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“You said it wasn't real!" Those last lines are horrifying when you realise this movie pulled the twist that it was never a typical Christain devil. Instead, it was an unknown pagan deity. That's why the exorcism went so wrong. It was like throwing a pebble at a steel wall. It was doomed from the start.
I just got tired of them blindly following a voice, that couldn’t possibly be staying so far ahead. There’s too much padding, to get a 90 minute runtime. Once the old guy had vanished, and the jerk boss, had bleeding ears, looking dead, one gets out of there, and comes back with cops. It was obvious that the orphanage was used to sacrifice children to whatever the thing we never see is. After over an hour of almost nothing happening, I knew it would be a long ten or fifteen minutes, before we get the ending. That walk, with all “the camera’s messing up” stuff, was a headache, with a decent ending.
Creator God is the boss of all those deities, just saying. It failed because the priest was a drunk and the other a demon worshipper. I've studied occult and Christianity at length and that's my experience.
@@WhiteWolfSpirit it's just a movie. You get that right? It's a movie, not real life. Wait which one is supposed to be the demon worshipper? Are you on crack?
@@WhiteWolfSpirit As it is all fiction, that's speculative on your part. "Creator god" is younger and definitely less powerful/influential in universe than the deity portrayed in the movie. As it's all fiction in the end, it all depends on the author's choice, and there's nothing in the movie to justify your claim, which has no relation to reality anyway, so it can only relate to fiction .
The fact that the creature/deity was awoken during a christening feels intentional. The rumbling starts when the baby cries, and that makes it feel like this being that hasn’t had a child sacrifice in centuries just heard the dinner bell, making its stomach growl.
i saw this movie when i was in middle school it was just on for some reason at night and the ending scared the ever living fuck out of me. when i described it to my friends they thought it sounded stupid
@@NightmaresinParadise It's because, it's the journey that leads to the destination that makes it disturbing. Literally anything can be made scary with a slow burn.
@@Nocturnewashere My point was in Mandela Catalogue the horror is realizing God isn’t real. That’s not scary to anybody who isn’t of an Abrahamic faith.
This is why getting eaten alive is one of my biggest irrational fears. Jaws initiated this when I was much younger and much smaller, then NOPE reinstated it. I don't care if someone's into it, the idea of falling into an inescapable unknown with tight walls closing in around you as you eventually feel yourself begin to slowly melt away is a nightmare.
Omg being eaten alive is my biggest irrational fear and I thought I was alone! Nope fucking destroyed me, I was disturbed for weeks. My fear actually came from cartoons, like Doug the Movie, American Tale, Magic School Bus, The Fairly Odd Parents, etc. I can't stand seeing the digestive system in a movie, it wrecks me. I knew about this movie cause my friend warned me about the ending lol.
@@madam-mint nah, its weird... like don't get me wrong, you do you and its a kink that aint hurting anyone but its fucking weird and its something you'll never experience so maybe the idea of it is "a delight" to you, but the experience surely wouldn't be no matter how warped to the idea you might be.
Yeah. Call me mental, but it was heartbreaking to me, too. They never asked for any of this. And what do they get for all their trouble? Digested alive. Poor guys.
Kinda terrifying that they were climbing all over it's back the whole time. There was no one movement or thought they had in private. Even as they slept, it watched. It let them walk right into it's mouth & down it's throat before slowly closing them in. It waited, waited, waited then simply closed it's mouth. How many have travelled down there?
Honestly the ending was refreshing in a way as we got a religious themed horror movie (found footage no less!) that manages to pull of something so bizarrely mysterious and unsettling rather than "yo satan and/or demons" for the 300th time. Perfect for the themes of the movie. I just wish the first half had been spookier.
PLEASE stop saying the name of that creature, natives have been telling us for years that saying it's name invites it to you and it is disrespectful to do so. Stop akinning every horror movie creature you see to revered religious creatures
I haven't heard of this, I'm excited to check it out! The movie made me think of Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, I definitely recommend looking into it if you haven't already
There's a great short film called FILM INFERNO made by the Japanese found-footage horror channel, and I'd say it's an even closer adaptation of "God's Mouth". Really worth watching!
The screaming sheep was actually triggering. I wonder how they managed to get that sound, as I assume they didn't actually torture a sheep for the film. So haunting and terrifying!
I really, really, really hope they didn't hurt the animal. I don't like films where animals are killed or hurt - I think its just sound effects, though. Fortunately!
The ending of this film hit me like a train. Catholicism meets Junji Ito. Their acting was amazing, the plea of screaming "YOU SAID IT WASNT REAL' just haunts me. The extenstional heartbreak of his reality, it was child like, but compared to such a creature we would be naive children. Amazing film.
One of my favourite films ever made. Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but two little things I liked in the films was: 1. When the dog attacks the rabbit, Gray makes a comment about bigger things eating smaller things and 2. one of the times early on when Gray is having a cigarette, the camera shows a grave with Gray's details before the camera turns away, then showing the same grave but with a different inscription
Yeah, I totally remember seeing that! I saw this movie years ago, so I can't give the exact time stamp, but he's outside of the church and the camera's on him with gravestones close behind him... look at the names and info in the gravestones! When the camera pans back by one time, the info has changed to his name and birth/death date. Of course he doesn't notice it, and when the camera pans back by again, it's back to normal. I did catch it by myself the first time I watched it, so you shouldn't have too hard of a time seeing it. Just another added foreshadowing, but straight up supernatural and creepy!
@@marytheresemandamiento9472 The entity can warp reality or something. The characters are constantly seeing things that aren't really there and if they were hallucinations then it wouldn't show up on the camera feed. During the ending, the entity "spawns" copies of dead characters to lead Deacon and Gray down the tunnels. It can also produce noises like the baby crying and can also impersonate the voices of previously mentioned dead people. There are other instances where the thing is openly fucking with the surroundings, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. I think it was trying to showcase its power to Gray by showing his name on the tombstone. I think the director was trying to say something clever about a self proclaimed agnostic ignoring or not seeing the truth right in front of him, but perhaps that's a stretch.
@@ClovernorisI just saw the movie and I’m not sure about “it spawns copies” cause the example we see of that is Mark, and there is a single scene where we see the perspective of Mark’s camera in the “cave.” So that must mean the Mark they were following was the real one
This film is *very* loosely based on the book ‘The House on the Borderlands’ by William Hope Hodgson, which Lovecraft has cited as a personal influence. Also extremely recommended for fans of cosmic horror (it gets *incredibly* weird in a way that’s rather ahead of its time). Edit: emphasis on the words “very loosely”. I can’t remember where I read it, but I definitely recall seeing something about House on the Borderlands having been a starting off point or reference for the film, even though most details were changed.
I found this book years ago and lost it, I couldn't remember the name. So thank you. You've done me a great service lol. Edit: having gone through the book in question, I can't say I see a link between it and the film. Still happy I found it again though.
I doubt it. Unless it's officially stated somewhere that this is the case. The only thing in common is the name. Everything else is far too different to even be very loosely based.
Never mind Lovecraft "Borrowing" The Sigsand Manuscript of Hodgson to create the much more famous Necronomicon. Of note, there is also an excellent graphic novel of House on The Borderlands that was published in the 90's.
Watched this for the first time the other month, grounded in realism and tightly executed, plus the surprise Lovecraft element that felt a lot more Lovecraftian than most cinematic interpretations.
