I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the 'true event' that inspired this movie was the writer got a knock on his door one night, the person asked for someone who didn't live there, he told her she had the wrong house, and she left. That's about it.
reminds me of the episode of spongebob where he keeps trying to water a flower and every time he looks away for even a fraction of a second it becomes eaten
You can be called a professional in a field as long as you have basically 1+ year(s) of formal study or a degree. Especially in the 'arts' (in quotes because a lot of people don't consider things like film making/directing or choreography to be art). The rules are very loose with the term. I have no formal training but because my English/English Comp. grades are so high and I understand what makes a decent film; ie: shot composition, 180 rules, 50/50, even dialogue, etc. I could take a really nice camera, write a script, and make a 'semi professionally filmed' student piece. And I've never taken a film class in my life.
+Jack Petry Yeah but a snuff film is literally not a perfessionally made film. It's a film that doesn't have a script because it's not scripted. It's a film where someone is being actually tortured and murdered on screen. People who would make that don't have their victims act because they're not actors, they're people they kidnapped.
I just love how the director said this movie doesn't have the traditional horror movie cliches, and then proceeds to put in EVERY LAST horror movie cliches in.
Tyler White Haha I know right? Acting like he did something original, when really he got every idea from other horror movies. Example: Killer in white expressionless mask looming ominously in the shadows, watching the character while she is facing the camera: ripped straight from Halloween
They totally avoided the question about what the relationship between the two main characters is and shifted back to how amazing they think this movie was.
"The test audience got angry - they thought it was a snuff film...y'know, except for the presence of editing, the presence of a musical score and heavy sound effects, the fact that there was an end credit sequence and the fact that the IMDB and Wikipedia pages for Liv Tyler both fail to mention that she's dead."
AWA THE BROWN Then the ghost becomes the phone. As in, the only way to make something scary despite there being phone/wifi signal is for the ghost or demon or whatever to go through the signal and scare the protags or distrupt the signal somehow.
@Jessica Pazo I don't find this true at all. She may be going for an ere of creepy, but she comes off annoying as fucking shit to me. This kind of nasal-y, whiny, baby voice makes her sound like a fucking idiot.
I interpreted this movie as "Baby's First Horror Film". Simply generic in all aspects, varieties of cliches included. Why are movie film interviews so disingenuous, too? You can always tell actors don't give a shit about the film by their responses, yet they just brazenly lie. I assume it's contract stipulations, but it's still annoying to see.
What do you expect them to say though?? “This movie is absolute horseshit and you should watch Cloverfield instead”. They’re payed to promote the movie
@@-Lola. I think they're contractually obligated to talk positively about the movie they've worked on. Not to mention, even if they badmouthed their movie studios would never hire them again.
Me: No it didn't. If someone can break into your house without you even hearing it and then sneak outside again just to jumpscare you, you just have terrible security.
The only events that inspired this is that when the director was a kid, some people knocked on doors in his neighborhood asking if someone was there, and if no one answered, they broke in and stole stuff. From theft to trolling murderers, that escalated quickly.
It wouldn’t have made the movie much less cliche for its genre (though part of that might be amplified by how insufferable the writer/director and actors were in their interviews), but yeah, that simple, intuitive change would have helped a _lot._ Not only does it make a hell of a lot more sense, it also makes the killers’ motivation clear and frightening instead of stupid and unclear.
I mean I guess the artsy bs point the writer is trying to push here is that they didn't take all those opportunities to kill the. Cause they couldn't push themselves to actually do it. For whatever reason they couldn't bring themselves to actually kill them till the end. I mean its a really poor justification cause it looks like they're trolling them instead of trying to work up the courage to kill them but I never undated artsy movies anyway.
Is it just me that'd find these things way scarier if they actually got the call off but help wasn't able to get there in time? Or if the main characters were just outsmarted by the bad guys instead of being incompetent?
I'm not trying to defend this movie but if it completely dark outside and there was just a guy in a suit standing in the road I would be shitting my pants
+Riley Simms Something like that happen to me when I was a kid. I was like 12, and my little brother and I were walking in this trailed woods behind our house. We lived out in the sticks, and crime didnt happen often, so kids wandering around at night, wasnt unusual. When we got to this clearing, there was this person with their face covered with a white cloth mask standing on the far side near some trees. When I saw him, i stopped walking.. and just stared. I called out "Hello?" and the person didnt say anything back. Im like.. "We are going home, now." My stupid little brother is like "Why are you scared? I bet its just some of our friends trying to scare us" and starts walking over! The person has an adult shape btw. He starts coming toward us slowly until I scream and grab my brother to run, and he backs off. To this day I wont forget that memory. So yeah, someone just standing there is scary as fuck.
+Riley Simms I usually don't like to apply that kind of logic to horror movies. It takes something especially freaky to make a movie scary, but in real life? Literally *everything* scares the crap out of us. Someone might say, "This movie about a big guy in a white mask stabbing teenagers isn't scary." But in real-life? There is not a single human being alive who would see a big Michael Myers-looking guy marching towards them with a knife and *not* completely soak their pants. Rabid dog? A movie about a rabid dog isn't scary, come on. In real-life? I'd be squealing like a schoolgirl if I saw a rabid dog. That's the thing. We already know going in that horror movies aren't real, so that's why they have to really try. But in real-life, we'd all crap ourselves silly at the mere sight of a knife-wielding maniac in a mask. So yeah, if there was a guy standing out in the road in the dark in front of my house? I'd be sufficiently bothered. In a movie? I fall asleep to that kind of boring crap.
I just love in all your reviews you show these interviews of the actors giving these absolute bullshit interview answers. It's funny how these actors are so good at bullshitting these interviews and making the movie seem like it's deep when it really isn't
Well, it's part of being the industry. Either play the game or you are out. Can be really unpleasant, but if you wanna have a role then you better keep it up.
The test audience thought this was a snuff film? Even though there were multiple camera angles and shots that, in a real snuff film, would've gotten the camera-man killed... This "test audience" must be why Adam Sandler's movies are always successful. You fuc%ing people....
I dont think people who watch movies care jack shit about camera angles and what not...the point that the test audience was making was that the movies story and scare tactics were lame. Also Adam Sandler movies are successful because people who like the strangers are also people dumb enough to like Adam Sandlers toilet humor.
TheVioletfox01 Dont worry there are others who enjoy cinematography. The channel of RedLetter Media is a prime example of this since they gave those recent hobbit movies a pass for the film-making involved despite the story being almost mind numbingly boring. I also do know a film buff who has a hard-on for the amount of camera work they put into films just as much as you would most likely so you are not alone. Just pointing out that the vast majority of people do not go to movies to be impressed at how the film looks like, but more of the substance that is being portrayed in the movie hence why Adam Sandler is still a cash cow despite the atrocity that was Jack and Jill.
