Not sure if you've played Mind Control Delete (the sequel to Super Hot) but I bet you'd enjoy it very much! Not only is it a great expansion on the originals gameplay but the story is unsettling and the last hour is DEEPLY unnerving..
As an Arachnologist, I love that they use real spiders! And while the spiders are portrayed by huntsman spiders, which are harmless, in the film they are labelled as belonging to the six-eyed spider family, which are indeed known for their potent venom (this is the family that brown recluses come from). That’s a really neat detail! They also seem to have done a good job portraying spider behavior other than one key point that always bugs me: why do people and movies think spiders lay their eggs in people/corpses? There are wasps that do that *to* spiders, but no spiders do that sort of thing!
I think it's in reference to something I heard about ages ago, where rumors were spread about certain foreigners or Jewish groups laying eggs in people. But, I can't find much on where I heard that. I know there were blood libel lies and ideas that certain groups eat people, but wasn't able to find specifics on reproductive parasitism lies.
I think the whole nesting in people thing comes from writers just wanting the spiders to be scarier. Im certain one spider movie at some point thought of the idea then other screen writers adopted it. I wouldnt be able to act in these films with IRL spiders. Id have to do the Eight Legged Freaks full CGI spider route because Id be too scared. Who knows maybe thatd improve a performance 😅
The eggs inside people probably comes from Alien. But how did you feel about all the "light" stuff that somehow immediately stops them? Only when needed, of course.
@@BelialTnTn I mean, they were found in burrows in the beginning of the movie right? Now normally the response would be to run for somewhere dark, not stand still, but I could see it where this species is overwhelmed by the light and freezes instinctually.
It didn't occur to me sooner but the memorial wall of victims at the end really brought back memories of the Grenfell Tower fire and how authorities were aware that the building was not up to modern fire codes and many people were told by firefighters to stay in their apartments and not evacuate. Come to think of it, I think this film must be directly inspired by the Grenfell Tower fire.
Plainly Difficult did a quite straightforward &fairly short (~10min iirc) vid about what happened. Basically, corners cut everywhere, like using cheaper but _flammable_ cladding that was also not built to code, making an actual tinder box of the low-income housing block. And authorities insisted that the residents "stay put", plus so many other issues. Such an absolute travesty. And many of the survivors are STILL on waiting lists for housing after they lost everything in the fire!
The Grenfell Tower fire was an atrocity, especially in how the government responded to it. 72 people were allowed to die because fixing a building (or making it sure it was built to code in the first place!) wasn't profitable. I remember Tory MPs even jeered at Jeremy Corbyn once for wearing a green tie as a mark of respect for the victims, _while relatives of the victims looked on._ Just horrible all around.
Bless Huntsman spiders for their services to filmed horror. My understanding is that they are non-venomous to humans, docile, and like to follow their fellows, making them easier to wrangle. That said, how anyone in Australia, Africa, etc. manages to cope with these critters as common household pests is beyond me. Even un-embiggened by CG, their insane leg span is an automatic evolutionary NOPE for humankind. Eeesh.
@@Taybrian1 Huntsmans also have really bad eyesight so what seems like aggressive rushing is actually just them panicking but y'know people who are scared are understandably not gonna see it that way
I had TWO huntsman encounters in Japan last year and panicked so bad that I had an asthma attack 😭 Not because they were aggressive, but because I hadn't been aware of just how huge and how FAST they are. The speed... Jfc... However (hoiyever) both spiders did nothing but try to get away from me. They're really just introverts with social anxiety LOL, so I'm trying to learn not to be so scared of them
@@Taybrian1 Aussie here. Nah, they usually just panic and scatter around randomly like us. Its like: Human: AAHHHH A SPIDER!! Huntsman spider: AAHHHH A HUMAN!!! *chaos ensues* They're just very large, very gangly and very confused
Reminds me of the horror movie with Oliver Reed called Venom where he’s in a house with a black mamba snake…It’s terrifying due to how the used the snake, it could be anywhere at any time and that idea haunts me.
I won't be able to watch this unfortunately because of of my severe arachnophobia so I'm just going to assume the video was awesome and give it a like much love ryan.
Close your eyes and listen? Or does that make it even worse lol. I have a buddy who’s got it bad to and I can’t even tell him I found one in my house without him shivering. Oh and that first line isn’t intended to be rude. I just reread that and it sounds it
@@minikiller77 haha your all good mate I've always had ane issue with spiders even when I was a child. My father realised this and sat me down and forced me to watch every spider movie you can think of eight legged freaks etc. in his mind he probably thought that if I'm exposed to all these fucked up spider movies it might remove my fear an strengthen me up. Unfortunately years later it had the reverse effect and amplified it by a thousand.
This movie was absolutely horryfying and it was a blast seeing the actor who plays Mathys (originally a comedic youtuber from my teenage years) deliverong a nice prestation in an horror movie
and having grown up in a neighborhood like this, it was nice seeing a movie set in this type of setting WITHOUT having a certain view that French movies often portray (french people will know what I talk about)
there is something about the body ratio and overall appearance of jumping spiders that makes them very tolerable, while f.e. a also completely harmless Opiliones (aka. Daddy Longleg) scares the shit out of most people including me.
I hate spiders a lot and yet somehow I want to see these movies. Arachnophobia I watched as a kid and it's horrifying but I love it too for some reason. Mostly nostalgia but jesus christ it gets me. If I see any kind of spider, even a small one IRL I get frozen and have to scream for a family member to save me.
@@shroomyk Same here! Ive watched almost all the spider movies that have been released, and liked most of them, but I am deathly terrified of spiders in real life. Maybe it has something to do wit it being a movie and I can turn it off if I want to?
