Hunter Killer hooked me up, I had a lot of fun with the boxes they sent me! Go to huntakiller.com/scaredycats and use the code SCAREDYCATS to get 20% off your first box!
His movies definitely have a certain style to them. Something that makes them unique, that you can see them, and instantly know its by them. Hmmm, I know theres a word for that...
"Why wouldn't you just make it a mouse?" Because mice don't live in the ground. The mole was found in a graveyard. It LIVES with DEATH, and gets taken away from there in a little box sort of like a coffin... Which it later *dies* in. I think the mole is being used to say something about Jessica's predicament, but I haven't quite sussed it out yet. I think there's something there about how she keeps trying to *keep* things-- she's the one who wanted to stop to take rubbings of the graves, who wanted to keep the portrait, who decided to tell her husband they should let Emily stay. There's a lot that's trying to keep Jessica too, but giving in to that means certain death for her. This movie is just. SO rich with stuff to dig into. Big thanks for talking at us about it.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only chicken weirdo examining your take on the chicken scene far too closely. That’s just how they sound, and when they lay an egg they’re even more obnoxious. And apparently not because it hurts, but because they are just so danged proud of their work. Tiny velociraptors that are so fun to have around.
@@MolecularMachine behaviorally, basically. You keep chickens long enough and you hear them when they’re injured, scared, fighting, etc. The way they squawk after laying isn’t any of the other stuff, and sometimes they even strut around looking all full of themselves while they do it. They’re hilarious little idiots.
@@MolecularMachine wanna hear something sort of macabre? When they die of predator causes, you figure out what killed them by how they were eaten. Different predators go for different parts of the bird. Raccoons scratch them up a bunch and go for the face. Weasels literally leave them hollowed out. Chicken ownership is strange.
I want to watch this if only to experience a horror film that doesn't treat the mentally ill person as the villain, rather than the "victim" which is usually how it goes with real life mental illness.
I actually only knew about this movie because of an achievement from the game "Until Dawn", which actually flipped the concept a bit and you had to specifically save a character named "Jessica" and have them survive until the end of the game. She's the only human character with a specific achievement like this and it's simply called "(Don't) scare Jessica to death". Clever on the dev's part.
This is the world we're in. Where literally the only time I've ever been given a countdown to an ad so I know where to skip to, it's over an ad I'm immediately interested in.
I saw this at the drive in with my family when I was 12. I had a feeling there was more to it that I was missing. Now seeing it as an elderly woman I can see why. It is much like the first modern vampire novella Carmilla. The houseguest from Hell, but with it's own slowly unfolding twists.
Bobby Duke will remember that That was a cute touch, Mildred. I feel the interpersonal relationships in the first Telltale Walking Dead would be a fun addition to the horror channel as well.
Speaking of the Death being portrayed as seductive, I once came across a Greek myth that the Sirens (the bird-women who lure sailors to leap into the sea and drown) were originally handmaidens to Demeter, who sent them on a search for Persephone after she disappeared. When the maidens couldn't find her, they were so overcome by grief that they lost their humanity (or the divine equivalent), and were transformed into the sirens. Grief and death aren't exactly the same. But they're adjacent.
Why does this remind me of Midsommar in a lot of ways? The way the men in Midsommar, her boyfriend and his friends in particular, treat Dani and her grief over her family's death, and the way she longs for normalcy and to belong to a family again, but everything going on around her is not what it seems...
This film seems to have taken heavy influence from Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the short story that really made me dislike folks who gaslight people. Not to mention the stark illustration of female bondage. So you see? Derivative works have their place.
Oh I love that story! I totally see what your talking about, there's a lot of thematic stuff in common. The whole thing with a woman with mental health issues being controlled by their partner
I've seen some channels do it with a progress bar in the video itself Any video that tells you where the ads end is next-level respecting the viewer :)
Unsettling in the best way possible. This film creeps up on you. Thanks for not spoiling the ending, and for giving one of my favorite films some love.
