Too Scary; Didn't Watch - HUSH (2016)

Episode Date: February 3, 2021

A deaf and mute writer, a secluded cabin in the woods, and a killer who definitely went to creepy killer school - this week we are recapping Hush! A home invasion movie that Emily and Henley hated a lot less than Funny Games. Streaming on Netflix. Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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 Sammy, and I like watching scary movies, and so I do it for all three of us, and we all reap the benefits. We do. I mean, Sammy, thank God.

And pass them along to you, the listeners. Yes, we're all benefiting from Sammy's service. What is up with us this week? I, you and me both, Emily, I think, got back into Riverdale. Oh, Sammy, you love to hear it. I took a long hiatus. And truly, I don't know why I ever stopped the second I turned it back on. But I had the same feeling.

It was so funny. And it really drew me right back in. And just remember how much i love it it's so fucking crazy we had to stop watching in season four both of us were maybe it's just because we were so hot off season three and there's like no break and there are 10 000 episodes per season um that i was watching season four i was was like, what are they doing? This isn't great. But after taking a break for the entirety of quarantine and getting back in, instantly I was like, this is the best thing I've ever seen.

It's so funny. Who am I kidding? As someone who's only watched, I think, season one and part of season two, I know that the insanity of this show has just ramped up more and more. So can you guys just give a little brief snapshot of what's going on in like the portion you're watching right now? I texted Emily. I think I stopped when Jughead's prep school friends were like trying to murder him put him in a box and like trying to kill him um that's not

as crazy as it gets for sure there's like there's like a plot line of uh that's like silence of the lambs where uh betty's like well i don't want to spoil too much but where betty's visiting someone in prison and they just basically set

it up to look like Silence of the Lambs like she's speaking to Hannibal Lecter. Oh god it's so crazy. And aren't they playing like Dungeons and Dragons but then it's like real? Oh, Griffins and Gargoyles. Yeah, it's Griffins and Gargoyles. That's what it's called. It's Griffins and Gargoyles.

We've probably talked about this in the podcast before but it's been a while since we've talked about Riverdale and I'm going to just give a little spoiler alert nothing's up with me I'm only going to talk about Riverdale it they do this thing where you know they

they have like their own little Riverdale tweaks to names of things that you know like um Rivens and Gargoyles uh the Five Seasons Hotel TGI Thursdays. Wait, uh, uh, was it, oh, TGI Thursdays is so good, but what is, um, like, Gaberge Egg? What's their... Oh, oh, oh, oh, God, what's it called?

It's, uh, oh, no. That one makes me laugh the most, their take on Faberge Egg. I'm gonna have to look it up because that shit is... Wait, did you say this already, but't there like drug called like jingle jangle excellent excellent impeccable writing in this show it's so much fun because it knows it's absurd but it also never undercuts itself it's like this is what we are we're the show with hot people doing the craziest fucking shit in the world. And we know it.

And we will not back down. I know a good storyline to give you a little a good little taste of it is Cheryl's character is being gaslit to think she ate her triplet in the womb. This is what I'm talking about. This is the tea I need. That one is pretty spectacular. So she like meant to feel guilty about this I don't know it's still going so I don't I don't know where

it's going but they're they have a prison there that's called um shanksha prison right of course they use a gay dating app called grind them I'm looking at a list oh they're uh their credit card is American dating app called Grindem. I'm looking at a list. Oh, their credit card is American

Excess. That's funny. Glamour J. It's a glamour J. God, the writing is genius. Another storyline that's insane is that Veronica is a high schooler is manufacturing her own

rum and she and her dad are like fighting and he's trying to sue her for the patent of the rum and she in her underground speakeasy that she runs again a teenager she has like in this episode that I just rewatched with Joel because I'm a little further ahead than he is where I left

off so I was rewatching and she's like having a pitch meeting where she's like trying to get restaurant owners to buy her rum she's like 17 and they're they're drinking it and being like this is very good yes i'm gonna order a cake like as if this isn't the crate in her underground speakeasy oh you just absolutely love it so i mean perfect it's perfect i don't remember what the storyline is but i think where i left off was when Archie's character was in the Shankshaw prison being pitted against by Veronica's dad to fist fight his way for freedom or something. And I was like, I don't think I can deal with this right now.

I went to prison. With your girlfriend's dad, like betting on your life or whatever oh god it's so good anyways henley what's up with you anyways nothing try to top it i don't have anything um i do want to give a shout out to my good friend caitlin mckenna who is an editor, a book editor. And she has a book that came out that she edited this week called Detransition Baby. And it is a really fantastic novel that's about three different women. One of them who is trans and then detransitions and um it's just a fascinating story that's incredibly well written and is like getting so much press right now it's in roxanne's

book roxanne gay's book club um it's been picked up by all of this press and it's freaking awesome. So I'm really excited for Caitlin and I'm excited for Tori Peters. Tori Peters is the author. The novel also landed number nine on the New York Times bestseller list. So I bet it's going to get a it's going to get a boost after this, I think. Oh, definitely. It'll be number one. Rocketing up to number one, I'm sure.

Hell yeah. Detransition, baby. Go buy it on kindle buy the hardcover it has a very cool cover oh i love a cool cover that's how i judge my books yeah you can always judge a book by its cover i do i genuinely do as the saying goes you can always judge a book by its cover but um that's not even my thing that's just a thing that happened to one of my friends that counts i mean i'm i'm glad to hear about it because i need some book recommendations i have not read in like a month which is a long time for me i was on a good reading spree there for a while and i've since fallen off of it same where the Where the Crawdads Sing fucking killed me. I couldn't

do it. I'm sorry. A lot of people like it. I couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. I haven't read it. It broke my streak. Boring? It's funny. I've heard other people say that too, Emily. I found it boring. I didn't, well yes, I found it boring. I found it good but boring. Like I liked it.

I do like it. Not a page turner. But I would pick it up and I would read three pages and be like, yeah, I'm done. And so it's taken me like four months to read 100 pages. And I was finally like, this isn't for me. I think this isn't for me. Yeah. So, sorry. Gave it up.

Well, something that you can also judge by its cover is this week's movie, which has a very scary poster. Oh, no. This week's movie which has a very scary poster oh no this week's movie is hush it came out in 2016 uh directed by mike flanagan written by mike flanagan and kate siegel starring kate siegel and john gallagher jr who i think is hot. Hell yeah. I have to Google that person. I don't know.