Truth. I got to 1:03 and dropped into the comments like "oh, no. Absolutely not." Even though I know these particular spiders are indeed non threaten to humans
@@shroomyk That's because nothing is as exciting as true fear. Your body is designed to make you feel the most alive you possibly can to stay alive in the face of whatever causes the fear. Fight or flight pharmacology is up there with the most powerful recreational chemical stimulants you can ever experience. It lets think faster, move faster be stronger, experience things more clearly. For a few seconds you get unfettered access to the entire latent ability of your body and brain along with a huge dump of brain and body chemistry. It's a BUZZ. It's why some people do the most dangerous things they can find as pass-times.
Spider based horror movies really do highlight the KISS principle when it comes to scaring people. "KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!" Cause yeah, spiders freak out basically everyone
Listen, I love horror "with a message," I eat up theme and scene analysis and horror that explores social things just like this movie did, so I can appreciate that. HOWEVER. The scene you showed of the dude getting his arm crawled on by a bunch of baby spiders made me scream. I am currently trying not to scratch my arms. Good video tho!!
Not being afraid of spiders myself (that's not a flex. Put a cockroach in front of me and I'll mercy kill myself), so I just focused on all of the obvious subtext and had a wonderful time. Thanks for all of the entertainment over the years, Ryan! 10/10 fricheks
Hard same! I actually rather like most spiders, but cockroaches put me into full blown fight-or-flight mode. When I see one, one of us will not leave the room alive! Or I'll scream like my 10 year old niece and run.
Same here! Spiders are chill, Cockroach are skittering around and ATTACKS. Yeah, I know it's their defensive maneuver, but I'm seriously can't stand their aggressive movements
0:34 Sure! With the exception of that depressed lady's demise (yup, you can tell it's an aussie-made move when they add in a death that's so unnecessarily unfair)
I like spiders a lot... I love and hate that they used huntsman spiders because they are super chill and not of medical importance but now uneducated people might believe what it's shown in the movie to be true. There should really be a class about animals to teach kids about them, specially spiders and insects native to their surroundings.
they probably used huntsman spiders *because* they're very chill and the venom isn't very dangerous to people, so they could have a big spider relatively safely on set. It may have to be shared person-by-person, but reminding people that the reason they could use real spiders at all is specifically because of their safety might help. If they used actually dangerous spiders, like a brazillian wandering spider/banana spider, for example... I presume it may not have been shot.
I guess I really shouldn't judge about your love of spiders. I'm terrified of them myself. That being said, I'm the kid of person that will defend rats when they are used in horror movies. I love those creatures but they are so misunderstood. They are like rodent shaped puppies!
Watched ‘Arachnophobia’ when I was a teenager at a sleepover, and it made all of us jumpy and itch for days 😐 I’m not sure I could put myself through it again.
@@lkeke35 yeah, depending on your region I have seen it called both Ticks, as well as Infested. It has Alfonso Ribero (Carlton from The Fresh Prince) in it, too XD
Hey Ryan, I would like to recommend a obscure alien body horror movie name Splinter from 2008. About a couple being kidnapped by a couple of thiefs, but the four ended up stuck in a gas station thanks for a alien viruses organism that take form of spikes
I'm terrified of spiders myself. I have been for a very long time. With that said, I actually stopped killing any and all spiders in my home. To be honest, I haven't seen a fly, moth or any other kind of bug enter my home since I made that decision. The spiders actually stay away from me, but every once in a while I'll find one sitting on a wall or behind a door. I even saved a few spiders from the shower.
Same!! I live in the southern US, and there's so many bugs here... But I've long since let any and all cellar spiders live as my creepy little roommates, and lemme tell you. They hunt down and devour EVERYTHING else. Roaches, millipedes, scorpions, OTHER SPIDERS. These guys really be in here paying their rent
I'm not scared of spiders, but my son loves them, so we've always let them be since he developed a fascination with them. Howyever, my wife absolutely hated them, but she's become more tolerant of spiders because of our son's fondness for them, going so far as to catch and release them outside when we encounter them indoors. In the past, she wouldn't hesitate to squish a spider, but she doesn't feel the need to do so anymore. And despite not being especially afraid of spiders, or particularly fond of them, I've become the guy people call for help with removing them humanely in my workplace. It's amazing how one person in your life can completely change your behavior, just out of respect for their (sometimes odd) wishes, even when it comes to something like spiders that many people fear.
I can tell these Spider movies must've been a challenge for Ryan to make into video essays. Having to stare at those creepy crawlers all day on the computer.
When I was a kid, my best friend had this basement that wasn’t used very much. One time we went down there, and underneath the stairs was just an empty space. We shined a flashlight under there, and there were DOZENS of like, giant web balls hanging from the bottom of the stairs and web materials(?) everywhere all under there. It was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen, and we never spoke of it or went down there again. 😊
I have such an intense arachnophobia (I can only listen to this video😅), I even have a hard time to look at crabs and scorpions. These damn legs are just too scary! I tried to get used to looking at spiders multiple times. I can bear to look at very small spiders, but only if they don't move at all. Watching movies with spiders is a pain. Especially since I'm a big LotR fan and enjoy the first Harry Potter movies. But I still have the habit of making my fictional spider characters sympathetic and cute. I want to love them, but my god do they give me the shivers whenever I look at them.
Same all over! I’ve nothing against spiders and I’ve tried to work on my genuine arachnophobia with some success! I don’t want to harm them - I just want them to go somewhere else 🙏🏼
@lnnvt Imagine we'll get an adaptation of the Silmarillion and have the mother of spiders Ungoliant jumping at us. Now that's a nightmare for people with arachnophobia, especially since CGI improved a lot since the LotR came out.
Finding a large spider in the car while I’m driving is genuinely one of my worst nightmares. I sometimes even practise the idea, chanting to myself ‘you cannot die for this. You cannot die for this’ 😖 Luckily I live in Europe and I never ever leave a car window open.