This film is truly an overlooked gem of 70's horror! The fact that it actually handles the subject of mental illness with compassion is just fab! Along with stuff like Tobe Hooper's Eggshells and the oddity known as Messiah of Evil, this film presented a darkside to the whole 'summer of love' era which tends to be romanticised these days. Especially in the challenges presented by changing attitudes in regards to relationships and the family. Jessica's partner and their friend are kind of typical male hippies who mean well but not as radical as they claim in regards to how they treat women. In the end a male dominated New Age is shown to ironically become easy prey for an ancient seductive evil.
Thank you for this review. This movie is an underappreciated classic. I watched "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" when TV stations still played late night movies, before the infomercials took over.
I watched this movie on TV a longtime ago and yes it sticks with you. It's spooky, atmospheric and really gets under your skin if you allow it's subtle charm to work it's magic. The pacing alone might turn off people, but as Hereditary revealed there is room for all sorts of takes on horror. It reminds me of Carnival of Souls in a way. Thank you for shining a light on this mostly forgotten film.
Loved this movie as a kid of the 70's/80's this movie would come on Saturday TV and I was hooked. Both female actresses are still alive in their 70's and 80's. The house has become famous now as well. So happy this film got the love it deserves all these years later. It's haunting. You never forget it.
Loved the Bobby Duke sponsored content. Best use of sponsored content I've ever seen on UA-cam. You should check out the way the game Hell Blade: Senua's Sacrifice handles mental illness in the an audiovisual way I've only seen in that game. It is very very good.
Love it when Jessica and Duncan are @ the antique dealers, and the guy shows Jessie the mal fiore lamp. That beautiful piece of artistry would be priceless today!
Another well handled ad, Mildread (loving the name pun, btw). I can't tell you how much I appreciate it that content creators like you actually try to make ads at least fun.
I saw Let's Scare Jessica to Death for the first time when Criterion had a big playlist of 70s Horror and I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's so good
Reasons Mildred is one of the best content creators: they actually give us the easy option to skip their sponsorship sections. As a thanks for that, and because she fucking rocks at writing them in a fun and interesting way, I always watch them.
Oh my gosh! If I hadn't watched this film several times as a kid I would have doubted that it actually existed -- nobody else I know has even heard of it! Even my horror-movie-loving late husband. Thanks for the awesome and terrifying memories!
I haven't even watched this vid but I'm trying to boost engagement like a good drone because Let's Scare Jessica to Death is amazing and I want more people to at least see the title of this vid and think, "dude that movie title is cool maybe I should watch it".
This is , without question my fave and the most scary movie ever . I saw it as a child, and was completely haunted by it. And , is is very rare , when i tell friends about it, that they know what I'm talking about.
I went to see this at the drive in with a bunch of my cousins in 1971. I was still a kid, 12 years old. I distinctly remember grasping the concept that what we were seeing was through Jessica's eyes... the whole ambiguity of whether we were seeing true events or seeing Jessica's interpretation. The film is amazing, and I cannot believe it did not get the attention and press it deserves.
I watched this movie on TV when I was really really too young for it. And it's stuck with me for 40 years, and this review really makes me want to see it again. tthx.
It's a great fave of mine. I remember seeing it on television as one of the network's weekly movie features in the early 1970s. Watched it with my grandmother and we both found it delightfully disturbing. Something about the low budget style added to the unsettling quality. I quickly acquired the proper paper and charcoal to try my own hand at gravestone rubbings. Saw it again a few years later but that was it until someone uploaded a grainy VHS copy to UA-cam about ten years ago. Thankfully it's now available for streaming in good quality. Not sure a lot of typical Horror fans will "get it" but people who enjoy the subtlety of traditional ghost stories, exploring spooky old houses and graveyards, and maybe the occasional amateur spookhouse will probably love it. It was indeed filmed in Connecticut, much of it around Chester. The House exterior is The Old Bishop House in Old Saybrook but the interiors are actually a different house in Essex.