Less so in this movie for sure. Are they murderer? They're murderer. Oh, that's less hot. It's less hot. Than other vocations. But Mike Flanagan was the director of Dr. Sleep. So we have done a Mike Flanagan movie before director of Doctor Sleep so we have done a Mike Flanagan movie before he also

created Haunting of Hill House Haunting of Bly Manor the dude loves some spooky stuff he loves some spooky stuff he made Oculus, Gerald's Game he is married to Kate Siegel. They wrote it together. She stars in it. They do a lot of, they collaborate a lot. She's in, I think, Oculus as well and Haunting of Hill House. She's going to be in his next thing. Henley, I was going to ask you, because he's a frequent Netflix collaborator and his next project I saw was called midnight mass is that going to be a netflix original series indeed it is oh boy um and i don't know i don't know a dang thing about it except

that it was filmed in vancouver henley we told you that you need to learn everything that happens in netflix and already been down this road dance about it um but yeah so it's obviously this uh hush is streaming on netflix listeners if you want to watch it uh this one has been requested a lot and it's a home invasion uh horror which i previously decided is one of my favorite genres, subgenres. And so you won't be surprised to hear that I really, really liked this movie. You guys might like it less, but I don't think you're going to hate it as

much as you hated Funny Games. Okay. That being the new bar is both good and bad. Yeah, if I hate something more than I hated funny games like i'm gonna have to tap out for the episode yeah were you scared um a little bit i definitely would be if i didn't live in like such a densely populated area and was home alone i live in like an apartment building i can like hear all my neighbors all the time and i have bars on my windows so i don't feel unsafe and

but if i did if i was if i had watched this in washington i think we would have had a problem yeah when i visit my parents house where i grew up'm always like, no wonder I was so scared as a child growing up. No one could hear you if you screamed. Yeah, that's very scary. So scary. Yeah. No, thanks. No, thanks. Welcome to Cocktail Hour, everybody.

The time of the week where we soothe our nerves with a cocktail that we've chosen based on the movie. And what could be more soothing than a crossbow? To make a crossbow, you will need one and a half ounces of gin, two thirds an ounce of Cointreau, two thirds an ounce of Dutch white creme de cacao, and a third an ounce of Cointreau, two-thirds an ounce of Dutch white creme de cacao, and a third an ounce of chilled water. You will shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with an orange zest twist. Cheers. I've got some trivia for us. So the budget was $1 million, and there's no payoff for that trivia because it's a Netflix movie. So that's all we'll ever know. But it has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is always kind of like not quite the best thing to rate things with.

Metacritic, it has 67. IMDb, 6.6. I think it's very good. I liked it a lot imdb 6.6 i think it's very good i liked it a lot as i said it is rated r for strong violence and terror i love when i love when they throw terror rating no oh god that's the worst one disturbing actually is is is also bad disturbing those. Those are adjectives in a rating that I don't love to see. Not fond of. There is only 15 minutes of dialogue in this movie. It is an hour and 25 minutes long, I think.

So that's 70 minutes of non-talking. I guess it is called hush, which I'm thinking more. A little context clue for you. Act, Henley. I'm putting the pieces together already. Yeah, so the main character is deaf and mute. The actress that plays her is not. That's probably my only complaint about the movie.

It would have been cool to see a deaf or mute person cast. Yeah. But then there's a book that you can see on one of the main characters shelves and it is a Stephen King book called Mr. Mercedes. And Mike Flanagan is a big fan of Stephen King and Stephen King saw actually Oculus and was a big fan of that. Early listeners of the pod will know we previously tried to start a rivalry with Stephen King.

We've since backed away from it. People started getting mad. Hey, I like Stephen King sometimes. I think it's more fun to hate Stephen King. I think it's more fun to hate Stephen King. I think it's more fun to hate him. It's more fun. Let us hate him. Let us hate him.

We don't need our reasons. We don't need logic behind that choice. It's an emotional decision. It's an emotional decision. It's an emotional decision. We thought one of his books was boring. And that's all we tried. Just one time.

That's all it takes. Hey, don't cross us with an okay book or feel our wrath. I really loved The Outsider, though. I'll say that. I did, too. I liked it, too. But so good for them. They're both big fans of each other and they worked together on Dr. Sleep.

So congrats, guys. Not a good working relationship, though, huh? Dr. Sleep was so bad. I did not like it. I don't think anyone liked it. People did. Some people did. Okay. No, I don't think anyone did. I don't think a single person did. Okay. Okay. Well, good. Then we're all in agreement and there's no debate to be had. So don't message us about it. Don't message us about it. Wait, Simi, have you seen Oculus? No, I haven't. I don't even know what it's about. We should do that one.

I'm curious about that one because it comes up. And I like Mike Flanagan. I mean, I liked Haunting of Hill House. Yeah, I loved Haunting of Hill House. I did not like Bly Manor as much, but I actually never finished it because I got bored. Seems like maybe we all have short attention spans. We don't like Stephen King books. they're too long we might what are we talking about i don't know why i laughed that way i got myself and thought it was weird

um that's all i got and I think we should watch the trailer. Let's do it. Oh, boy. I'm this. Oh my gosh. Not going to be a very interesting trailer to listen to. Yeah, listeners, watch that fucking trailer. Holy shit, it was very scary. But I feel like whoever wrote the copy for that trailer needs to be fired.

It's like the worst copy I've ever read. She is alone. She can't speak. She can't hear. She is alone she is she can't speak she can't hear she is alone sometimes silence can be killer yeah it's not great but it is i mean it's effective in that it just kind of stays in like one scene for the most part and you just get a little feel of it just very spooky oh my god it i'm that even the beginning just the like quiet woods and the wind i like started to get chills like i got very freaked out and then it got worse why why do you killers have

to wear the scariest masks why is it scarier to see a mask person outside your window than a regular person because they can't be up to anything good. A regular person you're like, oh, is that my neighbor coming to tell me my cat got out? This is a thing with slashers also is that, although

I don't know whether you would say this is a slasher or not but he kind of seems like a slashery character is that it's the mask but then it's also the stance the killers always have this like totally inhuman unnatural stance where they're

really still or they just move really slowly and they're never they're never like yeah and they're never they don't have normal human movements or even breathing normally. You know what I mean?

And so it's like, what is this? Do you go to slasher school and learn the movements? Where are you picking this up? I hate it. I'm fucking sick of it. And I'm sick of these killers. This is not a good omen for this episode or the future of this podcast.

