Too Scary; Didn't Watch - READY OR NOT

Episode Date: June 10, 2020

Five (5) candelabras, a newlywed couple, and your classic board game tycoon family with an unfortunate tradition to uphold - we-re recapping the 2019 film Ready or Not! Join us as we learn why it's important to stay on top of your endurance training. 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.

Hey, guys, just a quick note that we recorded this episode two weeks ago, and a lot has happened since then. We didn't release the episode last week because we felt it was more important to make space for other voices while we started to do some unlearning and some protesting and figuring out ways to get more involved in the fight for racial justice. We will talk more about all of that on next week's episode. In the meantime, there is a link in our bio that's a good starting point if you need ideas for places to donate to. And there's some other helpful resources in there as well. And yeah, now here is this week's episode. Now, here is this week's episode. 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 for scary movies. That's a good way of putting it. I'm Henley. I'm also too scared for scary movies. I am Sammy, and I love scary movies, and I love telling these two about them and this time emily's watched it too so you're both gonna tell me about it i can't wait both tell henley um but before we do what's up with us i have had um you know like everyone in the world a lot of anxiety lately um particularly around bedtime and the other night i like threw a little tantrum to myself that i wanted to hear a bedtime story like an actual five-year-old and there is a podcast uh called sleep cove some free promo for you sleep cove um which is if you're listening free promo for you sponsor us give us a shout out too on your

sleep app that'd be that's honestly a good pairing this is a scary movie and then you need help sleeping that's true That's true. But it's this nice, this British man with this very soothing voice and he reads bedtime stories and he has three different, I mean, he does meditations and he does hypnosis and he also does bedtime stories, but I've been listening to

him read Little Red Riding Hood every night before bed. Oh my goodness. Sammy, I'm going to do that tonight. I highly recommend it, listeners. The app is called Sleep Cove. Like I said. One more time. One more time. It's called Sleep Cove.

You'd use code TSDW for 20% off. I can't wait. Just kidding. Don't do that. That's not a thing. You could try. I mean, you could try, but good luck.

Good fucking luck. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, but it is soothing and it really does help me sleep. So everyone check it out. What about you guys? What's up with you? I have been, had been, I sort of took a little break, but why did I need to say that? Who cares?

I have been watching a lot of Sopranos because I've never seen it before. And it's impossible, in my opinion, to watch the Sopranos and not want to be eating Italian food because they're like constantly eating big plates of spaghetti and like desserts. It's just like impossible to not want to do it And you notoriously love spaghetti anyways And I notoriously love spaghetti I said that as if it's a joke It's not I'm always eating spaghetti Big spaghetti head She's a spaghetti head

I'm a huge noodle head So I looked up When I was watching an episode last week Best cannolis in LA Because I was like I must last week, best cannolis in LA because I was like, I must have cannolis now. I must. And I found them and

it's in this little Italian bakery and deli in Eagle Rock. And it's open in the pandemic and they have like pantry items. It's this cute little tiny shop that I'm sure has been there for ages and they were letting people in like five at a time and uh i went and i got you guessed it

spaghetti and i also got pizza dough and all sorts of like italian pantry items and some sandwiches for lunch and they were so good they were like they tasted like what the idea of a sandwich is. Do you know how when you just have a sandwich that like this is a sandwich, you know? So it was that and it was so good. And I did get cannolis and they were heavenly. And yeah, pizza dough and then made a pizza the next day. And it was great. I've talked for, I don't know, 45 minutes now about the food that I ate.

I want to go to this place, Emily. Everyone should. Do you remember the name of it? It's literally just Eagle Rock Italian Bakery and Deli. Oh, I think you said that. And I thought you were just using a general descriptor of what it was. It's literally what it's called. Show up.

Give them code TSDW for 20% off. 20% off. Yeah, just go to the counter and say TSDW sent you. Hi, TSDW, 20% off. Yeah, it's great. And one of the things that I got there

that I had the other day, I got some spaghetti and if you can believe it and they are the longest spaghetti noodles I've ever I have to show you next time I make them like true Lady and the Tramp style noodles like when it is cooked it's like

a six foot it's so that's wrong it's not six feet but it is like three feet. It's a lot of, it's a long ass noodle and it's so fun. It's so fun. That is fun. I really, man, I can't recommend it enough.

Everybody go get your cannolis, get your long ass noodles and it's great. It's great. noodles and um it's great it's great i guess yeah i guess my thing for this week is i've been listening to two different podcasts that are oh my god more shout outs to podcasts more promos look at us i mean i i stick to like the same podcast normally so this is just i i have like a set of like five i rotate between so this was just you know getting out of my comfort zone a little bit but um one is called wind of change have you guys heard about this about this is a fucking wild ass story about how the cia during the fall of the Berlin Wall basically like got a rock band like wrote a song undercover to basically change the hearts and minds of people on their feelings of communism on communism like it's like

and the CIA I don't know what happens I haven't listened to the end yet so I don't know if they ever like cop to it but it's basically basically the wildest story of how influential the CIA has been. And it's very interesting. There are a lot of twists and turns. So highly recommend that. And then also, another one I've been listening to is called Boom Bust HQ Trivia. Do you guys remember HQ Trivia? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you remember that a couple years ago? Yes. It's all about the rise and fall of the viral quiz sensation. Oh, interesting. It fucking blew up. Yeah. And then it just disappeared. And so the podcast is just like just exploring what

happened to it and why it became literally at its peak i think like three million people were logging in at a time to play because it was too hard i don't know i haven't gotten a personal beef sammy yeah that's why i stopped probably that's probably it man that's fascinating wow so many recommendations our listeners are gonna be busy you're gonna be busy you're gonna be eating spaghetti you're gonna be listening to bedtime stories you're gonna be learning about cia and trivia um well let's get into this week's movie let's get into this because you've got a busy week Because you've got a busy week ahead. You've got a busy week ahead. You have places to be. But yeah, Emily and I both watched this week's movie. We did.

Sammy probably more thoroughly than me, but I did watch it. I watched it harder for sure. You watched it harder, yeah. It is Ready or Not. Came out last year, 2019. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, written by Guy Busick

and R. Christopher Murphy, starring Samara Weaving, Mark O'Brien, Adam Brody, Henry Cerny, and Andy McDowell. I had a blast watching this movie start to finish. I actually had such a good time

that I stood up in my apartment and danced afterwards what? well that's fun okay see I wish I'd had as good a time and it's not just because I don't love scary movies as much because I actually I will say I didn't find this movie

all that scary there were some gruesome parts that I did not like watching and I sort of pulled my eyes away. And there were a few moments where, as listeners may know, and Sammy and Henley certainly know, I like to get up to high ground when I'm scared during a scary movie. So there were a few moments where I perched on my couch, but I was still able to watch. The floodwaters of fear. I don't know what it is, but it's like it has to happen or I will. I can't survive. It was really fun.

And, you know, maybe it is what we've talked about before, which we'll get into. I just I love the set up set up. And I was disappointed by the payoff. I thought the first half of the movie was better than the second. I disagree for once in my life. I love the ending. I love the ending. Okay, I can't wait to hear your thoughts because

I want to, I really liked it. I wanted to love it. And I was, and maybe the thing is, I was like disappointed that it didn't 100% win me over because I was sort of expecting it to. Yeah, I would say that's fair. That's fair.

It's not perfect. Yeah, you got to lower those expectations. I got to. I think it's I so rarely will let myself watch a scary movie that I think I was like, oh, this is going to be good. So maybe I just set the bar too high. Hi, everybody. so maybe I just set the bar too high Hi everybody it is cocktail hour and this week's cocktail is a Millionaire's

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and top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon zest twist. So fancy. Cheers. Let's do some trivia. Because there is some fun trivia for this one, I think. One cool thing is that the director, well, like a lot of the team behind this movie are currently working on Scream 5.

Oh, that's fun. That's really fun. One thing that I just think is funny. So it's set in this like big mansion, this like creepy, spooky mansion, wealthy, wealthy families home with like a lot of candelabras and stuff. And apparently they only had five and stuff and apparently they only had five like the set they only had five and so they kept having to move them from room to room when they would shoot in different rooms which is just like just get more like i don't not just get more i don't know a really limited candelabra budget was it a lower budget movie it looks the budget

is six million okay that's pretty low budget that's pretty low budget it's pretty relatively Was it a lower budget movie? It looks... The budget is $6 million. Okay. That's pretty low budget. That's pretty low budget. It's pretty relatively low and it made $58 million. Alright. It really reminded me when it was getting started. And you know what? Maybe this is another reason why I was slightly... I know what you're

going to say. Of Knives Out? Do you? What? Knives Out? Yep. It reminded me a lot of Knives Out. And I fucking loved Knives Out. Do you? I can't. What? Knives Out. Yep. It reminded me a lot of Knives Out and I fucking loved Knives Out. So I think I was like, ooh, okay, we're doing Knives Out, which that's obviously Knives Out is not a horror. But it's kind of like a mystery

family, rich family. Mystery family. It's like funny. It's like and sort of like cheeky at times. And what's the word like haunted, like spooky in a haunted mansion ride type way. Right. But a horror. But so I just I didn't love it as much as I love Knives Out. I guess it's like my my thing. Yeah, I wrote down.

