Another aspect of this movie I really enjoyed and found refreshing was the fact her best friend Claire wasn’t having an affair with Beth’s husband or some other sort of betrayal. It’s the usual trope and I’m glad they avoided it
Indeed - a very creative demon "design". David Bruckner is really good with his movie-monsters (that giant abomination from The Ritual and the succubus girl from V/H/S).
The last time I saw something this novel was when (Lights Out Spoilers) the muzzle flashes from the guns caused Diana to briefly go intangible in Lights Out.
I really like the way they made this one with the main character a lonely depressed woman *not being afraid & cowering in a corner* when things started to go awry and freaky. She actually did things that I wouldn't like confronting the spirit and telling it to *show itself* Yikes
You really feel for the pain she’s dealing with. She didn’t always cope in a healthy way (like her drunken rant at the bar with her coworkers) which can happen after a loss or even just coping with a depressive state. However seeing Beth confront her trauma was satisfactory
But the one thing she doesn't do is check-in with a mental health professional. Why put that throwaway line in the script about her depression and dark thoughts if she's just going to ignore it? Yes, she said her husband kept the "darkness" at bay, but if she's as fierce and strong as she seems to be, why didn't she at least consider speaking with a counselor since Owen ain't here?
I think they portrayed Beth's anger really well. She's so furious at the situation she even challenges a mysterious entity. not the healthiest response but very real and visceral.
I see two other possible interpretations here: 1. Survivors guilt. She struggles with the fact that he's gone on to what she perceived as nothing when she was clinically dead, and she possibly even believes she caused his death by shattering his belief in the afterlife. Projecting her existential horror onto his otherwise unexplained suicide, since there was no other explanation offered either to her or the audience, and the mind abhors an informational vacuum. 2. He actually was a serial killer. He mentions having to keep dark urges in check. It's possible he was killing women that looked like her in an effort to sate his urges to kill the actual her. The level of cognitive dissonance that would cause could have been enough to send her into a mental breakdown and the rest follows on from there.
But how about when she died … and the blueprints? I think it’s both and still is a supernatural presence, whatever happened to Beth it influenced her husband to be a killer. The second house and the statue to confuse it are a dead give away
From American God's I got the perspective that what you believe in is what happens to you so she saw nothing and believed nothing was the end of her life. So her belief for the briefest of moments touched that infinity and since she was brought back it manifested and followed her back trying to fulfill what it believed it to be and do.
it feels worth mentioning, esp since it seems to be established that she already suffered from it before his death, that "nothing" is often associated with depression. how you feel, what you want/do, etc.
Exactly. When I watched the movie, I interpreted the "nothing" to be depression. And took it as her fighting depression. But also, I felt Death felt cheated and was coming for her too.
As an adult, I have a hard time watching scary movies. Sad to admit but true. It gives me nightmares and then I cannot sleep for 3 days. With these endings explained episodes it helps me be able to watch a thrilled or scary movie without fully submersing myself into it. I very much appreciate it. Please keep up the good work. Know that it helps people like myself.
Same here. And yeah I do feel as well that I should be ashamed of that particular sensitivity, while, let's be honest, among other things about me it's a compliment to modern cinema - that these days even movies that don't break bank or impress critics are really impactful.
I really enjoyed this one. I took the ending in two perspectives: either she's actually facing supernatural causes, or that she's just in denial of the truth of what her husband did, and it's all being conjured up in her head. When you look at it the second way, everything Beth's been through, on top of the death and news of what her husband did, I feel like she was trying to suppress her pain and grief, rather than facing an actual entity, ghost or spirit. Thanks for the insight, Chris!
This borders the line so heavily, but its hard to tell what's real and what's fake. If it was all in her head, then the book might be apart of the dream, as well as the girl coming over when she was about to leave. It does a great job of blurring the lines, but I'll believe this is more supernatural. You can go either way, but even with problems with depression, the main character lets us know she doesn't sleepwalk much. Its not likely she dreamed up the book, else she would have trouble seeing it again the next day unless she happens to vividly dream it up constantly. The building in the woods is real, as she learned of this from her neighbor, so the building is real and she brought back a statue from it. If the man was truly unfaithful and took his life for that reason, why look for people that each resembled his wife? Why build an unfinished house across the lake? There are a lot of inconsistencies when we take the route of him doing it to just cheat. If he was a serial killer that killed people that looked like his wife and did it until he felt bad and took his own life, that also sounds very strange (but again, all of it is plausible which is fun to think about). But, with the addition of the occult book as well as figurines, its pretty nutty. The only problem with this theory is (with all the bodies we see) there was never anyone mentioning missing people around the area or a history of her or her husband being questioned by police about missing people in the area. It is a remote cabin unregistered and well hidden. The only reason the main character could find it was through a dream. Also, what happened to the other girl in the house, before all the crazy stuff started to occur?
Owen is the Daedulus figure in this Greek trageddy, building an intricate labyrinth (the mirror houses) to trap and confuse the demon Minotaur, it being unable to escape. To keep it from coming after Beth, Owen would put Beth lookalikes into the maze to perish at the demon's hands. This went on for many years until Owen, with Marilyn, decided to end the cycle by taking his own life instead of Marilyn's. Instead the demon found that while it could completely escape the maze of the mirror house he could still speak somewhat to Beth.
I feel like this is the only correct interpretation, even tho you sort of can interpret what's happening in different ways. It's just that this "correct" interpretation is far too convoluted and connected to real life to be just dreams and all in her head. Altho i'm not sure who actually killed the women - if "death" killed them or Owen.
This is what I immediately gathered from the ending. The only question i have unanswered is how was the demon able to figure his way out of the mirror house and into Beth's house so immediately after her husband died? How often did Owen have to kill women to keep the demon distracted from looking at a way to escape?
Yep, the twist was "it was actually a demon" but people are still hanging onto the obvious 'mental illness' tropes that the movie intentionally overtly includes as a red-herring.
I think her lashing out at the parent in the beginning goes with my personal thought that you don’t always go through the stages of grief in order. She was at anger, and I know that when my dad died I went through the anger stage first and never actually went through the bargaining stage at all.
Yeah, the 5 stages of grief is a very big simplification, and a lot of the time its a much more complex process. Its an old and outdated theory that mainly sticks around due to its simplicity
One interpretation I saw was that Nothing couldn't directly kill Beth. It had to convince someone else to do. And Nothing tried to influence Owen into killing Beth, but Owen fought those "urges" by murdering Beth look-a-likes instead and using tricks on Nothing to make it believe Beth was murdered. Owen eventually wasn't able to live with what he'd done anymore, and he thought the mazes he built into the house would protect her. So with Owen gone Nothing tried to manipulate Beth into killing herself at the end. And Nothing used her grief to do it. I thought it was an interesting interpretation.
Sidenote: Absolutely Love and Appreciate all the work you’ve been doing for all these years now. Gratitude is given considering your consistency and commitment to this. It’s your literal analysis, from the unique editing, side skits that add more personality:Basically, Your Style and Devotion don’t compare too others. You can explain a nightmare, while simultaneously easing the tension of it, but ultimately hitting the points perfectly, and then leaving a little hint of “What if” too finish(Sequel Suggestions, Hidden Meanings, etc) THANKS 🙏
FoundFlix is the man, good vibes personified. I tend to mentally associate him with Dead Meat James since they share a lot of great qualities. Entertaining, informative, charismatic, funny, that "cool high school teacher that clearly cares about the subject" vibe. Type of person who can make something you've never previously given any thought seem interesting. Know what I mean?
I totally agree and I love how he keeps his personal opinions(unless the film is super good or really awful) to a minimum. I hate when movie review channels use their videos to critique directors, actors, and storylines to assert their cinephile-esque assessments. Basically, people want to hear about the film, not your personal opinions on it. The only exception is #corderyfx bc he is the most hilarious and experienced Aussie film creator/reviewer all time!
When I was a little girl, I read this story called “The Tale of Nothing-at-all”, about a little girl who befriends a ‘Nothing-at-all’. It was a sweet story, but thinking about it as an adult, I realised that it could also be the start of a horror story. This film is exactly that.
I personally think he was a serial killer. After all, the neighbour and the lady from the bookstore told her about some situations that seem very obvious. From there on I agree with the two interpretations. Either he was protecting her from death (if you believe in the unnatural) or she was just grieving and depressed, while trying to process her husbands dark side.
I can definitely relate to her just randomly falling asleep throughout the movie. Depression can unfortunatley be a great sleep aid. Very impressed with this movie and your take on it.
New favorite movie. The scenes in horror movies where the protagonist goes to friends / family to explain the situation are usually the dullest part. But Beth shows such a range of emotion and is so complex, that each interaction is genuinely interesting to watch!