I’m really happy to see you cover this. Most of the people I know who like horror have missed it, meanwhile I’ve still been checking all the corners of my apartment for the past few months after watching this
i’m very fond of spiders, both as a general concept and as represented by the native spiders in my area. however, i’m still very scared by certain kinds crawling on me/being on the ceiling or higher on the wall/large occupied nests i might fall in or walk through/them accidentally wandering into my orifices/large or longlegged ones especially if they move fast. so i love spiders but i’m also still scared by common tropes in spider horror! weird space to exist in tbh but i enjoy it. i think it’s funny they had to introduce parasitiodism as a trait (something spiders never do as far as i’m aware, but is something that they instead suffer from via wasps) in order to make the spiders truly menacing. also omg i’m so glad this one has the spiders really only reacting instead of attacking. i’m also really happy with the things towards the end that show the spiders and people interacting non-fatally and with understanding, which is something i wanted badly from Sting but i suppose wasn’t the right movie for that.
I despise bugs but mostly flying ones and roaches. My grandfather made me love spiders. "They the good bugs, they kill the bad bugs" We never even put spiders outside like other bugs, he always just moved them into to the basement. They were always welcome in our homes.
Babe wake up, another banger from Ryan Hollinger dropped Also speaking of found footage videos in the ad read: video 8 of asking Ryan to do a video on As Above So Below
I don't know if the director meant this, but I took his message to be: Importing a problem, notice that it has a lot of trouble co-existing with the main species, dumping it into a low-income area, and being shocked at the negative result and blaming the low-income people for not being able to get along with the problem.
Wow, its 2 am here in Australia and also spiders so I'll leave you to it for another video but I had to comment since this is the first time I've been so early seeing a video posted. You're an awesome creator, one of my favouritesand I just sent "a field in England" to a friend earlier today
I hate spiders so so so much. My worst nightmares are about spiders. I've dreamt of my entire home being covered in those webs with the spider sitting inside it, and there were ones who got to dog size and bigger. I had to walk around and i was so scared/grossed out I couldn't get rid of them i just tried not to touch anything 😭 why do our brains do this to us
Iguanas aren't poisonous whered you even get that? Also wait wait wait. Was that spider at the end suppose to be one of the invasive ones or just a native one he picked up while walking through the woods? But yeah really enjoyed this one. Spiders are great for horror films.
I consider myself to be something of a "recovering arachnophobe." Like most people, I grew up with spiders being a potent symbol of fear. The more I learned about them, the more frightening they became. I remember once describing spiders to a friend as "the animal kingdom's equivalent to a serial killer" due to their hunting behaviours. A few years ago, however, I read the book "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a sci-fi novel set over a course of centuries that charted the rise of a civilization of sapient jumping spiders (in tandem with a human story set on a spaceship). The author conveys an incredibly impressive vision of what a civilization shaped by the biology of spiders would look like and the potential revolutionary historical moments in it's history (like their invention of ant-based computing and their first space missions in silk airships). Even though the spider narrative follows no particular characters, it does an incredible job of humanising the spiders and making you root for them. It's really changed how I look at spiders. I'm now the kind of guy who will see a massive spider in his house and just leave it alone and let it stay there.
In the first video about the other spider movie, I was confused because I thought I had recognized a french youtuber... Was confused because the movie was australian... Turns out it was absolutely Jerome Niel...
Great review, interesting movie, and since I really do not enjoy spiders I probably will never watch the movie itself, which makes your overview and analysis even more interesting for me. But first and formost I wanted to mention you look healthy and energetic and in a much better place overall then let's say 10 years ago. Normally I wouldn't comment on people's well-being I know so little about but you mentioned struggeling with and overcoming depression in another video and I think it really shows. Looking forward to many interesting videos by you in the years to come!
As a huge spider lover I do worry about things that stoke the fear on towards them, but I don't think it's too hypocritical or contradictory. Spiders being a bit of a sympathetic force that is just trying to survive, but is still shown as an ultimately terrifying horror here fall into the man vs nature - nature isn't inherently cruel but still has to exist? We love all kinds of dangerous animals and to a point understand even though a tiger is beautiful it is terrifying and can quickly become horrific if we were being hunted by one. Maybe I'm overthinking that reflection in the beginning though!
Wow, that movie actually sounds very deep and amazing, being thoughtful and scary at the same time. Why isn't it more of a massive hit? Thank you. I will look for it.
As a person with arachnophobia, I also watch scary spider movies. Arachnophobia is definitely the scariest of all of them. I just rewatched the 3 Ginger Snaps movies. They're so good! you should make a video on them :)
Oh cool I didn't realize that last video was meant to be split into two videos one for each movie, I was really wondering what happened to the 2nd movie
This feels just like how people say the bugs in Starship Troopers are the victims of the story. Its a bit hard to feel for a swarm of monsters that can tear a man in half with no effort
I love spiders and "Arachnophobia" was actually why I fell in love with them. Specifically the beginning with the hidden ancient spider sanctuary. I'm definitely going to be watching this 👍
I have a horrible fear of bugs, mostly spiders despite my love for how they function and look. BUT I also have a fascination for bug related horror media. That being said, this is one of my favorite obscure horror films bc the skin crawling horror of being surrounded by giant spiders (or near a giant one at all) is so real and kind of fun to watch through film. And now knowing what this story is about, I appreciate all the more!
I was thinking about your videos a while back, but I couldn't remember your channel name, so I searched 'hoyever' in the UA-cam search bar and you were the top result.
I have really high ceilings, there's a spider occupying of the corners. Dont have anything to smush him with, so i named him Jeremy and I'm waiting for his first rent payment.
Aaahhh yes, nothing cheekily triggers my Aussie fight-or-flight response quite like Ryan mentioning the use of many real huntsman spiders in the film's production. 😅
Hey Ryan! Would you consider doing a video on Strange Darling? I just watched it the other week after hearing about it from another horror UA-camr and I can’t stop thinking about it! Definitely one of my favorite thrillers I’ve seen this year
A giant spiders as metaphor for societal ills set in a brutalist looking apartment building?!? Sign me the butt UP! Ooh! And it's streaming on Shudder! I think I know what I'm watching tonight! ^_^!
