!

Emily, did you see it? Are you going to see it? Are you gonna see it? No, but I'm going to. Sammy did text, she said that I can handle it. Yeah. Oh, okay. But she also did tell me I would like killing of a sacred deer.

So do we trust her? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. We'll see. But I'm excited. Forgot that you used the term like for killing of a sacred deer. Yeah, she thought I'd like it. She really thought I'd like it.

I just saw a marketing stunt for Alien Romulus where it's like people passed out on the street with aliens wrapped around their faces. And I was like, not a fan. Not a fan. Nasty. Not a fan. No. It is gross and nasty, but compared to Evil Dead, it could have been grosser and nastier

for sure. It's a walk in the park. Yeah. No one slices their tongues in half with a box cutter. Can you imagine if that happened again? Yeah. It's his trademark. That's his signature move in all of his movies. We have to find somewhere for the alien to slice a tongue in half.

Keep it in, keep it in. I'm very excited. I'm very excited to see it. I'm very excited to talk about it. Can we announce? I think so. Yeah. Are you the guest? Yes. Tell us.

If you'd said no, and then you'd all have to be like, what? Who's it going to be? We are going to be rejoined by our aliens co-host from Many Moons Ago, Haley Joel Osment, to recap this latest Alien movie. So very excited to have Haley back. Oh, such a good guest. He was like 10 out of 10. Recapper. 10 out of 10. Yeah. Thrill to have him back. Overdue for a return. And I can't wait. It's going to be very fun.

Oh my God. It's going to be fun. So if you want to see that, all you have to do is join our Patreon at patreon.com slash TSDW podcast and there will be a post on the main feed of how to tune into that. And then the other announcement is just that Hell Chella merch as all good things is also going to come to an end at the end of August. It's devastating. So if you want

Hell Chella merch. If. When. When you want it, get it. When you want Hell Chella merch, it better be. Life passes before your eyes, so when you want it, you gotta get it. You gotta get it. If you feel it, chase it.

And if you want it, get it. Buy you feel it, chase it. And if you want it, get it. Buy it. Buy it in August. Yeah, they're limited time only and time is running out. It ran out once already. If anyone's confused, one cycle ended and then we started another cycle. So some people already have their I Survived Tell Teller shirts and you're probably, if you don't have it, you're probably pretty jealous.

Yep. Pretty jealous. Nobody wants to feel jealousy. No. It's not a fun feeling. No. It's an easy remedy, you just buy a shirt. Oh, if that's all we ever had to do.

That would feel great. You're gonna wanna go to bonfire.com slash hellchella to get those shirts. And I got mine. I'm really pleased with my purchase. And I'll probably wear it for our live show. Oh, my God. I'll wear mine. Or outfit spoiler.

Outfit spoiler. And I previously mentioned that I'd be coming from a facial. But guys, my facials had to move the appointment. So I know you're all you're all wondering about that, but I'll just be showing up regular style, regular faced. If you're watching it and you're like, what's, why is her face normal? It's cause it is. Yeah. You saw that correctly. A sharp eye. Oh boy. And that's all the haunted housekeeping for today.

You guys, we saw each other this week. We did. We did. It was magical. We did. It was really magical. And so, the question, did anything scary happen to you this week? I still got to ask it, but I just know that also something so magical happened to us this week.

Something so magical happened to us this week. It's really true. Did anything scary happen to you guys this week, in addition to the magic? Or because of the magic? Oh, interesting. I just feel like I'm riding high and nothing can touch me because Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are going to win. Oh my god.

And there's no way that Donald Trump and JD Vance are going to be our presidents. I think presidents because like Donald Trump will die and JD Vance will surely become president. Oh God. And what a trip that would be. Project 2025 is never going to happen. And it's all going to be fine And it's all going to be fine. It's all going to be fine.

I think that I was feeling so deeply nihilistic for so long. And I didn't realize how nihilistic I was feeling until I stopped feeling that way, until I got a little tiny little droplet of hope put back into me. Just the tiniest, tiniest little drop. And now I'm just like, fucking yes, like pedal to the metal, going as hard as I fucking can. I'm going to like devote all of my free time. Of which you have a ton. I'm going to drive my children to Pennsylvania, force them to help me.

And yeah, I don't know, I'm just gonna, I don't know. I'm just feeling like so- It's remarkable. Relieved that there's a chance, that there's a chance we might dodge autocracy. We might dodge it, you guys. We might dodge it. We might dodge it.

For me, this has all just been such an excellent reminder in how quickly things can change and how... Yeah. You just never know. You just never know. I would have never, ever thought that it would be possible to feel this way and to have this happening if you had asked me three weeks ago.

This has been a very, very unpredictable... Yeah. ...election lead up so far. It's scary because there's still time. Yeah, yeah. Anythingly unpredictable. Elections lead up so far. It's scary because there's still, you know, there's still time. Yeah, yeah. Anything can happen. We have the memories of Goldfish. So it's like, we got to wait until right before to really know.

And it's a very close race still. We still don't know. We just still there, you know. The man there's something to hope for. But it's looking a lot better than Biden. And also it's just like, God, Biden. I know. God. I know. God.

I know. God. Crazy stuff. Also, nobody here, there's nobody in this little Zoom that this is more true for than you, Henley. But I'll also say that I love Tim Wills. I love him. Oh, I love Tim Wills.

Oh, I love him. I haven't loved, I haven't like loved a politician in this way in a long time. He's just the real deal. It's like, I love him, but I also like care for him. I care for him, I think he's precious and important. He must be protected. I wish him the best always. He used to be protected.

Protect our walls forever. Protect our walls. Yeah, he's my surrogate dad. He's the dad that I've always wanted. He's America's surrogate dad. He is, he's America's dad. He's America's dad. He seems, that's why I'm just waiting for some devastating news about him to come out.

Stop, Henley. No, he's good. I know, I know, I know, but God, it's hard. Scary times. It's hard to feel good because you just know, you know, I know, I know, but it's hard. It's hard. It's hard to feel good. Cause you just know, you know, you might feel bad. Yeah. But I'll repeat the thing that I always say.

Anytime I get in this head space that my therapist told me once, which is like, the bad stuff is going to feel bad, whether you think you're prepared for it or not. So don't, don't anticipate the bad. Cause you can't, you can't fend it off. Bad stuff sucks. And so let's just, until it's happening, let's not think that it's happening. I also, I heard this crazy statistic, which is that during, from 2020 to 2022, one in

five families that didn't own a gun bought a gun. That is too many families. That's on top of all the families that already had a gun. It's like everyone, we're moving closer and closer and closer. We got like 20% more guns at least. Closer to the place where like everyone just has a gun. Like everyone has one. Not me.

I ain't going to have a gun. Because all the data says it objectively makes you less safe to own a gun. Yes. I mean, the chances of dying by gun. Exactly. Are just so much. And there are so many accidental gun deaths and injuries.

It's crazy. And like suicides and stuff too. It's like. Yeah, no, it's really bad. It's really bad. It's really bad. But the cat's out of the bag and I don't know how you get all those guns back.

I don't know. The guns are out of the bag anyway. don't know how you get all those guns back. The guns are out of the bag. Anyway, so I would rather not go down the path of living in an autocratic United States. I'd rather not. I'd personally prefer not to. For me, it's not so good. Anyway, not to talk about real things or anything. I also want to tell you guys I took another seven and a half hour car ride with my children yesterday.