Gray whimpering and crying "You said it wasn't real!" at the end while Deacon desperately prayed for both of them almost broke me, I wanted to cry. 😭The screams were horrifying - god, that scene stuck with me for a long while after. Amazing film :)
The ending of Borderlands is possibly the most intense and terrifying 10 minutes I've ever experienced on film. Just the thought of being stuck in a cave tube is horrible enough (check out the Muddy Puddy cave incident), but add to this, the deity aspect, and what Gray and Deacon really were in, and it is outright horrific.
I haven’t watched this movie, but that ending is horrifying. Indeed, it’s Lovecraftian by its concept and delivery. Rather than the horror of being a demon or vengeful spirit, the land itself is an unfathomable entity. Cosmic horror is and shall always remain as one of the my favorite sub-genre in horror. It’s the horror of something that can’t be understood or fought, or even escape is what makes it scary.
God the thought train that ran through me watching the end was an insane experience. "Hey that doesn't look right... It- It kind of looks like- OH FUCK OH FUCK IT IS" Absolute gem of a movie. I would love to find another movie that disturbed me and left me as stunned as this one did.
I saw this completely blind a couple of years ago, and damn it creeped me out. And that ending! Which also added an extra layer of spice to certain scenes in Nope, which strongly reminded me of this film.
Another thing that made me think of Borderlands is the short horror videos from the channel Q. Especially the "Film Inferno" one. That one is found footage and hella claustrophobic. I highly recommend it if you liked Borderlands. But yeah, THAT Nope seen felt very Borderlands too.
That poor sheep. I know it’s just a movie but it makes me feel sick that someone would torture a harmless animal in such a way. It also feels like a call of the shepherd leaving the 99 behind to find the 1 missing in his flock. It’s meant to be a loving symbol but now it’s being burned.
I've seen many found footage movies of this caliber and I have to say they really put a lot of effort into making us care about Deacon and Gray. They're treated like actual characters who grow and develop with one another, giving us room to like them in the process. In the end, it makes their loss feel all the more saddening to watch bcs I genuinely cared about them. It's nice to see movies like this that still take the character building aspect into consideration while maintaining the thrills as well
I remember once saying to someone as a teenager: “I dont know why its such a common thing to fear being eaten alive by something or why characters in stories always bring that up as the worst thing that can happen, wouldn’t it be so much worse to be eaten very slowly if you’re still alive?” Nope and this movie reminded me of how genuinely confused (and dumb) I was at the time and immediately unlocked a major new fear for me. Both movies makes me not even want to step outside out of the irrational fear of something swallowing me whole, and this is coming from someone who’s favorite movie as a child was Tremors and who absolutely LOVES tight spaces (its the cat instinct in me). Ig its mainly the fear of the agony that would come from the acid but god its actually so interesting how movies can just awaken something in you that will now never go away.
The film that reignited my interest in the horror genre some years ago. Ending is GRIM, but the scene that truly did it for me was what happened to that sheep. You don't see much of it, but the sounds are sickening and makes you feel as disturbed as the main characters.
The ending of this hit me like a truck, when I first saw it. I sat there wondering what I just watched, as I could have never guessed where they'd end up. So after the credits were done, I started it again, looking for clues. They were there, but without that knowledge, I don't think anyone could have guessed it coming. What a great film!
Actually just watched this the other day. Was pleasantly surprised. Every bit of the story adds to the overall narrative. I loved when the priest is on the top of the church and exclaims “if this is not the work of god then….” Pretty chilling. Doesn’t rely on jump scares, or the preconceived notions of religious horror prior. Such a good twist.
I love this film. The first time I watched it, it terrified me. And that ending has stuck with me, because its so god damn hopeless and horrific. Its awful seeing our two protagonists just stumble into their fate while trying to save people. Its cruel, but its such an effective way to end a story.
Even more awful since you actually grow to like the both of them by the end, there both very real and genuine charecters that I feel you don't see much in horror. Alot of horror films have very one dimensional charecters while this one has charecters that feel actually fleshed out.
When Deacon popped that kid in the mouth I actually got up and cheered. That poor sheep. Also damn I got thrown for such a loop with that ending!! Great movie
I've seen over 200 found footage movies - don't judge me, 2020 was rough. This one is in my top 10. The ending is so good despite the fact it shouldn't work on screen.
@batmanlovesamanda How funny, I did exactly the same in 2020! That and other low budget movies, discovered some total gems, like Ink, Buzzard, They look Like People and The Alchemist Cookbook. Any more Found Footage recommendations??
This is one of those times when have literally paused the video to go watch the movie (its free on youtube rn!), you're literally the only creator i find myself doing that for, and it's always worth it to come back for your thoughts. that ending was the biggest shock i've had in a while!
I wanted to add a point I dont see many talk about, and that is just how much this movie prepares us for what is to come. You mentioned the dog. How it attacks the rabbit and the characters remarking on how big things eat small things. The dog also targets Gray aggressively at one point, making a direct connection to him as a small thing. Gray is prey. But the one that sticks out even more is how Deacon does a magic trick where he gets the coin stuck in the bottle. He tells Gray to not believe everything he is told in the same dang scene. That means that statement is true of him as well. The bottle though...it's a neat metaphor for what happened to them. Once they went in those tunnels, getting out is much harder. Almost impossible.
@@naiknaik8812 I once said that if either Gray or Deacon was female, everyone would comment about the romantic undertones in the film. I stand by that.
At the beginning Grey explains that all the footage is being transmitted and recorded back to a server because the Church wants them to document absolutely everything, and throughout the film you can actually see them carrying and moving the transmitters :)
It is a literal giant monster under the church! I messaged the director of The Borderlands film on Twitter years ago to ask what it looked like, and he sent me a sketch from their VFX designer. It basically looks like a giant leech that has its mouth attached to the tunnels under the cave. *Update - I have posted the picture on my channel, if you go to the ‘community’ tab you’ll see the image posted there.
I always feel so sorry for poor Gray. He doesn’t really, truly believe until he’s terrified toward the end. And that idiot Deacon tells him it’s not real. When it’s too late, poor Gray cries out, “You said it wasn’t real!” Awe, that’s heartbreaking! 😂I love this movie.
The ending reminds me of a very old creepypasta I read called "God's Mouth". The stories are different, however they both have the same type of ending.
@@flamingcowjuice4918 this movie came out in 2013, while I could find readings of that creepypasta on YT going as far back as 2012 - then again, could also be pure coincidence 🤔
I always liked the idea that the monster at the end isn’t supernatural, that’s it’s just a giant worm that’s been mistaken for a god. That kind of adds to the hopelessness. There’s no divine will, there’s just the natural order of prey and predator. An order we desperately try to assign meaning to. But it’s all just nature. And in the end, to quote the film, “That’s nature for ya. Big things eating little things.”
i think it's just a coincidence. i just watched this movie, and watched Nope a couple days ago for the 2nd time. the only similarities is the digestion at the end, but even then they're only similar by that specific fact, and they both execute them differently. overall, both great movies in their own way.