This film was a trip. They NAILED the unpredictable and jittery nature of spiders that I really hate and what scares me the most. Then pump them full of roids and YEAH NAH MATE.
As someone who both worked at a school in the projects and who sincerely loves spiders, I completely get the parallel: you can spend so much time educating people about why they should care, and they will say they understand, but when they come face-to-face with the reality, they generally run away in a fit of squeamishness. This movie sounds brilliant and its going straight onto me to-watch list.
as a person who doesn't have arachnophobia, (not a flex, just wanted to mention it) i like that Ryan mentioned how the media is wrong about spiders cuz these little guys, just like with every wild animal and person, are minding their own business, trying to live like to the fullest and trying to get laid, hell if you have a spider in your garden, that's just free pest control, the spider eats the pests and you're crops are saved, that's a win-win if you ask me
Fun fact : the appartement where the movie takes place is absolutely not in Paris but in Noisy-le-Grand and i live there. They also shot scenes from the Hunger games in this city for some reason.
As someone with arachnophobia, I never thought I'd describe a horror movie about spiders as "beautiful", but the message behind this movie cannot be understated.
Thought I could tough it out for your top quality content, but I've gotten a minute in and NOPE NOPE NOPE. I cannot. Just gonna presume it was brilliant as always and peace out.
I've had arachnophobia my entire life. The clincher was when I was diagnosed with schitzoeffective disorder and had an unfortunate episode where I 'saw' them climbing the walls. Snakes, even scorpions... no problem. I guess I just can't trust anything with more than 2 eyes possibly invading my ear as I sleep. 😂
That's why it's called an irrational fear. No amount of logic or explanation will help. I'm not afraid of spiders, but I do have an irrational fear of dead insects, for some reason
Excellent review Mr. Hollinger!! I do not really watch horror, although if your review grabs me I often will watch that movie. This review was... amazing. I felt the terror of watching that film through you throughout. I am still feeling the underskin ick of it all. Thank you for allowing me to feel the horror without needing to watch the film, which would break me. Thank you, and I am so sorry you had to go through it. @RyanHollinger
There's definitely something to the idea of the spiders just wanting to exist, but there's also a huge misfire in the analogy by having them "out breed" the residents and "displace" them that sounds really damn close to some of the ways real life pundits talk about immigrants and the impoverished.
Arachnophobia and Kingdom of the Spiders shout outs? You got both the creepies and the crawlies there. Plus Shatner but he's a horror category of his own.
As someone who didn't used to like spiders and now loves them (thanks, Lucas the Spider!), a massive infestation would still have me going 😬 I like the parallels in this movie, though. But seriously. Be kind to your eight-legged friends. They take care of all the bugs that do cause problems, AND they have PAWS. Yes. Spiders have paws. That is adorable
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Not sure if you've played Mind Control Delete (the sequel to Super Hot) but I bet you'd enjoy it very much! Not only is it a great expansion on the originals gameplay but the story is unsettling and the last hour is DEEPLY unnerving..
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As an Arachnologist, I love that they use real spiders! And while the spiders are portrayed by huntsman spiders, which are harmless, in the film they are labelled as belonging to the six-eyed spider family, which are indeed known for their potent venom (this is the family that brown recluses come from). That’s a really neat detail! They also seem to have done a good job portraying spider behavior other than one key point that always bugs me: why do people and movies think spiders lay their eggs in people/corpses? There are wasps that do that *to* spiders, but no spiders do that sort of thing!
I think it's in reference to something I heard about ages ago, where rumors were spread about certain foreigners or Jewish groups laying eggs in people. But, I can't find much on where I heard that. I know there were blood libel lies and ideas that certain groups eat people, but wasn't able to find specifics on reproductive parasitism lies.
I think, while they used specific spiders in the film production, they were meant to be a new species of spider, in the story.
I think the whole nesting in people thing comes from writers just wanting the spiders to be scarier. Im certain one spider movie at some point thought of the idea then other screen writers adopted it. I wouldnt be able to act in these films with IRL spiders. Id have to do the Eight Legged Freaks full CGI spider route because Id be too scared. Who knows maybe thatd improve a performance 😅
The eggs inside people probably comes from Alien.
But how did you feel about all the "light" stuff that somehow immediately stops them? Only when needed, of course.
@@BelialTnTn I mean, they were found in burrows in the beginning of the movie right? Now normally the response would be to run for somewhere dark, not stand still, but I could see it where this species is overwhelmed by the light and freezes instinctually.
It didn't occur to me sooner but the memorial wall of victims at the end really brought back memories of the Grenfell Tower fire and how authorities were aware that the building was not up to modern fire codes and many people were told by firefighters to stay in their apartments and not evacuate. Come to think of it, I think this film must be directly inspired by the Grenfell Tower fire.
Great connection! I can definitely see the parallels there.
Went down the rabbit hole with your mention of that fire. Very tragic; I had never heard of it before!
@@utubecop11 Yep messed up
Plainly Difficult did a quite straightforward &fairly short (~10min iirc) vid about what happened. Basically, corners cut everywhere, like using cheaper but _flammable_ cladding that was also not built to code, making an actual tinder box of the low-income housing block. And authorities insisted that the residents "stay put", plus so many other issues. Such an absolute travesty. And many of the survivors are STILL on waiting lists for housing after they lost everything in the fire!
The Grenfell Tower fire was an atrocity, especially in how the government responded to it. 72 people were allowed to die because fixing a building (or making it sure it was built to code in the first place!) wasn't profitable. I remember Tory MPs even jeered at Jeremy Corbyn once for wearing a green tie as a mark of respect for the victims, _while relatives of the victims looked on._ Just horrible all around.
Yup, scrolling down to the comments section and spending the entire video here!