I'm fucking sick of it. They need to figure out a new thing. It makes them by default expressionless, which is just like, what are you thinking? What do you do? Like, yeah, yeah. I don't like I don't like the look of the sky i don't either oh well wait till you hear more about him yeah maybe i've maybe you know give him a chance okay give him a chance can't judge a book by its cover or can you okay okay let's let's uh let's hear about it, Sammy. Let's find out. Okay. So we start with that cool, like, long shot moving through the woods.

We see that this is a cabin in the woods. No other houses around it. It's very quiet, very secluded. And inside there is a woman cooking dinner she's on her computer looking at the recipe going back and forth with cooking and the camera kind of moves around her head in in a in a way that then zooms into her ear and then all the sound goes out and that's kind of how it shows us that she is deaf and then we kind of see the cooking scene from uh her point of view where she just can't hear anything and and it this kind of goes in and out throughout the whole movie it's really cool like sometimes it'll switch to

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maddie maddie says or signs back to her, you don't have to sign. And she says, Sarah says, I know you can read lips, but I've been getting better and I want to practice. So she's like trying to learn sign language so that she can more easily talk to her friend. And she's coming over because she is returning a book that Maddie has given her. She's just finished it. And it's a book that Maddie has written. And so if you've got a protagonist as a writer on your bingo, a very common horror movie protagonist profession. Less common real world profession.

Percentages are off. The percentages are off. So we get the impression that Maddie lives here full time. This is her house. Yes. Okay. I don't know why I just assumed I kind of assumed she was like on vacation somewhere or something. Yeah.

It's clarified a little more later. I guess at this point maybe we could still think that but I'll tell you. It's not. It's not that. It's not a little more later i guess at this point maybe we could still think that but i'll tell you it's not it's not that it's not a vacation well she is a writer they love seclusion yeah they love solitude those writers and so they're they're talking on the little front porch area and uh maddie asks what did you think of the book and she says I loved it the characters were so great and I tried to guess the ending usually I'm pretty good at guessing the ending and I like couldn't this time like how did you do that and Maddie says my mom calls it writer brain. I write like the many different endings are like movies in my head. Like I can see all the different endings and figure out which one is best.

And she says, Sarah says, is the voice a little girl? And she says, no, the voice is actually my mom. And she says, oh, I just thought because you were young when you got sick, right? And we come to learn that she lost her hearing and speech from bacterial meningitis when she was 13. oh oh my god and sarah says well whatever whatever it is like whatever you're doing is working you're a really good storyteller she's signing something and saying storyteller and maddie starts laughing and corrects her and says like the sign that she did was for for kisser and so she says well i'm sure you're a good kisser too cute little moment they're sweet little friends and uh then sarah points at something in the house and Maddie turns around and we see like a light strobing like the fire alarm is going off and she can't hear it obviously and they go inside and we kind of hear it from

both of their perspectives and it's super super super loud and so so Maddie goes up to it pulls it off the wall turns it off sets it on the counter and Sarah's like that is some fire alarm and she says like I'm sorry it has to be it has to be so loud cuz I need to be able to feel the vibrations like it's that mmm it's that loud because that's the only way it'll wake me up if I'm sleeping and uh so the food's all ruined she's burned it so she's dumping it all out and um Sarah says do you want to come over for dinner? Michael is going to be home in like an hour. And she says, no, that's OK. I've got to work. And like I have some something I can microwave or whatever. It's like not a big deal. Alarm was going off her a cat runs out of the house a very cute cat and so Sarah's like oh your cat got out and

Maddie says that's okay. She's an independent little bitch and She's signing it and Sarah doesn't know the word for bitch so she's like she's independent what and she spells it and they laugh and so she's like, bitch, bitch. They learn, learn the sign for bitch. And she's like, okay, well, if I can't convince you to come over, like I'm going to head home and I'll, I'll, I'll come over tomorrow morning. Maybe we can practice sign some more. Like I'm really determined I'm going to get good good and she goes home and then sarah's like shaking the little cat food bowl trying to get the cat to come in cat's not coming in she's just just like whatever so she she uh sets the bowl down uh and as she's like turning to walk back inside she gets a text

from someone named craig that, thought of you today. She stares at it and then deletes it. So presumably an ex of some sort. Doesn't even screen grab it to send to friends. Interesting. Interesting, Addie. Okay. And she sits down in her living room on a little sofa chair and is typing on her laptop. She's working on her next novel.

And we hear kind of voices in her head as she's playing out different versions of what's happening in the story. And she's getting frustrated and having a bit of writer's block. And she's not actually writing anything down. And then she opens up the FaceTime on her computer and calls Craig and then hangs up and then calls him again and then hangs up again and then closes the computer and stands up and goes back into the kitchen to keep cleaning up the kind of mess that was made from dinner we see the phone her phone uh vibrating and he's trying to facetime her back it's like facetime from craig she sees it and is like, no, I don't want to answer.

And she gets up and continues looking for her cat. She grabs the food bowl again. She's shaking it. This is just like we're getting a little tour of her house. It's a two-story house. The bottom is like the kitchen and the living room room a bathroom a bedroom and then there's a little upstairs like loft area that's uh just one open floor plan-y room a little small room that's maybe a little workspace or something um she's shaking it in each room it's like spooky because walking through houses alone at night is spooky. And I think it does it from her hearing. So it's like completely silent. And yeah, it's scary. And then she goes back down, starts cleaning up in the kitchen again.

Lots of windows in this house, too, by the way. Oh, man. And as she's cleaning in the kitchen, there's like a glass door in like parallel to the stove and kitchen so she can look out. But she's not looking out. She's just at the sink doing dishes and sarah slams into the glass screaming pounding on it saying maddie maddie open the door open the door please maddie she's crying she's bleeding matt we see maddie cannot hear her maddie is just doing dishes my god she's like jiggling the handle jiggling the handle and then we see an arrow shoot into her back what and she's banging she's banging she's like uh

she turns around and we see the man i will call him the man the the bad man bad man bad man he approaches grabs her turns her around so she's facing him and grabs a knife stabs her in the stomach this is all happening with Maddie literally feet away just not looking

in this direction and he stabs her over and over and over he stabs her so many times in the stomach like 15 times oh that's horrible sound design is very yucky and she collapses he sees that maddie is in there he's mask is scary. His mask is a like white I don't know how to describe it just plain white mask

that kind of looks like it's in a half smile. It's creepy. Yeah, much less expressive than the masks in what was it, Purge? Were they? Mm-hmm. Purge, yeah. Yeah, almost expressionless. Again, this is a hard less expressive than the masks in um what was it purge were they just like yeah like yeah almost

expressionless this is a hard it's a hard plastic mask and you know my stance on hard plastic masks it's not good thanks not a fan and so he notices her there and we see he has a crossbow and a knife. And he is, like, figuring out that she couldn't hear what just happened. So he taps on the glass. And she doesn't turn around. He knocks on the glass harder. And she doesn't turn around. And he does his little head tilt. Ugh, come on.