"Bobby duke will remember that." was a very funny joke, probably my favorite one in this video just from the line of text in the corner alone. cool video :)
There, see what you did Mildo? You went ahead and mentioned this movie in the Q&A vid and I had to come back for a rewatch of the review! I did end up watching Let's Scare Jessica to Death on your recommendation, actually, back when the Netflix was actually mailing out the movies. It was pretty great! I'll have to add it to the old physical media cabinet of horrors one of these days... 👻
Hello, New Subscriber here! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE 'Let's Scare Jessica To Death'!!!!! It is very creepy and scary, in a VERY slow burn kinda way. But, that's what makes it so awesome and memorable. Thanks for sharing your video and review. Can't wait to check out more of your content!!!!!
I saw this a couple of times back in the 70s. I was glued to it and always thought it was a real hidden gem and never got the respect it deserved. The slow burn was intense and the payoff was great. That red-headed woman pulled off the vampire bride so well. This is the reason that I am scared to jump into a lake if I cannot see the bottom.
where has this channel been???? I am a horror movie connoisseur so I am always looking for ones I've never seen. Excited for this movie and this channel!
I watched the very end of this on TV at 4 in the morning years ago. Was intrigued, forgot what to was called, so I couldn't find anything about it anywhere. Glad to finally find the title to jog my memory
me, watching Scaredy Cats to escape my current situation and the accompanying intrusive thoughts vs. Mildred: "yeah so Jessica has intrusive thoughts and we're forced to experience them :D :D :D"
This movie is so underrated, it's almost criminal. There are some serious Texas Chain Saw Massacre vibes going on in this, but without the shockingly terrifying parts. You're just waiting for something bad to happen, which is almost worse than watching something bad happen. Such a great psychological horror flick, the kind no one makes anymore.
This is one of my favorite horror films. You're so right about the type of scary it is. You have to take your time with it and just follow it. It's a lot of atmosphere and character development - as well as unraveling. It's really moody and unsettling, and that scene at the lake where Jessica seems just frozen with fright until her hand is grabbed is downright creepy as hell. I'm glad you reviewed this film, because it really does deserve more credit than it gets.
Love the videos! I wanted to recommend what I think is the most effective horror comic I've ever encountered. It's called Stagtown (it's hosted on Webtoon) and the artist makes exquisite use of the webtoon form in order to build tension and create sudden release in a way I've never seen in any other comic.
I saw an edited-for-TV version of this when I was no more than 10 years old, back in the late 70's, on a weekly Saturday-afternoon horror movie broadcast on a local UHF channel, which was a thing that existed back then. Anyway, I haven't seen it since then but I still remember the way this haunting movie stuck with me for many sleepless nights afterward. I need to give it another look.
First and foremost, thank you for making a channel about horror movies that even people who can't really _do_ horror movies can still enjoy. Also, I'm insanely pleased that somehow Bobby Dukes has become a legitimate channel mascot and now is getting sponsors for, like, games and breakfast cereal.
I've long been a fan of this movie, and there is a small cult that's at least aware of it. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen probably a little over 10 years ago. I hadn't been aware of it beforehand but, for its budget, the sound design is AMAZING
after watching this video i just went and watched this movie and omg the sound design was incredible, it really got under my skin and created this sense of dread that when combined with the rest of the movie shook me to my core. Anyway yeah, the sound design was absolutly incredible
I saw this during its initial run in the seventies, and it has never left me. It is one of the few films I consider scary, genuinely haunting. I also love the time period and the eerie atmosphere. It is a poetic slow burner.
@@ElizabethMccarty-p7n We viewers can never be certain. There are also hints of vampirism, but our heroine is unreliable. Did the final scenes happen, or is Jessica nuts? We can't be certain. It's a daring approach to story telling.
If someone told me a year ago, a person who almost never chooses to watch horror movies, that this channel would quickly become one of my favorites, I wouldn’t have believed them. That is, until I got to see the beautiful, wonderful antics of Mildred and Bobby and how awesome horror movies can be when someone talks about them with care. Not a lot of other people doing trigger warnings and choosing not to hang on the gore and brutality of certain movies. It makes me want to watch these movies because I can handle the scares of horror, I just don’t usually want to watch it! Thank you Mildred (and, of course, Mr. Duke) for having opened this genre to me more and more lately.