I wrote down that it reminded me of Knives Out mixed with Hot Fuzz mixed with You Are Next mixed with Kingsman. Wow, that's a lot of things and also I think that that's right. Oh, and this is a, I guess kind of an actor's rights trivia that I don't love is that during rehearsals Adam Brody accidentally

stabbed a producer with a prop knife because they weren't even shooting or rehearsing a scene. He just was playing with it and he thought it was retractable and it's not. And he stabbed a producer. Oh, my God. In the shoulder. Fortunately, it's not the worst place to get stabbed.

And he was fine. He got stitches and came back to set. But like, Adam, you've been an actor your whole life. Check the knife. Check it. It's very easy to check if a knife is retractable or not. Very easy. And don't do it on a person. Yeah, we shouldn't be making that mistake.

Yeah, I shot a thing once where we used prop guns and they were fully prop guns. Like, replica guns had never been made to shoot. Ever. But, like, looked and felt like guns. And literally every time I was given it, I opened the chamber to check for bullets. I'm also a freak, but, like, opened the chamber to check for bullets. I'm also a freak but like

opened the chamber to check for bullets. Shot it at the ground like I was like somebody could have replaced it with a real gun and I have to know and I have to know. Yeah. You want to be safe. It's not like just check just check. Better safe than sorry. Just check so you don't stab someone. One thing that I didn't know is that Samara Weaving is Hugo Weaving's niece. Hugo Weaving

is Agent Smith from The Matrix. My favorite movie of all time. I also didn't know he was Australian. Does that mean he's Australian? He's British, but he lives in Australia. So I guess their family must have moved to Australia later in life. People have family members in other

countries. That is also true. And then a personal trivia is that I once was an assistant editor for the editor of this movie, which was kind of fun. I saw his name pop up, Terrell Gibson, and I've worked with him. So I got excited. That's cool. Pretty fun. Hi, Terrell. Hi, Terrell. Hi, Terrell. I'm sure you're listening. hi we love your work yeah he's great he also edited sorry to bother you another great one oh that's a good one all in all i'm glad i watched this movie even though it wasn't we won't talk about it wasn't all that scary scary i would not have

been able to watch this a year ago oh And I also wouldn't have wanted to. I feel like exposure therapy is real. I feel like watch even me who I like scary movies I've felt my tolerance also increase and I just enjoy them

more and more each time and I think that's true and we're all slowly getting desensitized together. I'm excited about that. Except for me. I think you kind of are also Henley, but just slower. I haven't been putting in as much of an effort, you know. I haven't

actually been watching the movies. We can't all be brave, then the name of the podcast doesn't work anymore. Yeah, it doesn't. That's a really good point um should we watch the trailer yeah let's watch the trailer i can't believe that in half an hour i will be a part of the ladomas gaming dynasty empire uh dominion we prefer dominion i honestly can't wait to be a part of your family.

There's just one more thing, and then you are officially part of the family. So, at midnight, you have to play a game. Why? It's just something we do when someone new joins the family. A game. What game? Hide and seek? Are we really

gonna play that? Well, the rules are simple. You can hide anywhere. We then try to find you. So there's no way for me to win, right? Stay hidden till dawn. No, thank you. Good luck.

I know you're in here. Oh, Jesus. You shot the maid. Does she look like she's wearing a giant white wedding dress, Emily? Hey! Holy shit! I had to play along so that I can get you out. That's insane. They think they have to kill you before sunrise. Or something very bad will happen to the family.

If we don't find her and perform the ritual, we're all dead. Found her. God damn it! Emily! I don't know what I'm doing! And today's video is called... Getting to Know Your Crossbow. I forgot my gun. Why don't you just use mine? That's a little miss. I just saw her run. Oh My god You're just another sacrifice of us. Did you think

this is a fucking game? Yes, I didn't see. Remember? You guys, I am excited though. This trailer, this trailer, it made me excited to hear about it for sure. It definitely is a Knives Out feel. I feel like it literally is the Knives Out font.

Right? That's like the exact same. It's definitely a Knives Out feel. I feel like it literally is the Knives Out font. Yeah. Right? That's like the exact same font. It feels like Knives Out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It really does. It does look like it. But it's fun.

It's quick. It was a like snappy 90 minute film. Yeah, it was like really well received too. I feel like it's nice when a horror movie is just quick and fun and you just have a good time at the movies. And that's what this is. Just a good time at the movies. Yep. Yep. Okay, let's get into it. I want to hear all about it. I used to love back to school shopping so much that I would tell my mom that I wanted to work at Staples when I grew up because I just loved getting all the things that I needed that I would use every day in class. I still to this day have nightmares about showing up in class without notebooks or number two pencils. Really scary

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closes him in the closet the boys names are alex and daniel and he's like alex it's okay stay here and he's like daniel no that's how we know their names that's how we know that's how we know they say it and then so daniel is in this kind of this room by himself and we see i'll say daniel's probably five. Oh, yeah, you're going to have to. Oh, Emily, I think that's wrong. Really? How old do you think he is? OK, well, I was thinking like 10. I was thinking like eight and 10.

No fucking way. I thought he was way older. Eight and 10. Yeah, I guess you're right. We're going to have to show a picture of this. No, I think they're like maybe four and six. But I think probably more like. That sounds fair.

Four years old, eight years old. They're not eight and ten. There's no fucking way. But they are like four and six. Okay, great. And Daniel is a six year old. And he's like, Alex hi stay here don't say anything daniel's the older brother so he's out and then in runs a man in a tuxedo with an arrow sticking

out of his stomach or something saying help me help me you got to help me like they're trying to kill me and daniel then yells he's in here and all the rest of the family runs in with a bunch of weapons and like shoot a crossbow in his heart, I think. And then or just actually another one in the chest. And then a bride runs in screaming and crying like, no, no, like, I love him. Don't do this. Like, I love him. And they're holding her back. And then they say, OK, bring him to the table. Don't do this. Like, I love him. And they're holding her back. And then they say,

okay, bring him to the table. It's time for the ritual. And then it cuts. And we go to 30 years later. And we meet our protagonist, Samara Weaving, whose name is... Oh, I don't know that you might cut this out, but a thing that I feel like is

also important is is it the mom? Oh, yes, yes. An older woman goes up to Daniel after when he's like, she's in here. And they get the guy and they drag him out. She goes over to him and she's like, I'm so proud of you. We're proud of Daniel for. We're proud of Daniel for this choice.

Being complicit in a murder. Yes. Yes. And so 30 years later, we meet grace on her wedding day it's she's in the little bridal suite i suppose of this mansion about to marry in to this incredibly rich family she's kind of psyching herself up in the mirror being like uh to have and to hold even though your family is so intimidating and so rich and they really scare me but i'm like excited to be a part of your moderately fucked up family and then her husband is or her fiance is behind her and he's

like moderately ha ha ha they're very fucked up um and they have a nice little moment yeah they seem very into each other they're like having fun banter. Is this movie, are there a lot of jokes? Like does it take, not take itself? Yes, a lot. Lots of jokes. That's the impression. I definitely got the impression during the trailer that it's like a horror comedy situation.

Yeah, it is. Yeah. Okay. Then we meet Daniel, who is Adam Brody. Oh, and she mentions when she's like going talking about his fucked up family like in the mirror something like in your alcoholic brother who like always hits on me

and like that's right and then we he comes in we hear him named Daniel and we're like I mean at least I said like oh yeah of course he's an alcoholic he was complicit in a murder at age six. And that's how he learned that the guy she's marrying is the one who was hidden away. And yes, Adam Brody is the older brother.

So he's kind of evil in this one, too. He goes through a journey for sure. Henley, let's just listen to the movie. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have jumped ahead. It's just that trailer, you know? But so Daniel pops in and he's already kind of drunk and he's kind of roughhousing with Alex like, oh, it's your big day, kind of giving him a hard time. And he turns to Grace and says, you know, it's not too late to back out like you can you can still change your mind. And then Alex turns to Grace and says,

he's right though. You know, like it's not too late. You can still change your mind. And he's kind of serious about it. And she like looks at him like, no, like I'm all in. I'm, this is what I want. Let's do this. And then we go outside to the wedding reception area or whatever. And we're starting the ceremony. They're taking photographs and stuff. I guess it's post ceremony. So we start to meet some of the family members. There's the dad who I'll probably just call dad.