It's in the comments section of one of your videos that I saw someone recommending to watch this movie. I did right after and now it's one of my favorites. I even watched it in a viewing party during quarantine with friends, who also really liked it. The ending is so fucking haunting and terrifying. Deacon's literal last prayer is so sad in a way. Being in absolute agony, but trying, for him and Gray, to find some peace at the very end by any means possible and, like you mention, some forgiveness from a God he's not even sure exists as he gets digested. Also just realized that the men's names are meaningful. In my opinion, here's what they could mean in the context of the movie: Gray = being between two different beliefs, he's agnostic, but would like to witness a miracle Deacon = his literal name is a rank in the Church. He was born to have a role in the Church, but failed to be an example of sainthood Mark = name of an apostle. Also, his last name is Amidon, meaning starch in French, but I'm not sure what the meaning of that could be, if there is one. Starch makes things stick together, but he's definitely not the "glue" of the group. idk
Definitely adding this one to my watch list. Far as recommendations go, its blows my mind that you still havent done a look at Noroi: The Curse and The Tunnel, frankly the two best found-footage horror films I've seen to date.
Omg, so I've never heard of this movie before, but I ran a cosmic horror dnd game a few years ago where at one point the characters progress through a series of underground tunnels beneath an ancient city that gradually become less stone-like and more flesh-like until they realize they are in the stomach of a giant monster! That is one hell of a coincidence but I absolutely adore it!
You make such a compelling viewpoint with the statement, "You want proof, here's your fucking proof." and that is just so metal of an ending for an otherwise mundane and tame presentation highlighted by the found footage aspect and personalities of the trio we follow. This was a great vid, Ryan!
The diety also reminds me of more norse and scottish myth (sorry I dont know much about irish myth) with like the storm worm or midgaurd serpent that when hybernating is so big it is the landscape and just kind of lets out a miasma of evil
Just watched this movie for the first time, thanks for making this video and finally getting me to watch it! Also, don't know if anyone else noticed, but there's an easter egg where one of the gravestones shows Grey's name and the year of death 2013 around halfway through the movie, but he looks away and when he looks back it changed to Grace.
i remember my dad was asleep to this and i went downstairs and got pulled into watching it when shit started to hit the fan and really enjoying it, never knew the name of it until now. great film.
Same!! My old man did the "OI! I'M WATCHING THAT!" falls back asleep immediately. I remember the burning sheep scene because my Dad nearly hit the ceiling! 😄 Yup! Definitely watching.
That ending in the tunnel goes absolutely crazy, gives me huge Jordan Peele “Nope” vibes, although I suppose it should be the other way around since this came first
This is on youtube from free, it's called Last Prayer- I just watched it and WOW- it was great! The ending made me think of what dying in a Sarlac pit from Star Wars must be like, slow and horrifically painful.
Cheers for this, I was wondering where I could watch it. Although I couldn't resist watching this whole video and reading the comments, so I have spoilered it for myself
You can't imagine my excitement when I saw this in my RUclips subs. This is one of my favourite lesser known horror movies. Saw it years ago and it genuinely freaked me out so much, I went to bed that night with an unshakable dread in my stomach. I loved it but I haven't actually watched it since because it creeped me out so much. The sheep screaming, the baby crying, and of course, the ending. Interesting how we could have been subjected to a giant CGI monster but it would never have been as effective as a simple claustrophobic "tunnel". So haunting.
Vizzare’s wailing is the most disturbing part of this movie, aside from the death by digestion scene that Vita Carnis shamelessly stole 6 years later. Either this unfathomable entity can clone its victims after digestion, or Vizzare was partially melted, but not enough to kill him, we also can see that despite the physical damage the digestion causes, it takes a while to kill its victim, or at least, a lot of time to do so. Grey and Deacon obviously died though.
Ooh I am definitely glad I didn't watch this one. The concept of being eaten alive freaks me out but then the added claustrophobia is even worse. I was disturbed just watching this video, can't imagine how it would've messed me up watching it alone
I normally hate found Footage but the ending of this movie completely shocked me. I hadn't had a movie give me such a sick feeling in my stomach and had me sit there in silence as the credits rolled. Great movie for doing something I've never seen before.
An extra crazy detail we can take away from this is that, due to the weird metaness of how found footage movies work; putting heavy focus on that 'found' part; we can assume someone else found those damn tapes, including the stomach stuff. The implies that someone else discovered the existence of this eldritch entity, and potentially dug it up.
I like to believe in the hopeful idea that the camera was found when someone demolished he church, which gives me a hopeful certainty that they killed it inadvertently, this horribly cruel deity's last moments fittingly spent in indescribable agony as it and its church are blown apart, crushed and torn to shreds over the course of weeks, if not months.
This movie is one of the best ff horror films I’ve ever seen. It’s humorous when needed, highly suspenseful and builds to a tragic ending. It’s so good
The last scene of this movie lives in my head rent free. It's the roommate of the scene in Terrifier that I don't even have to describe, because you know 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 which scene I'm talking about.
Thank YOU, Ryan, for covering this underrated and kinda secret gem. I liked it a lot, even the slow burn build up and the Celtic myth that was lingering over it a little, imho.
I so admire the impact of this film’s brilliant ending. I enjoyed the weird, unsettling folk horror atmosphere achieved throughout the film, and the conclusion was one of the most shocking and memorable of any film I’ve ever seen.
Thanks for another great recommendation! I've watched it twice since you posted this and I keep noticing new things, like at around 35 minutes in there is some creepy(or maybe cheeky?) foreshadowing on one of the headstones next to the church.
As soon as I watched the first minutes of this video I just had to watch the film before finishing it, here are my thoughts on it, beware of spoilers: I found the subject matter about Christian missions replacing elder or "pagan" gods super interesting, being mexican and having travelled a lot in my country, I've always found it sad how the spaniards colonized and replaced our culture with theirs(albeit some of the methods were far more cruel than this), In the state of Puebla there is a small city called Cholula, quite famous for the quantity of catholic churches and chapels it has, most if not all built on top of religious centers of the pre-hispanic world, heck the widest pyramid in America runs below the whole city(you can fact check this), forgotten and unearthed. Before the conquest Cholula was known to be The crossroads of religious worship from all across northern, central and southern America, all sorts of cultures went there both to trade in goods, pay tribute and worship to their deities. Now I am no historian, but it's easy to see how the easiest way to convince an alien culture that both your beliefs AND your ideas are more thruthful, is by literally building on top of theirs. It might be just my interpretation, but I thought the movie was a huge criticism of how judeo christian beliefs have trampled over countless cultures with the excuse of bringing "enlightement" to the poor, ignorant pagans(bitter sarcasm here)., though it is not a habit exclusive to the modern church, it was a method of culture castration since the days of Mesopotamia and before that. My only criticism of the movie is that it is just another flic where innocent christians suffer and pagans are horrible, child munchin' maniacs, I would love to see someone have a subversion of expectations by, for once, having a pagan deity be more benefic than the christiian god, but besides that I loved the eldritch deity, pretty fucking metal if you ask me.
That'd be awesome, a movie where the non-christian entity and its followers are the "good guys", that would be an awesome twist. Pagan worshipers being portrayed as cruel and harsh is such a played-out trope at this point.
That would definitely be interesting, although in this case i really did feel bad for the victims. They werent snobby about religion (except mark maybe), just guys trying to help
@@Cereza-chan yo no le rezo a nadie, al final todo es cultura y literatura, incluso los mitos de tu diosito Cristo, antes de él había miles de ídolos y habrá miles más después. ❤️✝️
HE FINALLY DID IT!! Thank you Ryan. This movie is so impactful, with its actors, sound design, logical reason for wearing cameras, and that fucking ending. The thought of being slowly dissolved alive is still the scariest thing to me.