Plus an actress who was in fucking "Lord of the Rings", so they definitely would kill her off because she's so famous... Those test audiences were made up.
Hey man, I just wanted to let you know how flat out amazing you are. Your tone is dryer than the Sahara, and yet you still attain a jocular and engaging demeanor for every video. Each review is great, and it is a little saddening to know that you don't have more subs. To me, you topple Nostalgia Critic. Please, never stop making videos. You've been endowed with such a great sense of humor, which reflects in all your work. I wish words could illustrate the degree of enjoyment I feel everytime I watch one of your videos, but they can't. You are so brilliant and so awesome! Thanks for being so resplendent in every way :D
I never said it was the second movie in the series. The only thing the word "sequel" implies is that it isn't the first, and The Strangers 2: Electric Spookaloo certainly won't be the first or even second door-bang-jumpscare fest.
I can't disagree with anything Adam said in this video, yet it still had an effect on me because it happen to prey on one of my biggest fears which is the fact that this trio of psychopaths stalks and mutilates these people for no reason whatsoever, which is a terrifying concept, or as the movie puts it: "Why are you doing this to us?!" "....you were home..."
Same, and it's always a case of the nightmare is scarier than the movie itself. I get HORRIBLE nightmares that can mess me up for weeks on end, so avoiding anything labeled as scary, no matter how stupid it really is, is a must for me
Fun fact: the "true event" this was inspired by was one time when the writer was a kid, someone knocked on the door and asked if someone who didn't live there was home. That's it.
That bald guy interviewing the two main actors was either a huge, blithering, dolt who gets terrified at people just going 'BOO!' over and over, or a huge liar. NOBODY should've been any where near that scared. Or maybe he was trying to make them feel better for being in such a dumb movie...
Interviewers always lie. Would you get more answers from a person by saying "I loved your work, it really had an affect on me" or "This was the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Tell me about it?"
SPOILER ALERT Actually someone seems to survive at the end of this idiocy. Of course, it's the girl, as clichè would want, despite her being the worst character in the movie.
If there is a sequel can it be the surviving woman stalking the strangers or maybe the family is stocking another family and the survivor from the first one comes into the scene wearing the little girl's mask. She could stalk the strangers and kill them for revenge. To be honest the idea for a sequel isn't bad if they go with that kind of motive and it would be funny to see both the original characters and the lady out for revenge stalking each other.
getting kinda sick of seeing interviewers kissing ass to the actors acting like these movies were good " oh my god this movie was soooo scary i couldnt handle" while every normal person is like :/
Honestly, I just want one of those guys to just go "a lot of people, myself included, think this movie is terrible. What's your honest opinion about it?" It'd never happen, and it'd be kind of a dick move to put the actors in that position, but how awesome would that be?
When I was in highschool my girlfriend said we had to go to the theater to see the scariest movie she had ever seen. It was Resident Evil. Great comedy.
+Hew Man I literally just watched this for the first time a little over a month ago, because I had heard good things about it. I couldn't believe how bland and cliche it was!
I find it kinda sad every time I see these actors talk about certain elements in the movie being great when they weren't. I can't tell if they're completely oblivious to the movie's flaws or if they are just being paid extra for saying everything about the movie is great.
Doing promos is sadly just a part of the industry. Sometimes studios spend ridiculous amounts of money on shit movies, and an actor saying just how shit the movie is would hurt their chances of recouping their investment. It's kind of a job security thing for the actors.
+Mad Yak Also, studios wouldn't hire an actor if that actor has a history of bad-mouthing a movie they worked on. Not to mention there's usually a line in their contracts that forbids them from speaking negatively about a movie before it's release.
I find it so annoying when the cast of a film is praising it as if it's the best movie in the genre, especially when the movie is as shitty as this one. Who the fuck can't go home after watching this pile of cliches? It can even be considered comedy because most of the time you're like "nah, it can't happen again, there must be at least a tiny bit of creativity in this movie" and then it happens again, which is funny (exactly what you don't want in a fucking horror film). How can you be so calm when reviewing this crap.
SomeNerdYouDon'tKnow Yea but I mean that's like going on television and saying that the moon is a grey porno DVD inhabited by dinosaurs. Fucking ridiculous.
I don't know why people bother watching these cast interviews, I find them...cringy...for the lack of a better word. I just feel weird watching the actor talk about the movie when I know both them and the interviewer are going to praise it no matter what (the first for being bound by contract and the latter because otherwise he won't be allowed future interviews by the studio), and even when the movie is actually good it still doesn't add any interesting information, it's the same generic questions every time.
What the fuck? Who called this a snuff film? What because people (eventually) get killed in it? It would be more accurate to call the Saw sequels snuff films.
lasoogneypubes wait but at the end the womans clearly not dead so wtf??? she saw the 3 faces so she could easily get them arrested their is evidence and the ending is so stupid...im getting cancer just thinking about it...
+lasoogneypubes Exactly, though the Saw films wouldn't be snuff films either, they are at least better examples. Technically, something is only considered a snuff film if it is made with the intent to make a profit (so like a porn video), it also generally involves the torture/rape/whatever the hell else of the person in the video. This movie had basically none of that, Saw at least had some. Only film I can really think of that could be called a snuff film is A Serbian Film. That's mainly because the plot of that movie is the main character is secretly hired to be the star in a snuff film. That's a pretty fucked up movie btw but it wasn't necessarily a bad movie.
It is a Snuff film if it depict a a real murder, with the real death of the comedian. The Serbian film would be a movie about snuff movies. Like the one with that Canadian killing a boy on camera.
sidney boesch Well I meant A Serbian Film depicts it, course it wasn't real. Was that last bit a reference to Luke Magnotta at all? Seems like it might have been.
I wonder why no one ever makes a horror movie with Amish people, they don't use technology, they life in farm lands, they don't have anything horror movies use as an excuse for why they can't do anything
This movie scared me for like, a minute when I saw it. Then I realized my ass would be safe because I never answer the door late at night/for people I don't know, so they wouldn't know I was home.
"The audience thought it was a snuff film." NO THEY DIDN'T! No they fucking didn't! This isn't even like 'Blair Witch' or 'Paranormal Activity' where it's a movie, but you could see how someone stupid enough could believe it was real footage. No, it's not even that. NO ONE mistook what is clearly a movie for anything other than a movie. I heard this was 'inspired by' a true story and that always makes me think 'not really a true story' but this was so far removed from reality it made me angry. At the time this movie was released, if you tried to look up the 'true story', what you got was movie propaganda and a whole fake mythology about the 'true story' it was based off of. The actual 'true story' is so completely underwhelming that it's actually kind of amazing they could spin it into a full movie. It's like if I make a whole movie out of the time my banana sticker tore in half once.