His name is Tony, but seems easier to say dad. We the dad is talking to Daniel before when they're taking portraits and being like, yeah, he could he could have done so much better. And Daniel says, oh, yeah, you wanted better for your favorite son. So we learned that Alex is the favorite son. Wait, clarifying question. Is it just their family?

Like, is her family around? Are their friends there? We don't really meet any friends. We don't meet her family. Okay, so they don't have any guests, other guests. It's basically just his family. That seems kind of strange, but OK. So, yeah. And then the mom, the mom talks to Grace and is asking her, like, are you nervous?

And yeah, she's weird, but is clearly like trying to put her more at ease in a way. Like she's more on board with Grace or at least is seeming to be more on board with Grace than the dad. And is like, look, I know Alex is crazy about you and that's all that matters. And we're excited to have you in the family. Grace is feeling more, she's feeling better about the family after the conversation with the mom. And then we meet Adam Brody's wife, Daniel's wife, who is named Charity, who right away just has a very icy attitude. She is not. I think she says right away she'll never be one of us.

And Daniel, it doesn't they don't seem they're not happy. Daniel says something like, oh, why? Yeah, because she has a soul like he's not he's not a happy person. He doesn't really seem to like his family, but he's also just a part of it. Right. And then we see there are three maids who are comically, like, so... They look like cyborgs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They look robotic. That's right. They look robotic. They look like spooky robots. Yeah. Spooky, sexy robots. Spooky sexy robots. And finally, we see Aunt Helene, who is incredibly scary with such a scowl on her face.

She has like white kind of slicked back, poofy hair and just like the meanest scowl on her face. She's just giving everybody a death stare, especially Grace. And then they get married, right? And then we just we see them kiss We see the end of the wedding they kiss Uh people clap They walked on the aisle yay hooray They got married we go up to Alex's room they start Fooling around they're like really happy

She starts trying to have sex She's like we just got married like holy shit That's awesome and he's sort of Stopping her as if there's A reason why they can't do that yet. Right. And then all of a sudden she sees Aunt Helene in the corner of the room. But like the opposite corner of the room from the door. Like she's all of a sudden in the room.

And so she's like, holy shit. Where did she come from? Like, what the fuck? Right. There's like a trap door, a hidden door or something. And so we learn that there are servants servants quarters like servant hallways through the entire house with like a secret set of doors right aunt helene basically says like it's time or something like that like she's just being kind of cryptic and spooky and walks out and grace is like what the fuck was that and we learn alex says

we have to play a game at midnight this is a tradition my family has every time a new person enters the family we have to play a board game and it's stupid but after this you'll be part of the family this is like the last thing and then after this they'll all accept you basically oh and we should mention i don't know that we did this family is very wealthy because they are a board they have like a board game fortune yes board game dynasty game tycoons and she's like do i have to win and he says no you just have to play and that's it and she's like okay if I have to win? And he says, no, you just have to play. And that's it. And she's like, OK, if it gets your family to accept me like I'm I'm down. What would you guys do if this happened to you? I think that I would have a lot of problems marrying into this family

in the first place. I'd be right. Right. Absolutely. I'd maybe not let it get this far. Yeah. I also I've my biggest thing at this moment because also like You know what's coming because you're watching a horror movie So you're like oh well this is going to get bad But my biggest thing is your fiance should Tell you that this is going to happen before Like by the way we're a board We're a game family so like

After our wedding they're going to make you play a game It's just a thing we do as opposed to like oh by the way Anyway it's happening right now Like yeah which will lead me to another point that I'm gonna have as we get a little further along of another thing that I'm like hey he should have done this before now yep he definitely does

not do things correctly he doesn't handle it great so they meet in the music room where they have some conversation they were like get drinks and have some conversations first where she talks she ends up talking to the mom again, who was like, your vows were so wonderful. I'm so glad Alex found you. And this is where we get a little bit of a backstory on Grace, where she mentioned.

Oh, the mom says, like, I had no idea you were raised in foster care. Yes. And she says, yeah, you know, my foster parents loved me, but there was always temporary. And I've always wanted a permanent family. That's why it was so important to me that me and Alex get married, because I really just wanted to be a permanent member of his family. We get a little bit of a hint that Alex has been removed from this family for a while. Like he didn't he didn't he doesn't want to be. So she says, thank you for bringing him back to us because he's been distant he doesn't want to have anything to do with us and this marriage

is kind of what's brought him back into the fold and she says you promise me you'll do what you can to keep him close to us and like we want to be family too and And so just do what you can to, to make him try to be part of the family again. We also get the notion too. When, um, Grace is talking to the mom. She says like, Oh,

Alex would have been happy. Never. She said like living in sin forever and joking. Like he didn't, Alex did also did not want to get married necessarily. It's clear. He loves grace very much, but he did not want to get married.

It's, it was grace who really wanted to make it official in this way. And it is because she's never really had a permanent family. I think his reasons for not wanting to get married seem pretty legitimate. They might be legitimate. Maybe should have shared that with her. Yeah. It may seem as though there are some choices he could have made differently.

And we're going to learn what all of those are because they are they exist um and somewhere in here he's talking to his dad and his dad says are you prepared to do what you have to do if she pulls that card yes so they said they they go like okay play the game. We pull the card in this room. This is a family-only room. And this is, yeah, the room that we saw the doors close on that room in the opening sequence when the guy who got shot with a crossbow was dragged into this room. We see it's the same room that they're brought into now, which, yeah, has, like, taxidermied heads everywhere and weapons and is very spooky yeah and we meet two new characters named fitch and emily who are i believe emily is their sister

right the third sibling yes and she's like coked out of clearly kind of a fuck up and like a little bit crazy and also very funny that she like missed the wedding. They come in and they're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Nice to meet you. You guys got married. It's so great. And she's like has this insane energy and is like, we're going to be best friends.

She's definitely coked out there. Grace points to her nose. She has powder on her nose that she like wipes away. She's like legitimately. Yeah. Doing a bunch of coke. And they like make jokes about how like, yeah doing a bunch of coke and they like make jokes about how like oh it took them longer because they had to take their private jet like they just can't fly commercial anymore it's like so disgusting flying commercial

um and they just come in with real crazy energy um and i don't know if this is when but they their kids come arrive with them and are like running circles around the room being really crazy and one we didn't mention this i don't think in the opening sequence but all of the people all Their kids come arrive with them and are like running circles around the room being really crazy. And one we didn't mention this, I don't think, in the opening sequence. But all of the people, all of the family members, aside from the kids in that and Alex and Daniel in that opening sequence with the crossbow are wearing these like very weird. Oh, masks. Mm hmm. And when their kid when Emily's kids come in, one of them, the older one, is wearing one of those masks, like just playing with it.

And then I think they say, like, okay, you guys have to go to bed. And they, like, go up to go to bed. But we see that they have two children. Do wealthy people actually love to wear masks as much as Hollywood likes to depict wealthy people wearing masks in a creepy way? Masquerade, balls. I mean, if so, they're having the time of their lives right now. I did see a tweet

of someone being like, Tom Cruise could just be walking among us right now and we wouldn't even know. And so, maybe they do because anonymity? I don't know. And it's freaky and kinky and rich people are weird. Freaky and kinky and rich people are weird kinky and kinky what's the um sex cult um sanctuary yeah right is that it i think that's

what it's called oh no no excuse me it's sanctum sanctum sanctum um but okay so now we're kind of all gathered around this big table and tony the dad the the the patriarch of the family and he's kind of explaining the the ritual and the history of the families like where our ancestor Victor

made a deal with a man named LeBail Monsieur LeBail Monsieur LeBail. Monsieur LeBail. Monsieur LeBail. In exchange for doing this, observing this tradition, we would get a great fortune. And this is something that their ancestor did

in order to make this successful board game, whatever, industry. Yeah. Essentially, their whole success boils down to a deal. Their great, great great uncle great grandfather made with this man named labale okay um so what they have to do is there's this little like metal box that they put they put a blank card in and when it comes out it prints something on it it will set well it's magic i think oh got it got it got it i missed that okay and so yeah this is what they do when other people come into the family

whenever anyone gets married and so emily's husband fitch says you know i played chess and charity says i played old maid, this is what we do. And LaBelle decides what card comes out. That's just how it works. That's just how it works. Right. And so they give it to Grace to pull a card. And she pulls it and looks at it and giggles.