A detail setup at the end is that when Grey puts down the little beacon thing to act as a breadcrumb trail acts like theyre going to be able to make it out or at least one of them if they finally have to run but when theyre forced to crawl more and more you begin to have this dread set in of a cave in but then it just whiplashes you so hard with the reveal
This movie is really good, the characters are kind of pricks as they often are in horror films but I never felt like they should suffer for it. I hoped they would get out of it. The ending is terrifying, both in the eldritch but also in the very real way. Moving underneath buildings and into catacombs, reaching a cave (I know it's not a cave but caving is still scary af) so small you have to crawl on your belly and getting stuck, suffering a horrific death? Nope. No thanks. I'm out of here. And it builds tension SO well. MWAH chefs kiss.
Hi Ryan. sorry I'm late comment on here. I just wanted to tell you something. You do such a great job on your videos. Your insightful analysis is witty and fun and intelligent. During the pandemic and after you were a great source of comfort in bringing that fun and appreciation of film and art and storytelling . Thanks for doing what you do. 🙏🏽☮️
god’s mouth is a short and sweet creepy pasta with the same concept. if you’re looking for something real the nutty putty cave accident, though it’s more sad than anything else
Remember, the mexija people (usually call aztec) apparently believe that the land is a sleeping monster with untold amount of crocodile mouths that need humans blood to stay sleeping
Great job, thank you. Another excellent choice too, one of the best found footage movies out there, naturalistic, understated and totally believable (yes they even manage to make that ending feel truthful), hence deeply disturbing.
Thank you for doing The Borderland. This is one of my favourite films. There are so many small horrifying incidents that make up part of a bigger more terrifying picture. Also it does a great job of creating a claustrophobic atmosphere, there are so few shots of wide open space and everything is small. The church is small, it's on a small patch of land and the place they stay is small and only gets smaller.
Yeah, I'm with everyone else: One of the greatest lines in horror film history is Gray's final dismayed, harrowing, horrified, "You said it wasn't real!" That line hit so hard, that it still sticks with me, almost 10 years after seeing this for the first time. Such a great, underrated movie, and one of my favorite of all time.
Fuck me I could've gone my entire life without ever hearing the sounds of a poor sheep being set on fire. Like I know it's fake and all but fuck me that was more haunting than anything else in the movie for me.
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How about a review of 'Nope'?
I'd love seeing you cover "Ghostwatch" another classic of British found footage
@@yareyare7806 Next week.
@@RyanHollinger 😯
“You said it wasn't real!" Those last lines are horrifying when you realise this movie pulled the twist that it was never a typical Christain devil. Instead, it was an unknown pagan deity. That's why the exorcism went so wrong. It was like throwing a pebble at a steel wall. It was doomed from the start.
I just got tired of them blindly following a voice, that couldn’t possibly be staying so far ahead. There’s too much padding, to get a 90 minute runtime. Once the old guy had vanished, and the jerk boss, had bleeding ears, looking dead, one gets out of there, and comes back with cops.
It was obvious that the orphanage was used to sacrifice children to whatever the thing we never see is. After over an hour of almost nothing happening, I knew it would be a long ten or fifteen minutes, before we get the ending.
That walk, with all “the camera’s messing up” stuff, was a headache, with a decent ending.
Fr. Those lines were so raw I got them tattooed on me.
Creator God is the boss of all those deities, just saying. It failed because the priest was a drunk and the other a demon worshipper. I've studied occult and Christianity at length and that's my experience.
@@WhiteWolfSpirit it's just a movie. You get that right? It's a movie, not real life.
Wait which one is supposed to be the demon worshipper? Are you on crack?
@@WhiteWolfSpirit As it is all fiction, that's speculative on your part. "Creator god" is younger and definitely less powerful/influential in universe than the deity portrayed in the movie. As it's all fiction in the end, it all depends on the author's choice, and there's nothing in the movie to justify your claim, which has no relation to reality anyway, so it can only relate to fiction .
The fact that the creature/deity was awoken during a christening feels intentional. The rumbling starts when the baby cries, and that makes it feel like this being that hasn’t had a child sacrifice in centuries just heard the dinner bell, making its stomach growl.
"You said it wasn't real!" Is still one of the few lines that actually gets me spooked when I remember the context
Also the reply, I KNOWWWW!
i saw this movie when i was in middle school it was just on for some reason at night and the ending scared the ever living fuck out of me. when i described it to my friends they thought it sounded stupid
Same! Yes that line is devastating
@@NightmaresinParadise It's because, it's the journey that leads to the destination that makes it disturbing. Literally anything can be made scary with a slow burn.
Should watch more movies because it's such a common line it's considered a trope...
The single, chilling line “Who have I been praying to all this time?” from The Mandela Catalogue always reminded me of this movie.
YEP
It doesn’t do much for me as I’m not Christian anyway
@@DeathnoteBB Okay. Want a cookie?
@Chandller Burse It is for the most part.
@@Nocturnewashere My point was in Mandela Catalogue the horror is realizing God isn’t real. That’s not scary to anybody who isn’t of an Abrahamic faith.
This is why getting eaten alive is one of my biggest irrational fears. Jaws initiated this when I was much younger and much smaller, then NOPE reinstated it. I don't care if someone's into it, the idea of falling into an inescapable unknown with tight walls closing in around you as you eventually feel yourself begin to slowly melt away is a nightmare.
Nope is horrific but a delight nonetheless
Never look up “vore” then, lol
Omg being eaten alive is my biggest irrational fear and I thought I was alone! Nope fucking destroyed me, I was disturbed for weeks. My fear actually came from cartoons, like Doug the Movie, American Tale, Magic School Bus, The Fairly Odd Parents, etc. I can't stand seeing the digestive system in a movie, it wrecks me. I knew about this movie cause my friend warned me about the ending lol.
@@madam-mint nah, its weird... like don't get me wrong, you do you and its a kink that aint hurting anyone but its fucking weird and its something you'll never experience so maybe the idea of it is "a delight" to you, but the experience surely wouldn't be no matter how warped to the idea you might be.
@@brandondanforth8342 i'm pretty sure they're talking about the movie "nope"
The lovecraftian ending of that film is so unexpected, shocking and out there. I think that's why it's so impactful.
Worth noting that the ending is unexpected WITHOUT feeling random or contrived. Not an easy thing to pull off!
the horrified screams of the guy with the other crying out prayer as they died slowly and painfully was so fucking haunting, man. like,,, jesus.
Yeah. Call me mental, but it was heartbreaking to me, too. They never asked for any of this. And what do they get for all their trouble? Digested alive. Poor guys.
homeboys need an oscar. thats the performance of a lifetime
*VORE*
@@spoobini😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was worse than the eating scene in “nope” because you actually saw them being digested
Kinda terrifying that they were climbing all over it's back the whole time. There was no one movement or thought they had in private. Even as they slept, it watched.
It let them walk right into it's mouth & down it's throat before slowly closing them in. It waited, waited, waited then simply closed it's mouth.
How many have travelled down there?
i mean, the past priest had fed the thing children, i'd reckon a lot.