So I'm feeling a little cuckoo, you might say. You might. You might be about to feel a little more cuckoo. I am just still riding high on the magic of having seen my friends last weekend. We had my bachelorette party that Sammy threw along with her other dear friend, Kim. And it was absolutely perfect. It was

so incredible. I... Wow. They did such a good job. Oh my god. I mean of course. Of course. Oh my god. It was so good. They know how to navigate an Etsy page. Let's just say they know how to navigate an Etsy page. They know how to book a Tom Cruise impersonator. It wasn't easy. Oh, my God. I one of the single greatest, like singular moments of my life was the moment when I realized a Tom Cruise impersonator was about to enter the room as danger zone was blasting over the speakers.

Did enter the room and it was spectacular. I was shocked. It was so perfect. I never dreamed that that would happen and it was so incredible. We also took, I will recommend to anyone for any occasion, book it whenever you want. It doesn't have to be a bachelorette party.

Look into the Artful Bachelorette. It is an art class where you paint a nude male model. It was like the most fun two hours of my entire life. It was so fun. I've never laughed harder. I've never laughed harder. It was so, we did not laugh at the nude male model. No, of course not.

Who was delightful and an angel. Oscar, we love you, you are perfect. I hope you're listening. But we did really laugh at each other's art and God, it was fun and funny and so special. And like, I just, the thing that I hadn't really thought about until before the bachelorette party that I'm also now thinking about for the wedding

that is so special is like, it's not just me getting to hang out with my friends who I love and adore and I'm obsessed with. I get to watch my friends hanging out with my friends. Like everyone I love being with everyone I love and having a good time. And it was really special and really like, yeah, throwing a wedding is a whole mixed bag

and it's really fucking nuts sometimes, but man, that part is like so unbelievably worth it and is just incredibly cool. And it was the best weekend of my life so far. It was so fun. It was amazing. Henley wore the funniest little dress. Henley wore the tiniest little skin tight pink dress

and super high feather little stiletto heels. One of the other greatest singular moments of my life was Henley walking into the room in that outfit. My God, really just so special. Sammy's instructions were to go big or make our girl proud. And you did. God, you did. And so I got on that Revolve sale page and I said, show me what you got. She said yes to the dress. She said yes to the dress.

And it did. Oh my God. Thanks for giving me the excuse. Our friend kept saying, you looked like a newborn slut. And it was true. And it really made me laugh. A newborn slut. Just like, just born Bambi, like finding her legs

in a tiny, tiny, tiny little dress. And I used... Straight out of the womb with feathered silhouettes on. Straight out of the womb into the world. Like when you've seen like baby drafts being like, how do I? And like, that was me in that like, that was me on the stairs. Just like, oh, I hope I don't ruin anything.

There were so many stairs. You went so slow. Oh my God. It was so good. It was so good. Oh, it was fun. It was really fun. It was so fun.

So special. Yeah. Yeah. Ugh. Yeah. What a delight. Doesn't get better than that. It really doesn't. Well, something actually scary did happen this week,

which is that there was... That just the next day after... It was brutal timing. It was really turning up brutal timing. And already having a bit of a emotional crash after just such high highs. On Monday in Los Angeles, there was an earthquake. I know, we haven't talked about this. An earthquake in South Pasadena.

It was like- Yeah, it was like right there. It was the worst one I've ever felt. It's not the biggest one we ever had, but I think because of how close it was, and it also was like shallow, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I've lived here for what? How long?

14 years? Yeah. And it was the most intense one I have felt. And yeah, it was a 4.4, which isn't that high. We've like had higher ones, but yes, they've been further away, the center. And this was right here. And I dove under my desk. First time I've ever done that. What happened? Tell me what it was like.

I've always wondered if I would do that. And I I was certain that like the building was going to start falling. Like I was like, I was genuinely normally during an earthquake. I'm like, oh, God, like I'm uneasy. But I was like scared. Like, this was the first time that it started and I was like, oh, I'm like very scared right now, which was not fun.

No, I was like shaking and my cat just like froze in the middle of the living room, which I talked to my therapist about this because I've talked on the podcast also about how I'm very scared of earthquakes because I feel like my building is old shitty building and will be coming down in the big one. And like that moment of feeling like scared for my cat, we talked about it. And for cats or at least my cats, they're scared of everything to the same degree. So I think for them, it's like probably wasn't that different from the trash truck driving by.

Right. Or like when I wear long sleeves and Theo's like, what is that? It's like the same situation. They get over things pretty quickly. So that's good for them, but I was pretty shaken up by it, pun intended. And I was taking vitamins at the time and couldn't find them. I couldn't find them the next day as I was trying to take my daily vitamins and they were under my desk. And I had like completely forgotten that I took them there. Yeah, it really made me laugh. But it was like a violent shake, Kenley. It was like a big, loud shake.

It was like a side to sidey. Side to side. It was very like, gg, gg, gg, gg. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I really hate it. But then was it over kind of fast? No. Was it really intense and short, or was it long?

It was definitely most intense right at the beginning, but then it continued to shake for a little while. Which again, I think is because we were just so close to it. So we like felt all of it, like the whole duration of it. Oh. And I was at work and I've just, you know, I've never been at work for an earthquake. So I was like very, I like, I mean,

I went under my desk because I looked up and I was like, I don't know like what's above, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know. It just felt like all of a sudden, I was like, I don't know what could fall on me. Oh my God, it was the know what I mean? Like, I don't know. It just felt like all of a sudden I was like, I don't know what could fall on me. Oh my God. It was the first time I've like actually, yeah, been like scared, scared, truly, while an earthquake has happened.

What did your coworkers do? One of them went under her desk. We were all very shaken up and they're like LA natives, two of my coworkers, and they too were like, that's the worst one I've felt. Because something about it, it just like really, it really did not feel good. It was so close.

Yeah, it did not feel good. I was like immediately so aware of like, I'm so far from Joel, like what, you know, I just like, I really didn't, yeah. I really didn't like it. And yeah, I was also like so drained that, and we had gotten, everyone was fine, but one of the girls at the Bachelorette did have COVID,

she's fine, nobody else got COVID thankfully, but we had just gotten that news, so I was also like, fuck, are all my friends about to get COVID? And I was like, I had to put a mask on at work, and it just was a Monday was did not treat us well. But that's okay, because the weekend was worth it.

And we all made it through. Yeah, take the good with the bad baby. But you know, you don't love a noon Monday earthquake. That's just really not nice to happen. Yeah, it's a very weird start to the week. And the day two I was like, what am I supposed to like, do work again now? Yeah. Fuck.

What else can you do, I guess? Everybody, you know, get your bottled water, canned food. Yeah. I know, it makes you go like, oh, I need a plan. Like, it's like, what's our plan if we're like not in the same place? Like, where do we meet? If we have to like, you know what I mean? Those types of things.

Oh, I don't want to, yeah, I know, but I don't want to talk about it. I know. You're right, but I don't want to talk about it. I know. I want to talk about Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Me too, me too. Cuckoo!

Hey, Lana! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! That was, if you couldn't tell, a quote from Pope's Exorcist that last time. That was a direct quote. Constantly quoting the Pope's Exorcist throughout this episode. Which is different from the long legs quote is cuckoo, cuckoo. I was going to say, I feel like cuckoo has been coming up a lot recently.

Well, apparently it's like it means hello in French, but also kind of in Europe. Who was like, it's like, it's kind of just European, which is like, no. It's like a cute way of saying hi, kind of. It's like saying like, hey. Cuckoo. Say cuckoo. I mean, it is cute.

Yeah. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Ah, cuckoo. Well, we'll be saying a lot, cause today's movie is Cuckoo in theaters now, written and directed by Tillman Singer, starring Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jan Blutart, Mila Lu,

Martin Sokos, and Jessica Henwick. And yeah, in theaters now. I said that already. What do you guys know about this movie? Only Dan Stevens, baby. And Hunter Schafer, which I realized, I told you last night, I don't think I've ever seen Hunter Schafer in anything because I don't watch he for ya. And I didn't watch the new Hunger Games movies, but I'm very familiar with her red carpet, incredible performances. Her style is just absolutely perfect.