His killer head tilt. No one's looking right now, dude. Just act like a normal human. And he walks away. Interesting. I hate that, too, because it's like this was random. Like, he didn't know that he... And so it's just like, oh, a

fun thing that I get. Ugh. I know. I agree. I'm thinking the same thing. It's not like he knows who she is. Or at least doesn't know a very fundamental detail about who she is. Mm hmm. And so then she finishes cleaning up in the kitchen and looks out the window, doesn't see anything. He has dragged off Sarah's body. and Craig calls one more time. She throws the phone on the counter. She plops back down on her sofa in the living room and opens up the computer again to keep writing.

She has left the front door wide open for the cat and we see the man just walk right in, right behind her. So she is facing the other way. He just strolls right in and he's reaching for her cell phone, which is on the counter behind her. And then on her laptop, a FaceTime call comes in, and the camera is obviously facing her, so he would be in the frame, so he jumps out of the way back a few steps, so he's not in the field of vision. She answers the call. It is her sister, and she's basically just a little catch-up call. Like, how are you doing? She's

like, I'm, you know, gonna quit writing and join the circus. And, and she says, Oh, Craig, Craig texted me today. And she said, Did you talk to him? She says, Not, not No, I didn't, but I almost did. And her sister says, mom keeps asking me when you're going to get back out there. Like it's been a it's been a year. And she says that she is on a dating app for deaf people. But in the area, there are only four people and they're all bad. Only four. And that's probably the best reason for her to not live in this house and then uh her sister says you can you can come like don't you miss the city you can come live with me again like i worry about you being all out being out there by yourself squish she calls her squish that's cute it is cute and she says i just i i worry about you you're all alone and it seems not not normal to be by yourself so much and she's like you know my i have my my friends and my neighbors i'm i'm fine and it's good and i need to need to focus on work right now and uh we see the man reaching

and he grabs the phone and our sister says what was that and she says what she says i thought i saw something move behind you and she's like oh probably the cat i've he got out fire alarm went off earlier and uh and she's like okay yeah i got to go find him actually so um i'll talk to you later and they hang up and she goes to grab the food bowl again and she's shaking it and she's like looking out that front door. Cat's not coming. And so she just, again, leaves the door open. And oh, she goes and grabs a jacket because it's nighttime. A breeze is coming in.

She's left the front door open. She's sitting right by it. And then she opens back up her computer and a notification comes up that says text from from maddie which is her and she looks confused and opens it up and it's a photo of her writing on the couch uh like 10 minutes ago and then her with the food bowl shaking it outside and she's like leaning closer to the computer and then a picture pops up of her leaning close to the computer in a jacket very clever masked man we're all so impressed. Emily's pissed. I'm pissed. He just thinks he's so fucking smart.

And it's like, good for you sneaking up on a deaf woman in the middle of the woods. Congratulations. Congratulations. Real difficult, dude. And she looks obviously terrified. She realizes that someone is behind her she slowly turns around to look sees that the door is open walks toward it and as the camera pans around he is just standing right there okay well now i'm on board you know i like a killer who just is exactly yeah always there you might like this one more you might like this one then like our beloved mike myers michael myers oh i'm so sorry michael myers not to be confused with and our beloved

mike myers austin powers Mike Myers. We love him, too. He holds up her phone and, like, waves it at her. And she darts to the door to close it, gets there just a millisecond before him, slides the sliding door closed, locks it. He's, like, trying to open it, too. Then he leans back. He can't open it. And then he just turns and walks, like, quickly away. And she runs to, like, the next, they, there's, like, another door. There's a few doors into the house. And so they just, like, run door to door. He's just trying to get in at each one. It's very stressful. She's just running to each door, trying to lock it. And he's like getting to each one at the same time as her. She eventually is able to lock all the doors. He doesn't get in.

And he basically just starts circling the house. It's not a huge house. So he's just kind of like walking around it. And she's walking in the house, like he's just kind of like walking around it and she's walking in the house, like following him, like keeping him in her sight. She then decides to run to her computer and... Yeah, it just occurred to me, how does someone who is deaf and mute call 911? Well, I think there are services for it, but she just opens FaceTime and dials 9-1-1.

Well, there you go. I think 9-1-1 responds if there's even no talking. I'm pretty sure they would send someone out. Once when I was a kid, I called 9-1-1 and hung up and then they came to my house and I was so embarrassed.

Oh, no. Yeah, they'll come. They'll come because, you know, they should. They should. But it was when my dad was a firefighter and he knew the cop who showed up. Oh, no. It was so embarrassing. That is embarrassing.

I know you can text 911 now, but again, she doesn't have her phone. He snatched it. I don't stand by calling 911 just to be a weird kid. I shouldn't have done it. I only did it the one time anyway. Whatever. Kids. Yeah.

Kids do stuff like that all the time. Children listeners. Don't do it. Children listeners are all kid listener based. Don't do it children listeners all are all kid listener base don't do that i'm pretty sure i called 9-1-1 as a kid and talked to someone and they were like you should never do this again and i was like okay noted fair okay so as she is pressing call on the 9- FaceTime thing. The power in the house goes off. He has cut the power and her internet is down.

And so it cannot complete the call. Oh, uh, she finds him again to, to keep her eyes on him as he's moving back towards the front of the house. She's just watching him terrified and he pulls out a knife and he goes and stabs all the tires of her car oh my god and then uh just basically stands facing the house and she runs and grabs lipstick and a flashlight and we see her start writing something

on the glass sliding door facing him and she then shines the flashlight on it so that he can read it it says won't tell didn't see face boyfriend coming home and he walks up reads it he looks down and reads it and he looks back up at her and he takes off his mask it's her boyfriend no okay sorry that's i thought you were gonna say it's craig i was like what the fuck no okay okay but he takes off he's like i don't fucking care yeah yeah he's like look at me yeah look at me he takes it off throws his mask down and he's hot yeah well yeah what's the what's okay so i'll say So I'll say I think he's also the guy in 10 Cloverfield Lane. And oh, right. It's John Gallagher Jr.

