reminds me of the episode of spongebob where he keeps trying to water a flower and every time he looks away for even a fraction of a second it becomes eaten
@Jessica Pazo I don't find this true at all. She may be going for an ere of creepy, but she comes off annoying as fucking shit to me. This kind of nasal-y, whiny, baby voice makes her sound like a fucking idiot.
AWA THE BROWN Then the ghost becomes the phone. As in, the only way to make something scary despite there being phone/wifi signal is for the ghost or demon or whatever to go through the signal and scare the protags or distrupt the signal somehow.
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I wonder why no one ever makes a horror movie with Amish people, they don't use technology, they life in farm lands, they don't have anything horror movies use as an excuse for why they can't do anything
I mean... To be fair, repeating a scare like the bang at the door, followed by that girl asking if whoever-the-fuck is there, can really work as a scare that builds up, making the main character more tense and nervous as it keeps happening, until she eventually snaps and screams at them to go away... Probably followed by an eerie quiet and no response for a while, then, a calm and quiet "... Okay." And then, silence... Probably followed by the door breaking down and all hell breaking loose as a cheap way to fuck with the audience after they've calmed down. Fuck, I think I accidentally made a better movie than these guys. Sorry, my bad.
I think that sounds like a much better movie than this. Also instead of a shit ton of jumpscares, remove all the "omg there's a bang on the door" jumpscares and just build tension the whole time. Have this tense, quiet, creepy atmosphere of no one at the door and the lady feeling that she's being watch. Finally pull one single jumpscare when they break down the door and chase the couple around. That would make this movie creepier and have a more effective/less annoying jumpscare.
OMG there's a bang on the door lol. What is that even from? It's oddly comedic. " I had to call people out of the country because obviously I'm too ashamed to tell anyone around here (so I'll just tell the whole world in this interview*)". * is implied.
Not making fun of you, but I really noticed how language has changed in those short 7 years since this video was made. "They are totally trolling her.", "She is getting trolled." and so on. I totally forgot how normal this was back then, but now nobody talks like that anymore. The use of the word "Troll", especially in verb or adjective form, has gone down like 9000% and I'm using that number ironically, because that Dragon Ball Z meme has gone with the wind also. Same with all the "Rage Face" or "Troll Face" inserts. Those have died out long ago too. Really fascinating to see how colloquial language can change in such a short time and I didn't even notice it until I started watching a few old videos on RU-vid.
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I don't think the "oh it was intentional" thing really makes any sense ... like, if you break a rule you NEED a good reason for it. So if the lack of character development was intentional, the result of it (the fact that you can't sympathize with any of the characters) must also be intentional. To what end, then? They say they did it on purpose, but I don't think they thought their purpose through very well.
eh I don't know, you're probably right about this review, but I love this movie. maybe it's just an emotion it gives off more then anything but to me it was one of my favorite horror movies to come out in years.
I love how cellphones are such an insurmountable hurdle for horror writers. Do they not realize the things are extremely brittle and easily rendered unusable? Your characters are almost always angsty teens, have them get pissed and throw the things against a wall. Have them throw someone into a pool as a joke. Mention that they forgot to charge them and have them die. It's not fucking rocket science.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the 'true event' that inspired this movie was the writer got a knock on his door one night, the person asked for someone who didn't live there, he told her she had the wrong house, and she left. That's about it.
You can be called a professional in a field as long as you have basically 1+ year(s) of formal study or a degree. Especially in the 'arts' (in quotes because a lot of people don't consider things like film making/directing or choreography to be art). The rules are very loose with the term. I have no formal training but because my English/English Comp. grades are so high and I understand what makes a decent film; ie: shot composition, 180 rules, 50/50, even dialogue, etc. I could take a really nice camera, write a script, and make a 'semi professionally filmed' student piece. And I've never taken a film class in my life.
+Jack Petry Yeah but a snuff film is literally not a perfessionally made film. It's a film that doesn't have a script because it's not scripted. It's a film where someone is being actually tortured and murdered on screen. People who would make that don't have their victims act because they're not actors, they're people they kidnapped.
