Too Scary; Didn't Watch - THE STRANGERS

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

People in masks, scary record players, and proof that ranch-style houses (and capitalism?) are a bad idea - we're recapping the 2008 film The Strangers. We are continuing our quarantine series with a movie that will make you feel very scared to be in your house. Sorry!!! 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.

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 their... What did I say? Keep it in, but I'm still going to do it again. Okay. Hello, 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 way too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also way too scared to watch scary movies. I'm also so scared about any podcast we're doing moving forward but I'm putting my big kid pants on and I'm going to be okay.

I'm Sammy and I like watching scary movies I love it I can't understand it but I still accept it here we are doing what we do doing what we do

did anything scary happen to us this week my friends I started re-watching Peep show my one of my favorite shows and it's so good and i'm just so blown away by every moment of it and i don't know if you guys knew this but the creator of it went on to create succession really whoa wait who was that person yeah it's created by jesse armstrong is his name oh that is his name yep i've seen it in the credits where are you watching it where is it it is streaming on amazon prime oh my god and on hulu oh my god everywhere um and so what's scary about

it is just that someone can be so smart and talented and funny. And it should be, I mean, I think illegal. They're too good. It's too good. I think it should be illegal. We have too many nonviolent criminals in jail, but Jesse Armstrong should be in jail. He should be in jail. I think he should.

Put him straight in prison, please. He makes me feel bad that I am not smarter and funnier. Everyone who makes me feel bad goes to am not smarter and funnier. Everyone makes me feel bad goes to prison. Those are the rules. 2020. Rules out the window. My rules now. My rules.

If you don't like it, don't make me feel bad. It's pretty simple. Those are the rules. What about you guys? Emily, any update on your rat in your walls? Oh, it's still here um it's emily did you see we got a comment from another listener who said that as they were listening they were banging on the wall um and they had a rat in their wall and then you told

that story and they were like they just wanted to say that oh my god oh i'm here with you it's yeah it's bad it's still yeah no it's still here um i really feel like i'm like one quarantined week away from tearing open my own walls so yeah that could be in a week and i where it's what's happening it's what's happening um it's what's happening and what else is happening is i i guess sort of my emotional state in in this moment is i cried during an episode of schitt's creek today oh yeah i've cried in that. Yeah, and it was great, and it was a great episode, and I needed it, but I also was like, huh, that's not

what this show is for. So, you know. Yeah. Kind of scary, I guess. Yeah, you know me, though. I love to cry in movies and TV. Hen, any tears, any rodents? Where are we at? I don't have any rodents

all the tears have been lucky bitch all the tears have been successfully contained in one portion of my brain and siphoned off for a later like in doctor sleep where he locks them all up in his brain good and healthy

compartmentalizing is the way of the future. I'm trying to think. I've actually been mulling over what to even say in this portion of the podcast because I haven't had too many things happen to me in the past week. Not a lot of experiences in general these past few weeks. Maybe we should at least adjust the language from happened

to because what's, I mean come on. Yeah. Just been indoors for the past week. Did anything scary occur to your brain? Well, this is this is kind of maybe TMI and I'm sorry for

everyone but I did recently get my ears pierced in January. And I didn't realize until last night. Ew, Henley, nasty. Just wait. I didn't realize until last night that all four of my piercings were actually pretty infected. Oh, no. And so I took all of my piercings out last night to deep clean and we're all good. I think we're fine.

We're fine. They're back in. The earrings are back in. Earrings are back in. But I really thought one of the challenges, minor challenges in this quarantine period with me and my fiance was that he was going to have to give me four ear piercings while we were alone in the house. That would have been bad. So I'm glad, I'm super glad that didn't have to happen. That's truly the only thing I can think of to talk about on the podcast right now. That's it. Honestly, that's it.

That's a good one. That's a good one. And, you know, everybody just take care of yourselves this time. Don't end up in the hospital from an anxiety or piercing or having your fiancee pierce you. I do have an anecdote, which is that one of my friends in New York about a week ago or 10 days ago had a faulty thermometer and it said that her temperature was 107 degrees and she called the ambulance and the ambulance

came and got her. What was her actual temperature? It was completely normal. Perfectly normal. Perfectly normal. Oh, you hate to see it. I hate to see that happen. I've been taking my temperature perfectly normal oh no so also don't do that oh you hate to see it I hate to see that happen