@@afilthypeasant9646
As in - how many had been in their shoes. Looking into it before being lured down & munched?
Honestly the ending was refreshing in a way as we got a religious themed horror movie (found footage no less!) that manages to pull of something so bizarrely mysterious and unsettling rather than "yo satan and/or demons" for the 300th time. Perfect for the themes of the movie. I just wish the first half had been spookier.
Personally I think it needed to be slower with the horror as it builds tension and the sound of a burning sheep screaming is surely spooky enough😅
The movoe being so light pn scares until the end makes the ending so much better in my opinion.
I think the fact it's a slow burn makes it more realistic. Things don't always happen simultaneously in real life.
I love the idea of the monster not being a terrifying demon wendigo, but instead literally the earth. It’s super creative
It's not the earth, they're in the belly of a giant Lovecraftian worm. That's why they're being digested by stomach acid all around.
I think A wendigo is native American
PLEASE stop saying the name of that creature, natives have been telling us for years that saying it's name invites it to you and it is disrespectful to do so. Stop akinning every horror movie creature you see to revered religious creatures
@@MariAnimates well...not exactly revered....
@@MariAnimates It's disrespectful to those cultures if you're a part of them or directly interacting with them, stop trying to tell people what to do.
that damn ending feels like the closest thing we'll ever get to a film adaptation of the "God's Mouth" creepypasta, and it's all sorts of disturbing
Ooh, good comparison. That's of the few internet horror stories that really stuck with me.
Omg I LOVE God's Mouth.
Thats EXACTLY what i thought the second i heard about the ending. It had to be inspired by it, right?
I haven't heard of this, I'm excited to check it out! The movie made me think of Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, I definitely recommend looking into it if you haven't already
There's a great short film called FILM INFERNO made by the Japanese found-footage horror channel, and I'd say it's an even closer adaptation of "God's Mouth". Really worth watching!
The screaming sheep was actually triggering. I wonder how they managed to get that sound, as I assume they didn't actually torture a sheep for the film. So haunting and terrifying!
I really, really, really hope they didn't hurt the animal. I don't like films where animals are killed or hurt - I think its just sound effects, though. Fortunately!
@@phoebevaughan5095 At the end of the film it states; No animals were harmed in the making of this film.
The screaming of the sheep could be seen as a foreshadowing to their screams!!
The crew actually set it on fire
@@Steven-dk4nq its true, i was the sheep.
The ending of this film hit me like a train. Catholicism meets Junji Ito. Their acting was amazing, the plea of screaming "YOU SAID IT WASNT REAL' just haunts me. The extenstional heartbreak of his reality, it was child like, but compared to such a creature we would be naive children. Amazing film.
One of my favourite films ever made. Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but two little things I liked in the films was:
1. When the dog attacks the rabbit, Gray makes a comment about bigger things eating smaller things
and 2. one of the times early on when Gray is having a cigarette, the camera shows a grave with Gray's details before the camera turns away, then showing the same grave but with a different inscription
I can't crack number 2. What is it about?
Yeah, I totally remember seeing that! I saw this movie years ago, so I can't give the exact time stamp, but he's outside of the church and the camera's on him with gravestones close behind him... look at the names and info in the gravestones! When the camera pans back by one time, the info has changed to his name and birth/death date. Of course he doesn't notice it, and when the camera pans back by again, it's back to normal. I did catch it by myself the first time I watched it, so you shouldn't have too hard of a time seeing it.
Just another added foreshadowing, but straight up supernatural and creepy!
@@marytheresemandamiento9472 The entity can warp reality or something. The characters are constantly seeing things that aren't really there and if they were hallucinations then it wouldn't show up on the camera feed. During the ending, the entity "spawns" copies of dead characters to lead Deacon and Gray down the tunnels. It can also produce noises like the baby crying and can also impersonate the voices of previously mentioned dead people. There are other instances where the thing is openly fucking with the surroundings, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
I think it was trying to showcase its power to Gray by showing his name on the tombstone. I think the director was trying to say something clever about a self proclaimed agnostic ignoring or not seeing the truth right in front of him, but perhaps that's a stretch.
@@ClovernorisI just saw the movie and I’m not sure about “it spawns copies” cause the example we see of that is Mark, and there is a single scene where we see the perspective of Mark’s camera in the “cave.” So that must mean the Mark they were following was the real one
This film is *very* loosely based on the book ‘The House on the Borderlands’ by William Hope Hodgson, which Lovecraft has cited as a personal influence. Also extremely recommended for fans of cosmic horror (it gets *incredibly* weird in a way that’s rather ahead of its time).
Edit: emphasis on the words “very loosely”. I can’t remember where I read it, but I definitely recall seeing something about House on the Borderlands having been a starting off point or reference for the film, even though most details were changed.
I found this book years ago and lost it, I couldn't remember the name. So thank you. You've done me a great service lol.
Edit: having gone through the book in question, I can't say I see a link between it and the film. Still happy I found it again though.
I doubt it. Unless it's officially stated somewhere that this is the case. The only thing in common is the name. Everything else is far too different to even be very loosely based.
It REALLY isn't. It has literally NOTHING to do with that book in any way, shape or form.
Never mind Lovecraft "Borrowing" The Sigsand Manuscript of Hodgson to create the much more famous Necronomicon.
Of note, there is also an excellent graphic novel of House on The Borderlands that was published in the 90's.
@@mossadon Good to know. I'll seek it out if I can. What I'd really like to see though is a graphic novel of The Night Land.
Watched this for the first time the other month, grounded in realism and tightly executed, plus the surprise Lovecraft element that felt a lot more Lovecraftian than most cinematic interpretations.
Gray whimpering and crying "You said it wasn't real!" at the end while Deacon desperately prayed for both of them almost broke me, I wanted to cry. 😭The screams were horrifying - god, that scene stuck with me for a long while after. Amazing film :)
The ending of Borderlands is possibly the most intense and terrifying 10 minutes I've ever experienced on film. Just the thought of being stuck in a cave tube is horrible enough (check out the Muddy Puddy cave incident), but add to this, the deity aspect, and what Gray and Deacon really were in, and it is outright horrific.
The muddy puddy story had me feeling awful for days. Eugh.
Do you mean nutty putty?
@@MimicheyenneYes, Nutty Putty, that's it.
TEN MINUTES?!
I haven’t watched this movie, but that ending is horrifying. Indeed, it’s Lovecraftian by its concept and delivery. Rather than the horror of being a demon or vengeful spirit, the land itself is an unfathomable entity.
Cosmic horror is and shall always remain as one of the my favorite sub-genre in horror. It’s the horror of something that can’t be understood or fought, or even escape is what makes it scary.
God the thought train that ran through me watching the end was an insane experience. "Hey that doesn't look right... It- It kind of looks like- OH FUCK OH FUCK IT IS"
Absolute gem of a movie. I would love to find another movie that disturbed me and left me as stunned as this one did.
You might enjoy Kill List.
Possum is a good recommendation
Not a horror movie but Oldboy gave me a very similar experience
Paperboy was surprisingly disturbing and good
Just realized after watching this that the symbol they find is meant to be the deity's intestine. Such a clever and creepy detail
I saw this completely blind a couple of years ago, and damn it creeped me out. And that ending!
Which also added an extra layer of spice to certain scenes in Nope, which strongly reminded me of this film.