"I can't use this thing, I don't even know how to load it." Jesus Christ it's a shotgun not a particle cannon, it's literally one of the easiest firearms in existence to use.
My friend recommended this movie the other day saying how we HAVE to watch it on Halloween. We ended up having a get together and watched this cause he explained “my aunt saw this in theaters and ever since she doesn’t watch horror movies cause they’re too scary” so I was hyped hoping for something good, I kept waiting and waiting and waiting thinking it was gonna eventually become scary yet never did. The whole time I was laughing and smiling. Found it ridiculous in every sense of the word. Afterwards he told me he thought it was scary af and I couldn’t believe him. Lot of things I didn’t like, for example they give you the ending right in the beginning of the movie so you have no reason to really care since you know the outcome. You have no attachment to the characters cause you don’t get any sorta character development other than “he proposed and she said no”. How they’re able to say “this is a true story” without even being able to justify/know exactly what happened and are able to embellish heavily. Also how “fast” the kill was with a quick *stab stab* that’s it? All that build up for that? “People thought it was a snuff film”. Who tf are these people, Happy Madison viewers? People who call regular horror movies snuff films annoy tf outta me since they don’t really get what that means. This video is 11 years old and yet every piece of criticism is STILL justified and right on the money. I had to find some sorta video or something that shared my feelings just so I knew I wasn’t the only one that thought this movie sucked.
whenever you show clips of the interviews i feel like they're just bullshitting some sort of answer for the questions like you do on an essay for school
Pizza Shark I'm pretty sure she's contractually obligated to promote this movie, whether it's shitty or not and she has to come up with something, even if it sounds vapid and empty
My candy bar wrapper just started moving on it's own. Thankfully this film wasn't the least bit scary. Otherwise, I would've needed a new pair of pants right now.
Despite loving this review, I actually still really like The Strangers. It creeps me out, but it's one glaring problem for me is the 'disbelieving boyfriend' cliche. For once, just have him believe the woman and get the fuck out.
Just watched "The Purge" and wanted to see if you have done a YMS review on it. I felt the same way about "The Purge" as I did with this one. So stupid.
Lol, thanks. Yeah, I knew it was gonna be bad. Friends said it was, but it was free so figured I might as well see why it sucks. Can't hate something unless you understand why. Certainly wasn't the worst movie I've seen, not enough to justify not finishing it, but it was beyond stupid with the whole premise. Right off the bat I was telling my friend watching it with me it doesn't make sense. How the government would come to that and no one would stop it. It's logic is that it's the one day for everyone to let out all their rage and it somehow lowered crime. Criminals don't obey laws, most crimes/murders are done in the heat of the moment, there's no controlling that. You wouldn't have criminals saying, oh ok, I'm gonna stop breaking the law because the government is gonna reward me with criminal's Christmas. If I was a good little criminal and didn't break the law all year I get to have all night to do whatever I wanted. Sorry, yeah, now that I'm talking about it it's pissing me off again.
The thing is that everybody knows The Purge is bad. But people actually tried to pretend The Strangers was a good movie. It made top X of X lists, etc. I've heard people compare it to Ils! Fucking Ils. Seriously.
ParaVet I actually thought the premise for The Purge was cool. While entirely stupid, it was at least original and gave a lot of opportunity for what they could of done with it. The reason I was completely let down by it is because they took a promising premise and made it into a mediocre as shit home invasion movie.
I watched this movie because it was on one of those "movies you have to watch before you die" list and I just fell asleep in the first half an hour. NOTHING HAPPENS.
This movie would have been great if they went with the concept of the characters unknowingly killing each other. Have it set up where you have five or six people in the house, and these freaky fuckers in the masks are trolling them. Have it set up where the antagonists want to get this group of people to kill each other. Make it like a psychological thriller. Maybe the freaky fuckers in the masks are just illusions and thats what starts the mental breakdown of the characters and drives them insane and makes them paranoid. Make the characters and the audience question the reality of the movie. Did one one of the people in the house kill someone or did the freaky fucker in the mask kill someone.
Plus, his friend who he shoots with the shotgun is Glenn Howerton from Always Sunny, which is more distracting than it is awesome. Though it's good to know Dennis is getting outside work.
I mean... To be fair, repeating a scare like the bang at the door, followed by that girl asking if whoever-the-fuck is there, can really work as a scare that builds up, making the main character more tense and nervous as it keeps happening, until she eventually snaps and screams at them to go away... Probably followed by an eerie quiet and no response for a while, then, a calm and quiet "... Okay." And then, silence... Probably followed by the door breaking down and all hell breaking loose as a cheap way to fuck with the audience after they've calmed down. Fuck, I think I accidentally made a better movie than these guys. Sorry, my bad.
I think that sounds like a much better movie than this. Also instead of a shit ton of jumpscares, remove all the "omg there's a bang on the door" jumpscares and just build tension the whole time. Have this tense, quiet, creepy atmosphere of no one at the door and the lady feeling that she's being watch. Finally pull one single jumpscare when they break down the door and chase the couple around. That would make this movie creepier and have a more effective/less annoying jumpscare.
Their friend is Denis from always sunny in Philadelphia! only amusing thing in the movie 10/10 .....Also missed opportunity for an always sunny in Philadelphia reference 0/10 YMS
Not only did they not see the phone in the fire, but they apparently also couldn't detect the wonderful odor of burning plastic
THEN WHO WAS PHONE
Kym M MURDER WAS PHONE!
DefinitelyNotYakra good point👌
plus wouldn't the battery explode? or at least flare up?
When you spend all day huffing fumes, you kinda get used to it.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the 'true event' that inspired this movie was the writer got a knock on his door one night, the person asked for someone who didn't live there, he told her she had the wrong house, and she left. That's about it.
oh my god! there's a bang at the door!
The people who knocked in their door were serial killers that killed numerous people in the same fashion
dang it
Sabbat-X knock knock Jehovah's Witness
DuncVader Citation?
ohmygodtheresabangatthedoor
Unsubscribe_To_Me_Thanks stfu and finish showering, you smell
+I MAKE SHIT LOUD Where is this from?
I MAKE SHIT LOUD I still laugh at it no matter what to this day.
Isn't it "Oh my God there's a banging at the door"?
*bangin'
Movie in a nutshell:HE JUST STANDING THERE. MENACINGLY.
ゴゴゴゴ.....
It's diooo
@@granite8236 NANI !
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But it was me, [DATA EXPUNGED]!
@@HE13272326 *ZA WARUDO!!!*
Oh man a sequel. I wonder how many bangs there will be at the door.
OVER 900-wait....that meme is dead...
Mohammad Abdullah That meme will never die.
***** i know right!
ThePhoenixMeifwa true.
ohmygodtheresabangatthedoor :0
So it's a movie about a couple getting attacked by Slipknot.
that could actually be entertaining
No, that would be too entertaining.