I did I've been taking my temperature constantly I don't feel like I have a fever but you know these are the times um

and I was convinced the opposite I was like I keep not having a fever but what if my thermometer is broken and I actually do have a fever

and every time I take my temperature it's lying to me so I ran it under hot water and it got hot so it does work you guys my thermometer does work I'm glad that she didn't have that fever because that would have been bad

she's completely fine she's 100% healthy yeah I think these are strange times we're all dealing with it in different ways. Yes, we are. And one of the ways we're dealing with it is with

a movie called The Strangers for Strange Times. That was stupid. I'm genuinely scared to even hear about this movie. This was another one that was requested through our Instagram um so congratulations again congratulations you won you know who you are

the strangers came out in 2008 written and directed by brian bertino starring live tyler Brian Bertino, starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, and Laura Margolis. And no guest again, obviously. Yeah, just us on a Zoom call. And Silent Jenna on mute. Silent Jenna's wearing a red bathrobe. I want everyone to know. That's her favorite. It's her favorite outfit.

Drinking out of a lovely cocktail glass. We're really having a time. Okay, everybody, grab your bathrobes and your favorite cocktail glasses because it is cocktail hour. And this week's cocktail is a welcome home. To make a welcome home, you will need two ounces of light rum, a quarter ounce of beetroot juice, a third an ounce of lime juice, a half an ounce of simple syrup, and a sixth an ounce and a sixth an ounce. God, that's hard to say. And a sixth an ounce of coconut syrup. I just infused my simple syrup with some coconut that I already had.

And I actually omitted the beetroot juice because I don't have it. I don't have it. You will shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain into a chilled coupe glass with a cinnamon rim. Cheers. Let's see. Oh, God, this movie looks so fucking scary. I don't like the masks that they wear. I literally hate everything. Oh, I was like. If I could make it work, I was like, I should show up in the Zoom chat with a stranger's mask on.

Oh, that would have been upsetting. So some trivia, I guess, is that it's based on it's it says it's based on true events, which is true. It's not a true story, but it's inspired by a few different things. It's inspired by something that happened to the director as a child. No. What? Wait, what does that mean?

So someone knocked on the door of his house, I guess, and asked for someone who didn't live there this is something that is going to happen in the movie i guess maybe i'm spoiling it but not really it's not it's just the beginning of the movie um and then they were like oh nobody lives here by that name and they were like oh okay and went. And then the next day they found out that, like, every house that was empty on that block had been burglarized. So it's just, like, one element of the movie. And then I feel like the biggest thing is it's based on is the Manson murders.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then one more case called the Keddie Cabin murders, which the, like, case isn't super similar, but the setting is it's like in a cabin kind of or like in a remote place in the woods. Are you sure the most interesting part of trivia isn't Mike's cars in 1984 Jeep Cherokee, which IMD specified? IMDB has not just that. It has, I think, four separate car trivias. It's like the truck that they drive is like an F-150. He drives a Jeep. And it's like, this is not trivia.

And I'll say the original title was The Faces, which is scary. That is scary. And before takes, as the action ramps up, they would make Liv Tyler run around so she'd get really out of breath, so she'd seem extra scared. And I'd say it's a little excessive. She's really out of breath a lot of the time. Like a little too much, so they shouldn't have made her run quite so many laps

um and that's it that's interesting alright should we watch the trailer let's watch the trailer separately yeah okay Emily you're not allowed to watch it I'm gonna watch it what do you mean I'm not allowed Emily you're not allowed

why I want to watch it. I just made that rule. You don't. You go to jail. What? I just want to tell you something. What do you want to tell me? You are my girl.

I love you you something. What are you gonna tell me? You were my girl. I love you, Jimmy. What is that? There's someone out there. We gotta get out of here. Then open the door and I just want you to run, okay? Why are you doing this to us? Because you're were home. Oh, no.

Oh, I hated that. And I hate No, I also, there was part of me that was like, I hate this. I'm just gonna not even watch it. And I kind of closed my eyes the whole time. I watched it. I also stopped at like 30 seconds before that trailer was over.

So we obviously all need to be in the same room in order to guarantee that I'm actually watching the trailer. When we say I'll watch the trailer. Oh, I, this, I won't like this. Just the tagline being because you were home is so fucking scary. It is really scary. Although I will say at the beginning of the trailer, they have like words flash the screen. We always say there's nothing to be afraid of. But sometimes we're wrong.

And like that's not a great tagline and that part wasn't well written but work on that copy guys oh scary oh scary scary oh my god are we gonna get into it are we gonna start talking about it because I'm scared and I don't know if I can handle it

I'm gonna start eating my beans at least got a big bowl of beans to get her through. Huge bowl of beans. Thank God. Thank God for the beans. You guys jealous? Insanely jealous.