And I know that Dan Stevens is in this movie and you know that Dan Stevens is, other than Joel, the love of my life. Yes. Wow. He is so good in this. When is he not? That's essentially all I know of my life. Yes. Wow. He is so good in this. When is he not? That's essentially all I know too.

Great. Yes. God, I love him. That's it. Look at him playing a little recorder. Recorder, so cute. Oh God, I love him. So cute. He's not gonna be bad in this movie, right?

No. He's gonna be good. I was about to say, I love when he's bad, cause he's so good at being fucking, he's so good at everything, but I like really do love that version of him. I can't wait. I'm so I've been really curious about this film for a long time.

I feel like I first heard about it like two years ago. Yeah. So some of the trivia is that I feel like it got delayed quite a few times, which is never really a great sign. And I'm not sure what was going on behind the scenes, but some re-editing and reworking, I'm sure. This was Hunter Schafer's first movie. This is the first thing she was ever cast in, or maybe she was cast in Euphoria, but Tillman Singer, the director, cast her before Euphoria came out. So he had not seen her in anything,

but her self-tape, because this was started in like COVID times, I think it was, you know, 2020 or so when they started pre-production. And he was just really blown away by her tape. And so, cast her. There we go. Amazing. Wow, and now she's having a huge moment.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to see her in more stuff. And Euphoria Season Three is happening again now. I guess it is. They're starting filming in January. I've been seeing the Instagram posts. It's been a real roller coaster. It's so funny. It's like these teen shows that go on for like seven years.

It's like these actors are 30 now. Yeah. And they're going to play 17 year olds still. I will see. Maybe they'll do a Riverdale style time jump. That would be great. I would love that. They should take a page out of Riverdale's book. Everybody should. And that's how you make a show. That's the secret sauce. Cuckoo has a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, 60 on Metacritic, 6.4 on IMDB. The budget was seven million. So far it has made 4.5 million, but at the time of this recording,

it's only been out for nine days. So. Okay, they'll probably make it back. They'll probably make it back. I think it's gonna be like a huge, great success for Neon, especially after Long Legs, which just crossed 100 million at the box office. Is that wild?

That's so crazy. Long Legs is, yeah, like the highest grossing indie horror of all time. What? This reminds me of a meme I saw. I might have sent it to you guys. It really makes me laugh. It's a picture of Nick Cage's long legs staring in that.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And it says, after he just said what for the third time and still didn't hear what the person said. I hate when that happens so much. It really made me laugh. Oh, it's a really perfect meme. It's like the unwritten rule where you just have to pretend. And you just have to roll the dice, the 50-50 of like, oh, or oh. Or oh.

Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh.

Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh.

Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh.

Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Or oh. Exactly. Hope I did the right reaction. Always makes me feel insane. I don't speak English

and why am I not understanding what they're saying? So trivia wise, oh, the only other piece of trivia I had was that John Malkovich was originally cast in the Dan Stevens role. I can see that. Yeah, that's making sense. And Dan Stevens, I think because of the delays, it ended up being that John Malkovich couldn't do it. He had to drop out because of schedule stuff. And so Dan Stevens had a call with Tillman Singer basically explaining why the character

didn't need to be in his 60s and that he could do it. I fucking love Dan Stevens. It's gonna be hard for me to not just say that this entire episode, so if I do, sorry. I love him so much. I just think he is such a special actor. If he was trying to convince me of anything, I'd be like, yeah, you're right.

It's so cool to go from Downton Abbey to Legion. Like I feel like- He's incredible. And the guest and like, my God, the range on this man. Yeah, he is just strikes me as someone who likes to switch it up and challenge himself and do completely different roles and like gets bored and is like, let me try something totally different,

takes big swings. It reminds me of someone else I like named Nicholas Cage. And I just, yeah, like an actor that takes big risks and seems like they're having fun. And also like knows themselves well enough to be able to like argue for a role and be right. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. Takes a lot of confidence. It takes a lot of confidence and he's got the skills to back it up. And like, it's also, yeah, we talk about this a lot. Like he's such like a weird little actor and I'll never get over how unbelievably hot he is in The Guest. It's like actually insane to be like,

but then it's this guy who is like playing a little record. Like I'm also like, to me, that range is also insane. I mean, obviously he's a beautiful man, but his ability to be like, well, actually now I'm gonna be insanely hot. And then I'm gonna be a freaky little dork. And I'm like, what? How do you do that?

How does he do it? He can do it all. And I also feel like, I think it was his choice to leave Downton Abbey. And people were really upset about it, myself included. And I feel like a lot of times when people make a choice like that in their career, it like really derails it. And he's just kept on keeping on, man.

Really impressive. Good for him. Good for him, although it was very sad. But it's fine, I'm over it. Did you like him in this, Sammy? What did you think of him in this? Oh yeah, he's great in this. Hunter Schaeffer's also great.

Everybody's great in it, but he's playing a German man speaking in a thick German accent. I love when he does accent work. And speaking German. Wow, wow, wow. And just as usual, he's shining so bright. Oh, he shines so bright. He really just shines so bright. We're so lucky.

We're so lucky. If you wanna see our trailer reaction, that will also be on our Patreon, but let's just dive into cuckoo, cuckoo. Cuckoo, cuckoo. When it's this hot out, one of the tasks that I find to be the most difficult is getting dressed to go out.

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and you know, it was kind of tricky to remember everything. But here we go. Here we go. We begin in Germany. There is a couple yelling at each other in German. No subtitles. We don't know what they're saying, but it sounds like a pretty intense fight and we see their teenage daughter in her room listening and kind of twitching in a way that seems almost inhuman, very unnatural body movements. And then we're hearing this fighting intensify, someone hits someone and then there's like a body fall to the ground sound. And then we just hear someone crying.

The daughter runs downstairs, runs out of the house, and we hear this screeching coming from the forest around the house. And it zooms in on her ear, which twitches like how a cat's ear moves towards sound. So again, just not the way human ears move. She runs into the woods. And then we hear a disembodied voiceover phone call of a man speaking to another man saying, you've already lost your adolescent. This is not good. The mothers are harder to control without a nestling.

Okay. That's not how you talk about children and mothers. Nestling. A nestling. So we have no idea what the fuck that was all about. Cut to Hunter Schaefer in a moving truck with these two German men. Her and her family are moving to the Bavarian Alps and we see the rest of her family in the car ahead of them, her dad, her stepmom, and her half sister who's about nine. And so already it gives this sense of her being a little bit ostracized within her own family. She's in a separate car. She's supposed to be 17 in this movie. She's like an angsty teenager. But also in a hard situation, I feel like when a parent gets remarried and

has a new kid, that's just not easy. And so they arrive at this resort. Dan Stevens walks out to greet them. His name is Er König. He is a German man, thick German accent, very fun. He's really happy to see Hunter Schaeffer's parents or dad and stepmom. Let me say everybody's names. Hunter Schaeffer's character's name is Gretchen. I'm just going to call her dad her dad. Her stepmom is Beth and her half sister is Alma and Dan Stevens is her. So he's saying, so nice to see you guys again. Oh, so nice to see you guys again. But he's saying, welcome, welcome back. And they show him the original architectural plans they drew for this resort nine years

ago. It seems that they spent their honeymoon here at this resort nine years ago, which is where Alma was conceived. Got it, got it. And how I understood it was that it was a much smaller resort, but then they kind of grew close with Erkönig and drew up these architectural plans of like, what if it did this and this? And he has kept in touch with them over the years and followed some of their advice and grown