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Bless Huntsman spiders for their services to filmed horror. My understanding is that they are non-venomous to humans, docile, and like to follow their fellows, making them easier to wrangle. That said, how anyone in Australia, Africa, etc. manages to cope with these critters as common household pests is beyond me. Even un-embiggened by CG, their insane leg span is an automatic evolutionary NOPE for humankind. Eeesh.
Is it true that they chase people? I live in a place where going outside hurts my face and our biggest ones are wolf spiders.
@@Taybrian1That remembers this because Huntsman spiders and the desert will cling to most shadowy spots.So sometimes they'll follow people's shadows
@@Taybrian1 Huntsmans also have really bad eyesight so what seems like aggressive rushing is actually just them panicking but y'know people who are scared are understandably not gonna see it that way
I had TWO huntsman encounters in Japan last year and panicked so bad that I had an asthma attack 😭 Not because they were aggressive, but because I hadn't been aware of just how huge and how FAST they are. The speed... Jfc...
However (hoiyever) both spiders did nothing but try to get away from me. They're really just introverts with social anxiety LOL, so I'm trying to learn not to be so scared of them
@@Taybrian1 Aussie here. Nah, they usually just panic and scatter around randomly like us. Its like:
Human: AAHHHH A SPIDER!!
Huntsman spider: AAHHHH A HUMAN!!! *chaos ensues*
They're just very large, very gangly and very confused
Reminds me of the horror movie with Oliver Reed called Venom where he’s in a house with a black mamba snake…It’s terrifying due to how the used the snake, it could be anywhere at any time and that idea haunts me.
And it was the fourth most volatile actor in the film.
@@n0m4nic And Ollie was the fifth.
@@n0m4nicYo you gotta elaborate further for us uneducated schmucks
@@firekind1980 I have to challenge that. The snake didn't lock itself in its trailer for two days.
I won't be able to watch this unfortunately because of of my severe arachnophobia so I'm just going to assume the video was awesome and give it a like much love ryan.
Close your eyes and listen? Or does that make it even worse lol. I have a buddy who’s got it bad to and I can’t even tell him I found one in my house without him shivering.
Oh and that first line isn’t intended to be rude. I just reread that and it sounds it
Scaredy cat!
Everyone’s scared of something and if you say you’re not your fibbing!
@@minikiller77 haha your all good mate I've always had ane issue with spiders even when I was a child. My father realised this and sat me down and forced me to watch every spider movie you can think of eight legged freaks etc. in his mind he probably thought that if I'm exposed to all these fucked up spider movies it might remove my fear an strengthen me up. Unfortunately years later it had the reverse effect and amplified it by a thousand.
@@minikiller77 I fear stupid youtube comments.
This movie was absolutely horryfying and it was a blast seeing the actor who plays Mathys (originally a comedic youtuber from my teenage years) deliverong a nice prestation in an horror movie
and having grown up in a neighborhood like this, it was nice seeing a movie set in this type of setting WITHOUT having a certain view that French movies often portray (french people will know what I talk about)
I have two pet jumping spiders. My dad would not stop sending me information about Sting lmao
there is something about the body ratio and overall appearance of jumping spiders that makes them very tolerable, while f.e. a also completely harmless Opiliones (aka. Daddy Longleg) scares the shit out of most people including me.
jumpers literally come across as baby mammals to me. i think it’s, like you said, the proportions, and also the fuzz and large eyes.
@@samm4158 their also very personable. Ive seen plenty of videos of jumpers demonstrating their own personalities and behaviors.
Me, deathly afraid of spiders. Also me; hell yeah new video about a horror involving spiders! *Clicks instantly*
I hate spiders a lot and yet somehow I want to see these movies. Arachnophobia I watched as a kid and it's horrifying but I love it too for some reason. Mostly nostalgia but jesus christ it gets me. If I see any kind of spider, even a small one IRL I get frozen and have to scream for a family member to save me.
@@shroomyk Same here! Ive watched almost all the spider movies that have been released, and liked most of them, but I am deathly terrified of spiders in real life. Maybe it has something to do wit it being a movie and I can turn it off if I want to?
Truth. I got to 1:03 and dropped into the comments like "oh, no. Absolutely not." Even though I know these particular spiders are indeed non threaten to humans
@@shroomyk That's because nothing is as exciting as true fear.
Your body is designed to make you feel the most alive you possibly can to stay alive in the face of whatever causes the fear.
Fight or flight pharmacology is up there with the most powerful recreational chemical stimulants you can ever experience. It lets think faster, move faster be stronger, experience things more clearly. For a few seconds you get unfettered access to the entire latent ability of your body and brain along with a huge dump of brain and body chemistry.
It's a BUZZ.
It's why some people do the most dangerous things they can find as pass-times.
Spider based horror movies really do highlight the KISS principle when it comes to scaring people. "KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!" Cause yeah, spiders freak out basically everyone
I'm not afraid of a spider. I'm terrified of spider*S*.
It's one of those things that get to me the more they multiply.
Listen, I love horror "with a message," I eat up theme and scene analysis and horror that explores social things just like this movie did, so I can appreciate that. HOWEVER. The scene you showed of the dude getting his arm crawled on by a bunch of baby spiders made me scream. I am currently trying not to scratch my arms. Good video tho!!
Not being afraid of spiders myself (that's not a flex. Put a cockroach in front of me and I'll mercy kill myself), so I just focused on all of the obvious subtext and had a wonderful time. Thanks for all of the entertainment over the years, Ryan! 10/10 fricheks
Hard same! I actually rather like most spiders, but cockroaches put me into full blown fight-or-flight mode. When I see one, one of us will not leave the room alive! Or I'll scream like my 10 year old niece and run.
Because spiders eat the bugs we hate and cockroaches are harbingers of disease.
I have found my people
This is me. The spiders are fine, the flashes of roach were not. Especially the one in the jar that skitters. Uugugghgh just gave myself the willies.