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It's not. Really? He could have knocked it out of the park, I'm sure. He could have knocked it out of the park. Did they know that he's available for voiceover? He does voiceover. He does. But it's a way different vibe.

Okay. And it's a way different vibe and it's uh he says what you're about to see is inspired you know have you seen um grindhouse it's like that movie trailer voiceover voice anyways whatever um he says what you're about to see is inspired by true events the fbi estimates that there are 1.4 million violent crimes in the U.S. every year. On the night of February 11th, 2005, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt left a friend's wedding reception and returned to Hoyt's family summer home. Sets the scene for us. Okay.

And so we open on Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman who are Kristen and James and they're like the text told us returning to his summer home after a wedding so they're all dressed up but they look like unhappy she has been crying they look upset

we don't know why they go inside and there's rose petals on the ground. And she asks him, when did you do this? And he says, before everything. And then we get a flashback to the wedding. And she's a little drunk. They're dancing. They love each other. They're having a great time. And they kind of walk out to the parking lot to go home, to get in their car to go home. And he says, wait, I have a, I got to ask you something. And pulls out a ring and asks her to marry him.

And so it doesn't show it, but she says no. So that's what's happened before they come back to the house which i feel like is a pretty fun character setting for like the beginning of a horror movie a couple that has just broken up also just very weird choice of a time to propose at a very very weird i feel like i could see a guy doing that. Just being like romance time. It's a wedding. Yeah, but it's bad. It's a bad idea. It didn't work out.

I think he didn't see it like that. And you're right. And he didn't see it like that. You're right about that. So we cut back to the present, them back in the house. And James is eating a big old gallon of ice cream and like drinking a bottle of champagne that he bought for them, like looking all sad and mopey. It's like tense between them. And then he tries to go to bed and she's like, no, stay and talk to me.

I'd like talk to me. And then they just hug. And then their hug turns into more than a hug. Then they start trying to have sex. And then right as he takes her underwear off, there's a loud knock on the door. I don't know if that's going to be pizza delivery. It's a pizza delivery. And it's no big deal.

And the whole movie is just them having sex for the rest of the time. I feel good about that it's uh 48 minutes of sex and 20 minutes of pizza yeah yeah the pizza is the is the post sex snack i would fucking watch that in a heartbeat sounds really fun uh um so james looks at the clock. He's confused. He's like, what the hell? It's four in the morning. And someone is knocking on the door.

He goes and opens it just a little crack, looks out. It's a woman. And so he opens it and tries to turn on the porch light. And it's out. And so she's just kind of in darkness this girl woman she's just standing there quietly and he says can i help you like what what's up and she asks for someone tamra or something she says is tamra home and he says uh nobody lives here by that name. You've got the wrong house. And she's kind of weird. And she's like, are you sure? And he says, yeah.

She says, okay. See you later. And like runs away. Walks away. They close the door. They're like, that was weird. Go back to the living room or whatever. And they turn on the record player. The record player is something throughout the movie that's very spooky. It's always playing like a

very creepy song. I feel like if I'm in a summer house in the nighttime, just don't play records. It's spooky. Records are spooky. Weird. Like 30 days of night. I guess we have to add this to our scary movie bingo. Yeah, I guess so. As a record player. A record player. They are. They're scary because they can get caught in a little skip.

It's the scariest way to play music. It is. I agree. Well, also because vampires can access them. Yeah, they can play with their long fingernails. Yeah. Something to consider. That's canon.

Something to consider. Something to consider. That's canon. Something to consider. Kristen says, I'm out of cigarettes. James says, I'll go buy you some. And she says, that's not what I meant. And he's like, it's okay. I want to drive around.

Things are awkward here. He wants some time alone. So he goes out. And you said it was like 4 a.m.? awkward here. He wants some time alone. So he goes out. And you said it was like 4 a.m.? 4 a.m. And he's going to a liquor store. They're in the middle of nowhere. They're in a summer house that's in the woods. No one is really near them. And oh, somewhere in here, he makes a phone call to someone named Mike. And he says, Mike, you could drive out here in the morning and come get me. Things didn't work out as I planned. And so I might need a ride back. So he gets in the car and he's going to drive to get some cigarettes for Kristen.

And she's alone in the house. She tries on the wedding ring and it gets stuck on her finger. Classic. on the wedding ring and it gets stuck on her finger classic she's looking sad and nostalgic kind of walking around in her pretty wedding guest dress um and there's a one loud single knock on the door, just like, and she doesn't quite know, was that a knock? Was that just a bang from something? And she's kind of walking around and there's another loud knock on the front door. She kind of walks closer to the front door, says hello. And the same girl says, is Tamara there? Through the door.