+Mihir Lavande I could imagine Corey chasing the woman near the end of the movie when all hell has broken lose yelling "PEOPLE EQUALS SHIT"
I thought that was the movie where Ethan Hawke watches those old movies, cause he's a true crime writer or something.
I thought that was the movie where Ethan Hawke watches those old movies, cause he's a true crime writer or something.
reminds me of the episode of spongebob where he keeps trying to water a flower and every time he looks away for even a fraction of a second it becomes eaten
Such a good episode.
I love that episode! That was the one with the seahorse.
Mysteryyyy
Weeesnaw!
Blackie Sootfur there was also this episode were the bus only comes when he’s looking away not the same thing but close enough
"The Gang Accidentally Shoots Dennis" is my least favourite It's Always Sunny episode.
Charlie's revenge.
he failed the DENNIS system
“Frank….put the gun down.”
"They thought it was a snuff film"
Really? The professionally filmed and edited feature length movie?
No they fucking didn't...
It was definitely NOT a midnight movie.
If they enjoyed the film, they're probably too naive to understand that a snuff film wouldn't have a lot of money put into it.
"professionally filmed"
lolwut
You can be called a professional in a field as long as you have basically 1+ year(s) of formal study or a degree. Especially in the 'arts' (in quotes because a lot of people don't consider things like film making/directing or choreography to be art). The rules are very loose with the term. I have no formal training but because my English/English Comp. grades are so high and I understand what makes a decent film; ie: shot composition, 180 rules, 50/50, even dialogue, etc. I could take a really nice camera, write a script, and make a 'semi professionally filmed' student piece. And I've never taken a film class in my life.
+Jack Petry
Yeah but a snuff film is literally not a perfessionally made film. It's a film that doesn't have a script because it's not scripted. It's a film where someone is being actually tortured and murdered on screen. People who would make that don't have their victims act because they're not actors, they're people they kidnapped.
I just love how the director said this movie doesn't have the traditional horror movie cliches, and then proceeds to put in EVERY LAST horror movie cliches in.
Tyler White Haha I know right? Acting like he did something original, when really he got every idea from other horror movies. Example: Killer in white expressionless mask looming ominously in the shadows, watching the character while she is facing the camera: ripped straight from Halloween
Well the black person didn't die so credit where it is due.
Oh, right
"People thought it was a snuff film."
No they didn't Liv Tyler. No they didn't.
They meant they saw her career die on screen. It was that kind of snuff film
@@ge2719 Nah, she was just busy having kids. She was in the Leftovers more recently.
@@vanyadolly it was a joke
Fucking what!?
How the hell is even kind of like a snuff film?
Snuff films have better lighting
They totally avoided the question about what the relationship between the two main characters is and shifted back to how amazing they think this movie was.
"The test audience got angry - they thought it was a snuff film...y'know, except for the presence of editing, the presence of a musical score and heavy sound effects, the fact that there was an end credit sequence and the fact that the IMDB and Wikipedia pages for Liv Tyler both fail to mention that she's dead."
I'm just replying so you can see how much likes you got
@@afellowpotato Oh wow, thanks! I actually had no idea anyone even noticed my comment! I actually forgot I even wrote it!
Where and how can I make "OMG THERE'S A BANG AT THE DOOR!!!" My phone notification noise?
here it is converted to a mp3:
www.filehosting.org/file/details/601093/Unknown%20-%20Oh%20My%20God%20Theres%20a%20Bang%20at%20the%20Door.mp3
Dank you, hopefully it's loud enough for my POS phone.
The mp3 link doesn't work anymore?
Ian Jordaan FUCK me!, I wanted to used it as my text notification ring
Ian Jordaan FUCK me!, I wanted to used it as my text notification ring
What happens when cell phone tech reaches the point where there's signal everywhere
AWA THE BROWN Well, the phone is dead then...
no one will ever die again
AWA THE BROWN Then the ghost becomes the phone.
As in, the only way to make something scary despite there being phone/wifi signal is for the ghost or demon or whatever to go through the signal and scare the protags or distrupt the signal somehow.
+Dawn Darrell Samaitha that reminds me of a Stephen King book...
LizzieShiro Is it the one that anyone who uses their cell phones become a zombie or something?
why does the lead girl talk like she's on 60 kinds of elephant tranquilizers
Maybe she is.
She’s actually on 70 different elephant tranquilizers.
You mean Liv Tyler
@Jessica Pazo I don't find this true at all. She may be going for an ere of creepy, but she comes off annoying as fucking shit to me. This kind of nasal-y, whiny, baby voice makes her sound like a fucking idiot.
@Jessica Pazo I think they meant Liv Tyler, the lead girl, not the lead antagonist.
im laughing at the guy in the shower so hard
I laughing at you icon m8 and that shower!! XD
***** then i run in with a butter knife
***** Stab Stab
***** LOL
He showed more emotion than the movie couple xD
If the actors couldn't even explain the relationship between the characters they played, then there's a problem.
I'm just replying so you can see how much likes you got
I interpreted this movie as "Baby's First Horror Film". Simply generic in all aspects, varieties of cliches included.
Why are movie film interviews so disingenuous, too? You can always tell actors don't give a shit about the film by their responses, yet they just brazenly lie. I assume it's contract stipulations, but it's still annoying to see.
What do you expect them to say though?? “This movie is absolute horseshit and you should watch Cloverfield instead”. They’re payed to promote the movie
@@-Lola. I think they're contractually obligated to talk positively about the movie they've worked on. Not to mention, even if they badmouthed their movie studios would never hire them again.
@@muhammadeisa1459 I know, that’s what I said
@@-Lola. I think you said they're paid to promote the movie. That's not what I said. But apart from that, sentiment's the same.
"This film did to your house what JAWS did to the ocean."
Rural houses
Me: No it didn't. If someone can break into your house without you even hearing it and then sneak outside again just to jumpscare you, you just have terrible security.
The only events that inspired this is that when the director was a kid, some people knocked on doors in his neighborhood asking if someone was there, and if no one answered, they broke in and stole stuff.
From theft to trolling murderers, that escalated quickly.
They’re kind of the opposite. The real strangers broke in if you were NOT home, and in the movie they only break in because they ARE home.
"They thought it was a Snuff film"
What.
what about all the. completely fucking mundane scenes like was the snuff filmer just lurking in their car and shit to get this expositon
I think they didn't understand what "based on true events" meant and then ignored the random noises and idiocy of everyone involved.
killanzuxxu They thought it was a snuff film...said no one ever.
Zuxxu the
The Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Even the most severe autistic kids I know wouldn't fall for this
Dear Lord where do you get all these cringey interviews from
I don't think this director understands what the term 'horror movie cliches' even means. That or he did his interview on opposite day.