John Gallagher Jr. And I do. Yes. Normally think that he's hot. I think he does a good job embodying a very like Columbine. Yeah. Vibe. That's like very unset.

Like there's I did not feel attracted to him in this movie. And one thing that he does is his mouth is hanging open the whole time. And it's so gross and unsettling. I mean, he's good in it, but yeah.

Not hot. Fair, fair. And so he looks down at the writing and looks back up at her and says, can you read my lips? And she nods. And he looks down and we see that he's specifically reading the boyfriend coming home part. And he looks back up at her and says, seriously, Maddie, you could come live with me. It's not good for you to be all alone out there, Squish. And she like starts crying, realizing that he knows that she doesn't have a boyfriend.

Nobody's coming home. And then he says, I can come in anytime anytime i want i can get you anytime i want but i'm not going to until it's time when you wish you're dead that's when i'll come in do you understand and she just sits there and he says not if you understand she nods and he says okay we're gonna have some fun yeah Okay, well, that's enough. That's enough. And then he walks out of sight. Well, starts circling the house again, I guess. I don't like him. No, no, fuck this guy, for sure.

Yeah. She runs to the kitchen. She grabs a big old knife and fishes out from under the sink a hammer i'm liking this this move and she goes into her bedroom and closes the door and is like leaned up against a wall in the room facing the door holding her knife and her hammer it's like all this stuff is so tense by the. It's because it's all happening much slower than I'm saying. It's just like creeping in the night and sitting there quietly, like scared.

And it's very intense. And eventually, through a window in her bedroom, she sees a shadow moving. So she is not facing the window, but she sees a shadow moving in the window, and it starts like a hand tapping on the window. And it doesn't necessarily look like him, and she's confused and really slowly kind of moves so that she can see what's happening. And it's Sarah's dead body and he is using it to he is knocking on the window with

her little puppeteering Sarah and he sees her see it and smiles at her she runs out of the bedroom drops her knife and hammer no no no why why closes the bedroom door behind her and starts sobbing oh it's so sad oh she like has a little flashback of memory that when sarah was walking over she remembers Oh, that's so sad. it in her head and she's like and she finds her car keys and she starts pressing the alarm button but it's not working through the glass and so she like slowly like climbs or like crawls toward

the kitchen door which is the opposite side of the house that he is but she doesn't necessarily know that he's still there. And she's pressing the alarm button. It's not working. She realizes she has to open the door to do it. And she reaches up and she unlocks the door. No. And she opens it.

And she presses the alarm button, closes the door it again ducks down it's fine he hears the alarm and he runs toward the car she runs back to the room so like sees him running out runs back to the room opens the bedroom window sarah's body is like laying over like the air conditioning unit outside or something so she can reach it and she's reaching into the back pockets there's no she can't feel the phone she's like digging around in front pockets trying to feel around and she can't find it and then we see the man come back around the corner and he sees her runs for her uh she holds herself back into the window slams the window down but he gets his hands in in time and he's pushing up so she's pushing the window down he's pushing up she realizes she's not going to be able to overpower him he's stronger than she is so she and she sees the hammer near her on the ground. And so she, as quick as she can, dives for the hammer.

So he opens up the window. He reaches in and she takes the back end of the hammer and stabs him in the arm. He pulls out screaming with the hammer still stuck in his arm. Oh no! And she closes the window locks it he he pulls the hammer out of his arm he's bleeding pretty good okay he looks at her like he's pissed and he goes over to sarah's dead body rips like a tourniquet thing from her shirt makes a tourniquet out of her shirt like wraps up his arm and then from his pocket pulls out sarah's phone and like wiggles it at her like where

you looking for this and like puts it back in maddie ew ew like why just to make just to upset her i guess yep yeah i would be upset it is upsetting i am upset actually it is upsetting uh maddie turns and just walks away in in kind of a way where she just turns her back on him like, fuck you. And you see him like banging on the window. But you can't hear him. And she just walks out of the room, closes the door again. And she sits in the living room and we see she sees him start circling the house again. and we see she she sees him start circling the house again and he's basically just going around and around and so she waits for him to get to the back of the house

and she decides to make a run out the front uh so she really, as he's past the line of sight from the front, opens the front door and tiptoes down the front deck, hides under the front deck. It's like a little lifted patio area. And that's by the time she's under there, he's circling around again so he's he she sees his feet walk by her and we kind of see that he can see that he's lost sight of her but he's kind of looking into the house like where is she he walks up the front steps is like looking in through the windows and he's walking around on the deck and he's like right on top of her She's like looking up through the slats in the patio deck up at him. It's very spooky. And he can't see her.

So he goes back down the stairs and he walks back around to the other side of the house again. She, at that moment, makes a run for it. She starts running in the woods. And she gets about 30 feet and an arrow hits a tree next to her and we see him with his cross like loading up another arrow in his crossbow and she starts running back to the house like this obviously is not gonna work the woods are not super dense like if he's following you with a crossbow, he's going to get you. And so she runs back to the house.

And by the time he's like got his other bow loaded, she's like in the front door. She closes it like just in time and an arrow like hits the wood paneling of the door. So she's locked back in back where she started. But with more information. More information. He keeps circling that house again. he goes back to his own circling and she he could just like break a window and he said that to her he said i can come in anytime i want like he's like right trying to fuck with her right okay just to establish that again yeah this is like a little cat and mouse it's not fun for him if he just goes in and kills her.

Right. Right. This is so much more fun for everyone. For everybody. Yeah. It's fun. What this is that he's doing now, this is fun. So she then goes upstairs, kind of noticing that as he circles, he's really focusing on the downstairs area.

he's really focusing on the downstairs area and so she climbs up and is like I guess thinking maybe if I sneak out of the the top floor windows they're a little more hidden from sight from ground level um so she opens up uh the the the window up there it's a little crank out window and she crawls out quietly and it's like very rickety up there there's like a part where she's like bouncing on what looks like just a storm drain like could very much fall and also like how stressful to not know how much noise you're making. Yeah. And to not be able to hear if he has come for you. Awful. So she's tiptoeing as quietly as she can. And she has her flashlight with her and she sees that he is nearby.