Agreed
Haha, ngl, when I saw Nope my main thought was "Borderlands did it".
Another thing that made me think of Borderlands is the short horror videos from the channel Q. Especially the "Film Inferno" one. That one is found footage and hella claustrophobic. I highly recommend it if you liked Borderlands.
But yeah, THAT Nope seen felt very Borderlands too.
That poor sheep. I know it’s just a movie but it makes me feel sick that someone would torture a harmless animal in such a way.
It also feels like a call of the shepherd leaving the 99 behind to find the 1 missing in his flock. It’s meant to be a loving symbol but now it’s being burned.
British lads for ya
Don't watch Cannibal Holocaust then.
@@rygord101 Oh hell no. The sheep is at least fake in this movie.
I love how when they're about to crawl into the worm you can see its teeth on the side, hinting on what awaits them once when do crawl in
I've seen many found footage movies of this caliber and I have to say they really put a lot of effort into making us care about Deacon and Gray. They're treated like actual characters who grow and develop with one another, giving us room to like them in the process. In the end, it makes their loss feel all the more saddening to watch bcs I genuinely cared about them. It's nice to see movies like this that still take the character building aspect into consideration while maintaining the thrills as well
Dammit, Ryan. Less than a minute in and you break my heart with a Lake Mungo reference
I kind of see it more akin to The Tunnel...
I remember once saying to someone as a teenager: “I dont know why its such a common thing to fear being eaten alive by something or why characters in stories always bring that up as the worst thing that can happen, wouldn’t it be so much worse to be eaten very slowly if you’re still alive?” Nope and this movie reminded me of how genuinely confused (and dumb) I was at the time and immediately unlocked a major new fear for me. Both movies makes me not even want to step outside out of the irrational fear of something swallowing me whole, and this is coming from someone who’s favorite movie as a child was Tremors and who absolutely LOVES tight spaces (its the cat instinct in me). Ig its mainly the fear of the agony that would come from the acid but god its actually so interesting how movies can just awaken something in you that will now never go away.
"Kitchen sink realism" is a GREAT description.
The film that reignited my interest in the horror genre some years ago. Ending is GRIM, but the scene that truly did it for me was what happened to that sheep. You don't see much of it, but the sounds are sickening and makes you feel as disturbed as the main characters.
The ending of this hit me like a truck, when I first saw it. I sat there wondering what I just watched, as I could have never guessed where they'd end up. So after the credits were done, I started it again, looking for clues. They were there, but without that knowledge, I don't think anyone could have guessed it coming. What a great film!
Actually just watched this the other day. Was pleasantly surprised. Every bit of the story adds to the overall narrative. I loved when the priest is on the top of the church and exclaims “if this is not the work of god then….” Pretty chilling. Doesn’t rely on jump scares, or the preconceived notions of religious horror prior. Such a good twist.
Yeah the only bit that felt kinda cheap and unoriginal is the fakeout jumpscare with grey, everything else felt super original and rad.
I love this film. The first time I watched it, it terrified me. And that ending has stuck with me, because its so god damn hopeless and horrific. Its awful seeing our two protagonists just stumble into their fate while trying to save people. Its cruel, but its such an effective way to end a story.
Even more awful since you actually grow to like the both of them by the end, there both very real and genuine charecters that I feel you don't see much in horror. Alot of horror films have very one dimensional charecters while this one has charecters that feel actually fleshed out.
@@JaySteiny fleshed out ( pun intended )
When Deacon popped that kid in the mouth I actually got up and cheered. That poor sheep. Also damn I got thrown for such a loop with that ending!! Great movie
I've seen over 200 found footage movies - don't judge me, 2020 was rough. This one is in my top 10. The ending is so good despite the fact it shouldn't work on screen.
What are the other nine?
@@ZaidValRoahopefully gonjiam haunted asylum for one! Best I had seen in years.
Tell us the other ones in the top 10
@@callum1465 Possessed By Horror has a pretty good list of 15 great found footage movies
@batmanlovesamanda How funny, I did exactly the same in 2020! That and other low budget movies, discovered some total gems, like Ink, Buzzard, They look Like People and The Alchemist Cookbook. Any more Found Footage recommendations??
This is one of those times when have literally paused the video to go watch the movie (its free on youtube rn!), you're literally the only creator i find myself doing that for, and it's always worth it to come back for your thoughts. that ending was the biggest shock i've had in a while!
Can you link the movie pls?
I wanted to add a point I dont see many talk about, and that is just how much this movie prepares us for what is to come.
You mentioned the dog. How it attacks the rabbit and the characters remarking on how big things eat small things. The dog also targets Gray aggressively at one point, making a direct connection to him as a small thing. Gray is prey.
But the one that sticks out even more is how Deacon does a magic trick where he gets the coin stuck in the bottle. He tells Gray to not believe everything he is told in the same dang scene. That means that statement is true of him as well. The bottle though...it's a neat metaphor for what happened to them. Once they went in those tunnels, getting out is much harder. Almost impossible.
OMG I suggested this one at some point! I can't have been the only one but regardless I'm so stoked you're covering this one, it's so good.
My favorite part of this movie is definitely the chemistry between Gray and Deacon. It's kinda like a love story.
And they were roommates.
Oh my God they were roommates!?
Oh my God they were roommates
History will say they were just friends
@@naiknaik8812 I once said that if either Gray or Deacon was female, everyone would comment about the romantic undertones in the film. I stand by that.
Incredibly the actor playing Gray has almost no other acting credits, which blows my mind given how good he was in this.
How does the film explain the final tapes being found if they were shooting inside the digestive system of a deity?
At the beginning Grey explains that all the footage is being transmitted and recorded back to a server because the Church wants them to document absolutely everything, and throughout the film you can actually see them carrying and moving the transmitters :)
It is a literal giant monster under the church! I messaged the director of The Borderlands film on Twitter years ago to ask what it looked like, and he sent me a sketch from their VFX designer. It basically looks like a giant leech that has its mouth attached to the tunnels under the cave.
*Update - I have posted the picture on my channel, if you go to the ‘community’ tab you’ll see the image posted there.
Can you share a link for that i really want to see it
Share a link please 🙏
@@Danselightyear I tried when the last guy asked and RUclips pulled it down for some reason. I’ll post it to my YT channel maybe that will work.
And you can see the 3 teeth. They go past them.
I always feel so sorry for poor Gray. He doesn’t really, truly believe until he’s terrified toward the end. And that idiot Deacon tells him it’s not real. When it’s too late, poor Gray cries out, “You said it wasn’t real!” Awe, that’s heartbreaking! 😂I love this movie.
The ending reminds me of a very old creepypasta I read called "God's Mouth". The stories are different, however they both have the same type of ending.
I was gonna mention this
I wonder if the story was inspired by the film or vice versa
@@flamingcowjuice4918 this movie came out in 2013, while I could find readings of that creepypasta on YT going as far back as 2012 - then again, could also be pure coincidence 🤔
@@kdparchives3395 perhaps they also could've been inspired by some other third source
@@Penguinmanereikel Ted the Caver! that one is the og caving creepypasta from 2001
I always liked the idea that the monster at the end isn’t supernatural, that’s it’s just a giant worm that’s been mistaken for a god.