When I was little my dad would jump around corners and scare me with the guys mask on. That was scarier than this movie.
My father used to do the same thing, actually.
The scariest thing my dad left me and my family
Oh mah god there's a banging at the door
Take a shot for every time you
+Trevor Smith hear that
+Trevor Smith
why are you
+JJAB91
commenting like
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this?
I guess Dennis also brings girls out to that cabin. That way they won't say "no". Because of the implication.
awesome refere
+Pro4dayz is pro nce
+Rabid Rabbit Rabbi "Ahh there's nowhere for me to run what am I going to do, say no?"
Mike this comment needs more likes
Mike the sequel should've had Danny Devito be the friend who comes in to get friendly fired, just so he can say "IM GUNNA WHIP DIS BITCH IN THE FACE!"
This entire movie could have been justified if the line at the end was something like: "That was fun." instead of "Next time it'll be easier."
AnimalCreation(Ace) Oh my god! It just occurred to me that you're totally right! It would have justified at least 50% of the film!
It wouldn’t have made the movie much less cliche for its genre (though part of that might be amplified by how insufferable the writer/director and actors were in their interviews), but yeah, that simple, intuitive change would have helped a _lot._ Not only does it make a hell of a lot more sense, it also makes the killers’ motivation clear and frightening instead of stupid and unclear.
I mean I guess the artsy bs point the writer is trying to push here is that they didn't take all those opportunities to kill the. Cause they couldn't push themselves to actually do it. For whatever reason they couldn't bring themselves to actually kill them till the end. I mean its a really poor justification cause it looks like they're trolling them instead of trying to work up the courage to kill them but I never undated artsy movies anyway.
It would especially fit with the tagline “because you were here” and the idea that that’s the only reason they did it, because they could do it.
The Stranger is my favorite Billy Joel album.
Roundabout Innocent Man, brah.
Roundabout S P E E D W A G O N
There's a starman waiting in the sky Om my God, there's a Billy in my Joel
Is it just me that'd find these things way scarier if they actually got the call off but help wasn't able to get there in time? Or if the main characters were just outsmarted by the bad guys instead of being incompetent?
My God, how high was Liv Tyler in that interview?
That's what I think ever time I see her act.
Lol but that's just how she sounds. She's like that in the LotR behind the scenes too and that was 15 years ago
Stephen Carroll lol I don't think I've ever seen her sober
High as a kite
I was gonna say just that! Like, Christ, she sounds more stoned than a hippie at Woodstock.
I'm not trying to defend this movie but if it completely dark outside and there was just a guy in a suit standing in the road I would be shitting my pants
+Riley Simms Something like that happen to me when I was a kid. I was like 12, and my little brother and I were walking in this trailed woods behind our house. We lived out in the sticks, and crime didnt happen often, so kids wandering around at night, wasnt unusual.
When we got to this clearing, there was this person with their face covered with a white cloth mask standing on the far side near some trees. When I saw him, i stopped walking.. and just stared. I called out "Hello?" and the person didnt say anything back. Im like.. "We are going home, now." My stupid little brother is like "Why are you scared? I bet its just some of our friends trying to scare us" and starts walking over! The person has an adult shape btw. He starts coming toward us slowly until I scream and grab my brother to run, and he backs off.
To this day I wont forget that memory. So yeah, someone just standing there is scary as fuck.
+Riley Simms I usually don't like to apply that kind of logic to horror movies. It takes something especially freaky to make a movie scary, but in real life? Literally *everything* scares the crap out of us. Someone might say, "This movie about a big guy in a white mask stabbing teenagers isn't scary." But in real-life? There is not a single human being alive who would see a big Michael Myers-looking guy marching towards them with a knife and *not* completely soak their pants. Rabid dog? A movie about a rabid dog isn't scary, come on. In real-life? I'd be squealing like a schoolgirl if I saw a rabid dog.
That's the thing. We already know going in that horror movies aren't real, so that's why they have to really try. But in real-life, we'd all crap ourselves silly at the mere sight of a knife-wielding maniac in a mask. So yeah, if there was a guy standing out in the road in the dark in front of my house? I'd be sufficiently bothered. In a movie? I fall asleep to that kind of boring crap.
OckhamAsylum This is a very good point.
+Riley Simms I wouldn't you know why? I WOULD BE THE ONE STANDING THERE!! Muha haha haa!!
Pete Crusher Oh but I shall magically disappear from sight despite not having supernatural powers.
I need you to use "oh man it's a bang at the door" more often. I unironically snerked at it every time.
The “true story” premise is literally derived from a story about someone knocking on someone’s door to see if they’re home so they can rob them.
I just love in all your reviews you show these interviews of the actors giving these absolute bullshit interview answers. It's funny how these actors are so good at bullshitting these interviews and making the movie seem like it's deep when it really isn't
you should see miles teller in interviews about fant4stic, he cut the bullshit and just said the movie is shit
@Muricadoxial link that shit :P
Well, it's part of being the industry. Either play the game or you are out. Can be really unpleasant, but if you wanna have a role then you better keep it up.
They're paid to promote it. Then when the contract expires they can do whatever. See: Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, World War Z, etc
Nekomomo I know im a little late to reply, but here's another great example: ua-cam.com/video/pG9l5xFInYM/v-deo.html
The test audience thought this was a snuff film? Even though there were multiple camera angles and shots that, in a real snuff film, would've gotten the camera-man killed... This "test audience" must be why Adam Sandler's movies are always successful. You fuc%ing people....
fucking*
I dont think people who watch movies care jack shit about camera angles and what not...the point that the test audience was making was that the movies story and scare tactics were lame. Also Adam Sandler movies are successful because people who like the strangers are also people dumb enough to like Adam Sandlers toilet humor.
Damion176
;__; I feel like an alien sometimes... maybe I can pretend I'm Swiss? You think people will buy it?
TheVioletfox01
Dont worry there are others who enjoy cinematography. The channel of RedLetter Media is a prime example of this since they gave those recent hobbit movies a pass for the film-making involved despite the story being almost mind numbingly boring. I also do know a film buff who has a hard-on for the amount of camera work they put into films just as much as you would most likely so you are not alone. Just pointing out that the vast majority of people do not go to movies to be impressed at how the film looks like, but more of the substance that is being portrayed in the movie hence why Adam Sandler is still a cash cow despite the atrocity that was Jack and Jill.
Plus an actress who was in fucking "Lord of the Rings", so they definitely would kill her off because she's so famous...
Those test audiences were made up.