And she throws the flashlight in the opposite direction. So it makes a noise. He turns around, sees a flashlight in the woods, kind of runs to go check it out. And she then goes the opposite direction. She's moving to go climb down a trellis on the side of the house to get to the ground and then presumably run again which seems like the same idea as the last time but does seem like the same idea i guess the thinking is that he wouldn't know that she's not in the house this time that she could maybe get farther yeah i don't know but as she's climbing down that trellis she gets an arrow in the leg oh in the thigh oh worst part of the leg to get an arrow in it's bleeding a lot it's like i i was thinking is that in that femoral artery looks like it and she is screaming in pain he's like going to load up another crossbow she climbs

back up the trellis and is on top of it like on the roof now and uh pulls the arrow out of her leg and he starts climbing up that trellis with his crossbow and as he gets to the top she like punches him in the head and knocks him off and grabs his crossbow as he falls so now she has the crossbow oh nice and he falls off and fuck yeah she's she's trying to load it and really struggling and he like sees this and so he just jumps right back up and starts trying to climb up again so she's like fuck she's like i'm not going to be able to load this in time and so she just takes it with her and like hobbles back to the window that she jumped out of and like again like just barely makes it there in time throws

herself back in throws the crossbow in cranks the window closed right as he gets there. He's slamming on the window and does another little look at her. Do some more little staring at each other. I think he smiles too. Ew. Ugh. Because this is getting more fun for him. This is fun.

Ew. He's having a great time. So then she has to go tend to her her wound she locks herself in the bathroom downstairs and takes her pants off we get a look at the wound it looks quite bad it's again pouring blood and she takes a little the like a tie of a robe to make another little tourniquet thing and finds a bottle of rubbing alcohol under the sink which just seems like the fucking worst thing and i mean you gotta i guess you gotta do it but you gotta do it she pours it on and it looks like it hurts a lot and then she she she puts her pants back on she quickly moves her attention to that crossbow

and starts trying to load it she can't't do it. And I had to, I like did some Googling cause I didn't know that cross. They're like incredibly hard to load. And I looked it up and it's 150 pounds to pull, to pull back. That's the like weight that it is. Um, you could buy a second thing that makes it easier.

I was like, how the fuck does anybody do this? Cause it's like, it looks so hard. She's like cutting her hands on the rope and like crying and like getting so frustrated it has like a little foot pedal that you that you you brace against you like look try to load it by pulling the opposite way with your foot she can't fucking do it it looks really hard and she's getting very frustrated and the man is watching her from the bathroom window and says like ew yeah not so easy is it um so he's just watching her and kind of laughing and then um

i think is like about to break the window and then there is a knock on the front door and we see that sarah's boyfriend is at the front door knocking going sarah are you in there sarah his name's michael i think i'm gonna call him michael and he's like looking around all the lights are off seems suspicious he's he's looking and then uh the man runs up with a flashlight pretending to be a cop like put your hands up shining the flashlight in his face and the guy's like hey hey like i'm just i'm a neighbor i came to see if my girlfriend was over here and he's like he's like sir you're gonna need to like stand back stand back step away from the door or whatever. And just acting like a cop.

And the guy has, uh, Michael has a phone in his hand and, uh, the, the man is basically like, can I use your phone to call for backup? Like there was a, there was a situation, the perpetrator ran at me and knocked, like took walkie-talkie and then like escaped in my car or whatever he's like i just call for backup like something had i responded to a distress call from this address and the perp got away and uh michael's like uh yeah yeah yeah, sure. And. And hands him his cell phone. Oh, God. And the man then, like, pretends to make a call and he's like, yeah, yeah, I'm here. Yeah.

A neighbor just arrived, but nobody else. The perpetrator left on foot. And we see that Michael is kind of suspicious and he sees the lipstick writing on the window. Like. Also, can he not see i guess it's too dark for him to see what this man's wearing because he's not like dressed like a cop he can't totally i mean he's not not like a police officer but he could be like under he's wearing like a bulletproof vest and or maybe not bulletproof vest, but he's wearing like, you know, tactical gear. Yes. I see.

Okay. Okay. And, but he, but Michael's still looking suspicious and he's like, are you a deputy? And he's like, yeah, just, just barely. Like I'm pretty new and, uh, and I, I'm like so, so embarrassed that I botched this. Like, thank you so much for letting me use your phone. Also, Michael's very quickly, like more curious to ask this guy questions that aren't related to is my girlfriend okay yeah where is she is she okay about that too he's like he's like

who placed the distress call and he's like i don't know i i responded to a call from the from the my boss and i don't know who placed the call you You just see that Michael is like, yeah, he's suspicious. And then he's like, can I get my phone back? And the guy's like, oh, yeah, yeah, sure. And leans back to hand it to him. And as he hands it to him, he had put it in his pocket and he pulls it out to hand it to him. an earring drops out on the ground and the man doesn't notice only michael notices so that's like him being like okay something this this is not good and uh he's like yeah backup will be here soon and michael says you know what? I think that Maddie kept a spare key under the under the rock right there. And the man's like, oh, wouldn't that be great?

And he's like, yeah, I think I think she does. And he's like, OK, then I guess I'll go check it. I kind of like playing chicken because I feel like they both like kind of know that the other is not right that they're on to him and so but he can't break character so the man goes down to check under the rock for a key and we see michael grab a big rock from the top of the deck and kind of follow him over like he's gonna hit him with this rock he's like yeah yeah i think it's just under there oh no call 911 don't do that and then as he is like raising the rock to hit the man uh maddie appears and like inside the house and like

banging on the glass like she sees that michael is there and she's like essentially being like help me help me help me and he like turns and sees her and then gets stabbed right in the throat the second he turns blood is like pouring out of his throat the man says it's okay it okay, it's done, it's done. Like, just don't fight it. It's done. It's over. You're done. And he, like, drops to his, or he first, like, lunges at him to try to fight him.

The man dances around him, slices the back of his knee. He falls to the ground and is, like, losing consciousness. And so the man is circling him and he's like, yeah, I figured I had about a two in 10 chance of winning a fight against you, which is, if I'm not mistaken, the same amount of women that understand cinema without it being spoon fed. I think you're right about that, but you would have to ask a man. You'd have to ask a man that question. But you would have to ask a man.

You'd have to ask a man that question. Oh, any listeners who haven't heard that episode? We once got a review from a man saying that only two out of 10 women understand cinema without having it spoon fed to them. And that we are none of those two. You unfortunately didn't make the cut. We are the other eight. We didn't make the cut. We are the other eight. We didn't make the cut. No, my favorite part of that review is it started with, you know how only two out of them, like we all get it.