I'm not so sure those are roosters. Hens also have large combs. A better distinguishing feature is the tail feathers and these birds don't seem to have rooster tail feathers but I can't be sure.
Yeah, I like the idea that they would be roosters for another inexplicable wrongness, but then they also look like my chickens so that made me happy. :) you can be movie stars, chickens!
Awesome channel!!! I love movies tv anime cartoons old, new. My brain soaks in entertainment. yt channels like yours give me inspiration, glad I found it! Definitely subbing. I wish one day I can do something I love for a living one day!!
I found this movie when I was around 8 or 9 on accident. It was on TV one day randomly and I watched it, I didn't understand it as a kid but when I watched it again as an adult, it scared the crap out of me. The scene of Emily rising from the water in the white dress is terrifying.
Hunter Killer hooked me up, I had a lot of fun with the boxes they sent me!
Go to huntakiller.com/scaredycats and use the code SCAREDYCATS to get 20% off your first box!
hi Scaridy Matt, " I havent watched a
horror movie in a while this one looks
freaky ", :) great review man !
I will say one thing about Hunt A Killer: They're probably the most honest company sponsoring youtubers and podcasters right now.
@@wolight is there a hunt a killer UA-cam channel ?
@@rioncitylife1917 There is but it's just teaser trailers for their newest kits.
@@wolight are there like different ones every month, do they usually change up?
can’t believe the signature guy made a horror movie
You'd assume he'd retire. He's so old.
I'm a big fan of his signature! Should I check out his movies?
His movies definitely have a certain style to them. Something that makes them unique, that you can see them, and instantly know its by them. Hmmm, I know theres a word for that...
He'd be a vampire!
@@MisfitBYTE uncanny?
The end bit is extra funny when you remember Bobby is ALSO Mildred's lawyer!
"hey Bobby Duke I need you to sue you, Bobby Duke, for libelously claiming that you (Bobby Duke) are derivative"
Be extra funny if Mildred DIDN'T remember that fact!
@@witchfynder_finder I'm sure she wishes she could forget that fact
"Why wouldn't you just make it a mouse?"
Because mice don't live in the ground. The mole was found in a graveyard. It LIVES with DEATH, and gets taken away from there in a little box sort of like a coffin... Which it later *dies* in. I think the mole is being used to say something about Jessica's predicament, but I haven't quite sussed it out yet.
I think there's something there about how she keeps trying to *keep* things-- she's the one who wanted to stop to take rubbings of the graves, who wanted to keep the portrait, who decided to tell her husband they should let Emily stay. There's a lot that's trying to keep Jessica too, but giving in to that means certain death for her.
This movie is just. SO rich with stuff to dig into. Big thanks for talking at us about it.
that's some good analysis right there
um. yes mice live in the ground.
That is interesting analysis, also apparently they had hired an actual mole to play it on set but it died of natural causes earlier on set
@@victoriareissilveira9129 aw :(
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only chicken weirdo examining your take on the chicken scene far too closely. That’s just how they sound, and when they lay an egg they’re even more obnoxious. And apparently not because it hurts, but because they are just so danged proud of their work. Tiny velociraptors that are so fun to have around.
Wait, really? How can people tell why chickens yell?
@@MolecularMachine behaviorally, basically. You keep chickens long enough and you hear them when they’re injured, scared, fighting, etc. The way they squawk after laying isn’t any of the other stuff, and sometimes they even strut around looking all full of themselves while they do it. They’re hilarious little idiots.
@@laurenwasinger9436 Huh, neat.
@@MolecularMachine wanna hear something sort of macabre? When they die of predator causes, you figure out what killed them by how they were eaten. Different predators go for different parts of the bird. Raccoons scratch them up a bunch and go for the face. Weasels literally leave them hollowed out. Chicken ownership is strange.
@@laurenwasinger9436 Whoa... Chicken Scene Investigations...
I want to watch this if only to experience a horror film that doesn't treat the mentally ill person as the villain, rather than the "victim" which is usually how it goes with real life mental illness.