I just love how the director said this movie doesn't have the traditional horror movie cliches, and then proceeds to put in EVERY LAST horror movie cliches in.
Tyler White Haha I know right? Acting like he did something original, when really he got every idea from other horror movies. Example: Killer in white expressionless mask looming ominously in the shadows, watching the character while she is facing the camera: ripped straight from Halloween
Me: No it didn't. If someone can break into your house without you even hearing it and then sneak outside again just to jumpscare you, you just have terrible security.
"The test audience got angry - they thought it was a snuff film...y'know, except for the presence of editing, the presence of a musical score and heavy sound effects, the fact that there was an end credit sequence and the fact that the IMDB and Wikipedia pages for Liv Tyler both fail to mention that she's dead."
I just love in all your reviews you show these interviews of the actors giving these absolute bullshit interview answers. It's funny how these actors are so good at bullshitting these interviews and making the movie seem like it's deep when it really isn't
Well, it's part of being the industry. Either play the game or you are out. Can be really unpleasant, but if you wanna have a role then you better keep it up.
I interpreted this movie as "Baby's First Horror Film". Simply generic in all aspects, varieties of cliches included. Why are movie film interviews so disingenuous, too? You can always tell actors don't give a shit about the film by their responses, yet they just brazenly lie. I assume it's contract stipulations, but it's still annoying to see.
What do you expect them to say though?? “This movie is absolute horseshit and you should watch Cloverfield instead”. They’re payed to promote the movie
@@-Lola. I think they're contractually obligated to talk positively about the movie they've worked on. Not to mention, even if they badmouthed their movie studios would never hire them again.
The test audience thought this was a snuff film? Even though there were multiple camera angles and shots that, in a real snuff film, would've gotten the camera-man killed... This "test audience" must be why Adam Sandler's movies are always successful. You fuc%ing people....
I dont think people who watch movies care jack shit about camera angles and what not...the point that the test audience was making was that the movies story and scare tactics were lame. Also Adam Sandler movies are successful because people who like the strangers are also people dumb enough to like Adam Sandlers toilet humor.
TheVioletfox01 Dont worry there are others who enjoy cinematography. The channel of RedLetter Media is a prime example of this since they gave those recent hobbit movies a pass for the film-making involved despite the story being almost mind numbingly boring. I also do know a film buff who has a hard-on for the amount of camera work they put into films just as much as you would most likely so you are not alone. Just pointing out that the vast majority of people do not go to movies to be impressed at how the film looks like, but more of the substance that is being portrayed in the movie hence why Adam Sandler is still a cash cow despite the atrocity that was Jack and Jill.
Plus an actress who was in fucking "Lord of the Rings", so they definitely would kill her off because she's so famous... Those test audiences were made up.
I'm not trying to defend this movie but if it completely dark outside and there was just a guy in a suit standing in the road I would be shitting my pants
+Riley Simms Something like that happen to me when I was a kid. I was like 12, and my little brother and I were walking in this trailed woods behind our house. We lived out in the sticks, and crime didnt happen often, so kids wandering around at night, wasnt unusual. When we got to this clearing, there was this person with their face covered with a white cloth mask standing on the far side near some trees. When I saw him, i stopped walking.. and just stared. I called out "Hello?" and the person didnt say anything back. Im like.. "We are going home, now." My stupid little brother is like "Why are you scared? I bet its just some of our friends trying to scare us" and starts walking over! The person has an adult shape btw. He starts coming toward us slowly until I scream and grab my brother to run, and he backs off. To this day I wont forget that memory. So yeah, someone just standing there is scary as fuck.
+Riley Simms I usually don't like to apply that kind of logic to horror movies. It takes something especially freaky to make a movie scary, but in real life? Literally *everything* scares the crap out of us. Someone might say, "This movie about a big guy in a white mask stabbing teenagers isn't scary." But in real-life? There is not a single human being alive who would see a big Michael Myers-looking guy marching towards them with a knife and *not* completely soak their pants. Rabid dog? A movie about a rabid dog isn't scary, come on. In real-life? I'd be squealing like a schoolgirl if I saw a rabid dog. That's the thing. We already know going in that horror movies aren't real, so that's why they have to really try. But in real-life, we'd all crap ourselves silly at the mere sight of a knife-wielding maniac in a mask. So yeah, if there was a guy standing out in the road in the dark in front of my house? I'd be sufficiently bothered. In a movie? I fall asleep to that kind of boring crap.