So was the final destination-esque, “death was cheated and then haunted the person” supposed to be the canary in the movie, throwing you off from the real purpose that she could not cope with her husband being a serial killer
What she “saw” when she died really sticks with me. My great uncle was legally dead for several minutes and he saw NOTHING. He ceased to exist in those moments. I was told it terrified him.
@@joogullae3456 It reminds me of when you're put under for surgery. One minute you're awake, the next you're waking up in a totally different place. All the time in between there was nothing. Scary.
@@Mellypepperit doesn’t have to be scary. When you fall asleep without dreams you have no idea you exist and then you wake up. That’s probably what death is.
I get that but your body and your mind takes seven minutes to literally shut down so you’re going to see nothing for a good while and you have a certain amount of time that your brain is currently still active but unconscious because the more minutes you go on dead the more brain damage you’re going to possibly have so after you are dead for a certain amount of time things start to happen i’ve known many people who said that they have seen light immediately and have not. I’m a strong believer, a strong Christian, but I still see the different side of it because I understand how people are coming from these types of views. I think that some people see it immediately and others don’t.
The other thing that really stands out to me, the fact that these supernatural things that are evil can stand out, but God can’t? there always has to be good and evil there has to be protons, and there has to be electrons which obviously makes sense on the science aspect as well so obviously there’s not just going to be nothing. There’s going to be definitely something Which is God
I think my favorite part of the film was when Beth got to clap back at the mother wanting her son to receive an A from her. That was sad but at the same time so satisfying to see the mother speechless and squirm when told Beth's husband killed himself and that's why she couldn't give a shit about about the mom's son.
I hope I'm not the only one that actually cracked up at that scene and the scene at the bar with her coworkers. She just looks like she's having a blast making everyone squirm, Rebecca Hall perfectly fucking captured that type of ultra-dark coping humor
I loved it too. As a widow I have had some people ask or say some uncomfortable or inconsiderate shit. So there have been times I enjoyed putting them in their place with an uncomfortable reply. It was very realistic imo
I love when metaphors in horror, I hate that its become a thing where if there's a metaphor its immediately called into question if its *even real*. Cause it feels like it doesn't want to commit to the bit that its supernatural because that'd be "silly" :/ . though this one is a good example of it, it doesn't feel like a cop out it because actually adds to the metaphor.
Agree, this is a story that really benefits from the ambiguity. The whole "it was all in your head" trope is probably my most hated trope in horror, because 99,99% of the time it feels like a cheap cop-out to appear more "mature and deep". Pro tip, if you want your work of fiction to appear deeper with no added effort, just use a spooky monster as a metaphor for depression or trauma! That way you can skip all the nasty bits about mental health/trauma and just magically heal people by having them defeat the spooky monster (usually by them just realizing they aren't afraid or by forgiving themselves). If you want to do a "it was all in your head" story, there has to either be a lot of ambiguity or it has to downplay the scares and not make that the focus. If you do a regular horror movie and go "surprise it was all in their head" at the end you just completely kill it.
@@leetri this. The monster being some metaphor (like the babadook) is WAYYYYYbmore meaningful than saying it was all dream and basically making the whole story and character development obsolete and pointless. Although mental illness, grief, etc. needs a lot more handling in stories than saying defeating the monster has suddenly made the person feel better.
I know the two moons represent the between world but here's something to add. Two moons in the sky can also mean that Death is watching from above. Death is the one GIANT unknown in this life and the two moons could represent the eyes of this...death is always there, always watching, and ready to take you when he wants. I'll definitely watch this movie now that you explained it. Seems right up my alley, psychologically and cinematically.
This movie had no business being as good as it is! I expected a trope filled average haunted house movie and got the best horror movie I’ve seen in quite some time! Rebecca Hall is absolute perfection in this! Very much on par with Toni Collettes performance in Hereditary.
Some people describe grief and depression like being haunted, so i think this movie makes a great metaphor for the combined experiences. Darkness always being there and after you, but having loved ones helps fight it off- with that primary loved one gone, it can be terrifying and can drive you to suicide, but remembering that there are sitll others out there who love you can really rescue you. I really like this interpretation of the movie. It makes the end seem a little hopeful and less foreboding. Though I have to say, interpreting it this way makes the note much more depressing. Without the double meaning of the supernatural warning in place, it really just seems to be a sad goodbye note.
Really enjoyed this movie. Rebecca Hall holds the film together since she’s the one character onscreen the most. The ending confused me when I first saw it, but when I looked into it afterwards I kinda understood more
This was also my favorite horror film of the year. The way Rebecca Hall's character ran around with reckless abandon instead of running away was so refreshing! Masterfully done film!
As a widower I found Beth's recount of the accident to be one of the most accurate parts of the film. As a widower myself, I found the way she played the role to be extremely accurate.
I haven’t seen this movie before until now. After seeing this summary, I can say I missed out on a great movie. It’s a really well written psychological horror, I genuinely think that there might’ve been something paranormal involved, rather than just her grief taking over her.
just two things I want to point out for anyone who might be interested, Owen carved mazes on the furniture in the house, the headboard of their bed has 3 and a dresser I think in the basement also had a maze carved onto it. reminded me of hereditary with it's hidden symbols. next one is about Madelyne, I don't think it was really her in the house when she came to see Beth, Beth had just told the Nothing to talk to her and heard the same knocks/thuds as she did the first night it contacted her before Madelyne arrived. Madelyne seemed off through the whole scene and without the things she said, Beth wouldn't have gone to the second house and found the bodies. I think Madelyne may have been a vision the Nothing used to push her over the edge.
Just watched this movie today and am already ready for a rewatch. Didn't have many (if any) expectations going into the movie and was absolutely BLOWN away. The cinematography of the movie was incredible, and the scares were AMAZING. Rebecca Hall did a phenomenal job, and all the negative space was genuinely terrifying.
I haven’t seen this movie yet but as soon as you said “I freaking loved this movie. It’s my favorite horror movie of the year”… I immediately stopped this video so you didn’t spoil it for me and snatched my laptop and started playing it on a movie website. I’ll come back after I finish it to continue this video and add any thoughts on the movie. 🖤 My thoughts on the movie: The thought of Beth just going crazy about her husband being a cheater and a serial killer doesn’t make sense to me. First of all, she doesn’t even find out he was killing women until the last act of the movie. So what the hell is everything else leading up to it then??? That’s all her psychotic break from him just cheating???? YEAH OKAY. Anyway… The neighbor confirmed that Owen was in fact building a house across the lake. The book store worker woman ALSO confirmed that Owen built a duplicate house across the lake and the sculpture. The weird books Owen had about tricking demons by creating a mirrored maze and a sculpture to trap it were confirmed by the male bookstore clerk when Beth brings them in. And the friend confirms the broken mirror in the real house actually happened when she checks on Beth at the end of the movie, and since Beth doesn’t have scratches on her face or hands IT WAS actually the back of her head that “somehow” hit the mirror. I think somehow when she brought the sculpture home from his “work in progress” house across the lake it caused the two realities to collide. I think Beth is now getting to see what Owen did to actually protect her from death. I think death actually did exist, and was trying to get Owen to kill Beth so death can have Beth. I think that Owen did cheat on Beth but only when he brought the women to the mirrored house across the lake so death thinks him and Beth are there together (also the mystery cheating woman said he started choking her just after having kissed, so maybe he murdered them all before it even lead to actual intercourse. Which makes sense if he is doing all of this out of love and protection of Beth). And when the women touch the sculpture, it like traps an essence or something, of the women to be presented to death when Owen kills them. There’s so much literal physical things that are seen by other characters that validate that it’s not just Beth creating these things in her mind to soothe her worries of him being a serial killer or metaphors for her suffering depression.
It makes all the sense, she found photos of other woen right at the start of the movie. Otherwise yeah, touching sculpture, etc. sounds the way I felt it.
@@melodi996 the photos were probably used by him to figure out if they actually closely resemble Beth side by side or not. That’s what I took from that anyway, or perhaps kept the photos as a counter, log book, or simply because he felt guilty.
I also think this 100% … it’s definitely supernatural lol we don’t need to over explain it with like, mental state and grieving and stuff like you said there is so many clues that what she’s seeing and hearing is in fact, real.
I do think the mental/grief route is extremely boring. But I have my biases because I find those movies boring. To me it's just a cheap excuse for scary stuff without ever having to fully commit. I'll take the supernatural route.. is just more interesting to me
that strong opening made me stop this video to go rent this thang outright. can't wait to come back to this later for your interpretation and commentary!
absolutely agree with you in that this was by far the stand-out horror film of the year: great character arcs, interested ideas executed masterfully, and some absolutely gorgeous cinematography (especially when one considers the eerie "profile" {negative space} manifestations)
I ended up in group therapy after my wife passed 10 years ago. I recommended this and getting professional help one on one. Many things have changed over the years on how to deal with such a loss. Prayers for anyone going thru any sort of depression. This movie is one of the best for showing how deep mourning a loss of a loved one can go.