I love how the phone call with Bobby is on a phone still showing the autocue
Every time if you look closely. I'd call it a running bit, but it's just pure laziness on my part lol
@@ScaredyCatsTV Well the bit IS on the phone, and running, so
THAT'S WHAT IT IS! Was trying desperately to read the screen
I actually only knew about this movie because of an achievement from the game "Until Dawn", which actually flipped the concept a bit and you had to specifically save a character named "Jessica" and have them survive until the end of the game. She's the only human character with a specific achievement like this and it's simply called "(Don't) scare Jessica to death". Clever on the dev's part.
Wow i never knew that!
This is the world we're in. Where literally the only time I've ever been given a countdown to an ad so I know where to skip to, it's over an ad I'm immediately interested in.
I stole the idea from corridor digital who do the same thing.
I almost can’t believe I didn’t see or even know about this movie until this year. It was superb!
There's no need to crush Bobby's dreams of being a murder solver like that.
Mil-Dread murdered bobby with words.
@@blarg2429 Let's see if Bobby Duke can solve the case of... HIS OWN MURDER
I saw this at the drive in with my family when I was 12. I had a feeling there was more to it that I was missing. Now seeing it as an elderly woman I can see why. It is much like the first modern vampire novella Carmilla. The houseguest from Hell, but with it's own slowly unfolding twists.
Bobby Duke will remember that
That was a cute touch, Mildred. I feel the interpersonal relationships in the first Telltale Walking Dead would be a fun addition to the horror channel as well.
One of the most entertaining sponsorship ads I have witnessed. These bits just keep getting better and better. I love it!
Thanks for recommending this!
Totally agree, this film is worth a watch.
Speaking of the Death being portrayed as seductive, I once came across a Greek myth that the Sirens (the bird-women who lure sailors to leap into the sea and drown) were originally handmaidens to Demeter, who sent them on a search for Persephone after she disappeared. When the maidens couldn't find her, they were so overcome by grief that they lost their humanity (or the divine equivalent), and were transformed into the sirens.
Grief and death aren't exactly the same. But they're adjacent.
Wow, John Hancock, the ghoul mayor of Anarchy Town, Boston, made a movie? Good for him.
Bobby Duke called you “Matildred”, which I think sounds like a character from Bugsnax.
That is all.
Matildred is a really cool-sounding name, ngl.
Why does this remind me of Midsommar in a lot of ways? The way the men in Midsommar, her boyfriend and his friends in particular, treat Dani and her grief over her family's death, and the way she longs for normalcy and to belong to a family again, but everything going on around her is not what it seems...
This film seems to have taken heavy influence from Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the short story that really made me dislike folks who gaslight people. Not to mention the stark illustration of female bondage. So you see? Derivative works have their place.
Great story and it's available for free online.
I agree with your relation to “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I thought the same thing!
Oh I love that story! I totally see what your talking about, there's a lot of thematic stuff in common. The whole thing with a woman with mental health issues being controlled by their partner
After reading this comment I HAVE to watch the movie. The Yellow Wallpaper is such a good story.
The Sponsored Content Countdown is a game-changer.
I've seen some channels do it with a progress bar in the video itself
Any video that tells you where the ads end is next-level respecting the viewer :)
@@TrashHeapCustodian I've seen people put chapter breaks for where the ad is to make skipping it even easier
Unsettling in the best way possible. This film creeps up on you. Thanks for not spoiling the ending, and for giving one of my favorite films some love.
The ringtone being the Dream Warriors theme made me so happy
This film is truly an overlooked gem of 70's horror! The fact that it actually handles the subject of mental illness with compassion is just fab!
Along with stuff like Tobe Hooper's Eggshells and the oddity known as Messiah of Evil, this film presented a darkside to the whole 'summer of love' era which tends to be romanticised these days. Especially in the challenges presented by changing attitudes in regards to relationships and the family.
Jessica's partner and their friend are kind of typical male hippies who mean well but not as radical as they claim in regards to how they treat women. In the end a male dominated New Age is shown to ironically become easy prey for an ancient seductive evil.
I saw this movie on TV when I was a kid and it stuck with me. Nice to see it getting some love!