Same here! Spiders are chill, Cockroach are skittering around and ATTACKS.
Yeah, I know it's their defensive maneuver, but I'm seriously can't stand their aggressive movements
0:34 Sure! With the exception of that depressed lady's demise (yup, you can tell it's an aussie-made move when they add in a death that's so unnecessarily unfair)
I like spiders a lot... I love and hate that they used huntsman spiders because they are super chill and not of medical importance but now uneducated people might believe what it's shown in the movie to be true. There should really be a class about animals to teach kids about them, specially spiders and insects native to their surroundings.
Fuck all Spiders. Huntsman are some of the scariest fuckin ones
they probably used huntsman spiders *because* they're very chill and the venom isn't very dangerous to people, so they could have a big spider relatively safely on set. It may have to be shared person-by-person, but reminding people that the reason they could use real spiders at all is specifically because of their safety might help. If they used actually dangerous spiders, like a brazillian wandering spider/banana spider, for example... I presume it may not have been shot.
@@jrrushing7049 they are big and look scary but they are not dangerous
I guess I really shouldn't judge about your love of spiders. I'm terrified of them myself. That being said, I'm the kid of person that will defend rats when they are used in horror movies. I love those creatures but they are so misunderstood. They are like rodent shaped puppies!
yeah man how about they use real venomous spiders in the movie instead lol dumbass
Watched ‘Arachnophobia’ when I was a teenager at a sleepover, and it made all of us jumpy and itch for days 😐 I’m not sure I could put myself through it again.
it's called Infested? Great, now how am I gonna tell apart my "giant tick swarm" movie 'Infested' from my "giant spider swarm" movie, 'Infested'?
In french it's called Vermines !
Oooh, there's a tick infestation movie? Well, time to get to watching!
OH god, ticks are way worse. Those things are actually out to get you and not in defense.
@@lkeke35 yeah, depending on your region I have seen it called both Ticks, as well as Infested. It has Alfonso Ribero (Carlton from The Fresh Prince) in it, too XD
I'm living in a roach infested rental, want to come make a movie?
Watching this while being scared of spiders >>
Hey Ryan, I would like to recommend a obscure alien body horror movie name Splinter from 2008. About a couple being kidnapped by a couple of thiefs, but the four ended up stuck in a gas station thanks for a alien viruses organism that take form of spikes
Totally agree! Splinter was great!
I'm terrified of spiders myself. I have been for a very long time. With that said, I actually stopped killing any and all spiders in my home. To be honest, I haven't seen a fly, moth or any other kind of bug enter my home since I made that decision. The spiders actually stay away from me, but every once in a while I'll find one sitting on a wall or behind a door. I even saved a few spiders from the shower.
Same!! I live in the southern US, and there's so many bugs here... But I've long since let any and all cellar spiders live as my creepy little roommates, and lemme tell you. They hunt down and devour EVERYTHING else. Roaches, millipedes, scorpions, OTHER SPIDERS. These guys really be in here paying their rent
I'm not scared of spiders, but my son loves them, so we've always let them be since he developed a fascination with them. Howyever, my wife absolutely hated them, but she's become more tolerant of spiders because of our son's fondness for them, going so far as to catch and release them outside when we encounter them indoors. In the past, she wouldn't hesitate to squish a spider, but she doesn't feel the need to do so anymore. And despite not being especially afraid of spiders, or particularly fond of them, I've become the guy people call for help with removing them humanely in my workplace. It's amazing how one person in your life can completely change your behavior, just out of respect for their (sometimes odd) wishes, even when it comes to something like spiders that many people fear.
For a creepy spider movie, the way you analyzed it made it feel more heart-breaking. Was tearing up at the end of the video! ToT
I can tell these Spider movies must've been a challenge for Ryan to make into video essays. Having to stare at those creepy crawlers all day on the computer.
As someone who is terrified of bigger spiders I absolutely loved that movie. It scared me more than most other horror movies.
When I was a kid, my best friend had this basement that wasn’t used very much. One time we went down there, and underneath the stairs was just an empty space. We shined a flashlight under there, and there were DOZENS of like, giant web balls hanging from the bottom of the stairs and web materials(?) everywhere all under there. It was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen, and we never spoke of it or went down there again. 😊
I have such an intense arachnophobia (I can only listen to this video😅), I even have a hard time to look at crabs and scorpions. These damn legs are just too scary! I tried to get used to looking at spiders multiple times. I can bear to look at very small spiders, but only if they don't move at all. Watching movies with spiders is a pain. Especially since I'm a big LotR fan and enjoy the first Harry Potter movies.
But I still have the habit of making my fictional spider characters sympathetic and cute. I want to love them, but my god do they give me the shivers whenever I look at them.
Same all over! I’ve nothing against spiders and I’ve tried to work on my genuine arachnophobia with some success! I don’t want to harm them - I just want them to go somewhere else 🙏🏼
oh yeah, shelob is the OG lmao (aragog too but he is quite sympathetic)
@lnnvt Imagine we'll get an adaptation of the Silmarillion and have the mother of spiders Ungoliant jumping at us. Now that's a nightmare for people with arachnophobia, especially since CGI improved a lot since the LotR came out.
Those lil cute jumping spiders with googly eyes
I'm one of those absolute freaks that loves spiders, but even still the thought of walking through a literal nest of them makes my spine shiver
Always love falling asleep to a Ryan vid. Especially if it’s about huntsman spiders, one of whom I found in my dad’s car as a kid 😭
Finding a large spider in the car while I’m driving is genuinely one of my worst nightmares. I sometimes even practise the idea, chanting to myself ‘you cannot die for this. You cannot die for this’ 😖 Luckily I live in Europe and I never ever leave a car window open.