That kind of adds to the hopelessness. There’s no divine will, there’s just the natural order of prey and predator. An order we desperately try to assign meaning to. But it’s all just nature. And in the end, to quote the film, “That’s nature for ya. Big things eating little things.”
All the nihilists whipping their cocks out for this one 😂
Some high explosives will kill that thing.
Ig they just wandered into a massive Graboid’s digestive system
Yeah you know except for the lights exploding, the child sacrifice, and the door being supernaturally locked.
The talking worm
So unbelievably unsettling. One of the best found footage endings of all time. Appreciate the breakdown, been looking for a good one for years
As a fan of Lovecraftian horror this is probably the first time I wish I had heeded the spoiler warning 🙃
Also, it seems to share some DNA with Nope.
i think it's just a coincidence. i just watched this movie, and watched Nope a couple days ago for the 2nd time. the only similarities is the digestion at the end, but even then they're only similar by that specific fact, and they both execute them differently.
overall, both great movies in their own way.
Ah yes the vore church movie
Nooooo
I’ll never think of it any other way again. Fuck you. Or thank you. I’m not entirely sure.
Goddammit
You didn’t have to say that 😂
Annnd thats how Im going to be referring to it from now on
I have a three day weekend and I'm going to spend it with my man Ryan.
Thank you for gracing us with your content
Three day weekend gang rise UP
@@thewizard1 hell yeah
It's in the comments section of one of your videos that I saw someone recommending to watch this movie. I did right after and now it's one of my favorites. I even watched it in a viewing party during quarantine with friends, who also really liked it.
The ending is so fucking haunting and terrifying. Deacon's literal last prayer is so sad in a way. Being in absolute agony, but trying, for him and Gray, to find some peace at the very end by any means possible and, like you mention, some forgiveness from a God he's not even sure exists as he gets digested.
Also just realized that the men's names are meaningful. In my opinion, here's what they could mean in the context of the movie:
Gray = being between two different beliefs, he's agnostic, but would like to witness a miracle
Deacon = his literal name is a rank in the Church. He was born to have a role in the Church, but failed to be an example of sainthood
Mark = name of an apostle. Also, his last name is Amidon, meaning starch in French, but I'm not sure what the meaning of that could be, if there is one. Starch makes things stick together, but he's definitely not the "glue" of the group. idk
Starch is also used to stiffen, his unyielding nature.
Good point. Deacon was obvious as a name but never saw it with the other two.
@@itsmainelyyou5541 oooh of course! Thank you, that makes total sense now.
Reg. Gray - are people here in comments confusing agnostics with atheists?
@@LeonserGT maybe! I used the same word Ryan used in his video. Sorry in advance if it's not correctly used.
The "tunnel" gives me serious The Enigma of Amigara Fault vibe
Definitely adding this one to my watch list.
Far as recommendations go, its blows my mind that you still havent done a look at Noroi: The Curse and The Tunnel, frankly the two best found-footage horror films I've seen to date.
The Tunnel definitely remains my all-time favorite!
Omg, so I've never heard of this movie before, but I ran a cosmic horror dnd game a few years ago where at one point the characters progress through a series of underground tunnels beneath an ancient city that gradually become less stone-like and more flesh-like until they realize they are in the stomach of a giant monster! That is one hell of a coincidence but I absolutely adore it!
You make such a compelling viewpoint with the statement, "You want proof, here's your fucking proof." and that is just so metal of an ending for an otherwise mundane and tame presentation highlighted by the found footage aspect and personalities of the trio we follow. This was a great vid, Ryan!
There’s a creepypasta the entertains the same concept called God’s Mouth. It’s much more shorter and straight to the point but stings just as much.
This is one of the best found footage movies I have ever seen. The ending was so chilling! Thank you for making a video about it 😊
The diety also reminds me of more norse and scottish myth (sorry I dont know much about irish myth) with like the storm worm or midgaurd serpent that when hybernating is so big it is the landscape and just kind of lets out a miasma of evil
Just watched this movie for the first time, thanks for making this video and finally getting me to watch it!
Also, don't know if anyone else noticed, but there's an easter egg where one of the gravestones shows Grey's name and the year of death 2013 around halfway through the movie, but he looks away and when he looks back it changed to Grace.
Yeah, i remember noticing 2013 on one of the stones but at the 2nd look it was changed to 1803, if i'm right.
I am SO HAPPY you’ve covered this film. It totally shocked me, and it takes a lot for a film to do that.
i remember my dad was asleep to this and i went downstairs and got pulled into watching it when shit started to hit the fan and really enjoying it, never knew the name of it until now. great film.
Same!! My old man did the "OI! I'M WATCHING THAT!" falls back asleep immediately.
I remember the burning sheep scene because my Dad nearly hit the ceiling! 😄 Yup! Definitely watching.
@@pirate_duck4985 hahah mine slept straight through it even with all the jump scares and insane stuff going on hahah he’ll sleep through anything
That ending in the tunnel goes absolutely crazy, gives me huge Jordan Peele “Nope” vibes, although I suppose it should be the other way around since this came first
This is on youtube from free, it's called Last Prayer- I just watched it and WOW- it was great! The ending made me think of what dying in a Sarlac pit from Star Wars must be like, slow and horrifically painful.
Cheers for this, I was wondering where I could watch it. Although I couldn't resist watching this whole video and reading the comments, so I have spoilered it for myself
You can't imagine my excitement when I saw this in my RUclips subs. This is one of my favourite lesser known horror movies. Saw it years ago and it genuinely freaked me out so much, I went to bed that night with an unshakable dread in my stomach. I loved it but I haven't actually watched it since because it creeped me out so much. The sheep screaming, the baby crying, and of course, the ending. Interesting how we could have been subjected to a giant CGI monster but it would never have been as effective as a simple claustrophobic "tunnel". So haunting.
Vizzare’s wailing is the most disturbing part of this movie, aside from the death by digestion scene that Vita Carnis shamelessly stole 6 years later. Either this unfathomable entity can clone its victims after digestion, or Vizzare was partially melted, but not enough to kill him, we also can see that despite the physical damage the digestion causes, it takes a while to kill its victim, or at least, a lot of time to do so. Grey and Deacon obviously died though.
Thank you for covering this! I’d never heard of it and that ending is… wild.
Ooh I am definitely glad I didn't watch this one. The concept of being eaten alive freaks me out but then the added claustrophobia is even worse. I was disturbed just watching this video, can't imagine how it would've messed me up watching it alone
I normally hate found Footage but the ending of this movie completely shocked me. I hadn't had a movie give me such a sick feeling in my stomach and had me sit there in silence as the credits rolled. Great movie for doing something I've never seen before.
An extra crazy detail we can take away from this is that, due to the weird metaness of how found footage movies work; putting heavy focus on that 'found' part; we can assume someone else found those damn tapes, including the stomach stuff. The implies that someone else discovered the existence of this eldritch entity, and potentially dug it up.
I like to believe in the hopeful idea that the camera was found when someone demolished he church, which gives me a hopeful certainty that they killed it inadvertently, this horribly cruel deity's last moments fittingly spent in indescribable agony as it and its church are blown apart, crushed and torn to shreds over the course of weeks, if not months.
This movie is one of the best ff horror films I’ve ever seen. It’s humorous when needed, highly suspenseful and builds to a tragic ending. It’s so good
Our father hollow be thy name...