She says, you already came here. There's nobody here by that name. And the girl says, are you sure call 9-1-1 immediately and then um kristin locks the front door which is like why was that front door not locked already i don't understand crazy she's already been by once she's weird lock the door um anyways she locks it now but this house is big well then good she's safe yeah no this house is big there are many entrances and exits no i'd call it i'd say it's at least a five bedroom house it's a single floor so every room is ground level meaning any windows fair game just to set the scene for you

no one no one buy a ranch don't do it don't buy a ranch ranch child houses are bad yeah um oh and um james started a fire for her before he left the fire she uh now notices that the flu is closed so the house is filling up with smoke the smoke detector starts going off. Fire alarm starts going off. She gets on a chair, takes the smoke detector off, and it falls onto the ground. She's stressed. The girl's at the front door. She's kind of freaked out. She's trying to get her cell phone. Her cell phone's dead. So she plugs it into her charger on the wall by the fireplace and finds the house phone and calls james and says that girl came back i'm a little freaked out where are you just come come back and she says actually can you just stay on the phone with me this the whole time until you get back and then

right as she says that the phone line goes dead no i was just like good smart really good thinking um and then there i have a feeling there will not be many moments in this movie that calm me down no or we're like oh it's turning around um thanks for looking up not a lot no all through this scene there's just knocks coming from different parts of the house. A knock coming from all sides. Different bangs, different noises. She's very freaked out. She goes into the kitchen to get a drink of water to calm herself down.

Don't do that. to calm herself down and we see her in the foreground going pouring a glass of water and in the background from another room comes a man in a mask and just watches her for what kind of mask describe the mask it's i feel like it's like a pillowcase with eye holes it's like you watched the trailer well i guess you didn't that's what she said no i didn't just assume i did not watch it um it's a very scary mask and it's a very simple mask but it's effective um and he just kind of moves into the room she doesn't notice him she's drinking her water so only the audience sees him in the background and then he like slinks back away into darkness before she notices him so only that's just for us that's just for us that's just a treat for us that's just a treat for us and that for me

was the scariest part of of the movie i was really. I hate when something's in the background and there's no loud noise. It's not a jump scare. It's just there and it's just happening. Was that the moment in the trailer? Yes. And I thought that was very, very scary. Very scary. And at that moment, my mom texted me, are you OK? And it freaked me out so bad. And I said, what do you mean? Am I OK? I think this is a PSA for never to text anyone in your life are you okay just never do that

yeah you never know give an intro provide some context oh you guys what I think I'm hearing the rat but it's I'm scared oh no hold on I'm just gonna turn on but it's I'm scared. Oh, no. Hold on. I'm just

going to turn on the light in the other room because it's gotten dark since we started talking. Do it. Yeah, I just want to be able, I want all the lights to be on and now they are. Yeah, no, I feel you. I'm going to have to watch Great British Baking Show after we finish. Understandable. Or Ratatouille.

I do love Ratatouille. To make yourself feel comfortable. All right. Should we get back into it? Yeah. Okay. So he slinks back into darkness and she kind of looks where he just was. She doesn't see him, but she is freaked out.

She opens the kitchen drawer and grabs a big old knife. Emily's favorite. She walks back into the living room. She sees that the smoke detector has been placed on the table. It previously fell on the floor into the corner of the room. So that has been moved. And her cell phone is gone. She had left it plugged into the wall it's now missing um there's more knocking and more rattling coming from like

multiple sides of the house she's really really freaking out um and then the power in the house goes out she so she's like aware that she's being antagonized now, right? Yeah, I mean these sounds are coming from people. Yes. She is afraid of something and someone. She goes

up to the window, slowly is pulling back the curtain to take a look outside to see if she can see anybody. She opens the curtain. Man in the mask is right there, face to face. It's a very crazy jump scare. Jenna

said some added description to this mask is it's like a burlap sack with some stitched eye holes. But it's like a white burlap sack, yeah uh she runs after opening the window after opening the curtain and um like bumps the record player causing it to start skipping so now it's just playing one little line of a song over and over and over. She runs into the bedroom.