the resort. It's beautiful. Again, Bavarian Alps, very, very picturesque. There's one main resort that's the reception area and a lot of the guest rooms, but then there are also separate houses around that are some of them are suites, I think, that people can rent and then some of them are like where Herr König lives and where this family is going to be moving into. They are moving here, not just staying here. Oh, permanently. Okay. Yes. They have moving trucks, right. So he takes them to their home, which is again, very beautifully designed glass walls, stunning place. Gretchen is taking it all in. She's always got her headphones on listening to music kind of grumpy and doesn't look like she's too excited about being there. And a woman in a doctor's jacket

walks up and says hello to them and seems confused by Gretchen's presence there and says, oh, nobody told me you were coming. And she says, why would they tell you I was coming? And Herr König swoops in and says, Gretchen is a surprise. Isn't this such a great surprise? Gretchen is like, and he keeps calling her Gretchen, Gretchen. And she's like, it's Gretchen, it's Gretchen. And he's like, Nani's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Gretchen. Gretchen. That was very cute. And so we are getting the impression that Gretchen wasn't initially going to be on moving with them and everyone's a little surprised that she's here. We don't know why there's a doctor coming to speak to them. She's introduced as the resort doctor, which as far as I know, is not a thing,

but I guess they are in the middle of nowhere. So it doesn't necessarily seem like a bad idea. It's kind of nice to have a doctor on site. To have a doctor there. This is feeling more and more like a sanatorium. It's feeling more and more like a place in the Alps where they go to euthanize you. Right. Yeah. And Gretchen seems pretty unsettled by some of the things she's seeing, but everyone else is just like on cloud nine. This is so gorgeous. We're so lucky. Everybody's getting

settled in. Gretchen's getting settled in her room. She listens to a voicemail from one of her friends that says, you know, how much we miss you and here's the song that we had been working on. So we learned that she had been in a band back home and she, you know, misses all her friends and she's listening to this song that they had recorded before she left. And it a pretty sick song, I got to say. The music in this movie is good. She is looking just homesick when she gets out her phone and dials a number and we hear it go to voicemail and we hear a woman's voice saying, this is Gretchen and so and so like Linda or whatever. And we're not home right now, but leave us a message at the beat. Bye. And Gretchen is crying now and leaving a voicemail saying, hi, mom. I know this is weird that I keep doing this,

but I just miss you. And it's really weird here. And I want to come home. I wish I could come home. So that's so sad. We are presuming that her mother has died. And that is why she wasn't given up. Yeah. That is why this is kind of a surprise arrangement of her now living with her dad. As she's having this emotional moment, her dad and Dan Stevens walk in and her dad's like quite an asshole to her all the time. And I think maybe he wanted to be moving here with his new family. It just gives the impression of she's a reminder of... He doesn't have a strong relationship with her and it

feels like he'd rather she'd not be there in a way that's really palpable. All of their conversations feel a little strained. You're're just kind of like, dude, this is your daughter, like, stop being a dick. Yeah. Why are people like this? Why are people like this? I don't understand. I don't know. But maybe I guess when they got divorced, she like went and lived with her mom. And maybe she just like haven't really talked since. Yeah. Yeah. There's clearly some family drama that has happened that, yeah, they're not

in a great place. And König sees her sitting on her bed looking for Lorne and he offers her a job at the resort and says, do you want to work at the reception desk? There's not a lot to do here for someone your age. If you're bored and want to make some money, I'll obviously pay you. She's like, totally, yeah, I'll do that. That sounds great. She's going to work at the front desk. We see her, I think the next day, being trained by the other receptionist named Trixie, who is a French woman who I swore I recognized. You know when you're like,

oh, I can't wait to look this person up on IMDB later, because I know I know them from something. And then it doesn't. And then there's nothing. Oh my God, hate that. I was so mad. That's a bad feeling. So if anybody knows. That's there's nothing. Oh, I hate that. I hate that. I'm so mad. That's a bad feeling.

So if anybody knows. It's such a bad feeling. She's in a commercial or something. I was going to say, if anybody knows if she's in some very random thing, please tell me because it's really bothering me. So Trixie is training her how to use the register and where all the room keys are and everything she needs to know. As she's training her, Gretchen is seeing that there's this man outside that looks a little suspicious sitting in his car just staring, watching everything that they're doing

in a weird way. We're like, oh, that's okay, clock everything that they're doing in a weird way. And we're like, that's okay, clocking that. And then a woman that had been in the lobby area, there's, you know, like souvenirs and some snacks. And there's a woman walking around that just starts vomiting. And everyone seems to think it's very normal. Trixie turns to Gretchen and says, yeah, that happens sometimes. Don't worry about that. Like, what? What?

That happens sometimes? That happens sometimes, yes. Sometimes. Ea Konig comes in to see how the training is going and to tell her that she's just here to pick up some hours in the day, that she should not be here at night and cannot. The vomiting gets really bad at night.

She cannot be here alone at night because she has only a bike. Trixie seems annoyed by this and Trixie's like, wait, so I can't ever not have the closing shift and he's like, well, Trixie, you have a car. So yeah, you're fine because you'll be able to take your car home. Gretchen only has a bike and it's not safe. It's not safe with the vampires and the werewolves on a bike. That's the vibe. And so he's very clear, you know, you can't be here after dark. And Gretchen is rolling her eyes at this a bit like I'd be fine, but okay, whatever. She goes home that day and is playing guitar in her room, again, looking homesick. And Alma comes in. Alma, by the

way, is mute. So they speak, she can hear, but they also speak. Does she have a tongue? Is there a tongue in that head? She has a tongue. Yes. But you know, sometimes they're speaking in sign language and sometimes not. And their relationship is also not good. Gretchen, when she was in the moving truck with the two guys, they're like, Oh, that, oh, is that your sister? And she's like, no, it's not my sister. But it is, it's her half-sister. But clear that they're not close, and it's also, I mean, she's nine, so they're not gonna be hanging out.

But there's tension there. It seems like Gretchen is, you know, understandably a bit resentful of this part of the family, and has not been able to build a relationship with Alma yet. But Alma comes in and is watching her play guitar. Gretchen isn't noticing that Alma's there. She's got her back to her. We see this long, slow pushing on the woods and again, this screeching noise coming that's all like bird-like, I guess, but also kind of guttural in a weird way that's like a scream. As this screeching is happening, we see Alma twitch in the same way that the girl in the

opening scene is twitching. Uh-huh. Uh-oh. And so she's kind of twitching and twitching and looking almost like she's having a seizure. And eventually Gretchen notices as she catches it in her peripheral vision and stands up, takes her headphones off and is like, Alma, what's going on? Goes up to her to grab her and see if she's okay. Right as she gets down on her knees to hold Alma,

she's back at her desk holding the guitar again. The room is doing this kind of vibrating thing and it's really loud. I saw this at the Vista and I don't know if this volume at the Vista was just extremely loud, but it was so fucking loud. This whole movie was very loud. The room is shaking and vibrating. Gretchen is looking confused, again takes her headphones off, grows over to Alma, gets to her knees and tries to hold her, gets back to her chair with the guitar in her hand. And so she's stuck in this loop- Whoa, that's interesting.