I'm pretty sure it was that review as well that hated that they were like, this is just a recap podcast. And it's like, yeah, that's in our description. We're recapping movies. They're like, they don't even understand. They're just recapping the movie. It's not even a movie review. Sir, we do know.

We're aware. Oh, but yeah, it just really made me laugh. I was like, two out of ten, huh? I know another statistic that fits that bill. But yeah, so he basically is like explaining like yeah i knew i wouldn't when you win a fight with you so i had to do a little do this little dance with you and get you when you weren't looking and maddie is inside watching screaming crying and, and he clapped. The Michael, like, goes still,

and the man, like, comes closer to look at him, and then Michael jumps, and he's still alive, and he was fake dying, and he, like, tackles the man and gets, like, a chokehold on him. And he looks at Maddie and says, run. And she like looks terrified. She like runs to the back door and she looks out of the back door, like into the woods for a moment, registers then opens it runs out and then we see the man running right after it doesn't take him long he catches her he has the rock i guess that

um that michael was going to use and he lifts it up and he smashes her head in completely. And I was very shocked. And then it cuts back to her looking out the window. And she says, you can't run. And we get a little moment of her little rider brain playing out all the movies all the endings to the to the movie it's kind of fun fake out i truly thought you're about to be like and that's the end of the movie as i was watching it i was like what the fuck um and so she's still in the house and she basically is like you can't run you'll catch you

uh you can't hide you'll die of blood even if he doesn't find you you're gonna die of blood loss uh you can't wait like nobody's coming and we see little shots of each of the thing it's like a fun device for them to be able to show all these potential deaths. That's a satisfying thing as a viewer to see everything played out like that. So she's playing out all the stories in her head and says, OK, so if you can't run, you can't hide, you can't wait. There's only one ending that he won't expect. What is it? And she signs, kill him.

Kill him. Fuck yeah. She's going to fucking kill him. Yeah, bitch. And, but she is losing blood. I mean, she is kind of getting a little gray looking. Gray looking and she so the man eventually Michael dies and the man is outside and. Is like talking to Michael's dead body and is like, what do you think?

Should I go in there and end this? And then he's like, no, you're right. I should wait a little bit longer. Let her lose some more blood because she has the crossbow now and just in case she's a good shot i'll just let her lose a little more blood and then the kitty walks up to him no very sweet little kitty i know i was very stressed i was kind of assuming the cat was already dead well sometimes that happens in horror movies it's not a sometimes not a crazy assumption um but the cat walks up uh the man pets it says this is your house and she's like petting the cat and he's like don't worry you're gonna see

mommy soon or she's gonna see you at least hanging from the and as he says that gets an arrow to the shoulder and she's just outside of the house with the crossbow and then

he did she figure out how to load it I guess so I guess so. I guess so. She got some... I mean, I think it only had one arrow, or two arrows. One's in his arm now, and so as she's running back to go into the house to close him out behind her,

he starts running after her, and she drops the other arrow on the porch, and she's like, fuck, she reaches back to go get it. And he gets there and and she's trying to pull her hand back in and he takes his foot and stomps her hand like a bunch of times. And we see her fucked up hand, all the fingers bending all the wrong ways. And she is screaming and screaming and screaming. And pulls, like eventually gets her hand in and locks the sliding door. And he's just standing there watching her crying, like, holding her hand to her chest in so much pain. And she didn't get the arrow.

She didn't get the arrow. And he looks at her. He picks up the arrow and he snaps it in half while he's, like, looking at her. And she, like, stops crying and she's looking at him and he says I'm coming in now and she stands up and gets that

like badass look in her face and she's just like looking back at him straight faced and scary and she dips her finger in her bloody leg and writes on the glass, do it. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

And then he doesn't, he reads it and he doesn't come in. He's just standing there still. And she dips her finger in her blood again, kind of grimaces and writes coward. And he turns to walk back to the car, grabs a tire iron to come smash the windows in. And she runs to her computer into her like where her like novel draft is open, types in foot nine, green eyes, male tattoo on neck. He's got a big old crazy neck tattoo, by the way. And love you, mom, dad, Max. Died fighting.

Closes the computer. We see him in the background. We see like smashing the glass. This is some strong glass. He's hitting it over and over and over. This must be some double pain glass. My glass in my house would break instantly. I is some strong glass. He's hitting it over and over and over. This must be some double-paned glass. My glass in my house would break instantly. I'd just have a feeling. Oh my god.

One time your window broke seemingly on its own. Exactly. These are some strong windows, so good for her. Murderers out there, don't come to my house trying this. Don't. You have bars. You have bars on your windows. I do do have bars i do have bars on my windows so

try it i guess you'll break them but good luck and pass the bars so she closes her computer and runs and locks herself in the bathroom she has a knife the the knife from earlier and uh she's facing she's facing the bathroom door her vision starts to blur she's losing consciousness she's lost a lot of blood so she's kind of trying to stay awake and we see behind her glass sh foot coming in, another foot coming in. She obviously doesn't hear. She is focused on this bathroom door, thinks he's going to be coming in this way. He was breaking into the house from that way. And we see him crouch behind her.

He's just sitting behind her with his knife. Ugh, disgusting. And he says, he says, I think you're holding out on me. I bet if I, he's like waving his, he's like tracing his little knife. He's not touching her, but kind of as if he's deciding where to stab her.

And he's like, I bet if I found the right spot, you'd scream. Because again, her screams are silent. And as he says that, he laughs. And she feels his breath on the back of her neck. And you see her eyes go wide. And she takes the knife and flips it around. And it's this very cool slow-mo shot of him going to stab her and her turning she stabs him right in the knee and he kind of slices her a bit

on the shoulder but they like like try to stab each other at the exact same time and she stabs him in the knee he falls screaming she runs out of the bathroom into the kitchen. Again, it's like she's like collapsing, blacking out a bit. And she's she collapses in front of the in front of the kitchen sink. her. He's got his knife and it looks like she's maybe dead. She's like, looks unconscious, collapsed, and he gets close to her and her eyes open and they make eye contact. And he says, you fucking cunt. And she grabs a bottle of wasp spray and sprays him in the eyes and he screams and falls backwards and then she jumps up and grabs the fire alarm that had set on the counter turns it on and so he's like screaming like he can't hear and now he's kind of blind or he's kind of blind and can't hear and is like holding his his ears and his eyes and stumbling around screaming and then she's like falling still too and she she falls to the ground trying to come for him they like

knock over the the a counter table thing and a corkscrew falls onto the ground. And then... Man, I just realized too, this is so awesome. This is such a cool sequence that Henley and I are just sitting here with our mouths open listening. And I just was like, it seems like we're not reacting at all to this insane vile sequence.