I cant wait to watch this movie. Rebecca Hall is so underrated and stunning. She was amazing in "The Awaking" and seems like this movie were you have to find out if it's in her mind or real.
I love how the lights actually went out for you, and your reaction to it was just priceless xD Thank you for covering this movie. It's definitely one of my favorites from this year
@@riakun Yeah! I can't believe I missed that! Thank you for giving me the time stamp! At first I thought people were talking about somebody in the movie. And I was going to ask, "What guy? I don't remember a guy being in a room where the lights go out!" . 😄
Lol. I do the same, but my reason is so I don't have to sit through awful films. I like the way he gives a rating before the spoilers. If he likes it I usually watch the film first before coming been to finish his video.
Just watched this last night for the first time and I have to say the use of the negative space to represent the ghost was fantastic. It’s awesome to see a different way of presenting the supernatural in a movie. Very creative
I thought the same, but decided to watch the video anyway and I am glad I didn't go out of my way to watch the film because it sounds pretty dumb. I think the interpretation of the main character being delusional is the better one.
I do also sense it has something to do with her accident when she was younger. Talking about the tunnel of passing over. She basically cheat death and now death is coming back for her. Also within my knowledge of the spiritual world, I sense another reason why her husband created a maze like place within the house was to lure death away, to have it enter an endless maze before it gets to her. Though don't take my word for it, that's just my intake on the movie.
A possible symbolic interpretation is that the "dark urges" Owen experiences are real and brought on by the depression Beth was experiencing herself (potentially brought on by her near death experience). The corpses and flirting partners symbolize his struggle with the inevitable loneliness of living with someone with depression. This escalates until his attempts to "save her" from the nothingness of depression devours him completely.
This is the correct interpretation. Of course, any interpretation is subjective, but some are more closer to storyteller's vision than others. The Reaper in many mythologies is a boatman that conveys the soul to the beyond (like Charon taking souls to Hades through the River of Styx). Depressed people struggle with depression throughout their lives, and constantly think of death. While most people carry on with their daily activities with little to no thought of death or the lack of "life" in every breath they take, in severe cases of depression, people see death everywhere and imagine themselves in the most morbid situations. Every time they don't pluck a vein out while chopping vegetables or not jump off a tall building, they've cheated death. It's a call to the void that goes unanswered because there is more to life, more to live, and people continue living. The Night House is a masterpiece in how it portrays depression through the lens of a character who lives and believes in the futility of life. The negative space is Death, Owen is the boatman, Beth is the tainted/innocent eternal soul that should've passed on but hasn't because she fights to live every day of life, and Mel is the folly that contrasts all of Beth's understanding of life. (Mel has a companion dog whom he allows to guide him through the myriad paths of life, while Beth pushes away her friend even though she literally tells her she loves her.) There are scores of other symbolisms like that tied up Beth (which is opposite of the embryo, that is life) at the end of the movie, the mirror showing Beth versions of herself that she might have lost along the way in the 14 years of her marriage, the incessant drinking that she's actively poisoning herself without the least regard for herself, followed by the breaking of the bottle that shatters her depression and brings her back to life. This movie shows us so many facets of depression and how hard it is to "just stop being depressed" in the little it has. A true masterpiece.
So happy to finally hear you talk about this one, this one impressed me big time and David Bruckner is gonna kill it with Hellraiser if he brings this energy
The scene with the other woman that really really looks like her is easily explainable, if my husband had an image of a not me id assume he found my doppleganger and was planning on showing me lol, but i can image her grief and confusion clouding her mind for the worst
@@reesetwist2290 the fact that Owen was killing women that resembled Beth in an attempt to trick "nothing", I would assume that the bodies are real. He built the mirror layout of the house also as an attempt to confuse and fool him.
Omg omg omg you did my favorite movie of the year (until Last Night in Soho and Titane, that is)! I thought I’d never see you cover this and I’m super happy about it! And after reading the comment section it looks like a lot of people didn’t get the deeper metaphor of this movie at all or thought it didn’t make sense. With all the details and metaphors in this movie, you could write an essay, which I did! And it’s the only movie I cried every time watching! Just wow!
@@dkayflowers79 Yes! I love this movie so much and saw it 6 times in the theater since I work at one! I’m a novelist so I really dissect things I watch when they hit me :)
Last Night in Soho was magnificent! I always wondered why the men in her time looked like that but it makes so much sense in the end, and how protective the landlady was when (fuck I've forgot her name but female mc) was screaming in her room. Loved it, loved it, loved it!
First time stopping a video part way through so I could go watch the movie. I'm stoked! I think this also highlights one of the great effects of your channel: bringing visibility to contemporary hidden gems.
I loved your snarky tone when talking about Beth's husband building their home all by himself. I have watched enough youtube Homestead videos to know that you need a minimum of 2 people and more for certain parts lie the roof and walls.
Here's the immediate take I got after watching. When Beth died and came back, she tore a her shaped hole in the nothing that she experienced, and it followed her around her whole life. When she married her husband was particularly sensitive to the utter, gaping absence around his wife that drove him mad, and he built the house to try and trap what he thought was a malevolent force. When that didn't work, he took more and more desperate measures, eventually trying to sacrifice those women to it, which still didn't work, because he's trying to deceive nothing, there's literally nothing there to fool. He eventually realized he would end up killing his wife, so he shot himself to stop it. Then Beth, in her vulnerable state, became aware of that hole and starts to believe it's her husband in her grief. In the end when she hears it and interacts with it, she's just hallucinating everything because she's trying to put human characteristic over something that inherently has none, because it's literally nothing, just a hole. It's also just going to keep following her around until she eventually dies, possibly driving others mad as well. Also, given their apparent ages in the film, late thirties early forties, and they'd been married or together for fourteen years, they probably got together almost immediately after her death, and if her husband was taking the brunt of it's influence the whole time, it would explain how she never really noticed it before.
Thanks for making these, bud! I have a pretty wild imagination a little anxiety, so scary movies are a no-go for me. But I really enjoy the narratives and the symbolism in the stories - so these walk-throughs are awesome for me! Thank you!
Beth’s dreams/hallucinations/whatever they are kind of reminds me of a darker, psychological version of Final Destination with the whole “cheats death and now death comes after her to finish what they started.” I know this film is really NOTHING like that movie series, but that particular scene between Beth and Owen just reminds me of that.
What a feast it is for once to hear a movie summary told in the present tense (as a summary of fiction should be) and the analysis in the past tense, the narrator elegantly switching between the tenses without making a single false step.
Ending Explained: A woman prefers to think her dead husband was manipulated by death because it was in love with her, than to accept he was a serial killer...
@@iHaveTheDocuments I apologize I commented before watching the video. I thought the Foundflix guy had understood the film: Hall's character had a near death experience while young, this is when death "fell in love with her", and since then it has been after her. Death used her husband to try to killer her so she could be with it again, but he tried to trick it by killing other women. In the end, he had to take his own life in order to protect her. Totally absurd premise, and it plays more to my interpretation: she was so insanely narcissistic, she rather think death has a crush on her than to believe his husband was unfaithful (and also killing his lovers). Sorry about the misunderstanding, I'm not a RUclipsr, I can't make a video about it....
I tried watching this with my mom and we couldn’t finish it. My dad passed away when I was young and living in the house with his memory there felt like living with the ghost of our past. I love the concept behind this movie and the struggle with grief
So sorry to hear that, it's difficult to watch movies like these when you've experienced similar personal loss, glad you were able to share the thought, if you're looking for something light hearted I'd recommend the movies Friday and The world's end.
That's so sad. Watching the scenes where she's throwing away his toiletries and clothes was so strange. I'm not sure I'd be strong enough to do that if I were in the same situation.
Had me in the beginning as I found the mystery quite interesting and the sound design and cinematography were great; then it sputtered, crashing and burning in the end. The whole thing felt contrived to me now that I think about it.
I'm not a snobby hipster, but I also enjoy crapping on things other people like. Doing so makes me feel like I'm smarter/better than others. I'm not a snobby hipster though. I also listen to bands you probably haven't heard of.
Thank you for breaking it down for me! I’ve seen the movie twice and liked it but didn’t get it. After watching your video I watched it again and now I finally get it!
In the beginning, when Beth tells Hunter’s mother what happened to her husband in the aggressive manner and putting the photo away, I thought she was angry with her husband for killing himself. He left her without leaving her much clue why and the whole time she thought they were happy. Anger is one of early stages of dealing with grief, too.
The jumpscare with the woman running off the deck was one of the best I've seen in so long. You're focusing on beth so you don't expect her and BAM. Spooked.