Not being able to- To help. Help. And then someone I think comes in and it stops and things seem to go back to normal. But I think Alma collapses and Gretchen looks really confused. We're not sure if she can remember that this has happened or like what her experience of it was. But while it was happening, she was confused by it. Yeah. I mean, her face looked like she was registering that something was not correct. I think her parents walk in and we take Alma to the hospital because they think that she has had a seizure

and nobody cares about Gretchen. Gretchen's just left behind. They're like, whatever, you're fine. So she is whisked away and Gretchen goes back to the reception for her shift. She's got a shift to work and Trixie has secretly asked her if she can close up for her because she's got a date with her boyfriend. Already. It's the first 24 hours. Jixie. And Gretchen says, of course, yeah, I don't mind at all. So she's there. It's nighttime now. She falls asleep and we keep getting shots of the door being open and Dan Stevens has also said like, make sure 10 PM, lock the doors, make sure all the doors are locked at 10 PM. And we see that the doors are open. It's not 10 PM yet, but there's just, we're getting

the sense something bad is going to happen obviously. But before something bad happens, the hottest woman in the world walks in, French woman that's checking in. She's grabbed like a six pack of beer off the shelf and she sets it down. Hunter Schaeffer is understandably mesmerized by her, gets all tongue tied and it's like, uh, uh, uh. They have a little exchange where she checks her in. And as they're flirting, a woman in a nightgown, it's not quite a nasty nightgown, it's more like a pajama short and tank top situation, but clearly pajamas, walks into the lobby, vomits, and then grabs a soda can off the shelf and just chugs it. And Gretchen and this hot French woman are both looking at her concerned, calling out to her, are you okay? What's going on? And then she just walks out and the French woman is like, hey, you have to pay for that. And at that moment, the phone rings, Gretchen answers it.

It's Erkönig and he says, Trixi, what are you doing? The lights are still on and it's almost 10 p.m. Why have you not turned the lights off? And Gretchen answers like, oh, I covered for Trixi, but there's a guest here that seems to be disoriented. I'm going to help her." And he's like, Gretchen, why are you there? He's like, Gretchen, no! Gretchen, lock the doors.

Are they just throwing up on the ground? Yes. Are they throwing up in a trash can? They're just throwing up all over the ground. On the ground. Yeah. I really hate that. What the fuck? He says, lock the doors right now. I'm coming to get you. And she just hangs up the phone and kind of wanders off to find this lady, can't find the lady. And also the French girl

just goes up to her room. This part again, I can't really remember. It was like, seems like we kind of just... Ski past that. Yeah, let that situation fizzle out a bit and everyone's like, okay, well, good night. And so she goes outside to her bike and throws on her headphones, is riding home and we see she's riding down one road and through the trees, you can see another road running parallel to it and a hooded figure running super fast alongside of her that she doesn't notice, but we see it.

And then a very cool shot happens where it's like a close-up of her riding on the bike. We see her close-up of her face listening to her music and looking down at the shadow as she passes streetlights like of her bike past, like the shadow of the bike kind of passing. That's cool. And then she notices something behind the bike in the shadow. And as she passes each streetlight, it it gets closer until eventually you see just the shadow of a hand reaching out to her. She whips her head around to look behind her and we see

a hooded figure that's a woman with glowing red eyes, with a wide open mouth screeching, but I don't think we can hear her because we're still hearing what's in Gretchen's headphones. She screams and falls off the bike and maybe gets back on the bike and there's a hospital nearby. I guess this is where the doctor is. There is a hospital there. I forgot about that. She runs to the hospital like emergency room entrance and it's closed and locked and she's banging on the glass, the sliding glass doors and is like, let me in, help, help, help.

And this hooded glowing eyed lady is again kind of inhumanly twitch walking towards her screeching and the loop thing might happen again here where she's like stuck in that little time loop and she puts her headphones back on maybe to block out the noise and then she's able to get into the emergency room. They like finally open the door, but it's that setup where there's one set of sliding glass doors and another set that are still locked. Once she gets in the first ones, she just runs straight into the second glass door and hits her head really hard on the glass. It's like dripping blood from her head, turns back. The doors have closed and

locked behind her, but she can see the woman now just glaring at her, trying to get in there. She's pretty scary looking. And then as a nurse runs up, the woman disappears. She opens the inside sliding doors, lets Gretchen in and says, you know what happened? She says, I was being chased by a woman. Nobody else saw the woman.

Of course not. The police come to take a report and they're kinda, we can tell they don't really believe her and they're like, it was probably some sort of hilarious prank. Who does that prank? Who is doing that prank? Oh, you know how those Germans are.

Nighttime chase prank. To a stranger, to a complete stranger. Yeah, we've all been there, done that. It's really funny and good. So she's at work the next day. She's got like a bandage on her head now, but she goes back to work. It's just very suspicious of everybody, really freaked out. And the guy who she saw when she was being trained that was just sitting in his car watching, walks in and introduces

himself as a detective. And he's kind of whispering and he's saying, I would like to talk to you about what happened last night. The woman you saw, I've seen her too. And right at this moment, I think the hot French girl walks back in and she's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Like shut up, shut up. I'll talk to you later. And he's like, come to my room later. She's like, yeah, yeah, totally. And she brushes him off. Hot girl comes back and is flirting with her, turns her keys in and Gretchen checks her out. And she's like, don't you need to charge me for the room? And Gretchen's like, no, for you. Gretchen. Girl, this is not how this goes.

Don't let us 17-year-old run reception at your hotel. You do need to charge her for the room, Gretchen. You do. It's so funny, the idea of them being like, wait, you just come work the reception desk like this random teen. Yeah. Oh boy. Okay. I was thinking about this lately how I haven't seen a teenager working in quite a while and

I think it's like because we're in LA maybe and like I see it more in like more suburban areas. Like sometimes I guess I'll see them in Orange County. Yeah, I've thought about this too, like particularly in the service industry, like out here, waiters at restaurants are like, you know, career waiters who make a good living and are like very, very good at what they do. And it's like, it's really fascinating when I go like back home or most recently when I went to visit my sister who lives in Maryland and kind of like, you know, like

a kind of a smaller town and yeah, all the servers are teens who are less like little kids who are bad at their jobs. And it's so funny. It is so funny. The contrast of being served at a restaurant by like a 16 year old who is just an idiot. And I really love it. And I think it's so charming and funny. I like wanna go to a Red Robin or something and have that. It's really so funny. Experience again.

Yeah, there are some areas where like all those jobs go to teenagers, like movie theaters, restaurants, coffee shops, it's teenagers. And it's like all adults here. And so it's really funny to be like, you're a kid, you can't work a job. Like you're not good at this. Also now, cause teens like look like children too.

It's getting more and more that way where it's like, how old are you? 11? No, 16. Like I can't tell the difference between an 11 year old and a 16 year old. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, they do stupid shit like this.

It's like, you can't, you can't do it. Joel worked at a movie theater in high school and they all were like in high school and just like wreaked havoc on the place. Like it's like, you can't have a bunch of teenagers working at a place. No. It's not good.

It's not good. And yeah, so she doesn't charge her for the room and then she like leaves the front desk to go outside to make out with her. for the room and then she like leaves the front desk to go outside to make out with her and the girl is asking her to come to France with her. Are you real? Okay. So much has happened in 24 hours. Whirlwind romance here. Yeah. And we have heard Gretchen has been leaving voicemails on her mom's answering machine

a couple of times throughout here where she keeps saying like, I want to come home. I want to come home. And she tells this hot French girl, I need to find an airport. I want to go back to America. I have a house there waiting for me. I just need some money. And hot French girl says we have airports in France. And so Gretchen gets the idea to run away with Hot French Girl, steals money from the till. Oh boy. And gets in the car and just leaves with Hot French Girl. They're driving down the forest road talking when a screeching sound comes from the forest.