Is it just me that'd find these things way scarier if they actually got the call off but help wasn't able to get there in time? Or if the main characters were just outsmarted by the bad guys instead of being incompetent?
They totally avoided the question about what the relationship between the two main characters is and shifted back to how amazing they think this movie was.
The only events that inspired this is that when the director was a kid, some people knocked on doors in his neighborhood asking if someone was there, and if no one answered, they broke in and stole stuff. From theft to trolling murderers, that escalated quickly.
I find it so annoying when the cast of a film is praising it as if it's the best movie in the genre, especially when the movie is as shitty as this one. Who the fuck can't go home after watching this pile of cliches? It can even be considered comedy because most of the time you're like "nah, it can't happen again, there must be at least a tiny bit of creativity in this movie" and then it happens again, which is funny (exactly what you don't want in a fucking horror film). How can you be so calm when reviewing this crap.
SomeNerdYouDon'tKnow Yea but I mean that's like going on television and saying that the moon is a grey porno DVD inhabited by dinosaurs. Fucking ridiculous.
I don't know why people bother watching these cast interviews, I find them...cringy...for the lack of a better word. I just feel weird watching the actor talk about the movie when I know both them and the interviewer are going to praise it no matter what (the first for being bound by contract and the latter because otherwise he won't be allowed future interviews by the studio), and even when the movie is actually good it still doesn't add any interesting information, it's the same generic questions every time.
It wouldn’t have made the movie much less cliche for its genre (though part of that might be amplified by how insufferable the writer/director and actors were in their interviews), but yeah, that simple, intuitive change would have helped a _lot._ Not only does it make a hell of a lot more sense, it also makes the killers’ motivation clear and frightening instead of stupid and unclear.
I mean I guess the artsy bs point the writer is trying to push here is that they didn't take all those opportunities to kill the. Cause they couldn't push themselves to actually do it. For whatever reason they couldn't bring themselves to actually kill them till the end. I mean its a really poor justification cause it looks like they're trolling them instead of trying to work up the courage to kill them but I never undated artsy movies anyway.
That bald guy interviewing the two main actors was either a huge, blithering, dolt who gets terrified at people just going 'BOO!' over and over, or a huge liar. NOBODY should've been any where near that scared. Or maybe he was trying to make them feel better for being in such a dumb movie...
Interviewers always lie. Would you get more answers from a person by saying "I loved your work, it really had an affect on me" or "This was the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Tell me about it?"
Same, and it's always a case of the nightmare is scarier than the movie itself. I get HORRIBLE nightmares that can mess me up for weeks on end, so avoiding anything labeled as scary, no matter how stupid it really is, is a must for me
Fun fact: the "true event" this was inspired by was one time when the writer was a kid, someone knocked on the door and asked if someone who didn't live there was home. That's it.
When I was in highschool my girlfriend said we had to go to the theater to see the scariest movie she had ever seen. It was Resident Evil. Great comedy.
+Hew Man I literally just watched this for the first time a little over a month ago, because I had heard good things about it. I couldn't believe how bland and cliche it was!
What the fuck? Who called this a snuff film? What because people (eventually) get killed in it? It would be more accurate to call the Saw sequels snuff films.
lasoogneypubes wait but at the end the womans clearly not dead so wtf??? she saw the 3 faces so she could easily get them arrested their is evidence and the ending is so stupid...im getting cancer just thinking about it...
+lasoogneypubes Exactly, though the Saw films wouldn't be snuff films either, they are at least better examples. Technically, something is only considered a snuff film if it is made with the intent to make a profit (so like a porn video), it also generally involves the torture/rape/whatever the hell else of the person in the video. This movie had basically none of that, Saw at least had some. Only film I can really think of that could be called a snuff film is A Serbian Film. That's mainly because the plot of that movie is the main character is secretly hired to be the star in a snuff film. That's a pretty fucked up movie btw but it wasn't necessarily a bad movie.