I had been waiting for this movie to come out since last December! I went to see it in the theater alone... And no one else was in the theater. I'm a horror fan and don't get scared easily. But the combination of being alone and the confusion she experiences genuinely scared me at one point! I, myself, felt disoriented and unsure if what I was experiencing was real. Soooo happy this movie was good!
Hey man, awesome video. I'm in the middle east with the army helping Afghanistan displaced civilizations. Your videos help me get through and remind me of home. I watch found flix in the US and your videos are great. Thanks again, keep up the great work.
I just love the abrupt reminder that Flix is human too, weather goes out and we get a wholesome, undoctored “What the FUCK?!?!” doesn’t cut it out and act like it doesn’t happen, I just love the blend of comedy and professionalism, keep doing the good work
Ah I loved this movie so much. I adore stories that have depth to them and can be enjoyed as superficially or as complexly as the viewer wants. Its so rare these days.
In a bar, Beth did assume that she could spread her mental illness to Oven, as she was the one with depression and dark thoughts. But in reality, it is more likely that Oven had developed an obsession over the idea that there's something on the other side. He spent a few years building up patterns and rituals around sacrifices and cheating "It", based on cheap fiction books. He built House and its mirror reflection the Night house. Filled it up with rooms that reflect objects in it (two workspaces, two sinks, square repetitive patterns on a bed, shelves, and walls). And, most likely had an obsessive fantasy about killing his own wife, but filled this need with doppelgangers. All the schizophrenic traits are on the table. Later, he realized that he is actually ill, he informs the neighbor and prepares to stop it in a way. Proof of his realization in the last note: "there is nothing there", and with him gone- Beth will remain safe.
The original script was going to be a hellraiser movie when it got passed on it was retooled into this movie. With that in mind I believe the entity is definitely supernatural and not just a manifestation of her grief.
Very well done movie. Loved the whole story line, character development, and cinematography. The whole 2 world thing with the house being what ties it all together was genius. 9 out of 10
I loved her eating from the casserole while drinking and watching the wedding video. Shows a real sense of humanhood that would pull the food out of the trash can like a racoon and going back to eat it. Everything is so understated here it's great
(spoilers) loved this movie especially the negative space house scenes! I do think he was serial killer, and the haunting part was her being chased by death who 'missed' the first near death experience and has been chasing her since. I think she was being haunted by depression too, and maybe the fears and memories of all the replacement women he killed. I think 'death' tried to reclaim her by possessing her husband so he wanted to kill her but he loved her so much he had to kill replacement women instead. So I think she will gave to continuously avoid death for thr rest of her life which could also mean suicidal or violent tendencies. Which is accurate to the way depression or schizophrenic delusions can take over your mind and you need friends and family to help fight that. I thought the main character was acted super super well :)
@foundfix I love ALL your reviews! I always check in to see what you have reviewed next. I don't call them spoilers, I call your videos "encouragements"!! After watching you, I rush to check out a movie because I have to see the whole thing. THANK YOU for doing this. Keep 'em coming man.
My thoughts after finally watching this film: Beth is in deep denial about the truth of who her husband, Mel, really was. The more physical evidence she found, the more she became emotionally fractured. Because of her denial & emotional fracturing, she manifested an unknown dark entity to rationalize Mel's behavior. There were never any spirits in her home. It was her mind trying to acknowledge & deny the truth at the same time. In the end, she couldn't handle the truth, so she attempted to delete herself. As for Mel, I think he was struggling with who he was & what he was doing to those women. I think Mel hated himself. I think Mel wanted to stop but he didn't know how. That's why he deleted himself
Important to note that the movie makes sure the woman in the library is never noticed by anyone but Beth, leaving open the interpretation that it is just Beth dealing with grief through confronting a more clueless innocent version of herself. There is even a scene where the woman says she dreamed she was Beth. So we really can’t know for sure if the house and the bodies were actually there since this other woman was the only one to see it besides Beth. Truly amazing movie
Okay.. So. What about Mel the neighbor.. He told Beth that her husband had "urges" and he found him roaming around in the jungle with another woman.. Was all of that unreal/psychological too ??
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Another aspect of this movie I really enjoyed and found refreshing was the fact her best friend Claire wasn’t having an affair with Beth’s husband or some other sort of betrayal. It’s the usual trope and I’m glad they avoided it
Yea especially when Claire told her to stop digging. I was oh oh, but Claire was just really a great friend as you said.
That's precisely what I expected would happen, and I was so happy they didn't go there. She was such a good friend to Beth.
Plot twist: Claire is the demon/ death
It totally looked like it though
Omg sameee turns out , Claire’s a super great friend at the end 💜
I have to applause the scene with the negative space of the colum/ghost that was surprisingly refreshing
Indeed - a very creative demon "design". David Bruckner is really good with his movie-monsters (that giant abomination from The Ritual and the succubus girl from V/H/S).
Yesss that was so amazing
I loved that, so creative. I feel like it's happened to me in the past.
The last time I saw something this novel was when (Lights Out Spoilers) the muzzle flashes from the guns caused Diana to briefly go intangible in Lights Out.
Loved that Succubus from V/H/S
His reaction to the power going out was priceless
He was so calm. I’d have had a heart attack.
No power means no 911. Have a heart attack when it comes back on instead. You've got to plan things properly.
@@TheChronozoan you can still make 911 calls with a cell
@@xenn4985 yup safety fact you can still call 911 wen 📱 service is disconnected
@@TheChronozoan it’s 2021, we can call police without service.
I really like the way they made this one with the main character a lonely depressed woman *not being afraid & cowering in a corner* when things started to go awry and freaky. She actually did things that I wouldn't like confronting the spirit and telling it to *show itself* Yikes
You really feel for the pain she’s dealing with. She didn’t always cope in a healthy way (like her drunken rant at the bar with her coworkers) which can happen after a loss or even just coping with a depressive state. However seeing Beth confront her trauma was satisfactory
Yes! It was very refreshing to have her invite all of the weird occurrences in. It really made it curious on where the plot was headed.
But the one thing she doesn't do is check-in with a mental health professional. Why put that throwaway line in the script about her depression and dark thoughts if she's just going to ignore it? Yes, she said her husband kept the "darkness" at bay, but if she's as fierce and strong as she seems to be, why didn't she at least consider speaking with a counselor since Owen ain't here?
@@mizscoleman therapy is overrated. some people must heal and process trauma in their own unique way
I think they portrayed Beth's anger really well. She's so furious at the situation she even challenges a mysterious entity. not the healthiest response but very real and visceral.
TLDR: Claire is a really good friend, one we could all use in our lives
Yea but when your spouse dies you have every right to go through their stuff
@@mcnoneya just because you can doesn't mean you should
@@mcnoneya it would most likely hurt you and you'll have no outlet for it, and they can't explain if you misinterpret it
I was thinking nothing might whisper in her friend's ear :(
@@xXjOmAmMaXx why shouldn't you? If it helps you, you definitely should.
I see two other possible interpretations here:
1. Survivors guilt. She struggles with the fact that he's gone on to what she perceived as nothing when she was clinically dead, and she possibly even believes she caused his death by shattering his belief in the afterlife. Projecting her existential horror onto his otherwise unexplained suicide, since there was no other explanation offered either to her or the audience, and the mind abhors an informational vacuum.
2. He actually was a serial killer. He mentions having to keep dark urges in check. It's possible he was killing women that looked like her in an effort to sate his urges to kill the actual her. The level of cognitive dissonance that would cause could have been enough to send her into a mental breakdown and the rest follows on from there.
Or maybe the movie is literally about nothing, nothing being the enemy and all that.
But how about when she died … and the blueprints? I think it’s both and still is a supernatural presence, whatever happened to Beth it influenced her husband to be a killer. The second house and the statue to confuse it are a dead give away
How many women do you think would look JUST LIKE his own wife?!
@@randomnessltd He strangles them from behind remember, so the victim just has to have a similar body shape, hair color, and hair style.
From American God's I got the perspective that what you believe in is what happens to you so she saw nothing and believed nothing was the end of her life. So her belief for the briefest of moments touched that infinity and since she was brought back it manifested and followed her back trying to fulfill what it believed it to be and do.
Like it or hate it, that negative space thing was unique and effective af
Legit almost exploded 😂
Foundflix just casually going "wow, what tah fuck" is just the best.
On gothem 😂😂😂
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On gothem 😂😂😂
They way he hardly switched from his video making voice was great. Like it was part of the script.
When?
it feels worth mentioning, esp since it seems to be established that she already suffered from it before his death, that "nothing" is often associated with depression. how you feel, what you want/do, etc.
Exactly. When I watched the movie, I interpreted the "nothing" to be depression. And took it as her fighting depression. But also, I felt Death felt cheated and was coming for her too.
As someone who suffers from a depressive disorder, feeling empty or a feeling of nothingness is really on point for Beth’s struggle
Damn dude, so other people who have depression get this like I do.