And again, the air around them starts vibrating. It's like in a moment where French girl is passing a joint to Gretchen, and that's where the loop gets set. So it's just like the joint starting Gretchen's hand and then going to French girl and back and forth and back and forth as it's vibrating and really loud and like, ah, ah. Does the French girl seem aware that it's happening? No.

No, just Gretchen. Okay. Yeah. For some reason, no, I didn't think so, but the way that the air vibrates reminded me of if anybody has seen Harry Potter, the Cursed Child on Broadway, there's a very cool vibrating effect that it does in that. That kind of reminded me of that. It's a very specific reference for some people. Okay. And as this loop is happening, the car is getting closer to the woman with the glowing red eyes standing facing them in the middle of the street like a showdown and Gretchen yells, watch out.

Is it daytime or nighttime? It's nighttime. Okay. And hot French girl swerves off the road, car flips, big car accident. And we see, oh, a pretty cool shot of, I believe Gretchen is upside down and there's blood coming from her mouth and it drips down, but because she's upside down, yeah, it drips into her eye.

Ew. And she's like blinking and all this blood is going in her eye. And it was pretty, it was kind of a cool shot. We see Hot French Girl is looking just unconscious, dead. We're not sure, but we don't have a ton of time to take that in because the lady with glowing red eyes rips Hot French Girl out of the car and starts crawling in to try to get Gretchen and is like, wah, wah, wah. So we're seeing that this is the source of the screeching noise.

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Her face is bruised and swollen. Her arm is broken in a sling, but one of those, she has metal rods down her upper arm and lower arm, it's pinning things in place. It doesn't look, it looks bad. Dan Stevens is in there kind of menacingly speaking to her, being like, I told you not to go out at night time. Obviously she has stolen all this money from the till and they know that and they know that she was running away after stealing a bunch of money. So her dad is completely pissed at her.

And before her dad comes in, Herr König says, if I were you, I wouldn't want to get hurt even more. So it's pretty menacing. Great. And as the dad walks in, Herr König stands up and is like, apology accepted, goodbye. And Gretchen is in the same hospital room as Alma because Alma's in there for the seizures.

And we had seen the night before the dad's sleeping at Alma's bedside, but now Alma is discharging us to go home. She's been okay overnight, so we think maybe everything's fine. And Gretchen asks her dad to stay with her. She's scared. She's like, please dad, like don't leave me here. And he's like, you got yourself into this mess or something.

Like he's completely unsympathetic to her and is like, I didn't sleep at all last night because I was here uncomfortable. Like I need to be in my own bed tonight and like Beth and Alma need me at home. Like you're almost 18, you can handle it. That's really, that's really bad. No thanks.

So she's left alone in her hospital room and we see a man's like feet walking into the room, well shoes, and sits on the side of the bed. We see that it is the detective guy that had tried to speak with her earlier. He reveals that he was the one who shot at the woman last night and saved her. He was like, I think that she's going to keep coming for you. If we stick together, I think we'll be able to lure her out again. And I'm pretty sure that she is responsible for some murders that have happened around here. And we need to gather more evidence. And I don't know who we can trust. Don't tell your dad. Don't tell anybody because I don't know who's in on this.

We don't really know what he's talking about. Does he seem to understand that there's something supernatural going on or we don't know? We don't know. Okay. And so they realize it has something to do with one of the hotel suites that is a standalone cabin called the Lover's Nest. And I think through-

Where one might find a nestling. Yes. And we find out that all the women that have been vomiting have been staying in that room. And so they decide they're gonna do a stakeout of the lover's nest that night and see what's going on in there. So that night, or maybe it's a couple of nights later,

whenever she's discharged from the hospital, she teams back up with this guy. His name is Henry, the detective. Do we trust him? I mean, more than air couldn't. Anybody else? Yeah, okay. Yeah.

But we're not totally sure. TBD. And so we see this one night, Trixie and her boyfriend are in the lover's nest. She's setting it all up with rose petals and she's like, it's empty for the night. So I thought we could stay here like and have a nice little romantic time.

Sure you will. Trixie. Her boyfriend is a cop and I can't remember if he's, I can't remember if that's important to the plot or not, but he seems stressed that this is happening and I don't know if it's because he's in on more information than she is or if he's just like a rule follower. And so he's trying to clean up and saying like, no, like this is we can't stay here. And as he's taking the wine bottle and wine glasses

and putting them back, he hears screeching and he gets caught in this loop of putting the wine glasses back on the shelf over and over. But we're seeing that Gretchen and Henry are seeing this. And I can't tell if it's like what is visible to them, but they can see that something is going on and the woman is approaching the cabin now. So maybe that's the only thing that they're reacting to, but the woman is approaching the cabin.

Is Trixie seeing anything? No. Okay. So they can see it, but Trixie- Trixie's in like a bathrobe in the bedroom and she's like, okay, let me just get dressed and I'll, and then we can leave. So she's like getting dressed and not noticing that this is happening. Oh, because she's blow drying her hair. So it has to do with sound. It has to do with like being able to hear this screeching sound. And I didn't put that together for a long time, but it's like anytime Hunter Schaeffer has her headphones on, she's fine.

And so I think it's because this Trixie is blow drying her hair that it's like loud enough that the screeches aren't affecting her. But once she turns it off, then it does start affecting her. But in kind of a different way where she's like, she's sitting on the bed and she starts like violently scratching her legs as if she's

like so itchy and twitching around a bit and throwing herself back on the bed and then getting back up and scratching her legs. It's really unsettling the movements she's making. And we see the woman with the glowing eyes entering the cabin and crawling towards Trixie. Well, there's a pretty scary moment where she like, Trixie hears something after she turns off the blow dryer and like is looking down the hallway and you just see the woman like appear from behind the wall, mouth wide open always with her eyes glowing like, and then crawls toward her.

Trixie's scratching her legs, twitching, doesn't seem to be able to fully react to the situation. She's under some sort of spell from the screeching. And the woman takes her hand and puts it in her skirt, like under her skirt, and pulls it out with all this goo on it and is like reaching towards Trixie, about to presumably put this goo in her somewhere when Henry and Gretchen burst in, they shoot at the woman. I think the woman just flees, runs away again. But again, these are the moments that I'm like, how did this end? Because it feels like we should all be having a big conversation like what the fuck

just happened? And that never happens. So it's like, what do people remember? What do they don't remember? Yeah. And like, I don't know if we'd see what happens to Trixie. it's very strange. So we see the next day Gretchen back at home, or I think she does just like wake up in her bed. So something is happening where they're being manipulated in a way that they either they can't remember what's happened or just their like perception of time is being manipulated. So she wakes up in her bed the next day, goes downstairs, Erkonik is there talking to her dad and stepmom and Alma is also there and they all seem so happy, big smiles on their faces. Isn't it so lovely here? God, what

a beautiful day. And Gretchen storms in and yells at Erkönig, and she's like, what are you doing here? And like, why did you bring us here? And her dad is very much like, Gretchen, you're so rude. I can't believe this. Be nice to Erkönig. And Erkönig says, you're here because your family belongs here.

Oh God. And Gretchen points at him as if showing her parents, being like, that's a fucking weird way to say that. Why aren't you guys seeing what I'm seeing? And they're all like, Gretchen, calm down. You're embarrassing us. And Erkönig says, oh, by the way, Gretchen, there's a package that has arrived from America. And Gretchen goes to this package and it's a bunch of stuff from

her mom's house. And she realizes that this means her dad has sold her mom's house. And she's very upset by this because her whole thing has been dreaming about returning there and living there. Going home. Going home. Oh, that's so sad. She. I feel like that does so much to reveal

how much of a child she still is. Of course, you can't just go back to this, you're not, you know, like, duh. Yeah. But that that's like a crushing reveal for her. I don't know that like feels like narratively important. Yeah. And in this box of stuff is the answering machine from her mom's house.

