The movie is poorly written. You don't go back when you find your own fucking child sleeping in the bedroom of strangers who ARE NAKED. It's just trash, I didn't enjoy the movie a bit.
@@YunoGasai414 That was my biggest problem. When they go back and they're trying to explain why they want to leave, surely you would just be like 'I found my child in bed with you and your husband was naked, that's completely out of order, we're leaving'. Even though the wife is like 'but she was crying, where were you?' - well then you could have woken us up. Found that very unconvincing.
Fuck sake… psychological nightmare… I didn’t know what to do with myself. The end is so barbaric, it leaving you asking why million times, also I won’t trust strangers ever, and you gotta trust your gut feeling!!!
'Creepy' is the wrong word for it, it is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen... It is even more disturbing when you think that a lot of things like this and worse than this are happening in reality. Some things seem unrealistic about it, in terms of how certain characters react, but the world is a big place with all sorts of people, so perhaps some people would react in woefully inadequate ways when circumstances demand something else.
One of the only films to ever make me feel truly uncomfortable and disgusted. I love all kinds of horror and thrillers. But this film hits you like a ton of bricks.
Watched it today, thought it was rather good, although the plot beats are extremely predictable - reminded me of the 'characters trying to save face' from Ostlund, with a smattering of Funny Games and The Strangers. Not one I'll be wanting to see again, but some very interesting character dynamics!
I just watched this last night, and Mark is right when he says it's very unsettling. As a social satire on societal norms and etiquette it's pretty sharp. It's an exercise in how to build tension, and it is an uncomfortable watch if just for how the Dutch couple behave in front of their Danish guests. And not least how Patrick the Dutch husband starts overstepping his bounds towards the Danish couples daughter, and his treatment of his son during the dance scene. Throughout I was wondering where this was going to go, and boy, the final twenty-five minutes are something else. It takes a while to get where it's going but the payoff definitely made it worthwhile.
A lot of people/families are going through even worse than this in the real world though, despite most of us living in a delusional, anaesthetised, rose tinted bubble. It is highly disturbing, but more disturbing is when you start thinking about reality.
This film was frustrating - there's a ton of clever techniques, moments and decisions, that turn the dials of tension, and some of it is SO good, genuinely uncomfortable and awful! Then it makes some stupid choices that undermine that tension. This film annoys me *because* it's so close to being genuinely brilliant and in a class of its own. Still VERY much worth a watch - plenty of times your skin will crawl
A few times the reactions and decisions seem unrealistic, but in the real world people do dumb things and fail to do the right and obvious thing a lot. A lot of people endure oppression and torture as well as let it happen to others as they fail to act in time or stand by scared and cowardly.
A movie that teeters between reasonable and unreasonable--from a meta sense. The writing tries to manipulate you into believing that the things that happen in the movie are just benign enough to justify a polite passivity. The problem is that during the middling half of the movie, a relatively dangerous implication happens and one character decides to recede their concern over this potentially evil thing from a simple talk in a kitchen with other parties involved. It really just tries to justify the unjustifiable. That is what pulls me out of the movie. There are a myriad of these instances, but the major one, and the most significant one--which snitches on the ending--leaves a lasting impression of implausibility that casts a larger shadow than the fear the movie wants to elicit. I would've enjoyed the movie much more if there had been a GOOD point the movie was trying to make, more than just 'being too agreeable.' It doesn't even try to connect it to symptoms of modernity and the gradual, instinctual erasure to a point of not recognizing danger. It leaves out those implications, and instead simply relies on the randomness of picking several people out of a group and betting, through non-absolute personality ques, that they happen to be gullible enough to be treated like the film displays. The message would've been much stronger had it given itself a proper ending, and not a weird, vapid, instantly deflated pseudo-resolution. There's nothing objectively wrong with playing something by the numbers. You'll just have to accept that you'll be boring because of it.
This film was awful because it was seeing a lot of well crafted tension and atmosphere wasted on a completely shallow one dimensional point, not a plot really just a point, and characters that don't act like humans specifically to make that point. Over and over and over again. And then they explain it to you because they think you're a moron. Do not waste your time with this film. I'd also point out that although unpleasant the ending is really not anything uniquely horrifying or shocking, in no small part because of how predictable it is.
Feelgood movie of the year. Leaves you speechless, but enjoyable when stoned.
Take the kids
I see what you did there 😅
Yeha you need to be stoned to enjoy this total rubbish which doesn't make any sense.
This movie ruined my night.
Only your night? I still haven’t recovered.
@@apmeehan watched it (Danish version) two nights ago and I'm obsessed
@@dirky9147 Haha yeah it’s fucking brilliant isn’t it. Hadn’t been so affected by a horror film since seeing The Exorcist when I was a teenager.
Why oh why did they go back for the rabbit, always stick with your gut instinct
The movie is poorly written. You don't go back when you find your own fucking child sleeping in the bedroom of strangers who ARE NAKED. It's just trash, I didn't enjoy the movie a bit.
@@YunoGasai414 That was my biggest problem. When they go back and they're trying to explain why they want to leave, surely you would just be like 'I found my child in bed with you and your husband was naked, that's completely out of order, we're leaving'. Even though the wife is like 'but she was crying, where were you?' - well then you could have woken us up. Found that very unconvincing.
You're evil for this 😂
also, the rabbit was in the car the whole time :p
Good lord it was a tough watch. Cuts deep, especially if you have kids of your own. Excellent horror.