Saw this same comment down further lmaoooo
@@LucyLioness100 very tru
As an adult, I have a hard time watching scary movies. Sad to admit but true. It gives me nightmares and then I cannot sleep for 3 days. With these endings explained episodes it helps me be able to watch a thrilled or scary movie without fully submersing myself into it. I very much appreciate it. Please keep up the good work. Know that it helps people like myself.
I'm exactly the same way! love found flicks for this reason.
Same here. And yeah I do feel as well that I should be ashamed of that particular sensitivity, while, let's be honest, among other things about me it's a compliment to modern cinema - that these days even movies that don't break bank or impress critics are really impactful.
I'm the same but I had to watch the movie. I probably won't sleep well tonight. Gonna be on my husband's back🙈
Same 😭
DUDEEE THANK GOD IM NOT ALONE
I really enjoyed this one. I took the ending in two perspectives: either she's actually facing supernatural causes, or that she's just in denial of the truth of what her husband did, and it's all being conjured up in her head. When you look at it the second way, everything Beth's been through, on top of the death and news of what her husband did, I feel like she was trying to suppress her pain and grief, rather than facing an actual entity, ghost or spirit. Thanks for the insight, Chris!
But the dude actually sees Death ?
This borders the line so heavily, but its hard to tell what's real and what's fake. If it was all in her head, then the book might be apart of the dream, as well as the girl coming over when she was about to leave. It does a great job of blurring the lines, but I'll believe this is more supernatural.
You can go either way, but even with problems with depression, the main character lets us know she doesn't sleepwalk much. Its not likely she dreamed up the book, else she would have trouble seeing it again the next day unless she happens to vividly dream it up constantly. The building in the woods is real, as she learned of this from her neighbor, so the building is real and she brought back a statue from it.
If the man was truly unfaithful and took his life for that reason, why look for people that each resembled his wife? Why build an unfinished house across the lake? There are a lot of inconsistencies when we take the route of him doing it to just cheat. If he was a serial killer that killed people that looked like his wife and did it until he felt bad and took his own life, that also sounds very strange (but again, all of it is plausible which is fun to think about). But, with the addition of the occult book as well as figurines, its pretty nutty.
The only problem with this theory is (with all the bodies we see) there was never anyone mentioning missing people around the area or a history of her or her husband being questioned by police about missing people in the area. It is a remote cabin unregistered and well hidden. The only reason the main character could find it was through a dream.
Also, what happened to the other girl in the house, before all the crazy stuff started to occur?
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I disagree. So many movies have hidden meanings and I love that, but I think this one was exactly what was portrayed
@@rewt3406 also what really happened to the husband or did he did what he did on the boat
Owen is the Daedulus figure in this Greek trageddy, building an intricate labyrinth (the mirror houses) to trap and confuse the demon Minotaur, it being unable to escape. To keep it from coming after Beth, Owen would put Beth lookalikes into the maze to perish at the demon's hands. This went on for many years until Owen, with Marilyn, decided to end the cycle by taking his own life instead of Marilyn's. Instead the demon found that while it could completely escape the maze of the mirror house he could still speak somewhat to Beth.
When she brought the doll back to her house
I feel like this is the only correct interpretation, even tho you sort of can interpret what's happening in different ways. It's just that this "correct" interpretation is far too convoluted and connected to real life to be just dreams and all in her head. Altho i'm not sure who actually killed the women - if "death" killed them or Owen.
This is what I immediately gathered from the ending. The only question i have unanswered is how was the demon able to figure his way out of the mirror house and into Beth's house so immediately after her husband died? How often did Owen have to kill women to keep the demon distracted from looking at a way to escape?
Yep, the twist was "it was actually a demon" but people are still hanging onto the obvious 'mental illness' tropes that the movie intentionally overtly includes as a red-herring.
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Oh perfect timing. It's dinner and I needed something to watch
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Same lol
Ah perfect timing. It’s 3am and I needed something to watch
3:20 am here in UK lol
Oh heeey here just dropped the kids at school
I think her lashing out at the parent in the beginning goes with my personal thought that you don’t always go through the stages of grief in order. She was at anger, and I know that when my dad died I went through the anger stage first and never actually went through the bargaining stage at all.
True and even when you do go through all the stages. It comes in waves over the years. Sometimes you can find yourself in another stage unexpectedly.
Yes, you don’t always go through the stages in order. Good observation
I mean the stages of grief is a psychological model, it doesn’t necessarily perfectly reflect material reality or even have to exist at all.
the stages of grief are actually for your own death! responses to other peoples deaths are too varied and complicated to have a specific layout
Yeah, the 5 stages of grief is a very big simplification, and a lot of the time its a much more complex process. Its an old and outdated theory that mainly sticks around due to its simplicity
I would love to know how Owen discovered that Death was after her to make him research how to trick it. This movie from his POV would be amazing.
One interpretation I saw was that Nothing couldn't directly kill Beth. It had to convince someone else to do. And Nothing tried to influence Owen into killing Beth, but Owen fought those "urges" by murdering Beth look-a-likes instead and using tricks on Nothing to make it believe Beth was murdered. Owen eventually wasn't able to live with what he'd done anymore, and he thought the mazes he built into the house would protect her.
So with Owen gone Nothing tried to manipulate Beth into killing herself at the end. And Nothing used her grief to do it.
I thought it was an interesting interpretation.
@@AlcideIzMine It's not interesting interpretation, it's only correct one.
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Absolutely Love and Appreciate all the work you’ve been doing for all these years now. Gratitude is given considering your consistency and commitment to this. It’s your literal analysis, from the unique editing, side skits that add more personality:Basically, Your Style and Devotion don’t compare too others. You can explain a nightmare, while simultaneously easing the tension of it, but ultimately hitting the points perfectly, and then leaving a little hint of “What if” too finish(Sequel Suggestions, Hidden Meanings, etc) THANKS 🙏
totally agree with everything you said. definitely my favorite movie review channel
FoundFlix is the man, good vibes personified. I tend to mentally associate him with Dead Meat James since they share a lot of great qualities. Entertaining, informative, charismatic, funny, that "cool high school teacher that clearly cares about the subject" vibe. Type of person who can make something you've never previously given any thought seem interesting. Know what I mean?
I totally agree and I love how he keeps his personal opinions(unless the film is super good or really awful) to a minimum. I hate when movie review channels use their videos to critique directors, actors, and storylines to assert their cinephile-esque assessments. Basically, people want to hear about the film, not your personal opinions on it. The only exception is #corderyfx bc he is the most hilarious and experienced Aussie film creator/reviewer all time!
Very well said💖
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When I was a little girl, I read this story called “The Tale of Nothing-at-all”, about a little girl who befriends a ‘Nothing-at-all’. It was a sweet story, but thinking about it as an adult, I realised that it could also be the start of a horror story.
This film is exactly that.
I personally think he was a serial killer. After all, the neighbour and the lady from the bookstore told her about some situations that seem very obvious. From there on I agree with the two interpretations. Either he was protecting her from death (if you believe in the unnatural) or she was just grieving and depressed, while trying to process her husbands dark side.
I can definitely relate to her just randomly falling asleep throughout the movie. Depression can unfortunatley be a great sleep aid. Very impressed with this movie and your take on it.
New favorite movie. The scenes in horror movies where the protagonist goes to friends / family to explain the situation are usually the dullest part. But Beth shows such a range of emotion and is so complex, that each interaction is genuinely interesting to watch!
So was the final destination-esque, “death was cheated and then haunted the person” supposed to be the canary in the movie, throwing you off from the real purpose that she could not cope with her husband being a serial killer
Nope, I think her husband was really trying to protect her from an evil entity!
What she “saw” when she died really sticks with me. My great uncle was legally dead for several minutes and he saw NOTHING. He ceased to exist in those moments. I was told it terrified him.
My father as well, when he ODed he said he didn't ser anything, no light or nothing, he just woke up in the ambulance.
@@joogullae3456 It reminds me of when you're put under for surgery. One minute you're awake, the next you're waking up in a totally different place. All the time in between there was nothing. Scary.
@@Mellypepperit doesn’t have to be scary. When you fall asleep without dreams you have no idea you exist and then you wake up. That’s probably what death is.
I get that but your body and your mind takes seven minutes to literally shut down so you’re going to see nothing for a good while and you have a certain amount of time that your brain is currently still active but unconscious because the more minutes you go on dead the more brain damage you’re going to possibly have so after you are dead for a certain amount of time things start to happen i’ve known many people who said that they have seen light immediately and have not. I’m a strong believer, a strong Christian, but I still see the different side of it because I understand how people are coming from these types of views. I think that some people see it immediately and others don’t.