And she says, oh, it says hide and seek. And Alex looks so stressed. Like immediately. Honestly, everyone at the table stiff. Like he looks the worst. But clearly all of them are like, oh, fuck. Yeah. No one's amped. No one's like bloodthirsty and excited about

it right now. No, but they are not in this moment. Committed to it. Resigned to it. Yeah. And so she's kind of laughing. Obviously, she has no idea what that means. And so she's like, oh, who hides, who seeks? They're like, well, you'll be doing the hiding. And

she's like, well, there's no way I can win. Right. And he Tony is like, well, you you'll be doing the hiding and she's like well there's no way i can win right and he uh um tony is like well you could stay hidden until dawn and she like laughs like ha no no thanks and you don't don't want to do that and so they're staying all of them are staying in this game room she's the only one who's leaving and as she's leaving Alex try like whispers in her ear and it's like go to go to my room like when you leave this room go to my room and she's like no like no

I have to hide and you'll find me and he's trying to he's really trying to impress her like go to my room but it's sort of he's not really able to convey that to her which is another one where I was like hey you tell your first of all you tell your fiance there's gonna be a game second of all you say don't think about this too much i'll explain it later if the card says hide and seek hide in my room that's what i that's it that's all i have to say hide it go to my room if the card says hide

and seek he doesn't do that and shame on him yeah he's not a forward he's not he's not a forward thinker he's not a long-term planner he really isn't getting ahead of this for someone who knows exactly how this goes he did did not get ahead of it. For someone who has had his entire life to think about this moment. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He didn't make a lot of plans for it.

He also, we got, you know, he didn't, there was a chance this wouldn't happen. Seemingly a pretty good one. He was banking on that for sure. Dude, fucking plan for it. Yeah, plan for it. Plan for it. Wow. Plan for it yeah plan for it plan for it wow plan for it so they tell her that they will be turned she says oh that's not really fair because you have obviously cameras everywhere security cameras and they say no no we'll turn those off we respect tradition it has to be just

like it was you know however many hundred years ago that this tradition started. So they turn the cameras off and they turn on a record. Mark your bingos. Another record player. That is one that I would not expect to show up as often as it does in these movies. There's always a record player and it plays a little Hide and seek themed song It says it's the record Literally says the hide and seek song And it's like Ready to go we're gonna play

The hide and seek It's like creepy and weird Yeah And so she runs upstairs And she's still wearing her full Wed dress and heels, by the way. We're cutting back and forth between her looking for a hiding spot and the family like gearing up with weapons, taking shotguns, crossbows, axes off the wall. one weapon and they're all like very old school a shotgun a huge like fucking

machete thing yeah um a crossbow an old timey little gun they're making jokes like Fitch is like am I supposed to fucking know how to use this like they're they don't do this they've never done this before oh a bow and arrow

right yeah they're not yeah they're not well practiced with this um and the mom says to alex who's like sit he's like sitting on a couch in that room just like completely shaken she says to him like maybe you should just stay here until the game is over yeah um they shut the doors on him yeah and they and the mom asks charity to stand outside the doors and make sure he stays in the room and grace eventually hides in the dumb waiter the little like service elevator thing where you put meals in to move them from floor to floor. We see Alex in the game room, stressed, kind of pacing. And there's a trap door

that goes to the service place, service tunnels. Yeah, so these trap doors that were revealed to us earlier when Helene all of a sudden showed up in his bedroom, he notices that there is a servant's door in that room that he could sneak through

and not be seen leaving yeah so he does that he does that eventually charity comes in to try to she says uh alex do you need some company like this must be really hard for you we're all trying to kill your wife we're all about to kill your wife um and he is gone so she's like oh fuck and then we go back to grace in the dumb waiter she gets out she just i guess gets bored she's like yeah she's like i'm we she even says out loud she's like uh yeah all right enough of this i'm not doing this anymore yeah so she starts kind of tiptoeing around the hallways and making her way towards alex's room and as she's doing that we hear one of the maids kind of yelling georgie oh yes we so we saw um one of the three spooky robot sexy maids it was had been reading bedtime stories to Emily's

two kids she fell asleep she wakes up and Georgie the older one who was wearing the mask before is out of bed so she gets up and starts walking through the house being like Georgie where'd you go Grace sees her and is kind of

hiding from her too I don't know just in case kind of ducks into all in good fun like don't know. Just in case. Kind of ducks into. Like, all in good fun. Like, ooh, it's hide and seek. I'm going to keep hiding. Goes into Alex's room. Kind of ducks behind his bed. She goes into the.

She backs into, like, the doorway. She's sort of, like, hiding behind the wall, peeking. And a hand comes from behind her mouth. Ah, that's right. Over her mouth and pulls her into the room. And it's Alex. And she's like, what the fuck? You scared the shit out of me.

He's like, shut up, shut up. Come behind my bed. And he pulls her behind the bed. it's alex and she's like what the fuck you're you scared the shit out of me he's like shut up shut up come behind my bed and he pulls her behind the bed and so they're hiding back there and then the maid comes into that room looking for georgie still kind of walking around in the room and then we just see her get shot in the head and collapse onto the ground and emily walks in kind of screaming and freaking out like, I got her, I got her. And then immediately Daniel is like, does she look like she's wearing a wedding dress? Like that's not her. And then the dad is, the dad's like, Emily, why would you shoot her in the head? She needs to be alive for the ritual. You need to aim for the body. Like you're, what are you doing and emily is like super coked out being like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm

so sorry and she kneels down she's like are you okay are you are you okay and she's like been shot like through the eye and is it's like pooling blood out of her mouth and it's just like it's nasty um yeah but and they're all like this is an interesting moment i think because it's just like it's nasty Yeah but and they're all like This is an interesting moment I think because it's clear they're not just Like murderers who will kill Whoever like they're all really upset that This other woman is getting Killed and because they're like what the fuck like

What are you supposed to do with this person and like And I think I think Emily is the one who says like well does it Count like can it still count if we Use her and they're like no it has to be the bride. Meanwhile, Grace and Alex are behind the bed hiding, hearing all of this. And Grace is like, Grace saw her get shot and is like freaking out and like crying and has her own hand over her mouth and is hearing them be like, it has to be the bride.

Wow. This is not. This is a horrible wedding night. This is awful news. Horrible wedding night. Horrible. Yeah. is a horrible wedding night this is awful news horrible wedding night horrible yeah and they don't they don't obviously they're they're not you know skilled murderers but they're definitely

not too worried about like the you know sanctity of human life there's definitely more of an inconvenience they're they're after a specific goal and so they're like what do we do with her well uh the mom says well we better carry her out of here grace can't see her um so they start carrying her out and then alex is like okay we gotta fucking move like get up get your shoes we gotta get out of here and she's like what the fuck is going on and he, you picked the one card. Like, this is the only card that would have that this would have happened if you pick the hide and seek card. Unfortunately, my family thinks they have to kill you before the sun rises. And he's like, they think that if they don't kill you before sunrise, that we will all die, that our whole family will die.

He says, yeah, I'm not gonna let that happen to you. You're everything to me. I'm going to sneak you out of here. And she's like, why the fuck didn't you tell like, what the fuck is this? Why didn't you tell me? And he's like, well, you're the one who wanted to get married. And she's like, no, like freaks out. And he's like, no, no, sorry.

So he's like, you're the most important thing in the world to me. If I had told you this, you wouldn't, you would have left me. Like, I wouldn't have you if you knew that my family was this fucked up. But yeah, he's like, so I got to get you out of here. But the house is on lockdown right now. So she's got her sneakers on. She rips her wedding dress into a little midi dress. Cute.

Yeah, he tells her, he's like, go follow this hallway all the way down. Take the door at the end. It gets you to the kitchen. Meanwhile, I'm going to go back to the house. I'm going to go to the security room, and I'm going to unlock. When you turn the cameras off, they have a system set that there's one lever

that turns the cameras off and locks all the doors. It's an electronic system. So he's like, I'm going to go and I'm going to release that so that the doors unlock. But you have to get to the kitchen on your own so that I can do that

so that then you can escape and I will meet you there. She's like, don't, do not leave me. And he's like, I have to. If I don't go do this, you won't be able to get out. So he goes to do that. meanwhile she continues down yeah she rips off her little dress she's wearing yellow converse she looks really cool um and she continues on to try to

go to the kitchen to to get out she gets to the end of the hallway and there are two doors. So she's kind of looking back and forth like, fuck, he didn't say which door and opens one. And the whole family is there. It's like the dad and the sister and Daniel. They're carrying the dead maid like down the hallway. And they're like, founder. And then Emily is on the other end of the hall and it's like ah don't fuck it up this time

and shoots um Grace ducks and so she's kind of like shooting at her family and it's like this whole commotion they're like Emily what the fuck are you doing and so in that Grace is able to duck out and like run down a staircase into a different part of the house and kind of lose them.