It is a Snuff film if it depict a a real murder, with the real death of the comedian. The Serbian film would be a movie about snuff movies. Like the one with that Canadian killing a boy on camera.
sidney boesch Well I meant A Serbian Film depicts it, course it wasn't real. Was that last bit a reference to Luke Magnotta at all? Seems like it might have been.
Corvus Alendar I watch a different scary movie everyday of October and always watch Trick R Treat right before going out on Halloween. It's so fucking bad, it's great.
getting kinda sick of seeing interviewers kissing ass to the actors acting like these movies were good " oh my god this movie was soooo scary i couldnt handle" while every normal person is like :/
Honestly, I just want one of those guys to just go "a lot of people, myself included, think this movie is terrible. What's your honest opinion about it?" It'd never happen, and it'd be kind of a dick move to put the actors in that position, but how awesome would that be?
I never said it was the second movie in the series. The only thing the word "sequel" implies is that it isn't the first, and The Strangers 2: Electric Spookaloo certainly won't be the first or even second door-bang-jumpscare fest.
"The audience thought it was a snuff film." NO THEY DIDN'T! No they fucking didn't! This isn't even like 'Blair Witch' or 'Paranormal Activity' where it's a movie, but you could see how someone stupid enough could believe it was real footage. No, it's not even that. NO ONE mistook what is clearly a movie for anything other than a movie. I heard this was 'inspired by' a true story and that always makes me think 'not really a true story' but this was so far removed from reality it made me angry. At the time this movie was released, if you tried to look up the 'true story', what you got was movie propaganda and a whole fake mythology about the 'true story' it was based off of. The actual 'true story' is so completely underwhelming that it's actually kind of amazing they could spin it into a full movie. It's like if I make a whole movie out of the time my banana sticker tore in half once.
I can't disagree with anything Adam said in this video, yet it still had an effect on me because it happen to prey on one of my biggest fears which is the fact that this trio of psychopaths stalks and mutilates these people for no reason whatsoever, which is a terrifying concept, or as the movie puts it: "Why are you doing this to us?!" "....you were home..."
I find it kinda sad every time I see these actors talk about certain elements in the movie being great when they weren't. I can't tell if they're completely oblivious to the movie's flaws or if they are just being paid extra for saying everything about the movie is great.
Doing promos is sadly just a part of the industry. Sometimes studios spend ridiculous amounts of money on shit movies, and an actor saying just how shit the movie is would hurt their chances of recouping their investment. It's kind of a job security thing for the actors.
+Mad Yak Also, studios wouldn't hire an actor if that actor has a history of bad-mouthing a movie they worked on. Not to mention there's usually a line in their contracts that forbids them from speaking negatively about a movie before it's release.
SPOILER ALERT Actually someone seems to survive at the end of this idiocy. Of course, it's the girl, as clichè would want, despite her being the worst character in the movie.
If there is a sequel can it be the surviving woman stalking the strangers or maybe the family is stocking another family and the survivor from the first one comes into the scene wearing the little girl's mask. She could stalk the strangers and kill them for revenge. To be honest the idea for a sequel isn't bad if they go with that kind of motive and it would be funny to see both the original characters and the lady out for revenge stalking each other.
the strangers has realism for the killers how maybe a group just enjoys to terrify their victims. but the actual realism of them teleporting is maybe on the lower end(literally doing that just to be funny for the audience). the movie has cliches but allot of movies have them. If they maybe paced it better, removed the teleporting, and also fixed some things that make not complete sense (burning plastic, fire alarm giving up etc). allot of these things arent even major if the producers wanted the movie to not be realistic. its still a fun movie just to watch if you're a horror fan that likes the home invasion sub genre.
Pizza Shark I'm pretty sure she's contractually obligated to promote this movie, whether it's shitty or not and she has to come up with something, even if it sounds vapid and empty