The other thing that really stands out to me, the fact that these supernatural things that are evil can stand out, but God can’t? there always has to be good and evil there has to be protons, and there has to be electrons which obviously makes sense on the science aspect as well so obviously there’s not just going to be nothing. There’s going to be definitely something Which is God
I think my favorite part of the film was when Beth got to clap back at the mother wanting her son to receive an A from her. That was sad but at the same time so satisfying to see the mother speechless and squirm when told Beth's husband killed himself and that's why she couldn't give a shit about about the mom's son.
I hope I'm not the only one that actually cracked up at that scene and the scene at the bar with her coworkers. She just looks like she's having a blast making everyone squirm, Rebecca Hall perfectly fucking captured that type of ultra-dark coping humor
I loved it too. As a widow I have had some people ask or say some uncomfortable or inconsiderate shit. So there have been times I enjoyed putting them in their place with an uncomfortable reply. It was very realistic imo
I love when metaphors in horror, I hate that its become a thing where if there's a metaphor its immediately called into question if its *even real*. Cause it feels like it doesn't want to commit to the bit that its supernatural because that'd be "silly" :/ . though this one is a good example of it, it doesn't feel like a cop out it because actually adds to the metaphor.
Your profile picture makes me extremely uncomfortable
Agree, this is a story that really benefits from the ambiguity. The whole "it was all in your head" trope is probably my most hated trope in horror, because 99,99% of the time it feels like a cheap cop-out to appear more "mature and deep". Pro tip, if you want your work of fiction to appear deeper with no added effort, just use a spooky monster as a metaphor for depression or trauma! That way you can skip all the nasty bits about mental health/trauma and just magically heal people by having them defeat the spooky monster (usually by them just realizing they aren't afraid or by forgiving themselves).
If you want to do a "it was all in your head" story, there has to either be a lot of ambiguity or it has to downplay the scares and not make that the focus. If you do a regular horror movie and go "surprise it was all in their head" at the end you just completely kill it.
It does feel like a cop out to me
@@leetri this. The monster being some metaphor (like the babadook) is WAYYYYYbmore meaningful than saying it was all dream and basically making the whole story and character development obsolete and pointless. Although mental illness, grief, etc. needs a lot more handling in stories than saying defeating the monster has suddenly made the person feel better.
Who else randomly came across foundFlix channel one day and now can't stop watching his videos
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I know the two moons represent the between world but here's something to add.
Two moons in the sky can also mean that Death is watching from above. Death is the one GIANT unknown in this life and the two moons could represent the eyes of this...death is always there, always watching, and ready to take you when he wants.
I'll definitely watch this movie now that you explained it. Seems right up my alley, psychologically and cinematically.
Im coming for you Kevin.
@@GeneralGlockasiah you can try.
This movie had no business being as good as it is! I expected a trope filled average haunted house movie and got the best horror movie I’ve seen in quite some time! Rebecca Hall is absolute perfection in this! Very much on par with Toni Collettes performance in Hereditary.
I know. This movie’s got some nerve making us like it.
Some people describe grief and depression like being haunted, so i think this movie makes a great metaphor for the combined experiences. Darkness always being there and after you, but having loved ones helps fight it off- with that primary loved one gone, it can be terrifying and can drive you to suicide, but remembering that there are sitll others out there who love you can really rescue you. I really like this interpretation of the movie. It makes the end seem a little hopeful and less foreboding.
Though I have to say, interpreting it this way makes the note much more depressing. Without the double meaning of the supernatural warning in place, it really just seems to be a sad goodbye note.
Really enjoyed this movie. Rebecca Hall holds the film together since she’s the one character onscreen the most. The ending confused me when I first saw it, but when I looked into it afterwards I kinda understood more
rebecca hall holds the film together because she's the main character? wow such amazing insight
This was also my favorite horror film of the year. The way Rebecca Hall's character ran around with reckless abandon instead of running away was so refreshing! Masterfully done film!
As a widower I found Beth's recount of the accident to be one of the most accurate parts of the film. As a widower myself, I found the way she played the role to be extremely accurate.
The one part that I found to be inaccurate from a widows standpoint is how easily she seemed to just throw his personal belongings away in the trash
I'm sorry for you. I hope you're doing well.
I haven’t seen this movie before until now. After seeing this summary, I can say I missed out on a great movie. It’s a really well written psychological horror, I genuinely think that there might’ve been something paranormal involved, rather than just her grief taking over her.
you don’t have to comment on every fucking video you watch
the only thing paranormal here is how are you in most youtube videos I watch
@@thehoffmeister3408 calm down
@@thehoffmeister3408 I mean, thats why this is called comment section.....lmao
Hello again
just two things I want to point out for anyone who might be interested, Owen carved mazes on the furniture in the house, the headboard of their bed has 3 and a dresser I think in the basement also had a maze carved onto it. reminded me of hereditary with it's hidden symbols.
next one is about Madelyne, I don't think it was really her in the house when she came to see Beth, Beth had just told the Nothing to talk to her and heard the same knocks/thuds as she did the first night it contacted her before Madelyne arrived. Madelyne seemed off through the whole scene and without the things she said, Beth wouldn't have gone to the second house and found the bodies. I think Madelyne may have been a vision the Nothing used to push her over the edge.
I saw this and was unexpectedly surprised at how great this film was. Definitely a sleeper hit of the year and one of my favorite films of 2021.
Just watched this movie today and am already ready for a rewatch. Didn't have many (if any) expectations going into the movie and was absolutely BLOWN away. The cinematography of the movie was incredible, and the scares were AMAZING. Rebecca Hall did a phenomenal job, and all the negative space was genuinely terrifying.
I haven’t seen this movie yet but as soon as you said “I freaking loved this movie. It’s my favorite horror movie of the year”… I immediately stopped this video so you didn’t spoil it for me and snatched my laptop and started playing it on a movie website. I’ll come back after I finish it to continue this video and add any thoughts on the movie. 🖤
My thoughts on the movie:
The thought of Beth just going crazy about her husband being a cheater and a serial killer doesn’t make sense to me. First of all, she doesn’t even find out he was killing women until the last act of the movie. So what the hell is everything else leading up to it then??? That’s all her psychotic break from him just cheating???? YEAH OKAY. Anyway… The neighbor confirmed that Owen was in fact building a house across the lake. The book store worker woman ALSO confirmed that Owen built a duplicate house across the lake and the sculpture. The weird books Owen had about tricking demons by creating a mirrored maze and a sculpture to trap it were confirmed by the male bookstore clerk when Beth brings them in. And the friend confirms the broken mirror in the real house actually happened when she checks on Beth at the end of the movie, and since Beth doesn’t have scratches on her face or hands IT WAS actually the back of her head that “somehow” hit the mirror.
I think somehow when she brought the sculpture home from his “work in progress” house across the lake it caused the two realities to collide. I think Beth is now getting to see what Owen did to actually protect her from death. I think death actually did exist, and was trying to get Owen to kill Beth so death can have Beth. I think that Owen did cheat on Beth but only when he brought the women to the mirrored house across the lake so death thinks him and Beth are there together (also the mystery cheating woman said he started choking her just after having kissed, so maybe he murdered them all before it even lead to actual intercourse. Which makes sense if he is doing all of this out of love and protection of Beth). And when the women touch the sculpture, it like traps an essence or something, of the women to be presented to death when Owen kills them.
There’s so much literal physical things that are seen by other characters that validate that it’s not just Beth creating these things in her mind to soothe her worries of him being a serial killer or metaphors for her suffering depression.
It makes all the sense, she found photos of other woen right at the start of the movie. Otherwise yeah, touching sculpture, etc. sounds the way I felt it.
@@melodi996 the photos were probably used by him to figure out if they actually closely resemble Beth side by side or not. That’s what I took from that anyway, or perhaps kept the photos as a counter, log book, or simply because he felt guilty.
I also think this 100% … it’s definitely supernatural lol we don’t need to over explain it with like, mental state and grieving and stuff like you said there is so many clues that what she’s seeing and hearing is in fact, real.
I do think the mental/grief route is extremely boring. But I have my biases because I find those movies boring. To me it's just a cheap excuse for scary stuff without ever having to fully commit.
I'll take the supernatural route.. is just more interesting to me
Your explanation totally makes more sense to me.
that strong opening made me stop this video to go rent this thang outright. can't wait to come back to this later for your interpretation and commentary!
@UCSReT-SUYtY1bf2SYPOU5FA that. is. so. smart. i'll make it kettle corn. have begun tweaking a recipe
ok im back. it was very good and kinda profound. felt like it had similar themes to House of Leaves
I did the same. Lol
absolutely agree with you in that this was by far the stand-out horror film of the year: great character arcs, interested ideas executed masterfully, and some absolutely gorgeous cinematography (especially when one considers the eerie "profile" {negative space} manifestations)
I ended up in group therapy after my wife passed 10 years ago. I recommended this and getting professional help one on one.