Fuck sake… psychological nightmare… I didn’t know what to do with myself. The end is so barbaric, it leaving you asking why million times, also I won’t trust strangers ever, and you gotta trust your gut feeling!!!
Even more horrific than the recent remake. The ratcheting up of rhe tension and dread was very well done.
'Creepy' is the wrong word for it, it is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen... It is even more disturbing when you think that a lot of things like this and worse than this are happening in reality. Some things seem unrealistic about it, in terms of how certain characters react, but the world is a big place with all sorts of people, so perhaps some people would react in woefully inadequate ways when circumstances demand something else.
I brag about not being scared anymore and then I watch this… couldn’t finish it, job done.
One of the only films to ever make me feel truly uncomfortable and disgusted. I love all kinds of horror and thrillers. But this film hits you like a ton of bricks.
Try watching Dancer in the Dark if you want to feel even more uncomfortable.
Are there no police in Holland or Denmark? 🤷♂️
What? And the ruin the plot? 😉
Thank you for uploading! Is this from their old podcast?
@@SomethingVague07 You're very welcome. Nice to meet other fans. It's an old review from their new one.
@@seancorrigan7448 Idk how I missed this 🤭
I enjoyed it but I'll never watch it again the third act is just too uncomfortable for me.
Watched it today, thought it was rather good, although the plot beats are extremely predictable - reminded me of the 'characters trying to save face' from Ostlund, with a smattering of Funny Games and The Strangers. Not one I'll be wanting to see again, but some very interesting character dynamics!
I just watched this last night, and Mark is right when he says it's very unsettling. As a social satire on societal norms and etiquette it's pretty sharp. It's an exercise in how to build tension, and it is an uncomfortable watch if just for how the Dutch couple behave in front of their Danish guests. And not least how Patrick the Dutch husband starts overstepping his bounds towards the Danish couples daughter, and his treatment of his son during the dance scene. Throughout I was wondering where this was going to go, and boy, the final twenty-five minutes are something else. It takes a while to get where it's going but the payoff definitely made it worthwhile.
An uncomfortable and unsettling film that descends into misery porn.
A lot of people/families are going through even worse than this in the real world though, despite most of us living in a delusional, anaesthetised, rose tinted bubble. It is highly disturbing, but more disturbing is when you start thinking about reality.
This film was frustrating - there's a ton of clever techniques, moments and decisions, that turn the dials of tension, and some of it is SO good, genuinely uncomfortable and awful! Then it makes some stupid choices that undermine that tension. This film annoys me *because* it's so close to being genuinely brilliant and in a class of its own.
Still VERY much worth a watch - plenty of times your skin will crawl
A few times the reactions and decisions seem unrealistic, but in the real world people do dumb things and fail to do the right and obvious thing a lot. A lot of people endure oppression and torture as well as let it happen to others as they fail to act in time or stand by scared and cowardly.
A movie that teeters between reasonable and unreasonable--from a meta sense. The writing tries to manipulate you into believing that the things that happen in the movie are just benign enough to justify a polite passivity. The problem is that during the middling half of the movie, a relatively dangerous implication happens and one character decides to recede their concern over this potentially evil thing from a simple talk in a kitchen with other parties involved. It really just tries to justify the unjustifiable. That is what pulls me out of the movie. There are a myriad of these instances, but the major one, and the most significant one--which snitches on the ending--leaves a lasting impression of implausibility that casts a larger shadow than the fear the movie wants to elicit.
I would've enjoyed the movie much more if there had been a GOOD point the movie was trying to make, more than just 'being too agreeable.' It doesn't even try to connect it to symptoms of modernity and the gradual, instinctual erasure to a point of not recognizing danger. It leaves out those implications, and instead simply relies on the randomness of picking several people out of a group and betting, through non-absolute personality ques, that they happen to be gullible enough to be treated like the film displays. The message would've been much stronger had it given itself a proper ending, and not a weird, vapid, instantly deflated pseudo-resolution.
There's nothing objectively wrong with playing something by the numbers. You'll just have to accept that you'll be boring because of it.
Seems very much like 'Funny Games'
Cant wait to watch this tonight i am so excited is it really creepy yall
My pick for film of the year
My goodness people you've never seen a good film in your life then. 😂 This film is rubbish, seriously.
@madameversiera seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about. Don't watch films, you're not very good at it.
Amazing Movie 😮
This had so. Much potential but was ruined at how stupid and unrealistic In the end the victims were
some people just freeze or comply in the face of oppression, torture, abuse etc. even when others are involved.
You just know the Danish couple were fully vaccinated and had all their booster shots.
With that logic, the Dutch couple who mutilated and murdered children were the unvaccinated ones.
Because they’re not retarded?
This film was awful because it was seeing a lot of well crafted tension and atmosphere wasted on a completely shallow one dimensional point, not a plot really just a point, and characters that don't act like humans specifically to make that point. Over and over and over again. And then they explain it to you because they think you're a moron. Do not waste your time with this film. I'd also point out that although unpleasant the ending is really not anything uniquely horrifying or shocking, in no small part because of how predictable it is.
true
Horrible movie, totally unpredictable
Unpredictable is a good thing.
I thought it was very predictable, saw the ending coming from a mile away
I felt the same. I really didn’t like this but not because the film was rubbish, but because it was so uncomfortable from start to finish.
😂 definitely hahah