So she can now listen back to her own voicemails that she's left. So she's now playing those back and really sobbing. And we're hearing just the series of her voicemails that we've heard. But then there is a voicemail from Alma using voice to text where it's like a kind of automated voice. And I actually totally missed this. I only got this from the Wikipedia. But I do remember it, but I remember being confused about what was happening at the time. And so it's Alma leaving a voicemail,

basically asking Gretchen's mom to come visit them in Germany. It's like very sweet. Like, I think it would be nice if you came and like Gretchen misses you and we'd all like for mom to come visit them in Germany. It's like very sweet. Like I think it would be nice if you came and like Gretchen misses you and we'd all like for you to come here. So very heartbreaking and sweet. Wait, but she said that,

I'm confused about when she left that voicemail. It seems like they haven't told her that she died because she's nine and they maybe weren't, I don't know, I don't know. It seems like she doesn't know that she died because she's nine and they maybe weren't, I don't know, I don't know. It seems like she doesn't know that she has died. Okay. And so Gretchen is listening to all of these crying when there's commotion downstairs

and she runs back to the living room where everyone just was and only Erkönig is there now and she says, what's going on? And he's like, your display back there caused Alma to have another seizure. And so they had to take her to the hospital. And this is the first time that Gretchen seems concerned for Alma. And she's like, well, I want to go there too. It was about to go run to get on her bike and Erkönig is like, I'll take you there. I can take you there. And I can take you to the train station if you so desperately want to leave. And for some reason Gretchen

believes him, I don't know why. And she's like, okay, great. She gets in the car with Erkönig. No, never get in the car with Erkönig. He takes her to this weird pool house that has been converted into a little prison room where a bed is, it's an empty pool and there's a bed at the bottom of the pool. Ew. Uh-oh. Really nasty looking and like locks her in this room. And we've seen him play his little flute a couple of times. He he.

Oh, great, great. It seems like he is definitely aware of the screeching woman in the woods, obviously, and somehow this little flute is used to summon her. Oh, wow. Lovely. And he does his big reveal now where he, you know, the like evil scientists saying his reasons behind everything. And it's so weird, you guys. I had the experience

of watching this movie where I just kept waiting for things to make sense and it just never really got there. And so it was cuckoo the whole time. Cuckoo through and through. So he says, well, he first starts kind of cryptically being like, you know, as a cuckoo bird lays its eggs in other birds' nests and lets the other birds raise its young, which I guess is true and is pretty creepy. Yeah. And I don't know how he reveals it, but basically, these ladies in the woods are half human half cuckoo bird. And he's using them or using women that stay at the lovers nest to implant eggs so that they can preserve this species, this amazing species of Homo cucurri or something like that.

And Alma is one of these species. And so he, when she was conceived nine years ago here, that is what happened. Beth was given the goo by another cuckoo lady. By this cuckoo lady. And so they're here at the same time now because it progresses their growth when they're near their birth mother.

And so Alma needs to be reunited with glowing red eye lady because that's her true birth mother. Okay. Wait, so he wants to keep the species of the bird going or the species of this like human bird hybrid going? Yep, hybrid human bird. To what end? To what end? I'm not sure. Okay.

And then he sprays Gretchen in the face with some pheromones, plays his little flute to call his bird lady. Oh my God. And it's creepy because it's like a glass walled pool house again, so you can see outside and we just see this woman walking closer and closer as Gretchen is getting caught in a loop again because the woman's screeching and she's trying to break off a board from the bed that's like a slat, a wood slat from the bed frame to be able to defend herself with but then keeps getting caught backwards back away from the bed and eventually the woman bird. But this is actually the one from the beginning.

So this is a different woman bird. This is where I'm starting to get really confused. Like, wait, this like teenage one is now here. I don't know why. And teenage lady bird. Lady bird. Oh, are they all, these lovers nest ladies are coming out and puking because they've just been impregnated?

I think so, yes. Got it, okay. So it's happening a lot. It seems so. Yeah, okay. And the teenage lady bird pops up behind Gretchen and slaps her really hard on the ears. She starts doing the scratching her legs thing.

She's scratching her legs and fidgeting in the same way that we saw Trixie doing it and this teenage lady bird pulls the goo out and is reaching the goo towards Gretchen when once again Henry arrives, shoots Erkönig, but in the shoulder or something, but it takes him down. But we're like, he's not going to be dead. But then walks right up to the girl, teenage lady bird and shoots her like right in the face. So she's dead. Whoa. Crazy they didn't call this movie Lady Bird.

Crazy. Lady Bird 2. Lady Bird 2. Parentheses, a different kind. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. So Henry and Gretchen now run to the hospital where Alma and her family is, I guess. They're trying to get them and get out of there.

They know that that's where the original woman bird is going to be, that they've been hunting this whole time because they want to reunite Alma and her right now. So that's what's going to be going on at the hospital is this reunification of birth mother and child. It's all done in this very evil science experiment type way. We see the doctors from earlier like sitting behind a two way mirror. And weird, you guys. I don't know. What do Beth and Henry get out of this? What do they get out of having a daughter that's half-bird? Are they part of it?

I thought they didn't know, but I guess Henry does know. Or not Henry, her dad. Oh, sorry. I keep calling him Henry, her dad. I don't know what his name is either. Because they must know because they're trying to reunite Alma with her birth mother. So wouldn't they know? I think the men know and the women don't know. And I think that's part of the whole metaphor. Okay. Okay. But I don't know that it makes sense necessarily within the story.

that it makes sense necessarily within the story. Okay. Okay. So as Henry is the detective, Henry and Gretchen arrive at the hospital, Gretchen realizes that Henry, well, Henry's like, I'm gonna, we wanna kill the woman, the glowing eyed woman, and Gretchen's on board with that.

But then he, I think, lets it slip that he's also planning on killing Alma because she's one of them as well. There's also a reveal at some point that Henry's wife was, this also happened to her when they stayed at the lover's nest a while ago and that's how he became aware of this situation and basically Erkundig like framed it to make it look like he was crazy lover's nest a while ago and that's how he became aware of this situation. And basically

Erkundig like framed it to make it look like he was crazy because he was like, I think they're trying to like turn my wife into a bird or whatever. And so he's actually been fired from his job as a detective. He's just like doing this on his own dime because he's trying to get to the bottom of what's been going on. But he's kind of driven a little mad with trying to, you know, it's personal for him and he's not thinking straight necessarily the best way to go about this. So Gretchen realizes he wants to kill Alma too, because he just wants to kill anyone that's been, has anything to do with these bird bird people. And so she Gretchen stabs Henry. She has this little butterfly knife the whole time

that, I don't know, looks cool, but also, I forgot about until now, so I guess it doesn't really matter that much. And we see Akunig going into where the other doctors are observing the mother and daughter being reunited and here he says something like, you guys have been stealing files from me this whole time, haven't you? I can't remember what he says, but for some fucking reason he kills like everybody else involved. I was like, what is going on? I don't understand. But he kills the other doctors and he's in like full

mad scientist mode, but with a gun now and then it becomes like a shootout. Whoa. Gretchen goes into the room where Alma is to save her bird woman is approaching them, like, give me my baby, but doesn't speak. And so it's like, and Gretchen acts like she's going to stab Alma with her knife as a way to like make the bird lady back off because that's her daughter theoretically. So they're able to get away, but Alma's so freaked out that she just runs and Gretchen loses her and is like trying to find her and runs into this library room where there's all these shelves of books and medical records and stuff. The bird woman chases her in there and there's kind of a tense, like when it's going through the aisles of the books and hiding and she's

put her headphones in, smart girl. And so the screeching isn't affecting her. So she's able to like sneak around the shelves and hide until eventually Henry comes in and pushes the bookshelves over. So they'd have a domino, they all fall, which like crushes both of them. Hmm.