"I don't want to spoil the ending"
Why do you think I'm here, my man?
The films house is close by to where I live in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Thank you for this review. This movie is an underappreciated classic. I watched "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" when TV stations still played late night movies, before the infomercials took over.
the more I think about it the more I realize that Mildred is actually a sick-ass name
I watched this movie on TV a longtime ago and yes it sticks with you. It's spooky, atmospheric and really gets under your skin if you allow it's subtle charm to work it's magic. The pacing alone might turn off people, but as Hereditary revealed there is room for all sorts of takes on horror. It reminds me of Carnival of Souls in a way. Thank you for shining a light on this mostly forgotten film.
Loved this movie as a kid of the 70's/80's this movie would come on Saturday TV and I was hooked. Both female actresses are still alive in their 70's and 80's. The house has become famous now as well. So happy this film got the love it deserves all these years later. It's haunting. You never forget it.
As a kid of the '70s/'80s... still alive in their 70s and 80s.
I've been watching Scaredy cats videos all day and only just ran out.... This is very good timing!
Loved the Bobby Duke sponsored content. Best use of sponsored content I've ever seen on UA-cam.
You should check out the way the game Hell Blade: Senua's Sacrifice handles mental illness in the an audiovisual way I've only seen in that game. It is very very good.
As much as I love What We Do in the Shadows, I think Bobby Duke is funnier and better executed than the Bada-Buke.
Love it when Jessica and Duncan are @ the antique dealers, and the guy shows Jessie the mal fiore lamp. That beautiful piece of artistry would be priceless today!
Another well handled ad, Mildread (loving the name pun, btw). I can't tell you how much I appreciate it that content creators like you actually try to make ads at least fun.
Absolutely LOVE 70's era weirdness like this. Heat of a thousand suns love.
I saw Let's Scare Jessica to Death for the first time when Criterion had a big playlist of 70s Horror and I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's so good
Reasons Mildred is one of the best content creators: they actually give us the easy option to skip their sponsorship sections.
As a thanks for that, and because she fucking rocks at writing them in a fun and interesting way, I always watch them.
Oh my gosh! If I hadn't watched this film several times as a kid I would have doubted that it actually existed -- nobody else I know has even heard of it! Even my horror-movie-loving late husband. Thanks for the awesome and terrifying memories!
loved this film, thanks for suggesting/sharing!!!
When the push notification for this video came onto my phone, I was terrified.
Scared to death?
I haven't even watched this vid but I'm trying to boost engagement like a good drone because Let's Scare Jessica to Death is amazing and I want more people to at least see the title of this vid and think, "dude that movie title is cool maybe I should watch it".
Paused the video to rent and watch this. Back now. Thank you.
The dream warriors ringtone followed by "moshi moshi" killed me
This is , without question my fave and the most scary movie ever . I saw it as a child, and was completely haunted by it. And , is is very rare , when i tell friends about it, that they know what I'm talking about.
I share the same sentiments! Love ur comment ✨
I went to see this at the drive in with a bunch of my cousins in 1971. I was still a kid, 12 years old. I distinctly remember grasping the concept that what we were seeing was through Jessica's eyes... the whole ambiguity of whether we were seeing true events or seeing Jessica's interpretation. The film is amazing, and I cannot believe it did not get the attention and press it deserves.
I watched this movie on TV when I was really really too young for it. And it's stuck with me for 40 years, and this review really makes me want to see it again. tthx.
It's a great fave of mine. I remember seeing it on television as one of the network's weekly movie features in the early 1970s. Watched it with my grandmother and we both found it delightfully disturbing. Something about the low budget style added to the unsettling quality. I quickly acquired the proper paper and charcoal to try my own hand at gravestone rubbings. Saw it again a few years later but that was it until someone uploaded a grainy VHS copy to UA-cam about ten years ago. Thankfully it's now available for streaming in good quality.
Not sure a lot of typical Horror fans will "get it" but people who enjoy the subtlety of traditional ghost stories, exploring spooky old houses and graveyards, and maybe the occasional amateur spookhouse will probably love it.