And then the family is in the room together, kind of trying to get their weapons back in order because she's like, well, I'm so bad at the gun or whatever. Emily is not doing well with her current weapon. So she's like, Fitch is like, well, I'm so bad at the gun or whatever. Emily is not doing well with her current weapon. So she's like, Fitch is like, well, you can try my crossbow. And then as she's holding the crossbow, maid number two runs in and is like, I just, I think

I see her over there or something. I can't remember what she says, but then Emily turns to face her and accidentally fires off the crossbow and shoots maid number two in the head so she is now we've killed two maids also both of these things were in the trailer you guys were right that's yeah it was that's too much that was both scenes right in a row too much in that trailer um but um so somewhere in here she runs into i guess i don't know the music room we'll just say who knows what all these rooms are who knows a room another room another room in the house and daniel is in there and yeah he he tells her he's like he they see each other she sort of freezes

and he goes just came in here to get another drink and just like goes fills up his glass and she's like Daniel, you have to help me get out of here. Like you're a good person. Alex loves you. You don't want to do this. And

what does he say? I don't know. He's kind of just like I'll give you a head start. Yeah, he's like, I'm sorry. I have to do this. Yeah, I'm not. He's like, I'm not a good person. That's Alex. I'm not who you think I am. Yeah.

Yeah, but I'll give you a 10 second head start. So run. Yeah. She runs and we see him counting and he goes like one one one thousand. Two one thousand. Two and a quarter. Like we can tell he doesn't he doesn't really give a fuck either way.

But eventually he does scream. She's in the study and she has already run away by then and then we go to grace who is kind of she runs into the game room and pulls a shotgun off the wall she needs a weapon so she pulls a shotgun off the wall and like this big crazy ammunition like bullet strap thing um it's clear she doesn't know how to really use it. I mean, why would you? Why would you? Sure.

And she goes into the kitchen. There's. Yeah. So she goes into the kitchen, tries the door, sees that it's still locked. So Alex has not yet made it to the security room to unlock the doors. She hears the butler start whistling from the hallway entering the kitchen. So she ducks down behind the kitchen island to sort of hide herself and the butler comes in and starts washing dishes while whistling

very loudly that da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da he really loves that song he does love that song and so she's kind of crouched hiding from him and she's trying to load the

shotgun but when she opens the gun it makes a click and everything she does makes a little noise so he keeps kind of being like what is that and kind of moving to explore so it's the you know classic thing of you moving around a corner and him looking around the corner and just you know he doesn't see her eventually she when she closes the barrel of the shotgun he hears it meanwhile alex is watching through the security cameras yeah alex has made it to the security room turns he turns on the camera so he can see where she is so he's like watching this being like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck, oh, fuck. And eventually the butler hears her. She pops up. She tries to shoot him. It doesn't work. And he like laughs at her and he's like, the ammunition's just for show. Like, that's not going to work. And which is like crazy because they all also grabbed weapons off the wall. Like, why wouldn't it work? That's like where all they're at. She grabbed the wrong one. I don't know. I guess.

She grabbed the wrong one. But so she grabs a kettle filled with hot water that he was just making himself tea with, dumps hot water, like boiling hot water on his face. So she like fights him and manages to get away. But he's sort of blocking the door, I think. Like even when he gets burned, he's still like in front of that exit door.

So she sort of runs away. While that's happening, the dad goes into the security camera room. And when we get there, we see that Alex has unlocked the doors. And then he bashes apart the security system with a fire extinguisher, breaking all the monitors and making them unable to lock the doors again. Well, he's finally done something useful. So that's good. He has. However, they they come in to the security room.

I think the dad comes in. Him and his dad get in a huge fight. And he was like, that's my wife. And he strangles his dad and like almost kills him. He's like the look in his eyes is like I will kill my dad and and then I think at the last second he kind of drops him Daniel

yeah Daniel comes in and is like hey like sort of standing over shoulder being like and he we get the impression in the movie this far that like Daniel and Alex are very close Alex looks up to Daniel Daniel looks out for Alex they love each other very much. And so Daniel comes over to him and he's like, hey, you don't have to do this.

You don't have to do this. Knowing that he's like about to kill his dad. So Alex backs off. And Alex is like, you got to help me. Please help me. Like, I love her. Please help me. Meanwhile, the dad is like sputtering on the ground.

And then the dad comes up from behind and knocks Alex on the head. And like says to Daniel, whose side knocks Alex on the head and said, like says to Daniel, whose side are you on? And he says, well, I distracted him, didn't I? And then they like carry Alex's unconscious body away.

And then Grace is still in the house because then she, she's, she's running down a hallway and she sees maid number three in a dumb waiter kind of hidden. Why is she hiding? I guess she's just scared because the other two maids have died. She knows the two other maids have died. She's like in the trying to hide in the

dumbwaiter and like calls out to Grace and is like, what's going on? I don't understand what's happening. Like two of the maids died. Like what the fuck? And Grace is like, they're after me. They're not after you. Switch places with me. let me hide in there you get out you're like you'll be fine and the maid is panicked

and so she goes she's over here and screams to try to get the family's attention to grace like no fuck like no and in her so then the maid attempts to get back in the dumbwaiter to like hide again and accidentally as she's doing that hits the switch to turn the doors

on to the dumbwaiter. Sammy, you should explain this because I looked away. Oh, she just gets crushed. Just a simple crush. She just gets smushed. Just a simple crush. They can't stop the doors and her torso gets crushed in the dumbwaiter and she dies.

So all the maids are dead. I'm trying to picture what this looks like like how could she not get out in time i wondered that i i was like just move into it if anything i would maybe not try to get out i would maybe try to pull myself back in um she's just like really panicking and it's like sort of can't decide whether to move in or out and then it's too late and they're closing and she just gets crushed um but okay so the family regroups again um kind of like where oh they see maid number three is dead they're like what the fuck she's taking us all out why can't we fucking find her and get her oh they have have Alex handcuffed to his bed. And Aunt Helene says he's probably lost his way.

He's been away from the family. And we find out that she is the bride from the opening scene. who I was in denial of my fate at the time when this happened to me, when really I should have been the one to kill my husband myself. He's the one who's meant to lead this family. I like Alex's. Yeah. Yeah. Alex is there like the mom and dad are like, what do you mean?

He's like, he's left us. He's been away. And she says, well, why is he the only one who's ever seen LaBelle in his chair? Earlier in the movie, like, there is a chair that remains empty. And the dad says something like, here's looking at you, Mr. LaBelle, or something like that. So, yeah, she's like, why is he the only one who's seen Mr. LaBelle in his chair? And they're like, he was five. He could have been lying or just making it up or dreaming. Like, who knows?

Meanwhile, we see Grace has made it outside and is standing sort of like on the ledge outside of Alex's window, hearing all of this being said. They all leave his room to go try to find her again. Outside of Alex's window. Hearing all of this. Being said. They all leave his room. To go try to find her again. And we see that Alex was faking. Being unconscious. He also heard everything. That was just said.

But yeah. So then. Go back to Grace. She jumps from the second story. Makes it down. Kind of running down through the grounds. Makes it to this barn. That is. Man this is the time where I was like oh man Cause you realize like okay cool

She made it out of the house but this property Is fucking huge Like she still has so Far to go before she makes it off This property Which I was really bummed about This is why we all need to be Running in our free time.

You know, just in case anything like this ever happens to you, it's good to know you can just run. We should all be doing endurance training. Just in case. But she makes it into this goat barn. You know how everyone has a goat barn. Filled with goats. Goats. So so cute I love goats While she's in there

Georgie comes in She sees that it's Georgie The oldest son And stands up and is like Oh thank god Oh my god Georgie Thank god it's you Look you have to help me

They're trying to kill me Like being like Oh he's a child this is great i'm this is fine mirroring that not unlike earlier scene the opening sequence exactly and she's like got her hands up like please help me and he pulls out a gun and he shoots her right through the palm of her hand and it takes a big circle chunk out of her hand. You could see through her hand. You see right through it. And she screams and then with her other

hand punches him in the head and like knocks him out. Punches him right in the face and knocks him out. It's pretty great. It's really funny. And I will say Georgie probably is about 11 or 12. Yeah, maybe I was. Georgie's older. Maybe I'm mixing up those kids. Yeah, Georgie's like older.