I will be watching this on my phone, from across the room, upside down, and at an angle😂
I’m really happy to see you cover this. Most of the people I know who like horror have missed it, meanwhile I’ve still been checking all the corners of my apartment for the past few months after watching this
i’m very fond of spiders, both as a general concept and as represented by the native spiders in my area. however, i’m still very scared by certain kinds crawling on me/being on the ceiling or higher on the wall/large occupied nests i might fall in or walk through/them accidentally wandering into my orifices/large or longlegged ones especially if they move fast. so i love spiders but i’m also still scared by common tropes in spider horror! weird space to exist in tbh but i enjoy it.
i think it’s funny they had to introduce parasitiodism as a trait (something spiders never do as far as i’m aware, but is something that they instead suffer from via wasps) in order to make the spiders truly menacing.
also omg i’m so glad this one has the spiders really only reacting instead of attacking. i’m also really happy with the things towards the end that show the spiders and people interacting non-fatally and with understanding, which is something i wanted badly from Sting but i suppose wasn’t the right movie for that.
I’d never heard of Spencer Lakey before this video, so thank you for putting his name out there!
I despise bugs but mostly flying ones and roaches. My grandfather made me love spiders.
"They the good bugs, they kill the bad bugs"
We never even put spiders outside like other bugs, he always just moved them into to the basement. They were always welcome in our homes.
I thought the left side of your hair (two hair spikes) sticking out at 2:08 were spider legs and it slightly freaked me out.
Great video as always btw Ryan! I love that I can watch these videos instead of having to watch these films myself haha.
Babe wake up, another banger from Ryan Hollinger dropped
Also speaking of found footage videos in the ad read: video 8 of asking Ryan to do a video on As Above So Below
the comment has been seen! i can stop asking every video now lmao
I don't know if the director meant this, but I took his message to be: Importing a problem, notice that it has a lot of trouble co-existing with the main species, dumping it into a low-income area, and being shocked at the negative result and blaming the low-income people for not being able to get along with the problem.
Wow, its 2 am here in Australia and also spiders so I'll leave you to it for another video but I had to comment since this is the first time I've been so early seeing a video posted. You're an awesome creator, one of my favouritesand I just sent "a field in England" to a friend earlier today
I hate spiders so so so much. My worst nightmares are about spiders. I've dreamt of my entire home being covered in those webs with the spider sitting inside it, and there were ones who got to dog size and bigger. I had to walk around and i was so scared/grossed out I couldn't get rid of them i just tried not to touch anything 😭 why do our brains do this to us
A particularly good script from you, m8. Perfectly explained why this movie rocks
Your analysis are always top tier.
Iguanas aren't poisonous whered you even get that? Also wait wait wait. Was that spider at the end suppose to be one of the invasive ones or just a native one he picked up while walking through the woods?
But yeah really enjoyed this one. Spiders are great for horror films.
Iguanas aren't venomous, but their bites can get infected pretty easily, like most reptiles. Probably an innocent mistake.
I consider myself to be something of a "recovering arachnophobe." Like most people, I grew up with spiders being a potent symbol of fear. The more I learned about them, the more frightening they became. I remember once describing spiders to a friend as "the animal kingdom's equivalent to a serial killer" due to their hunting behaviours. A few years ago, however, I read the book "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a sci-fi novel set over a course of centuries that charted the rise of a civilization of sapient jumping spiders (in tandem with a human story set on a spaceship). The author conveys an incredibly impressive vision of what a civilization shaped by the biology of spiders would look like and the potential revolutionary historical moments in it's history (like their invention of ant-based computing and their first space missions in silk airships). Even though the spider narrative follows no particular characters, it does an incredible job of humanising the spiders and making you root for them. It's really changed how I look at spiders. I'm now the kind of guy who will see a massive spider in his house and just leave it alone and let it stay there.
In the first video about the other spider movie, I was confused because I thought I had recognized a french youtuber... Was confused because the movie was australian... Turns out it was absolutely Jerome Niel...
Great review, interesting movie, and since I really do not enjoy spiders I probably will never watch the movie itself, which makes your overview and analysis even more interesting for me. But first and formost I wanted to mention you look healthy and energetic and in a much better place overall then let's say 10 years ago. Normally I wouldn't comment on people's well-being I know so little about but you mentioned struggeling with and overcoming depression in another video and I think it really shows. Looking forward to many interesting videos by you in the years to come!
All they needed was Ryan Hollinger to say, "HOYEVER, to make those eight legged freaks scamper off.
It’s the most disturbing depiction….of a giant spider invasion of savings at Minards!
Even by the standards that I’ve come to expect from your videos, this was exceptional. Thank you.
As a huge spider lover I do worry about things that stoke the fear on towards them, but I don't think it's too hypocritical or contradictory. Spiders being a bit of a sympathetic force that is just trying to survive, but is still shown as an ultimately terrifying horror here fall into the man vs nature - nature isn't inherently cruel but still has to exist? We love all kinds of dangerous animals and to a point understand even though a tiger is beautiful it is terrifying and can quickly become horrific if we were being hunted by one. Maybe I'm overthinking that reflection in the beginning though!
… the ending misses the point that the spiders are invasive, highly aggressive and grow to the size of a large dog.
A little spider came down it's web towards me an hour after watching this video. Thanks Ryan.
nope
The apartment building is awesome! Love the design
a good hiyever to start my day with. ty king
Fun fact: The director of this movie is also set to direct one of the upcoming Evil Dead films. I can’t wait to see his take on it 🙏
Holy that intro with the hallway of ugh grrr ew shivers* OH MAY GAAHHHHD! 😭
Wow, that movie actually sounds very deep and amazing, being thoughtful and scary at the same time. Why isn't it more of a massive hit? Thank you. I will look for it.
The original title being "Vermin" really emphasizes the whole analysis.
Great vid as always
As a person with arachnophobia, I also watch scary spider movies. Arachnophobia is definitely the scariest of all of them. I just rewatched the 3 Ginger Snaps movies. They're so good! you should make a video on them :)
I am just going to listen to this with my phone upside down
I got super excited. PLEASE make a video about NOPE (2022) :D
Oh cool I didn't realize that last video was meant to be split into two videos one for each movie, I was really wondering what happened to the 2nd movie
Thank you for bringing attention to that movie! It didn’t get as much praise as it deserved imo!