Many things have changed over the years on how to deal with such a loss. Prayers for anyone going thru any sort of depression.
This movie is one of the best for showing how deep mourning a loss of a loved one can go.
I cant wait to watch this movie. Rebecca Hall is so underrated and stunning. She was amazing in "The Awaking" and seems like this movie were you have to find out if it's in her mind or real.
I love how the lights actually went out for you, and your reaction to it was just priceless xD
Thank you for covering this movie. It's definitely one of my favorites from this year
I missed that! Can you tell me at what time in the video that that happened? Thank you.🙏😺🍀
@@frauleinmona At 3:30 - 3:40 his power actually went out xD
@@riakun Yeah! I can't believe I missed that! Thank you for giving me the time stamp! At first I thought people were talking about somebody in the movie. And I was going to ask, "What guy? I don't remember a guy being in a room where the lights go out!" . 😄
@@frauleinmona no problem! Glad to help ;D
@@riakun Awesome! And I'm glad FOR the help!😃🙏💖😽🍀
I literally watch this channel just so I can get the story and avoid being scared shitless. You are a master of your craft
Lol. I do the same, but my reason is so I don't have to sit through awful films. I like the way he gives a rating before the spoilers. If he likes it I usually watch the film first before coming been to finish his video.
Loved this one. Spent the entire movie feeling bad for Rebecca Hall's character, but I was happy she had a genuinely nice friend to rely on.
YESSS. I was waiting for this!! I appreciate that the entire film is just riddled with double entendre.
The old dark house plus mystery. And also when you're looking down the tunnel for light at the end, be careful because that light might be a train.
Sounds legit 👍🏽
Just watched this last night for the first time and I have to say the use of the negative space to represent the ghost was fantastic. It’s awesome to see a different way of presenting the supernatural in a movie. Very creative
"I loved this movie"
Great now I gotta sail the high seas and watch it before I watch this episode.
I thought the same, but decided to watch the video anyway and I am glad I didn't go out of my way to watch the film because it sounds pretty dumb. I think the interpretation of the main character being delusional is the better one.
@@beats6309 it was actually a really good movie. It was so creepy and kept my attention 100% of the time.
I did the same thing 🤣
@@pbower4378 Alright, maybe I should give it a try and judge after watching it myself
I do also sense it has something to do with her accident when she was younger. Talking about the tunnel of passing over. She basically cheat death and now death is coming back for her. Also within my knowledge of the spiritual world, I sense another reason why her husband created a maze like place within the house was to lure death away, to have it enter an endless maze before it gets to her. Though don't take my word for it, that's just my intake on the movie.
And just like that, my night just got so much better! Salute to this man!
Love the 'wtf' when the weather kills your power
I cant wait to watch this movie.
It’s a really good film. It’s not everyone’s kind of film, but I like slow burners like this
@Dawud Suleiman excuse me?
@Dawud Suleiman change YOUR name
@Dawud Suleiman I’ll have know I am no heathen. Remember tho satan loves you and wishes you the best.
@@Mofu2599 ..What
The way the hall looked like a male silhouette was a great touch 🤌🏽
That was so subtle but scary.
@@rosesweetcharlotte true..had to look twice to make sure I was seeing correctly
Love to catch an episode early. Haven’t watched it through but I’ve heard great things about this film so I expect a great experience as always 👍🏾
A possible symbolic interpretation is that the "dark urges" Owen experiences are real and brought on by the depression Beth was experiencing herself (potentially brought on by her near death experience). The corpses and flirting partners symbolize his struggle with the inevitable loneliness of living with someone with depression. This escalates until his attempts to "save her" from the nothingness of depression devours him completely.
i think you're trying too hard
This is the correct interpretation. Of course, any interpretation is subjective, but some are more closer to storyteller's vision than others. The Reaper in many mythologies is a boatman that conveys the soul to the beyond (like Charon taking souls to Hades through the River of Styx). Depressed people struggle with depression throughout their lives, and constantly think of death. While most people carry on with their daily activities with little to no thought of death or the lack of "life" in every breath they take, in severe cases of depression, people see death everywhere and imagine themselves in the most morbid situations. Every time they don't pluck a vein out while chopping vegetables or not jump off a tall building, they've cheated death. It's a call to the void that goes unanswered because there is more to life, more to live, and people continue living. The Night House is a masterpiece in how it portrays depression through the lens of a character who lives and believes in the futility of life. The negative space is Death, Owen is the boatman, Beth is the tainted/innocent eternal soul that should've passed on but hasn't because she fights to live every day of life, and Mel is the folly that contrasts all of Beth's understanding of life. (Mel has a companion dog whom he allows to guide him through the myriad paths of life, while Beth pushes away her friend even though she literally tells her she loves her.) There are scores of other symbolisms like that tied up Beth (which is opposite of the embryo, that is life) at the end of the movie, the mirror showing Beth versions of herself that she might have lost along the way in the 14 years of her marriage, the incessant drinking that she's actively poisoning herself without the least regard for herself, followed by the breaking of the bottle that shatters her depression and brings her back to life. This movie shows us so many facets of depression and how hard it is to "just stop being depressed" in the little it has. A true masterpiece.
This reeks of middle school 😏
So happy to finally hear you talk about this one, this one impressed me big time and David Bruckner is gonna kill it with Hellraiser if he brings this energy
Every time you say you like the flick, I immediately pause, watch the movie, and then come back to the summary. Great vid and recommendation!
The scene with the other woman that really really looks like her is easily explainable, if my husband had an image of a not me id assume he found my doppleganger and was planning on showing me lol, but i can image her grief and confusion clouding her mind for the worst
There are a lot of ways it could be explained, it's horrible to put yourself in the position of never having an answer
Kinda wished we had confirmation that the bodies were real but other than that i loved this movie.
@@reesetwist2290 the fact that Owen was killing women that resembled Beth in an attempt to trick "nothing", I would assume that the bodies are real. He built the mirror layout of the house also as an attempt to confuse and fool him.
Yeah, I didn't get how she jumped to that conclusion with such certainty
I mean, clearly he took that photo awhile before he died. So why would he not have shown her?
Omg omg omg you did my favorite movie of the year (until Last Night in Soho and Titane, that is)! I thought I’d never see you cover this and I’m super happy about it! And after reading the comment section it looks like a lot of people didn’t get the deeper metaphor of this movie at all or thought it didn’t make sense. With all the details and metaphors in this movie, you could write an essay, which I did! And it’s the only movie I cried every time watching! Just wow!
You actually cried watching this freaky movie before FF dissected it. So you figured all this out all by yourself;f? Kudos to you then Jake
@@dkayflowers79 Yes! I love this movie so much and saw it 6 times in the theater since I work at one! I’m a novelist so I really dissect things I watch when they hit me :)
@Nina Madeleine Köstinger Posted above out of this comment thread!
Last Night in Soho was magnificent! I always wondered why the men in her time looked like that but it makes so much sense in the end, and how protective the landlady was when (fuck I've forgot her name but female mc) was screaming in her room. Loved it, loved it, loved it!
@@ferndodd :D
The demon lives in empty spaces, SO CREATIVE
First time stopping a video part way through so I could go watch the movie. I'm stoked! I think this also highlights one of the great effects of your channel: bringing visibility to contemporary hidden gems.
When you were about to sleep, but FoundFlix posted so now that can wait for 30 minutes.
I loved your snarky tone when talking about Beth's husband building their home all by himself. I have watched enough youtube Homestead videos to know that you need a minimum of 2 people and more for certain parts lie the roof and walls.
Here's the immediate take I got after watching.
When Beth died and came back, she tore a her shaped hole in the nothing that she experienced, and it followed her around her whole life.
When she married her husband was particularly sensitive to the utter, gaping absence around his wife that drove him mad, and he built the house to try and trap what he thought was a malevolent force. When that didn't work, he took more and more desperate measures, eventually trying to sacrifice those women to it, which still didn't work, because he's trying to deceive nothing, there's literally nothing there to fool.
He eventually realized he would end up killing his wife, so he shot himself to stop it. Then Beth, in her vulnerable state, became aware of that hole and starts to believe it's her husband in her grief. In the end when she hears it and interacts with it, she's just hallucinating everything because she's trying to put human characteristic over something that inherently has none, because it's literally nothing, just a hole.
It's also just going to keep following her around until she eventually dies, possibly driving others mad as well. Also, given their apparent ages in the film, late thirties early forties, and they'd been married or together for fourteen years, they probably got together almost immediately after her death, and if her husband was taking the brunt of it's influence the whole time, it would explain how she never really noticed it before.
I love this take
@@mountainbee Why thank you.
Thanks for making these, bud! I have a pretty wild imagination a little anxiety, so scary movies are a no-go for me. But I really enjoy the narratives and the symbolism in the stories - so these walk-throughs are awesome for me! Thank you!