Hey man, I just wanted to let you know how flat out amazing you are. Your tone is dryer than the Sahara, and yet you still attain a jocular and engaging demeanor for every video. Each review is great, and it is a little saddening to know that you don't have more subs. To me, you topple Nostalgia Critic. Please, never stop making videos. You've been endowed with such a great sense of humor, which reflects in all your work. I wish words could illustrate the degree of enjoyment I feel everytime I watch one of your videos, but they can't. You are so brilliant and so awesome! Thanks for being so resplendent in every way :D
Same.
k
Who the fuck replies to a comment just to say "yeah" or "k". Annoying dickholes, that's who.
MrPartySack lol it's OK. This guy has gone too far into ignorance and pretentiousness that not even Cool Cat can save him (rip Daddy Derek)
Matt Smith He's with Daddy Derek now.
My favourite review title for this movie on IMBD has got to be: "Almost less boring than staring at a blank wall..."
"He's just standing there......
MENACINGLY!!!!"
I love the o my god there's a bang at the door laughed every time...
Apparently the sequel's supposed to come out December 2, so get hype for Banging at the Door: The *Jumpscare Noise*-quel.
oh my god theres a bang at the door
+Person Man Except now there's two bangings at the door **M. Night Shyamalan intensifies**
BANGING AT THE DOOR!!! HIDE!!! ITS THE JAHOVAS WITNESSES!!
I never said it was the second movie in the series. The only thing the word "sequel" implies is that it isn't the first, and The Strangers 2: Electric Spookaloo certainly won't be the first or even second door-bang-jumpscare fest.
Oh god there's gonna be a sequel? Ugggggggggggggggg :(
I can't disagree with anything Adam said in this video, yet it still had an effect on me because it happen to prey on one of my biggest fears which is the fact that this trio of psychopaths stalks and mutilates these people for no reason whatsoever, which is a terrifying concept, or as the movie puts it:
"Why are you doing this to us?!"
"....you were home..."
Japeth321 Plot twist: they're both actually Tamara and that's why they were killed. For being lying cunts.
Xenopuppy Movies
Who's Tamara?
Taluna E. When the killer asks if someone’s in the house, she asks if Tamara’s in.
Xenopuppy Movies
Oh, thanks. Guess I didn't notice that part.
Japeth321 That is a weirdly specific fear.
I don't watch horror movies because no matter how stupid, irrational and not scary they are, I ALWAYS get nightmares.
Same, and it's always a case of the nightmare is scarier than the movie itself. I get HORRIBLE nightmares that can mess me up for weeks on end, so avoiding anything labeled as scary, no matter how stupid it really is, is a must for me
Lucky you. I wish I could have as many nightmares as the amount of horror I watch.
Trust me, it's not the scary but fun kind of fright. It's the HOLY SHIT I DON'T EVER WANT TO HAVE THIS SHIT AGAIN.
I befriend my nightmares and feed them chocolate bars. Then I use them as a nightmare jammer.
Genius
Fun fact: the "true event" this was inspired by was one time when the writer was a kid, someone knocked on the door and asked if someone who didn't live there was home. That's it.
I've seen jpeg's scarier than this whole movie
SKM gold
They break the rules of conventional horror by not being horror at all.
To be fair, most horror already does that.
probablynotsatanic66 That's why I don't think the horror genre really exists outside of niche indie movies.
I'm glad you take all the extra effort to show interviews and how much crap the people involved are making up about the movie.
That bald guy interviewing the two main actors was either a huge, blithering, dolt who gets terrified at people just going 'BOO!' over and over, or a huge liar.
NOBODY should've been any where near that scared.
Or maybe he was trying to make them feel better for being in such a dumb movie...
Interviewers always lie. Would you get more answers from a person by saying "I loved your work, it really had an affect on me" or "This was the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Tell me about it?"
It's called advertising.
The way the actors were looking at him was like "Are you fucking kidding me?". I think they even knew the movie wasn't that scary.
AnEpilepticsVlog Acting is a business first. They all knew it was bullshit.
Joe Jr. makes sense
Liv Tyler's voice annoys the hell outta me
Really? I could go to sleep with it
+DomnoSaur Yeah she should do ASMR.
she sounds like she's got an eternally dry throat
She sounds like the typical dumb hot chick that gets emotional way too easy with everything
10 years later and "OH MY GOD THERES A BANG AT THE DOOR" is still funny
I wonder if the real killers see this and are like "This is so inaccurate."
What if the guy doing the review is the killer, and he's criticizing the video so much because it's inaccurate
M. Night Shyamalan wishes he had come up with that twist.
HE KILLED DENNIS
+Jimmy Ludwikoski You can't kill Dennis
He is a legend
+Jimmy Ludwikoski I keep seeing you ;-;
+Harry S. Plinkett •^•
they killed him, you know, because of the implication
don't worry,he's dreaming of Jackie denardo now.
Omg, that girl in the interview didn't even say anything. She was just avoiding the questions and going in circles.
Like Miss South Carolina
I'd give her the benefit of the doubt and just say there was no content she COULD fill the answer with. It was an empty movie.
It's really the interview where I believe actors show their true talents. I mean her dodging the questions was better acting than the movie itself.
Ironically her dad is Steven Tyler lols
Lgg130 i don't remember i wrote that 23 weeks ago lols how can i remember
8:21 Thats not a random friend, it’s Dennis. Now, I’m definitely scared
The trollface paired with the distorted static-y audio aged significantly different 10 years later
SPOILER ALERT
Actually someone seems to survive at the end of this idiocy.
Of course, it's the girl, as clichè would want, despite her being the worst character in the movie.
+Gregory House The virgin always survives OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
If there is a sequel can it be the surviving woman stalking the strangers or maybe the family is stocking another family and the survivor from the first one comes into the scene wearing the little girl's mask. She could stalk the strangers and kill them for revenge.
To be honest the idea for a sequel isn't bad if they go with that kind of motive and it would be funny to see both the original characters and the lady out for revenge stalking each other.
+skulldoxbox2 I'd watch that
+Gregory House The worst character of all two characters in the movie.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you.
MelancholyRose Three.
getting kinda sick of seeing interviewers kissing ass to the actors acting like these movies were good
" oh my god this movie was soooo scary i couldnt handle"
while every normal person is like :/
luv u, gecko
Oh hi Gecko, fancy seeing you here ^_^
Honestly, I just want one of those guys to just go "a lot of people, myself included, think this movie is terrible. What's your honest opinion about it?" It'd never happen, and it'd be kind of a dick move to put the actors in that position, but how awesome would that be?
My friend showed me this film saying it was one of the scariest things he's ever seen and I laughed the whole way through it was so shitty
I bet your face looked like your profile pic
+Nadir Lebza and I say said
When I was in highschool my girlfriend said we had to go to the theater to see the scariest movie she had ever seen.
It was Resident Evil. Great comedy.
My older brother did the same thing to me. I've been bullshitting him about finding it as good as he does.