And then she falls into, there's like a little, little trap door. What do you call like a cellar door almost? And. Yeah. Falls through that. And there's a bunch of dead goat carcasses down there. So she falls with her freshly shot open wound. I said out loud to Joel as I was watching.

Oh, Henley would hate this part because it is filthy. It's nasty. And she's freshly wounded. And she falls into this nasty carcass pit and there are flies everywhere and she immediately vomits. It is nasty. I'd say this is I hate it. This is the toughest part of the movie for sure.

This is the toughest part. She looks so we see it's a bunch of goat carcasses. Some of them look more recent than others. carcasses. Some of them look more recent than others, but she looks to her other side and we see a skeleton with two crossbow arrows

through it, who is the husband from the beginning. So we got human and non-human corpses in this pit. But, okay, so she goes to try to climb back out. There's like a ladder but she obviously has a huge

hole in her hand and so she's kind of trying to like one handed balance on this ladder it's also like an old rickety unstable ladder and she's got a decent way to climb to get out yeah

and so she slowly but surely makes it to the top with her good hand kind of holding her bad hand to her body and then as she gets her hand on the top the whole like ladder collapses so she's just dangling with one from one hand and so she's also like dirty and slippery and and so we know she's gonna need to use that second hand she can't pull herself out one and we unfortunately this is a part where i did not watch it well we didn't watch this unfortunately see a big nail on the i had seen that and was like nope nope nope where you would assume her second hand would go and she has not seen she does not know it's there just us she uses all of her force to swing that second hand up and just slams it right onto that nail screaming in

pain but with no choice but to pull herself up she pulls herself up with her fucking wounded hand with a nail through it and gets out and doesn't she like say fuck you to the kid she's like fuck you

Georgie like to his like unconscious little you little motherfucker she's like really really pissed and I am too her acting is so good in this mode I like really she's very good she's very good and this moment in particular

just like watching her just be like just like oh the pain and she rips the sleeve off her wedding dress to like make a little tourniquet around her very wounded hand um so she then gets out of that barn starts running trying to find her way out of this property makes it to uh the a gate and finds a loose bar rod i guess and it's trying to like pry because it's not the the gate isn't wide enough for her to fit through but there's one loose rod and so she has to kind of vertical slats yeah so she pries this one off breaks it, making a bigger opening, but

it has now like a jagged piece of metal sticking out of it. This is a really rough ten minutes of this movie. I really hated it. This is once again a moment where I was like, no, I will not be looking

at this part, but you can hear it and you know it's happening and it's bad. So she sees a car coming and she's like, fuck, I gotta get out here and signal this car. This is my chance. Because they're kind of in the middle of nowhere. There's no neighbors around.

That's another thing I realized at this moment is not only is this an insanely huge property, but then it's the only property for a good stretch because that's how it is when you're fucking rich. Yeah. And so she starts squeezing out through this gap. But this one jagged piece of the like wrought iron gate is slicing her back open. And she just has, guess no choice she has to get out and so she pushes herself

through and it's kind of like inches into her it's like digging into her back and cuts it's so also Emily you hate knives like you hate like I hated knowing that this was happening

hated it hated it so much um it's bad it's bad but she makes it out I hated knowing that this was happening. Hated it. Hated it so much. It's bad. It's bad. But she makes it out and runs in time for this car that's driving by and kind of runs in front of it. She's like, help me, help me, help me. You got to help me.

And the guy slows down for a second and then speeds back up. He's like, get out of the way. And speeds off. And she watches him go and then says fucking rich people oh my god and so just on foot kind of runs into the woods meanwhile they know that she has gotten out they've kind of seen i guess where she's. And they send the butler. The butler has survived his hot water scalding. His face is fucked up, but he's like, okay. Yeah.

And so they send him after her. So he. He even like he's very dutiful, too. He like comes in and he's the one who lets them know. He's like, I was unable to repair the security footage. The doors remain unlocked. She's out. But like, I will get her. I like he like is committed to being like, I was unable to repair the security footage. The doors remain unlocked. She's out. But like, I will get her.

I like he like is committed to being like, I will get her. Don't worry. Like he's on board with this mission. Yeah. And so he's out in his car driving after her and he eventually sees her and tries to like drive her off the road. And she like dives. I don't know he gets her he like he he swerves off and gets out of his car runs after her on foot chases her pins her to the ground and then she kind of gets the better of him eventually and with her he's like an older guy yeah not old but

like they could be evenly matched if he was if you were fighting for your life and he was not like you'd probably find a way to try to get at him. And she uses her ripped dress, bloodied dress sleeve to strangle him and strangles him until he loses consciousness. So we have a win and she gets in the car. However, this is a moment where so he has a, he tries to shoot a gun at her and she knocks out of his hand and then they're like hand-hand fighting and she knocks him out. She does not

get the gun off the floor, which I was like, god damn it. You better get that gun. But also she's just trying to escape. She does get in the car and I was like, oh cool, run him over. She to escape. Right. She does get in the car. And I was like, oh, cool. Run him over. She also doesn't do that. She gets in the car and speeds off, which, you know, you would do. But boy, do I wish she'd gotten that gun and or driven over that man.

Yes, definitely. One of my complaints overall, actually, is that she doesn't kill enough people. It's like she. I agree. she better start fucking killing people sometime i was like blood thirsty sense i think that in this moment her main goal is just like escape i have to get away like they're trying to kill me i have to get away i think i'm conditioned in horror movies to like have it be same like you want some revenge i guess um i know i was like truly i couldn't believe she didn't drive over him.

But then I did take a second to think, wow, that would be a deeply upsetting thing to do is drive a car over a human sort of like no matter what. Yeah, it's probably more realistic to not to not do that. Yeah, that would be deeply traumatic. Yeah. So I get it. But I wanted it also. But OK, so she doesn't she gets in the car. She's driving away and she uses the little like GPS, whatever, like security system in the car to call the like. It's like a mapping over like on star, like a little button she presses.

Yeah. And he's like, he's like, how can I help you? And she's like, you have to call the police. I'm hurt. I'm in trouble. Like, please help me. People are trying to kill me. And he's like, OK, let me take a look. Let me see if I can help you with that. Lynn. So I'm not sure that I can that I can help you. And she's like, no, no, no. Like, call the police, like send someone here. And he's like, no, I think I'm so sorry. I have to shut down the car's engine. What? Is that an actual real thing? Can they like shut down a car remotely? Yeah, I think they can. I think they can. Yeah.

And like fancy, fancy fucking cars. Yeah, they can i think they can yeah like fancy fancy fucking cars yeah they can that are like automat automat like self-driving cars that kind of thing yeah um but so the car slows down and stops she's like fuck and pretty quickly that butler pops up in that driver's side window like we knew we would sm Smashes it, grabs her, knocks her unconscious. No, shoots her with the gun that he left behind, that she did not take from him. But it is a dart gun.

Shoots her in the shoulder. She passes. Right. She's like tied up in the backseat of the car. So then he, the butler, calls the main house to say, I got her.

We're coming back. Like FaceTime some, essentially. Like on video chat up on his dashboard. And they're all gathered around being like, hooray, thank God we got her. And then he puts on his favorite song. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da and he blasts him up way up because he's feeling great about his big victory while he's blasting his music we see grace waking up in the back seat and kind of coming to and they also on the other

end of the video chat see her sitting up in the back seat and they're starting to try to yell at him she's awake but he's blasting his music so loud that he can't hear them and she uses I think she uses her feet and like kicks cause she's tied up and kicks him in the head from the back seat causing

like multiple times like kicks him kicks him again kicks him he loses control of the car and the car flips and tumbles. We get one of those cool shots from inside the car when it's when it's flipping and going all crazy. Glass flying everywhere. Them kind of looking like there's no gravity for a second. I always like those shots. Yeah, those are fun.

And then the car crashes. It seems like maybe he's died i think he has died but so grace gets out of the car and who is there but daniel just taking a little walk in the woods and he says to her man i came out here to get away from all this craziness like why are you disturbing my tranquility And he's got a gun in his hand or a shotgun, I think. And he's kind of raising it. And she again is like, Daniel, Daniel, you don't want to do this. You don't want to kill me.

You don't want me to die. And he says, sorry, I want to go back because there is a moment that happens before this scene that I feel like is important. Somewhere in the midst of all of this, Daniel and Emily, his sister, take the bodies of the maids and dump them into the goat pit, the corpse pit that we saw earlier. And meanwhile, they're talking and Daniel's like, what the fuck? Like, this is not normal. What the fuck is this? Like, this is insane that we have to do this shit. And and he's like, you know.