This feels just like how people say the bugs in Starship Troopers are the victims of the story. Its a bit hard to feel for a swarm of monsters that can tear a man in half with no effort
I love seeing you talk about this movie as Mathys (Jérome Niel) started out on youtube talking about movies X)
I love spiders and "Arachnophobia" was actually why I fell in love with them. Specifically the beginning with the hidden ancient spider sanctuary.
I'm definitely going to be watching this 👍
I have a horrible fear of bugs, mostly spiders despite my love for how they function and look. BUT I also have a fascination for bug related horror media. That being said, this is one of my favorite obscure horror films bc the skin crawling horror of being surrounded by giant spiders (or near a giant one at all) is so real and kind of fun to watch through film. And now knowing what this story is about, I appreciate all the more!
Can you do The Stand at some point?
Spiders have been a combination of a fascinating class of creature and something to be feared.
I was thinking about your videos a while back, but I couldn't remember your channel name, so I searched 'hoyever' in the UA-cam search bar and you were the top result.
I have really high ceilings, there's a spider occupying of the corners. Dont have anything to smush him with, so i named him Jeremy and I'm waiting for his first rent payment.
Aaahhh yes, nothing cheekily triggers my Aussie fight-or-flight response quite like Ryan mentioning the use of many real huntsman spiders in the film's production. 😅
Hey Ryan! Would you consider doing a video on Strange Darling? I just watched it the other week after hearing about it from another horror UA-camr and I can’t stop thinking about it! Definitely one of my favorite thrillers I’ve seen this year
Big respect for covering this film as an arachnophobe. I like spiders and even I feel a bit twitchy around huntsmen!
A giant spiders as metaphor for societal ills set in a brutalist looking apartment building?!? Sign me the butt UP!
Ooh! And it's streaming on Shudder! I think I know what I'm watching tonight! ^_^!
Using your horrifying video to wake myself up and make it through Friday work after a rough week
As someone who uses the service: Love to hear monument studios in the soundtrack!
NOPE! Deathly afraid of spiders. This film looks scarier than Spiderman 3!
This film was a trip. They NAILED the unpredictable and jittery nature of spiders that I really hate and what scares me the most. Then pump them full of roids and YEAH NAH MATE.
While we’re on the topic of bugs I highly recommend Phase IV by Saul Bass. It’s fantastic
Ive been holding out for a deeply grounded and hyper realistic horror movie with giant spiders for over 5 years
As someone who both worked at a school in the projects and who sincerely loves spiders, I completely get the parallel: you can spend so much time educating people about why they should care, and they will say they understand, but when they come face-to-face with the reality, they generally run away in a fit of squeamishness. This movie sounds brilliant and its going straight onto me to-watch list.
as a person who doesn't have arachnophobia, (not a flex, just wanted to mention it) i like that Ryan mentioned how the media is wrong about spiders cuz these little guys, just like with every wild animal and person, are minding their own business, trying to live like to the fullest and trying to get laid, hell if you have a spider in your garden, that's just free pest control, the spider eats the pests and you're crops are saved, that's a win-win if you ask me
I couldn't sleep for 2 days after watching Vermines, but I loved it. You can feel the movie is made with passion and purpose
Fun fact : the appartement where the movie takes place is absolutely not in Paris but in Noisy-le-Grand and i live there. They also shot scenes from the Hunger games in this city for some reason.
As someone with arachnophobia, I never thought I'd describe a horror movie about spiders as "beautiful", but the message behind this movie cannot be understated.
Thought I could tough it out for your top quality content, but I've gotten a minute in and NOPE NOPE NOPE. I cannot. Just gonna presume it was brilliant as always and peace out.
I've had arachnophobia my entire life. The clincher was when I was diagnosed with schitzoeffective disorder and had an unfortunate episode where I 'saw' them climbing the walls. Snakes, even scorpions... no problem. I guess I just can't trust anything with more than 2 eyes possibly invading my ear as I sleep. 😂
No chance to quickly find the title of the discussed movie.
That's why it's called an irrational fear. No amount of logic or explanation will help. I'm not afraid of spiders, but I do have an irrational fear of dead insects, for some reason
I'm not afraid of spiders, I just don't want them in my neighborhood.
Excellent review Mr. Hollinger!! I do not really watch horror, although if your review grabs me I often will watch that movie. This review was... amazing. I felt the terror of watching that film through you throughout. I am still feeling the underskin ick of it all. Thank you for allowing me to feel the horror without needing to watch the film, which would break me. Thank you, and I am so sorry you had to go through it. @RyanHollinger
Loved that ending!
Not long after I watched this, I found a spider hanging out on the ceiling right above my bed. Thanks for the omen Ryan
If you havent yet, a video on The Saddness would be awesome
I watched a whole 15 minute spider video. Now I'm getting myself a goddamn cookie and a sticker for being a brave boy.
There's definitely something to the idea of the spiders just wanting to exist, but there's also a huge misfire in the analogy by having them "out breed" the residents and "displace" them that sounds really damn close to some of the ways real life pundits talk about immigrants and the impoverished.
Because thats whats happening?
@@grafphal5103 No dude, you're just a bigoted nimrod.
Arachnophobia and Kingdom of the Spiders shout outs? You got both the creepies and the crawlies there.
Plus Shatner but he's a horror category of his own.
Arachnophobia has entered the chat
As someone who didn't used to like spiders and now loves them (thanks, Lucas the Spider!), a massive infestation would still have me going 😬 I like the parallels in this movie, though.
But seriously. Be kind to your eight-legged friends. They take care of all the bugs that do cause problems, AND they have PAWS. Yes. Spiders have paws. That is adorable