+Hew Man
I literally just watched this for the first time a little over a month ago, because I had heard good things about it. I couldn't believe how bland and cliche it was!
The actress seemed like she chugged a bottle of Tylenol PM before the interview
Liv Tyler is like that in everything
I find it kinda sad every time I see these actors talk about certain elements in the movie being great when they weren't. I can't tell if they're completely oblivious to the movie's flaws or if they are just being paid extra for saying everything about the movie is great.
It's possible. It;s kinda sad, because then there's nothing good to say at all. At the same time, the actors wont just say, "Eh, that part's okay".
Doing promos is sadly just a part of the industry. Sometimes studios spend ridiculous amounts of money on shit movies, and an actor saying just how shit the movie is would hurt their chances of recouping their investment. It's kind of a job security thing for the actors.
Alexander Freeman That's pretty lame, but it makes sense. Nobody would go see a movie when the actors tell you how bad it is.
+Mad Yak Also, studios wouldn't hire an actor if that actor has a history of bad-mouthing a movie they worked on. Not to mention there's usually a line in their contracts that forbids them from speaking negatively about a movie before it's release.
Jason I seriously feel bad for them.
THERE'S A BANG AT THE DOOR
OH MY GOD!
"he decides that hiding in the closet isn't the best way to live" *cuts to collage of tom cruise*
+steel floyd At least the actor came out though
That's such a beautifully thought out joke
most of the comments are "Oh my god there's a bang at the door."
I find it so annoying when the cast of a film is praising it as if it's the best movie in the genre, especially when the movie is as shitty as this one. Who the fuck can't go home after watching this pile of cliches? It can even be considered comedy because most of the time you're like "nah, it can't happen again, there must be at least a tiny bit of creativity in this movie" and then it happens again, which is funny (exactly what you don't want in a fucking horror film).
How can you be so calm when reviewing this crap.
money.
SomeNerdYouDon'tKnow Yea but I mean that's like going on television and saying that the moon is a grey porno DVD inhabited by dinosaurs. Fucking ridiculous.
Dramawind If you're honest you could end up blacklisted and unable to find many roles
I don't know why people bother watching these cast interviews, I find them...cringy...for the lack of a better word. I just feel weird watching the actor talk about the movie when I know both them and the interviewer are going to praise it no matter what (the first for being bound by contract and the latter because otherwise he won't be allowed future interviews by the studio), and even when the movie is actually good it still doesn't add any interesting information, it's the same generic questions every time.
That's kinda their job. It's act in a movie, and promote it to get paid
Had a great laugh every time you put the "There's a knock at the door" bit in.
"Our time on this earth is short, you know?"
Yeah, so remember kids, don't waste it watching the sequel.
#2spooked2drive
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+An Abra
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+Deviant Productions THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD
was Denis from its always sunny in this movie?
yup
+When The Music's Over whic character?
the friend who shows up that the main guy accidentally shoots in the head
Adam Altman yep his the randy that gets a shotgun to the face
He's been shot in the head in this and Crank 2 as well, both excellent comedy movies
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS VIDEO FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS! God bless you, YMS
Oh my god there's a bang at the doorrrr
Oh my god, there's a bang at the door!
***** Oh my god, the door is being banged!
oh my god, the door over there is being banged by some one.
Christian Summerhalder Oh my door, there was a god at the bang!
Oh my door, the god is being banged!
Oh My God, Theres a gangbang, at the door!
What video was the "There's a bang at the door." from?
You are always spot on about these movies....
Oh my god there's a bang from 2022
OH MY GOD THERES A BANG AT THE DOOR XD lol
evilsupernintendo84 Funniest comment ever.
Oh my god, there's a bang at the door!
You guys are fucking lam-OH MY GOD THERE'S A BANG AT THE DOOR!
Oh my god
There's a bang...
At the door
+ConnorMcHughProductions
surely that line is above shakespeare level....
+evilsupernintendo84 Fucking love FND films
What the fuck? Who called this a snuff film? What because people (eventually) get killed in it? It would be more accurate to call the Saw sequels snuff films.
lasoogneypubes wait but at the end the womans clearly not dead so wtf??? she saw the 3 faces so she could easily get them arrested their is evidence and the ending is so stupid...im getting cancer just thinking about it...
+razkable As you can see after the film in the promotional interview she is dead inside so it's kinda the same I guess...
+lasoogneypubes Exactly, though the Saw films wouldn't be snuff films either, they are at least better examples. Technically, something is only considered a snuff film if it is made with the intent to make a profit (so like a porn video), it also generally involves the torture/rape/whatever the hell else of the person in the video. This movie had basically none of that, Saw at least had some. Only film I can really think of that could be called a snuff film is A Serbian Film. That's mainly because the plot of that movie is the main character is secretly hired to be the star in a snuff film. That's a pretty fucked up movie btw but it wasn't necessarily a bad movie.
It is a Snuff film if it depict a a real murder, with the real death of the comedian. The Serbian film would be a movie about snuff movies. Like the one with that Canadian killing a boy on camera.
sidney boesch Well I meant A Serbian Film depicts it, course it wasn't real. Was that last bit a reference to Luke Magnotta at all? Seems like it might have been.
fucking lost it at "Detroit, Bitch"
I wonder why no one ever makes a horror movie with Amish people, they don't use technology, they life in farm lands, they don't have anything horror movies use as an excuse for why they can't do anything
The closest thing we have to that is The Witch.
@@jonathansefcik473 that ones ok
Deadly Blessing
This movie scared me for like, a minute when I saw it. Then I realized my ass would be safe because I never answer the door late at night/for people I don't know, so they wouldn't know I was home.
"The audience thought it was a snuff film."
NO THEY DIDN'T! No they fucking didn't!
This isn't even like 'Blair Witch' or 'Paranormal Activity' where it's a movie, but you could see how someone stupid enough could believe it was real footage. No, it's not even that. NO ONE mistook what is clearly a movie for anything other than a movie.
I heard this was 'inspired by' a true story and that always makes me think 'not really a true story' but this was so far removed from reality it made me angry. At the time this movie was released, if you tried to look up the 'true story', what you got was movie propaganda and a whole fake mythology about the 'true story' it was based off of. The actual 'true story' is so completely underwhelming that it's actually kind of amazing they could spin it into a full movie. It's like if I make a whole movie out of the time my banana sticker tore in half once.
If there's anything good that came from this movie, it was this video.
"I can't use this thing, I don't even know how to load it."
Jesus Christ it's a shotgun not a particle cannon, it's literally one of the easiest firearms in existence to use.
TBH I imagine I'd be in a similar situation as the protagonist.
@@DrCandyStriper definitely...stop acting like everybody can hold the eAsiEst fiReArMs iN thE exiSteNcE
PUT BULLET IN BOOM STICK!