Maybe we deserve to die. Like, why are we even following through with this? We're clearly fucked up. And Emily says, well, my kids don't. And that sort of takes him back you know gives him pause for a second being like oh right you have kids um at which point georgie her son comes to who had been punched by grace and she's like oh my god georgie what happened and he comes over to her and and he's like i um i shot the lady And She's like

One of them is like oh my god Why did you do that And he says well that's what everybody else Was trying to do And then Emily Holds him and says I am so proud Of you Cut to now

We're in the woods With Grace Daniel Sees her and so cut to now we're in the woods with grace Daniel sees her and so in this moment I'm thinking oh okay we heard him doubting these choices maybe he's not going to give her up I don't remember exactly what he says to her

he raises the gun to her and he says I can't let my whole family die because of you and so he raises his gun to shoot her and he says i can't let my whole family die because of you um and so he raises his gun to shoot her and she's like talking to him and says can't you see that that's like this is insane like obviously nothing is going to happen if you don't kill me like it's not this is not real like i can't believe you guys all believe this this is not real and he he takes the butt of the gun and knocks her out and then the dad pops out he's hiding in the woods too and so father and son have a little moment

of like okay glad you like came to your senses let's go we're running out of time let's take her back yeah because again once again this all has to happen before dawn. It didn't start until midnight. And a lot of time has passed. Ritual time. It's ritual time. Yeah, so they're all putting on their cloaks, their spooky cloaks. This is like the hot fuzz part for the greater good. The greater good. Oh, yeah.

But then we also see Alex is still handcuffeduffed and he has a big conversation with his mom. His mom comes in to talk to him. Meanwhile, he's been he's been trying to like saw the hand, use the handcuffs to sort of saw through the bedpost that he's handcuffed to. We've seen him sort of doing that. But yeah, so now his mom comes in and they start talking. I can't totally remember what he says, but he kind of Says like his resentments against the family He's like I just can't believe that we Fucking sacrificed a goat every

Fucking month and that that was normal Like so yeah she goes She's like why you know why did you ever leave Us uh talking about how much Like she misses him she loves Him sorry this had to happen Um you knew it was a possibility And he says growing Up in this family She loves him. Sorry this had to happen. You knew it was a possibility.

And he says, growing up in this family, what's so crazy is, like, I did think this stuff was normal. Like, we would sacrifice goats and I would. What's so crazy is I thought it was a normal thing to do. And I realized you'll think anything is normal if your family tells you to do it. And he says, but then I met Grace and she made me feel like I could be a good person and I didn't have to do these things and like, so if it comes down to it,

I choose Grace and I will choose her over you guys. And she says, if you really were going to choose her over us, you wouldn't have let her pull a card, but you let her pull a card so I think you do believe in all of this right they also

make mention of someone previously in the family who got married without doing this ritual and they died and so we see that Alex probably on some level does believe this yeah that this is real.

But OK, so we're now back in the game room and or whatever. I guess. Yeah. A little sacrifice room. Everyone's cloaked up. Grace is tied down to the table and the table is has a pentagram on top of it. We're chanting in Latin. Chanting, passing from one to the next this goblet of, I don't know, wine or something that they must drink as they do this ritual.

And then as they're kind of getting ready, they have like a knife, I think, that they're preparing. They have like a knife, I think, that they're preparing. And then as they're kind of chanting in Latin, they all start vomiting. Well, yeah. So the father is at the head of the table and he like picks up the knife over her chest. And they're all like, Hail Satan. Hail Satan. And he goes to do it and then freezes.

And they're all like, look at him. And then, yeah, they all just start puking what looks like blood it looks like they're puking up blood everyone except Daniel and Daniel unties Grace and starts running with her

and he's like okay we got it wait was Alex in this ritual too Alex is still handcuffed upstairs. Oh, he's still handcuffed. Okay, okay. And so Daniel is running with Grace and she's like, did you just kill them? And he says, no, no, no. They'll

shit weird for a week, but they'll be okay. Like, they'll just take a nap. Yeah, so he poisoned the goblet, presumably with something, so that he could get grace out so the turn that we thought had happened in daniel did happen and i was very happy

yay also i said it before i'll say it again i thought adam brody was very good in this movie he's good like his character and his journey i really bought like i thought it paid off and made sense to me every step of the way yeah i agree um so but they're running um daniel and grace are running meanwhile we do see that alex has finally broken broken through the headboard and and is free um but then charity pops up

with a gun and confronts Daniel and Grace and she's pointing the gun and Daniel puts himself in front of Grace like blocking the line of fire and so this is now husband and wife wife holding a gun to her husband and he's like no we're leaving we gotta

get out of here this is crazy and she says to him Charity says oh yeah she says you really don't care if I die because the belief is that if Grace doesn't die, all of them will die. And so she's realizing that her husband is willing to sacrifice her to save Grace and himself and himself. Yeah. But in that moment, Charity shoots her husband in the neck. Daniel drops to the ground, kind of choking on his blood. And Grace has a cool moment of while Charity is kind of fiddling with the gun to try to reload it she goes and grabs it from her hand like knocks it out of her hand and then goes and pulls the trigger to shoot

her and it's like out of bullets but I just like there was no hesitation in her about to kill charity and I liked that she wasn't conflicted she's like fuck you I'm trying to kill you so then she she takes the gun and uses the butt of the gun to knock her up knock knock charity out and goes back over to Daniel, who's definitely dying.

Yeah. A hundred percent. And there's no saving him. So she just kind of says, thank you. I'm so sorry. Yeah. And he looks to her and like one of his last words is like, go. Like he knows what he did and is like, get out of here.

He knows what he did and is like, get out of here. So she runs to leave. And then as she's out, Alex comes down and finds Daniel dying, his brother dying and kind of kneels and is crying like, oh, my God. He's like, don't leave me. I need you. I need you. Like, please, Daniel, stay with me. Like, clearly, like, very desperate. Like, this is the one member of his family he he truly loves and watches him die and then we're so sad and then

we're back with grace who is in another room and uh like arrow flies by her head and hits the wall behind her she turns and the mom andy mcdowell and her bow and arrow are like at the door and she's like in my defense it's been a while since i've shot the bow and arrow um so they have a big altercation they're both trying to kill each other eventually grace gets Eventually, Grace gets they get in like a scuffle on the ground. Grace gets on top of the mom and sees the metal card box that she drew the card from in the opening. Mr. LaBelle's famous box. And she uses it to beat her to death, smash her head in. Holy shit. it's crazy

she finally gets the upper hand and grabs the box and smash it and knocks her out like she's knocks her out she's one and then rather than get up and leave and try to escape like she's done before she just goes to going and going and

is screaming is like fuck you fuck your family fuck you and is like, fuck you, fuck your family, fuck you. And is like, it's brutal. And as that's happening, Alex walks in, seeing his new bride murder his mother really, really violently. She says like, I'm sorry. Yeah, she looks at him and is just like, clearly so shocked. Like, everything that's happened. She's in shock. She's got her fucking hand.

She's had a terrible night. And she looks at him and says, I'm sorry. And he says, I'm sorry, too. Does Alex know the charity shot, Daniel? No, he didn't see that. No.

Yeah. OK. But I mean, either way, he's clearly dealing with the knowledge. I think that he's the reason that then Daniel and his mom are both dead, essentially, because if he had just let the if he just let them kill Grace, then they would also both be alive still. There's a lot to take in in this moment. there's a lot to take in in this moment um and he says to her

you're never gonna stay with me after this oh no no no no absolutely not and they're both devastated over that fact too I think like at least from the beginning they did seem very much

in love with each other so he goes to her and like puts a hand on her face. Or he starts going to her and she's, like, backing up. She's very obviously scared of him, too. She's scared of everything. He strokes her cheek. And, you know, they're kind of having a little last little moment of goodbye or what's happening. It was really scary. I was I was very

Scared we're all scared For good reason because then he Grabs her head In between his hands And she starts saying like Alex Alex you're hurting Me Alex stop And he says she's In here she

He yells out to his family so Everyone else runs in. He puts his hand in her mouth. She's screaming underneath his hand. Like, cannot believe that at the end of all this, it's him. It's him. And so they all run in. They're like, OK, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Let's do this. The sun's about to rise. It's almost done. They get her back on the table. They're just holding her down. They don't have time back on the table. They're just holding her down. They don't have time to tie her down. So they're holding her down. And now they're like quickly chanting like, yeah, he'll say it.