She has the knife in her hand still. She goes to turn off the light in the bedroom, which I'm thinking is not that great of an idea. I feel like I'd rather the lights be on, but I guess she wants it to seem like she's not in that room. Also, didn't the power go out? Oh, yeah, it did. Maybe that happened after. The power goes out at some point for sure

but um anyways while she's trying to turn this light off i guess prior to the the power being cut off she cuts her hand and now her hand is like pouring blood um and she's crouched in the corner of the bedroom terrified holding the knife and just staring in the corner of the bedroom, terrified, holding the knife and just staring at the doorway of the bedroom, waiting for someone to approach. And you hear some footsteps and the record player gets turned off. So someone takes the needle off the record. And you hear footsteps coming towards the room. And then it's James, her ex-boyfriend. And he comes in and she like runs up like, oh, my God, someone's here. Someone's here.

Someone's fucking with me or whatever. And he just kind of is like, what? Nobody's here. Like, what are you talking about? He just kind of gaslights her. It's like great. First, you're being you're being crazy. She should marry him.

Yeah. They go through the house, kind of check all the rooms. He's like, see, no one's here. But then we see that the house phone has been thrown in the fire. And he pulls back a curtain and the girl from earlier is now just standing outside staring into the i hate this and i hate this um she has kind of the so there's two women eventually and they're both wearing kind of doll. One of them's character names is Dollface.

So they're wearing kind of dollface masks. So there's our, I think, a little bit less scary, but still pretty scary. So is she wearing a mask? Yes, she is now. Yeah. But we see that it's still the same girl as before. She has long blonde hair. So James says, well, I'll go talk to her.

And Kristen's like, don't go talk. Don't go talk to her. No, no, no. We're staying inside. And he's like, she's standing outside of your window with a mask staring at you. You call the fucking cops. Oh, I guess they can't. And so what he says

is, fuck, I left my cell phone in the car. I need to go out says is fuck i left my cell phone in the car i need to go out to my car to get my cell phone um and so he she's like i want to go with please like don't don't leave me here she's still holding the knife or no he now takes the knife i think out to the car with him he gets into the front seat of his car, reaches into the passenger seat, and we see a hand coming in behind him. And it touches his neck lightly, a woman's hand, and he turns around all freaked out and there's nobody there. Yes, there is. And then he looks in all directions and the girl is just standing

in the driveway staring again with the mask on. And he's yelling at her like, what the fuck do you want? Like, what do you want? What are you doing? Always works. And then another woman is like running through the woods, like behind the trees. So you see that there's

three total. And... A man and these two women. A man and two women. And he runs back inside. He's got his cell phone. He sets his cell phone down and goes to help Kristen wrap up her hand that was cut. hand that was cut.

And then he goes back to where he set his cell phone down and the battery has been taken out of his cell phone. And he's like, okay, we gotta get the fuck out of here. Back when that was possible. Back when you could take a battery out of a cell phone. Yeah. It's like a flip phone.

It's a razor. It's a little fatter than a razor. Razors were thin and sleek. Yeah, razors are a razor. Razors were thin and sleek. Yeah, razors are fucking cool. Razors are fucking cool. They get into the car. They start up the car. And as they started up, another car pulls in behind them, a big truck.

You see in the rearview mirror that the person driving this car is the third person that we hadn't quite fully gotten a look at yet. It's another woman in a mask. She has short black hair and a similar mask to the other girl. She starts ramming into the back of their car. In the front of their car is the man in the burlap sack mask just staring. And the truck continues to just smash and smash and smash their car it's just like reversing and flooring it into it and so they um just panic jump out of the car run back into the house and then um james says my there's a gun in here somewhere and my family has a gun he he goes into a closet or something and finds a shotgun. He's like, I don't know if I even know how to load it.

Never a good sign. And he loads up the gun. They make their way back to the front door, and he basically says, I'm going to open the door, and then you just run as fast as you can, and I'll cover you, and we'll just make a fucking run for it. How far do they anticipate being able to run? I don't know. Being able to cover people in general is a very foreign idea. Especially if you've just admitted that you don't know how to shoot a gun

that you've never shot before. Run in front of me in the dark. I will follow you with a shotgun I don't know how to use. I will shoot bullets in your general direction but not at you, at the people that are chasing you. What could go wrong? Also, I'm not at you at the people that are chasing you what could go wrong also i'm mad at you um and as they approach the front door it starts being axed down an axe is coming through the front door all the shining that is when you shoot the shotgun yes so first they go

and grab like an an armoire is the word that's coming to mind for some reason. I guess it's like a fancy house. Seems like they would have an armoire. Credenza. I have a credenza. I'm fancy. Fancy. And they push that up against the door and then

yes, he does shoot at the opening that is being made by the axe and it does scare the person off it's the man and they get a little moment to retreat and they go back into the bedroom and as they're kind of hiding in the bedroom they hear footsteps come in and the record player gets turned back on. And it's a song called Mama Tried. Mama Tried. Mama Tried.