I’ve been using shotguns for three decades. I promise you most new folks don’t know how to load a tube fed pump shotgun, let alone work the action.
I wouldn’t be able to use it. I’ve never even seen a gun irl. Let alone being able to use one.
My friend recommended this movie the other day saying how we HAVE to watch it on Halloween. We ended up having a get together and watched this cause he explained “my aunt saw this in theaters and ever since she doesn’t watch horror movies cause they’re too scary” so I was hyped hoping for something good, I kept waiting and waiting and waiting thinking it was gonna eventually become scary yet never did. The whole time I was laughing and smiling. Found it ridiculous in every sense of the word. Afterwards he told me he thought it was scary af and I couldn’t believe him.
Lot of things I didn’t like, for example they give you the ending right in the beginning of the movie so you have no reason to really care since you know the outcome. You have no attachment to the characters cause you don’t get any sorta character development other than “he proposed and she said no”. How they’re able to say “this is a true story” without even being able to justify/know exactly what happened and are able to embellish heavily. Also how “fast” the kill was with a quick *stab stab* that’s it? All that build up for that?
“People thought it was a snuff film”. Who tf are these people, Happy Madison viewers? People who call regular horror movies snuff films annoy tf outta me since they don’t really get what that means. This video is 11 years old and yet every piece of criticism is STILL justified and right on the money.
I had to find some sorta video or something that shared my feelings just so I knew I wasn’t the only one that thought this movie sucked.
I legitimately enjoy this movie, but this had me rolling. Just started watching YMS yesterday and this is one of my favorites thus far.
whenever you show clips of the interviews i feel like they're just bullshitting some sort of answer for the questions
like you do on an essay for school
I wonder if Liv Tyler thinks about what she's going to say before she says it.
Samuel Gray She thinks very carefully. She says exactly what she has to say in order to get a raise.
+Samuel Gray She thinks very carefully. The problem is that it yields nothing.
Pizza Shark I'm pretty sure she's contractually obligated to promote this movie, whether it's shitty or not and she has to come up with something, even if it sounds vapid and empty
Oh my god! There's a bang at the door!
After watching this review I always say "omg there's a bang at the door." whenever there's some type of loud bang in a horror film.
I know this is an old review, but this movie came on a few nights ago and all I could think was “Oh my God there’s a bang at the door”
My candy bar wrapper just started moving on it's own. Thankfully this film wasn't the least bit scary. Otherwise, I would've needed a new pair of pants right now.
Despite loving this review, I actually still really like The Strangers. It creeps me out, but it's one glaring problem for me is the 'disbelieving boyfriend' cliche. For once, just have him believe the woman and get the fuck out.
if horror movies made sense there wouldn't be any
if horror movies made sense there wouldn't be any
if horror movies made sense there wouldn't be any
if horror movies made sense there wouldn't be any
***** Why is this happening m9
Just watched "The Purge" and wanted to see if you have done a YMS review on it. I felt the same way about "The Purge" as I did with this one. So stupid.
You actually sat down and watched the whole thing? I applaud you.
Lol, thanks. Yeah, I knew it was gonna be bad. Friends said it was, but it was free so figured I might as well see why it sucks. Can't hate something unless you understand why. Certainly wasn't the worst movie I've seen, not enough to justify not finishing it, but it was beyond stupid with the whole premise. Right off the bat I was telling my friend watching it with me it doesn't make sense. How the government would come to that and no one would stop it. It's logic is that it's the one day for everyone to let out all their rage and it somehow lowered crime. Criminals don't obey laws, most crimes/murders are done in the heat of the moment, there's no controlling that. You wouldn't have criminals saying, oh ok, I'm gonna stop breaking the law because the government is gonna reward me with criminal's Christmas. If I was a good little criminal and didn't break the law all year I get to have all night to do whatever I wanted. Sorry, yeah, now that I'm talking about it it's pissing me off again.
The thing is that everybody knows The Purge is bad. But people actually tried to pretend The Strangers was a good movie. It made top X of X lists, etc. I've heard people compare it to Ils! Fucking Ils. Seriously.
ParaVet I actually thought the premise for The Purge was cool. While entirely stupid, it was at least original and gave a lot of opportunity for what they could of done with it. The reason I was completely let down by it is because they took a promising premise and made it into a mediocre as shit home invasion movie.
The Purge had a great concept but I heard that the entire reason why everyone wanted to go see the movie was very small.
I watched this movie because it was on one of those "movies you have to watch before you die" list and I just fell asleep in the first half an hour. NOTHING HAPPENS.
I'm like 4 shots deep and the bang at the door clip has me in tears lol
This movie would have been great if they went with the concept of the characters unknowingly killing each other. Have it set up where you have five or six people in the house, and these freaky fuckers in the masks are trolling them. Have it set up where the antagonists want to get this group of people to kill each other. Make it like a psychological thriller. Maybe the freaky fuckers in the masks are just illusions and thats what starts the mental breakdown of the characters and drives them insane and makes them paranoid. Make the characters and the audience question the reality of the movie. Did one one of the people in the house kill someone or did the freaky fucker in the mask kill someone.
That would be sick.. Go watch the movie Oculus
David Maglioli There is a similar concept in Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None.
+David Maglioli I was literally thinking the same. Like this had some potential, but nohpe, bitches be basic.
+Andrew MRQ It's not even his idea. The Twilight Zone already did it.
+Timppa 3 yeah they changed the title because of the n word
Plus, his friend who he shoots with the shotgun is Glenn Howerton from Always Sunny, which is more distracting than it is awesome. Though it's good to know Dennis is getting outside work.
I mean... To be fair, repeating a scare like the bang at the door, followed by that girl asking if whoever-the-fuck is there, can really work as a scare that builds up, making the main character more tense and nervous as it keeps happening, until she eventually snaps and screams at them to go away... Probably followed by an eerie quiet and no response for a while, then, a calm and quiet "... Okay." And then, silence... Probably followed by the door breaking down and all hell breaking loose as a cheap way to fuck with the audience after they've calmed down.
Fuck, I think I accidentally made a better movie than these guys. Sorry, my bad.
I think that sounds like a much better movie than this.
Also instead of a shit ton of jumpscares, remove all the "omg there's a bang on the door" jumpscares and just build tension the whole time. Have this tense, quiet, creepy atmosphere of no one at the door and the lady feeling that she's being watch. Finally pull one single jumpscare when they break down the door and chase the couple around. That would make this movie creepier and have a more effective/less annoying jumpscare.
I think the only time I liked the 'inspired by true events' thing was in Fargo.
"Oh the higher being that I worship, there is a loud knocking sound at the wooden entrance of my home!"
Their friend is Denis from always sunny in Philadelphia! only amusing thing in the movie 10/10 .....Also missed opportunity for an always sunny in Philadelphia reference 0/10 YMS
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