The last scene of this movie lives in my head rent free. It's the roommate of the scene in Terrifier that I don't even have to describe, because you know 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 which scene I'm talking about.
So the baby heard crying when the machine was turned off was an actual baby already in the belly of the beast …
Thank YOU, Ryan, for covering this underrated and kinda secret gem. I liked it a lot, even the slow burn build up and the Celtic myth that was lingering over it a little, imho.
I chose to think it was just a big giant worm in the ground everyone was worshipping. Which is oddly funny.
I so admire the impact of this film’s brilliant ending. I enjoyed the weird, unsettling folk horror atmosphere achieved throughout the film, and the conclusion was one of the most shocking and memorable of any film I’ve ever seen.
I've been recommending this to my friends and audience for years!
So glad you finally covered it. Makes my life easier 😅 ❤
Jacob man I’m happy to see you here
Thanks for another great recommendation! I've watched it twice since you posted this and I keep noticing new things, like at around 35 minutes in there is some creepy(or maybe cheeky?) foreshadowing on one of the headstones next to the church.
As soon as I watched the first minutes of this video I just had to watch the film before finishing it, here are my thoughts on it, beware of spoilers:
I found the subject matter about Christian missions replacing elder or "pagan" gods super interesting, being mexican and having travelled a lot in my country, I've always found it sad how the spaniards colonized and replaced our culture with theirs(albeit some of the methods were far more cruel than this), In the state of Puebla there is a small city called Cholula, quite famous for the quantity of catholic churches and chapels it has, most if not all built on top of religious centers of the pre-hispanic world, heck the widest pyramid in America runs below the whole city(you can fact check this), forgotten and unearthed. Before the conquest Cholula was known to be The crossroads of religious worship from all across northern, central and southern America, all sorts of cultures went there both to trade in goods, pay tribute and worship to their deities.
Now I am no historian, but it's easy to see how the easiest way to convince an alien culture that both your beliefs AND your ideas are more thruthful, is by literally building on top of theirs. It might be just my interpretation, but I thought the movie was a huge criticism of how judeo christian beliefs have trampled over countless cultures with the excuse of bringing "enlightement" to the poor, ignorant pagans(bitter sarcasm here)., though it is not a habit exclusive to the modern church, it was a method of culture castration since the days of Mesopotamia and before that.
My only criticism of the movie is that it is just another flic where innocent christians suffer and pagans are horrible, child munchin' maniacs, I would love to see someone have a subversion of expectations by, for once, having a pagan deity be more benefic than the christiian god, but besides that I loved the eldritch deity, pretty fucking metal if you ask me.
That'd be awesome, a movie where the non-christian entity and its followers are the "good guys", that would be an awesome twist. Pagan worshipers being portrayed as cruel and harsh is such a played-out trope at this point.
That would definitely be interesting, although in this case i really did feel bad for the victims. They werent snobby about religion (except mark maybe), just guys trying to help
@@kman1893 yeah I definitely agree, it's actually one of the few horror movies where I've legitimately liked the characters.
Eso es porque es verdad, Cristo es Rey y a los dioses paganos al que tu rezas no son nada más que idolos sin vida
@@Cereza-chan yo no le rezo a nadie, al final todo es cultura y literatura, incluso los mitos de tu diosito Cristo, antes de él había miles de ídolos y habrá miles más después. ❤️✝️
HE FINALLY DID IT!! Thank you Ryan. This movie is so impactful, with its actors, sound design, logical reason for wearing cameras, and that fucking ending. The thought of being slowly dissolved alive is still the scariest thing to me.
A detail setup at the end is that when Grey puts down the little beacon thing to act as a breadcrumb trail acts like theyre going to be able to make it out or at least one of them if they finally have to run but when theyre forced to crawl more and more you begin to have this dread set in of a cave in but then it just whiplashes you so hard with the reveal
This movie is really good, the characters are kind of pricks as they often are in horror films but I never felt like they should suffer for it. I hoped they would get out of it. The ending is terrifying, both in the eldritch but also in the very real way. Moving underneath buildings and into catacombs, reaching a cave (I know it's not a cave but caving is still scary af) so small you have to crawl on your belly and getting stuck, suffering a horrific death? Nope. No thanks. I'm out of here.
And it builds tension SO well. MWAH chefs kiss.
Hi Ryan. sorry I'm late comment on here. I just wanted to tell you something. You do such a great job on your videos. Your insightful analysis is witty and fun and intelligent. During the pandemic and after you were a great source of comfort in bringing that fun and appreciation of film and art and storytelling . Thanks for doing what you do. 🙏🏽☮️
Damn that sheep screaming is going to haunt me.
Thanks for covering this one, the ending has been stuck in my head for almost a decade now 🎉😮
First, Markiplier posts Cave Crawler and now this. Is it "cave turns into cosmic horror digestive system" week?
I also got recommend a Ted the Caver video and a Mystery Flesh Pit blog this week lol. Definitely weird
god’s mouth is a short and sweet creepy pasta with the same concept. if you’re looking for something real the nutty putty cave accident, though it’s more sad than anything else
Thank you for covering this movie, it's freaking amazing and very underseen. That ending! Arg!
Built a church over a bloody sarlacc.
cannot wait to watch this! your channel has introduced me to so many new films, always excited to see a new upload
I had never heard of this film before, but god damn do I want to watch it now. Especially with an ending like... THAT!
It’s worth the watch even knowing the ending
Remember, the mexija people (usually call aztec) apparently believe that the land is a sleeping monster with untold amount of crocodile mouths that need humans blood to stay sleeping
Yep, good ol' Cipactli
Great job, thank you. Another excellent choice too, one of the best found footage movies out there, naturalistic, understated and totally believable (yes they even manage to make that ending feel truthful), hence deeply disturbing.
Don't have an opinion about most of the film but that's a really horrible way to go. Digested alive.
I had such a visceral reaction to the tunnel closing infront of them.
Thank you for doing The Borderland.
This is one of my favourite films. There are so many small horrifying incidents that make up part of a bigger more terrifying picture.
Also it does a great job of creating a claustrophobic atmosphere, there are so few shots of wide open space and everything is small. The church is small, it's on a small patch of land and the place they stay is small and only gets smaller.
Yeah, I'm with everyone else: One of the greatest lines in horror film history is Gray's final dismayed, harrowing, horrified, "You said it wasn't real!" That line hit so hard, that it still sticks with me, almost 10 years after seeing this for the first time. Such a great, underrated movie, and one of my favorite of all time.
It’s loosely found footage, but I’d be interested in your analysis of Savageland (2015)
Second that
Same. I have an autographed copy & got to speak to the director a few years ago & he was shocked how well people loved it. Truly well done & freaky
yaaaaaaaaaaay the borderlands! one of my favourite found footage movies that has a good premise for the format and nails the execution
According to this movie and Adam Neville I should avoid Devon at all costs
Is Last Days similar? I have the book but never got round to reading it!
@@RyanHollinger I haven't read it, I'm part way through the reddening, another Devon tourism deterrent
Good Lord the clip with the sheep on fire crying out like that is so horrifying , I actually got sick to my stomach , poor baby
That ending stayed with me for a loooooong time.
Fuck me I could've gone my entire life without ever hearing the sounds of a poor sheep being set on fire. Like I know it's fake and all but fuck me that was more haunting than anything else in the movie for me.