It was indeed filmed in Connecticut, much of it around Chester. The House exterior is The Old Bishop House in Old Saybrook but the interiors are actually a different house in Essex.
It's wild to see a movie from this time period that's so sympathetic to mental illness. I'm definitely gonna have to give this a watch
"Bobby Duke will remember that."
Ominous.
Lmao
Thanks for the sponsored countdown
I saw this movie when it premiered in 71. It will really stick with you
"Bobby duke will remember that." was a very funny joke, probably my favorite one in this video just from the line of text in the corner alone. cool video :)
I'm happy you found a cool sponsor for Scaredy Cats, Mildred
Excellent content gunk bud. Ty for sharing your things
Even if I wanna watch the ad, that sponsored content counter gets an instant LIKE!
I love Mil-Dread. What a great name
Mil-DREAD is a great host for Scardey Cats. The true mash-up of Elvira and Svengoolie, but extra insecure, as the day demands.
Hunt a Killer might be the most on brand sponsorship I have ever seen or will ever see in a youtube video.
The mouse mole confusion comes from the fact they just inhaled a bunch of poison when that dude was spraying the fields.
I have never scrambled to subscribe to a channel so fast as the second i heard thoughtslime’s voice
I'm happy you finally bought What We Do In the Shadows up, I had been thinking about that x3
There, see what you did Mildo? You went ahead and mentioned this movie in the Q&A vid and I had to come back for a rewatch of the review! I did end up watching Let's Scare Jessica to Death on your recommendation, actually, back when the Netflix was actually mailing out the movies. It was pretty great! I'll have to add it to the old physical media cabinet of horrors one of these days... 👻
Hello, New Subscriber here! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE 'Let's Scare Jessica To Death'!!!!!
It is very creepy and scary, in a VERY slow burn kinda way. But, that's what makes it so awesome and memorable.
Thanks for sharing your video and review. Can't wait to check out more of your content!!!!!
oooh the mystery box thing is actually cool. Also appreciate the ad timer
"Bobby Duke will remember that."
I am SCREAMING
I have not watched this movie, but from your description, this movie reminds me of the book version of The Shining.
Imagine being so rude to Bobby Duke
Yeah, he's the star of the show!
they arent roosters, hens have wattles and combs too
I was hoping someone else picked up on this. can't let those city slickers lead us astray. thank you
Plus, you put that many roosters in that tight a space and you are going to get an absolute murderfest.
I saw this a couple of times back in the 70s. I was glued to it and always thought it was a real hidden gem and never got the respect it deserved. The slow burn was intense and the payoff was great. That red-headed woman pulled off the vampire bride so well. This is the reason that I am scared to jump into a lake if I cannot see the bottom.
just imagine you spend your summers swimming in the very lake this was filmed....that was me haha.
That's more like a pond, isn't it?........or a cove, like Woody mentions.
never heard of this one but I am intrigued, thanks for the rec
So glad you covered this. I've been shouting into the void about great this film is for years.
where has this channel been???? I am a horror movie connoisseur so I am always looking for ones I've never seen. Excited for this movie and this channel!
I watched the very end of this on TV at 4 in the morning years ago. Was intrigued, forgot what to was called, so I couldn't find anything about it anywhere. Glad to finally find the title to jog my memory
me, watching Scaredy Cats to escape my current situation and the accompanying intrusive thoughts vs. Mildred: "yeah so Jessica has intrusive thoughts and we're forced to experience them :D :D :D"
I remember seeing this in the late 70's on some local channel in the wee hours of the morning. Very interesting!
This movie is so underrated, it's almost criminal. There are some serious Texas Chain Saw Massacre vibes going on in this, but without the shockingly terrifying parts. You're just waiting for something bad to happen, which is almost worse than watching something bad happen. Such a great psychological horror flick, the kind no one makes anymore.
This is definitely going on my list, thanks for sharing!
This is one of my favorite horror films. You're so right about the type of scary it is. You have to take your time with it and just follow it. It's a lot of atmosphere and character development - as well as unraveling. It's really moody and unsettling, and that scene at the lake where Jessica seems just frozen with fright until her hand is grabbed is downright creepy as hell. I'm glad you reviewed this film, because it really does deserve more credit than it gets.