You guys know that song? Which is by Merle Haggard and the Strangers. Just a little fun fact. Okay. So we hear that they're coming in. Then we cut to outside. Mike arriving in another car. The person that James called earlier.

Oh, because it's now probably, I don't know, five, five a.m., I would guess, which is like he wouldn't arrive at this time. But he calls from his car. It's Glenn Howerton, by the way from always sunny in philadelphia and i was really relieved to see him because he is a comedy actor and just having a comedy actor in a horror film i was like oh things aren't so bad it i think just seeing any unexpected actor in a film kind of reminds you that it's a movie and you're you get a little dose of like, oh, it's a movie. Oh, phew. But he calls and gets voicemail to James's phone. He says, oh, I'm here. I know I was up when you called me and I figured I would just start driving, whatever.

Like, I'm here. And as he's on the phone, the windshield gets smashed. Someone smashes up the windshield and he jumps out of the car. It's a bad time to be a good friend. Oh my God, so bad. Just you wait. He gets out of the car, can't see anybody around him and starts walking up to the house. He's calling out for James. Nobody's answering. He looks scared. He slowly approaches the house and turns to go in and we just stay outside of the house on this dark porch. And then you see one of the girls emerge from the darkness. And then we cut to him inside the house. He's walking down the hallway looking scared,

like he can see that things are not as they should be as he's making his way toward like the bedroom where James and Kristen are. We see the man in the mask appear behind him. He doesn't notice. No. And so the man in the mask is just following closely behind him. And he at one point stops. He feels someone's presence behind him and kind of half turns and then doesn't quite turn all the way

and then goes back to walking forward. Again, James and Kristen are like cowering in the room with a shotgun, very scared. He makes it up there and they shoot him accidentally. James shoots Mike in the head and kills him. That's how long he's in the movie? That's it. Isn't that crazy?

How far into the movie are we right now? Probably halfway. Okay. Okay. That's fucked up. Wow. That is fucked up. He doesn't know how to shoot, but he does manage to get a head.

A clean headshot. First try. And then immediately James is like, wait, he wasn't wearing a mask. He didn't see who it was. And so he crawls out slowly to get a look at the person he just killed and sees that it is his best friend, Mike, or maybe brother. I'm not quite sure. And like freaks out and Kristen moves out to come see and he pins, he like tackles Kristen. It's like, don't look, don't look. It's Mike. It's Mike. It's Mike. Oh, God. It's Mike. Oh, God. Then James says, there's an old radio in the barn. I'm going to have to go out to the barn so that we can contact someone. And Kristen is like, please, no, I'll go with you. We can't separate. And he says, just stay here and hide.

And I'll go. It's fine. And so he takes the shotgun. She has the knife. It's not fine. It's it's fine and so he takes the shotgun she has the knife it's not fine it's definitely not fine that much we know he opens another window and they have written killer in like blood on the window so they're really fucking with him and he's mad to see it. He hates to see it. He hates to see it. So James goes out and Kristen is kind of on the stoop watching, keeping an eye. And we see we cut to James. He's getting a little further. He kind of hunches down in the woods and he's aiming his shotgun.

And he's aiming his shotgun. And then he hears someone coming up behind him really quickly and turns. And it's the man in the mask. And it cuts just as we hear a gunshot. We don't see what happens. But Kristen hears the gunshot, starts freaking out. And she kind of senses that someone is watching her. She decides to try to make a run for the barn also.

And so she starts running through the woods and trips in a big ditch and really hurts her leg. So then she starts crawling to the barn. Oh, God. oh god crawling and she gets into the barn and finds the radio and is making a little SOS call no one no one's there no one's there um she's you know panicking and then finally someone responds

and says hello is anybody there she's like yes yes yes please you gotta help me you gotta help me please please please and then we see one of the women in the masks through the window kind of come out from the bottom of the frame and then take a baseball bat or something and smash the radio and in the commotion of her smashing the radio kristin runs away well crawls away and makes it back to the house. And we kind of see all three of them outside of the house. So all three of them are okay.

Yeah. Bad news. Yeah. It's not good. So she makes it back inside. She's crawling. She's in pain. Of course she is.