Neither of them die, but it seemed like again, not super well thought out and it looks... I mean, I guess she did just stab him. Yeah, true, true. And eventually, I don't know where Henry goes here again. I'm feeling confused in this moment, but the woman, bird woman crawls over to Gretchen and is about to kill her, I guess, when, oh, there's also been closeups on the bird woman's throat. Every time she makes the noise, this very creepy pulsing happens in her throat. And so we get this again, close up of her throat pulsing as she's screeching and Gretchen takes her butterfly knife, stabs her in the throat.

Great. The woman, bird woman, dead. Okay. The woman is wearing a wig. We like see that she's wearing this long blonde wig and she takes the wig off and the woman is bald underneath. I don't know why. I don't know what this means. I thought for a second it was maybe going to be her mom. I know. I kept thinking, is it going to be her mom? That would be so sad and stupid. Yeah, it's not, but I don't know who it is and I don't know why she's wearing a wig.

And eventually Gretchen finds Alma hiding in a supply closet or something and is huddled with her. And we're hearing Henry and Herr König shooting at each other and running around. Chaos is still happening and they're looking for them still. Henry wants to kill Alma, Herr König wants to kill Gretchen. They're not out of the woods yet, even though Bird Lady is dead, but they have this little moment together where they are hiding in this closet and Gretchen says to her, you know, my mom got your message and she says thank you and she really appreciated your call and your invitation, but she can't

make it. And it's just a pretty sweet moment where they actually connect and they hug and they seem like they are going to be sisters and trust each other. And she says, I need you to hold on to me. I need you to trust me. I'm going to get you out of here. And Henry and Hekoneg have found where they are and they're standing outside guns drawn saying, come out. And they walk out wrapped around each other so tight that like one shot would, it's like too hard to kill just one of them. And I feel like Henry probably would have still shot.

I don't think he would care too much at this point. But he doesn't, they're both holding their fire. I feel like Henry probably would have still shot. I don't think he would care too much at this point, but... Yeah, why not? He doesn't. They're both holding their fire and they're slowly moving through the room to leave as you know, Heer Kinnig is saying, Almod, I need you to come over here now. Come with me. And Henry is yelling like, let her go. She needs to die.

She's one of them. She's going to be just like them. Gretchen says, no, she isn't. She won't be. Alma covers Gretchen's ears and then makes the screeching noise enough to confuse Henry and Erkönig enough so that they can get away. So they make it out of the room while they are both stuck in their own little time loops and they make it out of the building. And the hot French lady is out there in a hospital gown with her car or a car, I guess, because her car is totaled, for sure. Yeah, yeah. And they get into the car, all three of them,

and drive away, and that's the end of the movie. What? Huh. Really, huh? What? Pretty cuckoo. Pretty cuckoo indeed. Whoa. And so what's the metaphor?

Well- For men trying to control women's reproductive health? Yeah, I think there's a bit of that, a bit of the bodily autonomy. Yeah, it feels like a kind of cloudy way to go about it. Yes. I listened to, it was the kind of movie that I left and thought like, I need to listen to people involved talk about this, because I'm not I'm actually not even sure what they were going for with this. Like I didn't pick up on that metaphor while watching it was

only like through listening to the only thing I really like picked up on was, I mean, because it's very explicit of just having your family move on to a second family and being the kind of left behind first child. I was like, is that the metaphor for the cuckoo bird of something to do with this family that's not your family? I don't know. But then I listened to, I mean, I won't say I got tons of clarity, but I listened to interviews with Dan Stevens and Tillman Singer. And Tillman Singer said just like the original idea was he was just inspired by cuckoo birds. And like one that was his jumping off point was just like birds that lay their eggs and other birds nests.

And he says he writes from his subconscious. Well, it's coming through crystal clear, Dillman. And it does have like, you'd never know that you do that. You would literally never know. I just wish that I had known that it wasn't really gonna ever make sense in the end, it would have allowed me to enjoy the vibes more because I kept trying to piece things together and figure out the mystery in a way that left me very unsatisfied at the end and frustrated. Whereas if it had leaned more into kind of surreal and freaky and weird, I would have been able to pick up like, oh, this is not that kind of movie where there's going to be this big

satisfying conclusion. I think it was a little too much in the middle of a normal mystery thriller horror and a weird surreal abstract horror. I wonder if that's where some of the delays and edits and things came in is that they were trying to pick a direction. Trying to pick a path. Yeah. Yeah.

And perhaps overcorrected in both directions in a way that made it just kind of more confusing to watch. That's a good point. Yeah. Guys, I really want to watch this trailer, but I have to go right now. Okay. Okay. Henley has to go. I'm. Okay. Henley has to go.

I'm so sorry. Henley has to go. I have to go lay my eggs in another woman's nest. Henley, we just learned that that is not a good idea. Listen, I've only had great success with it so far. Henley. Oh, I'm so disappointed to hear. I'm really disappointed.

We're not mad. We're just disappointed. We would never be mad. Guys, let me just let me lay my eggs in another woman's nest one more time. I wish you wouldn't. One more time. But I'm powerless to stop it.

I love you so much. That was a Cuckoo movie. And I don't know what, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know either. I don't know, Hen. I don't freaking know.

But I love you and I'm going to see you guys soon. I'm going to get on a flight tonight and fly there and live with you for the rest of your life. Perfect. See you soon. Until then. Henley, signing off. Bye-bye.

Bye, Henley. Sign off. But yeah, so it left me feeling very, yeah, my review of it is hmm. Hmm. Yeah, it seems like kind of a hmm situation. A lot of great ingredients. Again, the performances are fantastic. It is very vibey, stylish, cool, great music, a lot of cool like sound design, but it just

didn't come together for me in a way that felt satisfying. I also didn't really care about the characters so much. I mean... Sure, that's tough. Obviously, Gretchen more than anybody else, but even so, it was kind of presented in a way that I... Just didn't feel like I knew her well enough to care about what happened.

Yeah. So, you know, not my favorite, but I'm glad I saw it. And I look forward to Hunter Schafer being in more stuff. I, she was so good in this and people are very excited about the possibility of her as like a final girl. And I, I would love that as well. I hope she does more horror. Be great.

Yeah. Well, great. Yeah, this does feel like it's like, it feels like one of those ones where expectations can really affect your viewing experience. Kind of like how some people really, really hated Long Legs. I think because it wasn't what they thought it was gonna be, but I could see how some people might really enjoy this movie

if they were like not, you know, yeah. So interesting. Yeah. Great. I will be, hopefully we get a little bit of it in the trailer, but I will certainly be looking up footage of Dan Stevens doing this fun German accent, because, you know, what's not to love about that?

Yeah, I think he did, like, either live in Germany for a bit or take German in school, because I have also taken some German and have German relatives, and so I would by no means call myself, like, I don't think I have a great ear for the accent, but from my somewhat familiar ear, I thought he did a great accent and spoke German very well because there's some times where he's speaking German. So great job, Dan.

Great job, Dan. God, we love you. God, we really do. We really do. What can't you do? What can we really do. We really do. What can't you do? What can't he do? We'll never know. But yeah, that's Cuckoo.

And that is Cuckoo. That is Cuckoo Cuckoo. And the second to last movie of Hal Chella. Oh my god. But we will be back next week with Alien Romulus, which I freaking loved. See you then. From all of us here at Too Scary Didn't Watch, goodbye. Auf Wiedersehen.

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