But I truly had this moment of like, this is an auditory medium. You need to let people know that you have to react. We're both like, what's going on in this? It sounds like we've just fucking checked out. We're paying attention. We're deeply invested. Oh, my God.

Okay. So she falls. He kicks her in the stomach. in the stomach and then he uh she like gets up a bit and she sticks her finger in his shoulder wound and he uh goes to strength he starts strangling her drops down and starts choking her and she bites him she like gets her mouth and bites his hand really hard. And I just really liked that sequence of four things because they are such like what a man does and what a woman has to does. Because women has to do because you have to do things that aren't like body weight related. I just thought the scene was choreographed very well and very realistic. It's cool.

And he screams, but he starts uh choking her again he get he like gets his hands back around so she can't reach his hands with her mouth he's choking her uh she presses the the arrow wound again and he like shakes his head no at her like he's not going to let her not going to let that loosen his grip. We hear her heartbeat start to slow down and she's like stops fighting back and does this very cool. It's like boom, boom. And it goes from the current scene to like a childhood photo. It's like her life flashing before her eyes, but it's just edited in a very cool way where it's like boom boom like and it goes like photo and her face photo and her face and slowing down and slowing down but you see that her hand is like reaching closer and closer to that corkscrew baby

and she grabs it and at the last second she corkscrews him through the throat. It goes in one side and out the other. Oh, hell yeah. That's a long corkscrew. That's a long corkscrew. And he Ooh, that would be such a bad instrument

to get stabbed with. Oh, because it's stuck. Oh no. Oh no. But i mean in this context yes yes it's effective it's effective he dies he collapses on top of her she pushes him off they're both like motionless on the ground lying next to her not next to each other he's like squirting blood from his neck his blood is like all over her face now too and she uh with her little last bit of strength reaches into his pocket pulls out her cell phone dials 9-1-. The fire alarm is like still really going off, by the way. So they would at least like hear that.

And she gets up and kind of crawls to the front stoop to like be able to see the road. And her little cat walks up and sits beside her. And she pets her cat and we see the police lights coming in the distance and that's the end of the movie wow wow

wow she fucking did it man she did it talk about a final girl not that there are too many other characters in this just Just one other girl. But she was the final one. She was the final one. Oh my god! A happy

ending? Of sorts? Yeah. Well, certainly happier than Funny Games. I feel like a lot of slashers at least have this is the ending that slashers should have. This is like the more normal one everybody dying is quite rare oh how cool i i think about not to make it all about me but i can't help but

like hear these stories of these like badass women and i'm just like wow if i'm ever in this situation i know i'm gonna think about these movies and be like Henley you are coming up short here like you are not doing enough so not only are you going to be in a very scary situation but you'll also be berating yourself for yes I'm gonna feel so putting yourself down I'm gonna be putting myself down so much, really not living up to these standards that are being set. Like I said before, I think my weapon of choice would be a fire poker and maybe a hammer. I think if I were to choose, like, certainly not a crossbow now. I don't want that. I still want Freddy Krueger fingers.

I think my weapon of choice is a shotgun. Okay. Okay. Because you can both use it as a bludgeoning instrument. You can strap it to your body. So you can like run and have it over a shoulder. It's distance, you know, and you don't, I would imagine you don't have to be as good a shot

as like a handgun because it's got more sort of bang for your buck, if you will. I will. That's my weapon of choice. All right. I love that. I think I'm instinctually not drawn to weapons where I have to aim at

all because I know I would, especially under pressure, I would not be able to aim. Yeah. And a Freddy Krueger hand, you just fling that thing in any direction. The thing about the Freddy Krueger hand, I don't even need to worry about carrying it. Just hold it out and spin.

Just become a sprinkler of Freddy Krueger hand, if you will. Yes, I just close my eyes and wave blindly and you're never gonna miss never gonna miss never gonna miss it's full proof i do think there's something to be said for the like the more he's an asshole like that i feel like that would up my ability to survive it because if I get like angry like that shit about like when I was being like oh do it like fucking come in and try to kill me

like you sort of that's true a better motivator than the fear even because you're like all right yeah let's fucking go if I'm gonna die anyway I'm gonna try to take you down well there's the coming to the moment where you feel like you probably will die and accepting that you're probably going to die and I can imagine that you could react one of two ways. You could react with being more scared and being less able

to defend yourself or hopefully you're just like who cares I have nothing to fear anymore. This is it. This is my last chance. What's the ending he doesn't expect? I was like, oh, she's just going to kill herself. I thought that for a second, too. Which is because it's also like, oh, the fun is killing me?

Fine, I'm dead. Which is the less productive of the two choices she had. But Barnaby was like, that's what I would do. I would just be like, I'm out. This is awful, and I don't want to experience it anymore. I also want to take it from you. Do you guys feel this way?

There's something about it. Like, I'm so happy it ended this way. But there's something about it that's like a little unsatisfying because you want to know more about like who this fucking dude is and like why he's been killing all these women, how many people he's killed. And like, I kind of want like a little bit more backstory from him that slasher backstory you want to know that he freddy krueger uh killed children and then your mom got burned or something and also there's part of me that

doesn't want him to have such a like quick death too you know well he did get injured a lot before that's true he did and in many stages he got a hammer to the arm he got a arrow to the chest arrow to the chest and a knife to the knee wasp spray to the eyes wasp spray

too loud sound to the ears corkscrew to the neck I like how that's like i like how the that the sound is like an injury he's like oh it's so loud could be i don't like it be disorienting certainly i don't like my fire alarm and it's i mean this is a lie because i just told you guys mine's really quiet but when there's a fire alarm i don't like it and those are just regular loudness ones imagine

an extra loud fire alarm I bet it would hurt or at least it would be yeah you'd be like disoriented yeah well it's really sad about her friends dying but I'm glad she made it that is sad yeah we wish them the best

basically the him the best we wish him the best we wish him the best um uh thank you Sammy hey you're welcome that was great I loved that I was riveted yeah it was a fun one I enjoyed it I recommend it

it's on Netflix a quick easy less than 90 minutes and just I thought it was good fun and good fun and good it's kiwi not a lot of good voices in this one well no no no no we can uh we can all mouth goodbye to each other and listeners read our lips. She can't do this podcast, but that's what we're going to do.

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