She's in one of the many bedrooms and a lot of the scariness of this movie comes from the kind of slow moving from room to room and checking that each room doesn't have a person in it and so it's just handheld camera of like scanning rooms. That's really scary. But she makes it into this room and there's no one in there, but then she hears footsteps coming. And so she hides in one of those closets that has the slats that you can see out of. And so she's watching from inside the closet and the man in the mask walks into that room, slowly scanning the room, kind of looking at the closet

and then looking past it and then moves to another room and she's like, phew. And then he comes back and... Oh, phew! Phew. She comes back or he comes back into the room. Let's out an audible phew.

And I was like, it's not ill-advised to say phew at this moment, but you know, she had to. She just felt it that hard. Sometimes you've got a few. You've got a few. He comes back into the same room and sits down at a table right near the closet. And she's in the closet thinking maybe he's just fucking with me.

He knows that I'm here. Why is he just sitting there in this room? And then he stands up and turns and looks at the closet and then leaves the room again. Another few. Few. Few! Few. and then really quickly one of the women comes into the room and slams open that closet they knew she was in there pulls her out of it um kind of throws her on the ground and then walks back to

the table and grabs the same big knife that was Kristen's earlier. Kristen goes into another drawer and pulls out a very tiny little knife, like a little switchblade type thing. Then there's a loud crash and James comes in through a side door. The man brought him in. I believe James has been shot, but he's not dead. And the lady turns to Kristen. The lady in the mask turns to Kristen and says, you're going to die.

No. James yells at Kristen to run. Says just run. She starts to run in the opposite direction because they're all in that room now. And so she tries to run through the house the opposite way of them. And as she makes it out into the hallway, the man pops out of another door, grabs her and slams her against a wall and knocks her out. You hate to be unconscious in this situation. No, no.

I would honestly prefer it. I guess that's true. Knock me out, man. So she wakes up the next morning. I mean, I guess not too long after because it was it was almost sunrise time. So it's light out now. And her and James are tied up. And the three of them are still in their masks, just standing in front of them, looking at them. Kristen says, why are you doing this to us? And one of the girls says, because you were home. There's a little moment of James seeing that Kristen is wearing the wedding ring and they say i love you to each other they kiss each other and then the three of them each take their masks off and i texted jenna at this point i feel like no masks is so much scarier because it means that they don't care if you see their faces anymore Because you're definitely dead. And the man in the mask takes that

big ol' knife and just a slow stab into James. No, no, no, no. That's definitely not what Emily likes. And then hands the knife to one of the girls who then also slow stabs him

in the chest. And they just one at a time kind of stab each of them to death. They stab both of them. I hate that. And then we cut to them driving away in their truck. Two little Mormon boys on bicycles driving by. And they stop their truck next to the Mormon boys and say, one of the girls says, can I get one of those pamphlets? And the boy says, are you a sinner?

And she says, sometimes. And he gives her a pamphlet and they drive off and you hear the girl say, next time it'll be easier. And then we follow the boys that go to the house, go up to the front door, front doors open and like chop down. So they go inside and see both of the bloodied, stabbed bodies. both of the bloodied stabbed bodies they go up to Kristen and go to touch her and she pops awake screaming

grabs her hand screaming and then we cut two credits what the fuck what a fucking stupid movie this is a stupid movie nothing even I hated it. I hated this. I hated that.

I don't know. Okay, here's the thing about this movie is that honestly, like, nothing that interesting happened to them while they're being terrorized to make it, like, worth my interest. It was like, oh, this very kind, innocent couple who was minding their own business couple who was just scary and bad and then some mildly bad shit happened to them but nothing like out of the box nothing like i don't know nothing that really made me feel like oh this is an unusual take i will say this movie is poorly reviewed not great reviews what did the review say yeah i just i for me this is an absolute um no thank you no redeeming qualities yeah like it just it's just very scary but also, like, bad.

This is one of those movies that now, that if I watched it right now, I don't think I would feel that scared of it. I think you probably would. Because you told me. I definitely would. And that's what I'm, I'm pissed off. I'm pissed off. This movie goes straight to jail. Oh, my God.

Tell me about it. Lock it up. Lock it up. But, Henley, you'll like this. So afterwards, Jenna and I had a discussion about how the moral of the movie is don't have a summer home. And just another movie about how capitalism is bad. That's what it is. That will resonate with all of our listeners right now everyone knows that capitalism is a bad situation to be in we're living through

anyone currently in this current moment in 2020 march 2020 was wondering how do we feel about capitalism we feel bad about it say we feel bad about it. More proof. Not that I'm saying that I'm a democratic socialist of America. Please do not come knocking on my door. Please, no one come criticizing me for anything. No one come knocking at my door.