Great video! This is one of my favorites from the '70s.
Love the videos! I wanted to recommend what I think is the most effective horror comic I've ever encountered. It's called Stagtown (it's hosted on Webtoon) and the artist makes exquisite use of the webtoon form in order to build tension and create sudden release in a way I've never seen in any other comic.
This movie sounds like my exact thing! Thanks so much for the video 😁
To be fair to Bobby, he may be a silly joke you thought up on marijuana edibles, but at least he contains multitudes!
multitudes of cheap gold chains and cellphone minutes
I'm contradicting myself over here!
I’m never gonna not love Bobby Duke, he remains endlessly funny to me for reasons unknown
I saw an edited-for-TV version of this when I was no more than 10 years old, back in the late 70's, on a weekly Saturday-afternoon horror movie broadcast on a local UHF channel, which was a thing that existed back then. Anyway, I haven't seen it since then but I still remember the way this haunting movie stuck with me for many sleepless nights afterward. I need to give it another look.
First and foremost, thank you for making a channel about horror movies that even people who can't really _do_ horror movies can still enjoy.
Also, I'm insanely pleased that somehow Bobby Dukes has become a legitimate channel mascot and now is getting sponsors for, like, games and breakfast cereal.
I need to watch this movie now, damn. It sounds like my fave kind of horror, just eerie and confusing the whole time. Thanks for the video!
I've long been a fan of this movie, and there is a small cult that's at least aware of it. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen probably a little over 10 years ago. I hadn't been aware of it beforehand but, for its budget, the sound design is AMAZING
after watching this video i just went and watched this movie and omg the sound design was incredible, it really got under my skin and created this sense of dread that when combined with the rest of the movie shook me to my core. Anyway yeah, the sound design was absolutly incredible
I love Bobby Duke’s sudden pivot into becoming Columbo and I can’t wait to see more
Dat sponsored content timer. Greatly appreciated. 😍
I saw this theatrically, and was blown away by it.
Fantastic video - as always. I would love to see your take on Tough Guys Don’t Dance
I saw this during its initial run in the seventies, and it has never left me. It is one of the few films I consider scary, genuinely haunting. I also love the time period and the eerie atmosphere. It is a poetic slow burner.
I saw this on TV once. It's really creepy. Were Jessica's friends playing pranks on her or was she hallucinating?
@@ElizabethMccarty-p7n We viewers can never be certain. There are also hints of vampirism, but our heroine is unreliable.
Did the final scenes happen, or is Jessica nuts? We can't be certain.
It's a daring approach to story telling.
If someone told me a year ago, a person who almost never chooses to watch horror movies, that this channel would quickly become one of my favorites, I wouldn’t have believed them. That is, until I got to see the beautiful, wonderful antics of Mildred and Bobby and how awesome horror movies can be when someone talks about them with care. Not a lot of other people doing trigger warnings and choosing not to hang on the gore and brutality of certain movies. It makes me want to watch these movies because I can handle the scares of horror, I just don’t usually want to watch it! Thank you Mildred (and, of course, Mr. Duke) for having opened this genre to me more and more lately.
I'm not so sure those are roosters. Hens also have large combs. A better distinguishing feature is the tail feathers and these birds don't seem to have rooster tail feathers but I can't be sure.
Yeah, they're definitely hens.
They look like my Australorp hens
Yeah, I like the idea that they would be roosters for another inexplicable wrongness, but then they also look like my chickens so that made me happy. :) you can be movie stars, chickens!
Awesome channel!!! I love movies tv anime cartoons old, new. My brain soaks in entertainment. yt channels like yours give me inspiration, glad I found it! Definitely subbing. I wish one day I can do something I love for a living one day!!
I found this movie when I was around 8 or 9 on accident. It was on TV one day randomly and I watched it, I didn't understand it as a kid but when I watched it again as an adult, it scared the crap out of me. The scene of Emily rising from the water in the white dress is terrifying.
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