Same. I know my imagination and how it could give restless nights.
Beth’s dreams/hallucinations/whatever they are kind of reminds me of a darker, psychological version of Final Destination with the whole “cheats death and now death comes after her to finish what they started.” I know this film is really NOTHING like that movie series, but that particular scene between Beth and Owen just reminds me of that.
Wow you're right! I like that comparison!
What a feast it is for once to hear a movie summary told in the present tense (as a summary of fiction should be) and the analysis in the past tense, the narrator elegantly switching between the tenses without making a single false step.
Ending Explained: A woman prefers to think her dead husband was manipulated by death because it was in love with her, than to accept he was a serial killer...
It was in love with her? Wah?
That's literally how in love Rebecca hall is with herself.
Wait what?
@@thematiasmadness7010 No one knows. It made no sense.
@@iHaveTheDocuments I apologize I commented before watching the video. I thought the Foundflix guy had understood the film: Hall's character had a near death experience while young, this is when death "fell in love with her", and since then it has been after her. Death used her husband to try to killer her so she could be with it again, but he tried to trick it by killing other women. In the end, he had to take his own life in order to protect her. Totally absurd premise, and it plays more to my interpretation: she was so insanely narcissistic, she rather think death has a crush on her than to believe his husband was unfaithful (and also killing his lovers). Sorry about the misunderstanding, I'm not a RUclipsr, I can't make a video about it....
I tried watching this with my mom and we couldn’t finish it. My dad passed away when I was young and living in the house with his memory there felt like living with the ghost of our past. I love the concept behind this movie and the struggle with grief
So sorry to hear that, it's difficult to watch movies like these when you've experienced similar personal loss, glad you were able to share the thought, if you're looking for something light hearted I'd recommend the movies Friday and The world's end.
That's so sad. Watching the scenes where she's throwing away his toiletries and clothes was so strange. I'm not sure I'd be strong enough to do that if I were in the same situation.
Had me in the beginning as I found the mystery quite interesting and the sound design and cinematography were great; then it sputtered, crashing and burning in the end. The whole thing felt contrived to me now that I think about it.
Yeah it's not good.
I'm not a snobby hipster, but I also enjoy crapping on things other people like. Doing so makes me feel like I'm smarter/better than others. I'm not a snobby hipster though. I also listen to bands you probably haven't heard of.
@@teddyperkins3406 I'm sorry if my take on the movie offended you
@@RandalReid I'm sorry if my comment offended you
@@teddyperkins3406 Nah, I'm more sorry that my comment offended you
Thank you for breaking it down for me! I’ve seen the movie twice and liked it but didn’t get it. After watching your video I watched it again and now I finally get it!
In the beginning, when Beth tells Hunter’s mother what happened to her husband in the aggressive manner and putting the photo away, I thought she was angry with her husband for killing himself. He left her without leaving her much clue why and the whole time she thought they were happy. Anger is one of early stages of dealing with grief, too.
That audio change right before the power went out scared the crap out of me for a second.
I always watch these right before I fall asleep, they're so calming and this one is right on time!
no offence buddy but I think you might be a psychopath
I was listening to this with my eyes closed and the audio change at 3:30 scared the shit outta me
chris has watched so many horror movies that a ghost is starting to form and haunt him 😂
The jumpscare with the woman running off the deck was one of the best I've seen in so long. You're focusing on beth so you don't expect her and BAM. Spooked.
I had been waiting for this movie to come out since last December! I went to see it in the theater alone... And no one else was in the theater. I'm a horror fan and don't get scared easily. But the combination of being alone and the confusion she experiences genuinely scared me at one point! I, myself, felt disoriented and unsure if what I was experiencing was real. Soooo happy this movie was good!
I had to leave in the middle i was so scared. But i just needed to know it ended
Hey man, awesome video. I'm in the middle east with the army helping Afghanistan displaced civilizations. Your videos help me get through and remind me of home. I watch found flix in the US and your videos are great. Thanks again, keep up the great work.
The power going out gave me some hard-core chills.
For a sec I thought you where imitating a scare 😱
I just love the abrupt reminder that Flix is human too, weather goes out and we get a wholesome, undoctored “What the FUCK?!?!” doesn’t cut it out and act like it doesn’t happen, I just love the blend of comedy and professionalism, keep doing the good work
Ah I loved this movie so much. I adore stories that have depth to them and can be enjoyed as superficially or as complexly as the viewer wants. Its so rare these days.
I’ve been watching your channel for years now and just want to say thank you so much for being a creator.
Hell yeah, relaxing on a cold November night. Ready to have movies explained to me
I watched this tonight. I kept thinking I'd seen this, probably because I'd watched this video 6 months ago. You were right, it was great.
In a bar, Beth did assume that she could spread her mental illness to Oven, as she was the one with depression and dark thoughts. But in reality, it is more likely that Oven had developed an obsession over the idea that there's something on the other side. He spent a few years building up patterns and rituals around sacrifices and cheating "It", based on cheap fiction books. He built House and its mirror reflection the Night house. Filled it up with rooms that reflect objects in it (two workspaces, two sinks, square repetitive patterns on a bed, shelves, and walls). And, most likely had an obsessive fantasy about killing his own wife, but filled this need with doppelgangers. All the schizophrenic traits are on the table.
Later, he realized that he is actually ill, he informs the neighbor and prepares to stop it in a way. Proof of his realization in the last note: "there is nothing there", and with him gone- Beth will remain safe.
3:30 that “whoa” sounded like it was part of the script lol 😂
The original script was going to be a hellraiser movie when it got passed on it was retooled into this movie. With that in mind I believe the entity is definitely supernatural and not just a manifestation of her grief.
I agree. The physical books, sculpture, and mirrored house were all confirmed by both of the bookstore clerks and the neighbor guy.
maybe be a rework origin of the lament configuration. he could have been making one. which ties in the labyrinthian style
@@fodderfella Great observation! Love Hellraiser! Julia is my absolute favourite villain.
Been waiting for this for months man, no one reviews like you Mr foundflix
you're blessed with a big talent to make people laugh even if the movie is dead serious pls keep up with that🙏👍
Very well done movie. Loved the whole story line, character development, and cinematography. The whole 2 world thing with the house being what ties it all together was genius. 9 out of 10
I loved her eating from the casserole while drinking and watching the wedding video. Shows a real sense of humanhood that would pull the food out of the trash can like a racoon and going back to eat it. Everything is so understated here it's great
(spoilers) loved this movie especially the negative space house scenes! I do think he was serial killer, and the haunting part was her being chased by death who 'missed' the first near death experience and has been chasing her since. I think she was being haunted by depression too, and maybe the fears and memories of all the replacement women he killed. I think 'death' tried to reclaim her by possessing her husband so he wanted to kill her but he loved her so much he had to kill replacement women instead. So I think she will gave to continuously avoid death for thr rest of her life which could also mean suicidal or violent tendencies. Which is accurate to the way depression or schizophrenic delusions can take over your mind and you need friends and family to help fight that. I thought the main character was acted super super well :)
Foundflix is my "like before watching" youtuber. Then I watch
love how you talked through the phone call at the 24:00 mark
I went into this movie cold and ended up liking it a lot, I’m glad I watched it!
Same! 😄
@foundfix I love ALL your reviews! I always check in to see what you have reviewed next. I don't call them spoilers, I call your videos "encouragements"!! After watching you, I rush to check out a movie because I have to see the whole thing. THANK YOU for doing this. Keep 'em coming man.
As someone from the 315 there is a used bookstore in Syracuse (not Utica) called Books and Melodies where that scene was filmed.
My thoughts after finally watching this film: Beth is in deep denial about the truth of who her husband, Mel, really was. The more physical evidence she found, the more she became emotionally fractured. Because of her denial & emotional fracturing, she manifested an unknown dark entity to rationalize Mel's behavior. There were never any spirits in her home. It was her mind trying to acknowledge & deny the truth at the same time. In the end, she couldn't handle the truth, so she attempted to delete herself. As for Mel, I think he was struggling with who he was & what he was doing to those women. I think Mel hated himself. I think Mel wanted to stop but he didn't know how. That's why he deleted himself
Important to note that the movie makes sure the woman in the library is never noticed by anyone but Beth, leaving open the interpretation that it is just Beth dealing with grief through confronting a more clueless innocent version of herself. There is even a scene where the woman says she dreamed she was Beth. So we really can’t know for sure if the house and the bodies were actually there since this other woman was the only one to see it besides Beth. Truly amazing movie
Okay.. So. What about Mel the neighbor.. He told Beth that her husband had "urges" and he found him roaming around in the jungle with another woman.. Was all of that unreal/psychological too ??
I like that you left the power going out in the video. Seems like a odd one to leave in but it was entertaining given the subject matter.