I did have nightmares after this movie. I bet I will from the trailer alone. i thought it was pretty scary i sammy what were your nightmares i actually had more apocalyptic nightmares which i think were you know a combination of a couple things in the current climate mixed with this yeah do you feel like scary movies are helping or hurting your mental state in this current moment um you know i think more and more they're just becoming kind of normal

escapism for me it's not that they're helping or hurting i think maybe i've just become so acclimated to them that now it's just like watching tv it just kind of turns my mind off um but you know we've've said before, it's a practice in gratitude. It makes me feel thankful afterwards that this did not happen to me. I'm also thankful that it has not happened

to me. I don't even want it to enter the realm of imagination. But unfortunately I am doing this podcast, so it is. Yeah. Damn it. you've you've you've brought yourself movies like this make me really they make me really glad i live in a city even though i feel like you're much more likely to be a victim of violent crime living in a city that's probably true i'm like well that this specific thing can't happen to me because i

have neighbors and i'm surrounded by people. I think that's probably part of the reason why I was so scared growing up. I was convinced I wouldn't make it to 18 when I was growing up. I kind of was too. I was like, there's no way in hell. But mine was because a Ouija board told me I wouldn't make it to 18. Mine was because I lived in the middle of fucking nowhere and I was like, no one will help us. Oh my God, that's so scary i also i also um would like imagine things

though in the middle of the night like i remember seeing in the middle of the night like a man in a um sombrero oh that's sleep paralysis henry no i was like i was i was like eight years old and i remember like seeing a man in a sombrero coming towards me and being like, no, it's going to get me. Well, there's part of sleep paralysis is like the man in the black hat is what it's called. And it's supposed to be something that you see. No, stop, stop. No, no, no, no, no. It's a really common thing that people see during sleep paralysis.

It's okay. So if you see it, it's okay. If you see it, you're asleep. It's okay. And it's a dream. You're fine. Don't. Shut up.

Shut up. It is really scary. Sleep paralysis is terrifying. Yeah. I will say one of my biggest fears, the thing that I picture the most when I'm home alone is just walking into a room and there being a man just standing there. That is one of my scariest fears. Emily

doesn't like that one little bit. You don't picture that? I picture that all the time. Whenever I'm walking into a new room, I'm like, of course I picture that, Sammy. There's a man in here. I know there is. Of course I picture that. I have to keep my shower curtain open at all times if I'm home. Me too. Smart.

There's no way in hell you wouldn't do that. Why would you ever keep it closed? I mean, it's better I have to keep my shower curtain open at all times if I'm home. Me too. Me too. Me too. Smart. Me too. Smart. There's no way in hell you wouldn't do that. Why would you ever keep it closed? I mean, it's better for the mold, but otherwise, you want to save your life? And you know what? Mold's more likely to get you, but I'm not taking that. I'm not taking that chance. I'd rather die by mold.

I'd rather die slowly from mold than immediately from a murderer in my shower. Yeah, agreed. All right. Oh, funny times. I take it you guys will not be seeing this movie. No. You're going to skip this one. Yeah, let's skip it. Fair.

Fair enough. Let's skip this one. Henley, are you okay? i'm great you look great thanks um guys wow any last thoughts honestly i was expecting more to happen in the strangers i kind of was too to be it it is scarier while watching it because like i said a lot of the scariness comes from like the drawn out kind of walking from room to room. Honestly, that's probably 30% of the movie is just like kind of looking in rooms. And so it is really scary when watching it. But yeah, overall, not a lot happens.

I can't wait to do The descent i know i'm excited listeners that was one that was after the quarantine we had a guest scheduled and so now we have to wait until until quarantine's over so we can have her on we'll do it we promise it's great and after this movie it feels like mean mean to say but um you know stay home everybody oh god keep staying home because you have to you have to

lock those doors oh maybe maybe murderers are concerned about um their social responsibility and and won't murder until the quarantine is over. No one wants to get COVID-19. They don't want the virus.

They're not going to be doing murdering on the normal rate that they're normally doing murdering. So we're good. They're not murdering at their normal murder rate, probably. No, the murder rate for them, murderers have gone down. That's a phew if I ever heard it. That's a phew. I would heard it. That's a phew. I would add another F on that.

Call that a straight phew. That's a phew. And hey, on that note, friends. Love you guys. We love you very much. And we will miss you so much. We'll see you next week. We'll talk to you next week. Can't wait to talk to you.

And phew and goodbye. Goodbye. Wow, guys. Sammy here. Thanks so much for listening to another episode of Too Scary Didn't Watch. And happy April Fool's Day. I guess our April Fool's joke was doing a movie that will make you be scared to be home. Hilarious.

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