And he'll say it. It's like a quick version of the thing he did before. And now Alex is at the head of the table holding the knife, going to do the honors of stabbing her. He's holding the knife going to do the honors of stabbing her. He's holding the knife up above her and as he's going to plow it down into her, she digs her nails into one of the people holding her so she's

able to, they loosen their grip for a second so she can move out of the way. She like, he turns her shoulder. And then so he misses and stabs her in the shoulder instead of the heart and then so he he he misses and stabs her in the shoulder instead of the the heart and then she is able to jump up does she pull the knife out of herself so that she can the knife stays in her shoulder and she like and they're all freaking out like what the fuck

happens is she in the chaos gets off the table pulls a knife out of her shoulder and like holds it to all of them in the corner and is like and they're all sort of standing like fuck oh no fuck like she lets out a really crazy scream though i just want to say it almost sounds like a goat like it's a very animalistic scream like i thought it was a really interesting choice it's like not a human scream it's like a very good desperate desperation scream of like, I'm willing to fucking do what I have to do to survive right now. And she looks wild and also like scary. Like there's reason for them to now be because they've now tried. She's seen them try to sacrifice her twice. And now they know that she'll do anything to them.

And she's lost all hope of anyone being on her side yeah exactly they also saw they didn't see the murder happen but they came in and saw the mother that she has murdered and they are all really upset about that I'm just going to point this out because I had to see it

and it was really nasty and I hated it they need the box for the ritual and she used the box to beat the mom to death and they picked the box up off the floor and it has like her hair attached to it. It's so gross.

I really hated it. But then I told you guys about it so sorry. So she is up and waving the knife at them and they see out the window. The sun is up. It is full morning. They all freeze and they turn open the wind, open the curtains.

And they're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. They all are freaking out. They do a fun thing where when they open, they like open the curtains to see that it's daylight. And every single one of them goes like and like hides as if at the mirror. They're vampires. Beam of sun. Yes.

That like as soon as sun hits them, they will be dead. And then nothing happens. And what's his name? Emily's husband. Fitch. Fitch is like, I fucking knew it. It's all bullshit. Like,

this is all so stupid. I can't believe it. They're all having this moment of like, oh my God, I can't believe this isn't real. And they're all like looking at her like, well, what do we do now?

Like, what do we do with her? And, um, Aunt Helene is, she's like the most die most diehard like she and she's looking at the empty chair like i'm so sorry i'm so sorry we let you down and she has the huge machete by the way that's been her weapon of choice for the whole uh yeah and so she's like i'm so sorry i let you down but like i'm still gonna follow through like she still has to die and she goes and grabs

that big machete and hoists it and is about to bring it down on Grace and then she explodes just like from the center and guts go everywhere and she just like pop is gone and then

and then Fitch explodes and then Charity explodes and one by one we're all exploding and and the emily and her two kids start running out of the room and and they're like oh no no and like we see at like as they run out the hallway like one two three just like body explosions come through and grace just starts laughing and she's like covered in blood like the sprays of blood are like going all over her from each person's body exploding and she's just like laughing in this shower of blood and then the dad is like no i did everything right like i won't let this happen. I'm in control.

And he explodes. I love it. I love it. I'd love to see it. And so we're left with just Alex and Grace. And Alex looks so scared. And he's like begging Grace. He's like, Grace, I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

And he's like, and look, I'm not dying because I have a second chance because of you. And I get a do over because of you. He's just like, oh, I love you. I'm so sorry. I love you. Let's start over. Like, yeah, just forgive me. Forgive me.

She's like, don't fucking touch me. Yeah. She's like backs away. And then she she takes off her ring and she goes, I want a divorce. And as she throws it at him he explodes oh hell yeah hell yeah and she's the closest to him when

in this explosion and gets his guts and blood all over her but she's thrilled about it she like licks her lips that are covered in his blood it's gross meanwhile the house has started to burn down in one of the earlier like She like licks her lips that are covered in his blood. It's gross.

Meanwhile, the house has started to burn down. In one of the earlier fights that was happening, she knocks over one of the five cantaloupes. And the whole place has started to go up in flames. Yeah. Yeah. So she then in her converse and blood soaked midi wedding gown makes her way to the front of the mansion and it's morning and she goes and sits on the steps, lights up a cigarette and we hear sirens coming. Eventually the police get there and they come up and they say, what hell happened and she says in-laws and oh oh my god end of the movie what a romp it was a romp it definitely was a romp and here's what i'll say now that we're finished it's a very good movie it really is fun i like that it is real i like that they explode that part fucking rules so when i say i don't i didn't like the payoff as much i did really like those choices i feel like i really wanted a different final line. I think after like with how cool she was and how much she was able to rise above it

and like all that fucking shit that happened to her and then sitting there smoking a cigarette. I it felt like such a punch line to me to have the last line be in laws. I was like that made it feel like a

cheapened it movie line. Yeah. And so I honestly, I think I would have a different feeling of this movie if that had not been the final line, because that was the last taste left in my mouth after this like badass sequence. And then it was like, in law. And that just like, yeah, it didn't need any line there. She could have just it didn't need it didn't need any line there she could have just

been didn't need and she could have just been smoking and kind of had a cool expression on her face and the camera could have pulled out and that could have been it yeah that's all that's all not that line i agree for her i don't think god i fucking love that they all exploded it really is great i love that too that's a fun payoff. I also really like that Alex is the one who ends up turning on her and turning her in but I also don't feel like

they gave enough weight to that turn. It felt like a device for the plot and it didn't feel as motivated by the journey of the character the way that like Daniel's feel as motivated by the journey of the character the way that like Daniel's turn felt motivated by the journey of the character and maybe it's

maybe that got cut in the because again it was a really short movie and I think it was the right length for this movie but that was another moment where I was like that is the correct choice I don't think we arrived there in a way that was as satisfying as I would have liked it to be but again I think I set the bar

really high for this movie for whatever reason. Maybe because it is like a badass sort of feminist, like she ends up on top and murdering people and being like fucking cool. That I wanted a little bit more from it.

I think that's fair. Sammy, what was the dance like? What did it look like? Oh, I just did some air punches, just kind of like a boom, boom, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is that feeling for sure, especially once they all start exploding, you're like, hell

yes, hell yes, and you know that he's gonna explode. Of course he's gonna explode. Yeah, it's just fun. Oh, we forgot to mention too after they all explode she looks over to LaBelle's chair and like a ghost appears in the chair and then goes away and she's like oh fuck

that was another moment where I was sort of like yeah we already know it's real that again was like a little too like oh didn't need it don't you see it's like yeah they all exploded we get it yeah we get it yeah didn't need that. That was a very like Haunted Mansion ride type ghost image. It does. It does feel like Haunted Mansion in the end.

What a crazy film. I love it. I want to see this actress in more things. Yeah, she's good. She's great. I thought. I think she will be in more things, Henley. I think you'll get your wish there. She definitely is very compelling to watch. I don't have too many thoughts about it, except that it was

super fun to listen to. That was a fun one. I would say this movie is a horror movie, but not a scary movie, right? Is that how we would describe it? I'd say there's more gore than scares yeah more violence yeah it doesn't sound too scary except for the horrible tension there's definitely tension there's some tension um but it's usually undercut by some humor and i was

never like afraid it was the the most uncomfortable parts are gore parts are when her hand is fucked up and when she's slicing her back. Those are the worst. Those are definitely the worst. Yeah, I will say, like, I'm realizing as we go through this, I can handle a movie like this. And honestly, probably a cabin in the woods. I could probably watch far sooner and far easier than still like A Conjuring or A Paranormal. And I think it's because the ambiance of the movie itself isn't scary. Like, it's not dark in that same way.

Like, those, I can't be made to feel that bad for the duration of a movie like i don't want any part of that still yeah well there's yeah there's a certain type of filmmaking horror movies that just fills you with dread just like yes i don't want to be filled with dread and certainly not without like a big revenge payoff like happens in this one. Yeah. And then also in this one and Cabin in the Woods, they're so incredibly high concept and like so in like such insane scenarios. Like you don't have to go to bed worried that like your in-laws are going to show up and tell you you have to play a game. And if you don't win you'll die I'm not going to worry about that

I did dream about I watched this yesterday and last night I did have a dream that I was hiding in a big house from vampires and when they found me I had to try to shove them into the sunlight so that they would explode which is a combo

of this and we'll be doing the shadows, which I've also been watching. So I definitely did dream about it, but it also, it wasn't scary. It was just a dream that had to do with this. So yeah. Yeah.

Well, what did we learn guys? I learned divorce is cool. Wealthy people are crazy Don't get into a dumb waiter I guess we learned a lot of things What we learned in endurance training is important Oh right

And weight training too And weight training Yeah don't neglect that Don't neglect your weight training Don't neglect your endurance training Don't be too rich Don't get into a dumb waiter um i guess we learned a lot of things wow listeners you have a lot you have a big week

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