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How about a video on In a Violent Nature? I thought it was a brilliant satire on the monotony of being a Jason-like slasher.
@@RyanHollinger Perhaps you could do videos on:
- The Fear Street trilogy
- Tigers Are Not Afraid
I've been hoping for a couple years watching you now that you'd one day talk about One Cut of the Dead
Please do the movie "Dogtooth"!
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the Underworld series
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as an avid consumer of victorian era ghost stories, I Am The Pretty Thing is LEGITIMATELY one of my favorite films ever made. I just find it pitch perfect and I honestly find it endlessly fascinating. I've often said it feels like a movie that was itself directed by a ghost, filled with hazy contradictions and dread and sadness
I also love this movie so much, and I honestly think it's because I'm a fan of older, quieter, more genteel ghost stories, like those of M.R. James or Algernon Blackwood. Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite authors, and this film felt so very like one of her stories. I think there is a case to be made that Iris in the movie is representative of her quiet domestic 1960s horror. I feel like in regular horror movies we get little spikes of building tension followed by moments of relief and catharsis, but with IATPTTLITH we just get very slow building tension throughout the whole thing, like a coiled phone cord stretched to its very limit, never breaking. Actually it's a crazy stormy winter night outside, so I think I'm gonna have to watch it again right now 😂
Oh yay, I've found the right thread! I love it too. & I feel like Lily's death by heart-attack when she finally properly SEES Polly is what makes the early reveal that she's the narrator work. You spend a great deal of the film wondering how she'll die, & other movies would set it up to be a dramatic, violent spectacle. A supernatural showdown like something from the Conjuring series, or Nancy Drew solving the mystery & fixing the sadness in the house somehow before a valiant sacrifice of herself for the safety of others. How heartbreakingly REAL it is, that she dies of shock, how frustratingly ordinary. How perfectly it fits into the tragic theme that lives are short, quiet, unimportant, & that if we linger after death, we do so sadly, always hoping for a taste of life for even a moment more. That we are dependent on being remembered by the living to even leave a shadow. How maddeningly hungry & lonely it must be to be a ghost.
Agreed! I loved it too.
I’m the type of person who usually likes these kinds of stories but I was left kinda disappointed by this one. I just feel like it had so much potential with the premise and the atmosphere but it kinda falls flat. I just really didn’t connect to these characters and the plot wasn’t interesting enough to compensate. It’s not a bad film by any means, I just think it could’ve been better.
@@aroha9090 "how maddeningly hungry and lonely it must be to be a ghost" is such a great sentence! Honestly your whole comment is so well written...you shoukd write your own ghost story, I'd read it!
“1800s-candlelight-by-the-fire bullshit” made me cackle
As someone who loves 1800s ghost stories like A Turn Of The Screw, every 'warning' at the start of this video was an endorsement.
I'm not strong enough to endure most modern horror movies, but I LOVE ghost stories and all those warnings are hooking me too. I'd love to hear more recommendations for ghost movies along the lines Turn of The Screw, or even A Ghost Story. I think ghosts are interesting on a conceptual level.
@@gota7738 The Awakening. Not quite 1800s. Its around the early 1900s....WWI. Very good. A woman goes to try and uncover the hoax of a boarding school haunting.
I loved The Turn of the Screw but I could *not* get into this movie!! I tried to watch it multiple times, because I love Victorian horror as well. But I couldn’t get into it! Maybe I’ll try again soon lol.
@@gota7738 Not sure why my reply didn't post back when you first did, but ah well. The Awakening is another good ghost story movie. Its set in the early 1900s rather than 1800s, but still. Its about a woman who goes to a boarding school to prove a haunting is a hoax.
The Innkeepers is also pretty good from what I remember, though my memory is much more hazey on what the plot was, other than its set in the modern day.
Neither movie has super intense scares, to the best of my memory. Just good ghost stories.
@@Sisren86 Sounds perfect. Early 1900's is just as good! In fact I like hearing Ghost Stories from different time periods. Even in written records, it gives you a different insight into then current fears.
I feel like there's a really big difference between Scary and Spooky, and while I respect the former it's the latter I really enjoy.
This is like, the ghostiest ghost movie ever made. The whole movie just feels *haunted*, you know? not in an OOGA BOOGA way but in an... I dunno, in a real way.
For the record I LOVE this movie.
It's not about scares, it's about fear. It's not about twists, it's about fate. It's not about excitement and drama, it's about isolation and passing.
Like an abandoned house on the edge of cul-de-sac. Once vibrant now stagnant
Exactly! Atmosphere and tension rather than jumpscares or spoonfed plot twists. Just the lonely fact that we all die alone, and that is inevitable.
It gives me Shirley Jackson “The Haunting of Hill House” vibes. You can’t prove anything - it’s just that everything is off and something about the house is “wrong” enough to drive a lonely woman crazy
@@HoneyBeeFlanzman There was another thread here about how much this movie feels like it has heavy Shirley Jackson influences, and as a Shirley Jackson fan, I cannot argue or complain at all.
This movie reminds me of Lake Mungo. It’s not for everyone, but if it’s for you (and you’ll definitely know if it is) you’ll be thinking about it for weeks.
The setting got me thinking of Katherine Hepburn's brother who died in 1920 when he was 16 and she 13. They saw a silent film version of Frankenstien while spending a summer with an aunt. During the film the brother let out a blood curddling scream that terrified the audience. The aunt thought perhaps the film was too much for them and took them home.
The boy was an all star athlete and under tremendous pressure to excel in everything by his dad. That night he hung himself.
These gothic films and stories always center around a frail girl of some kind. Would be interesting to see what the times were doing to the boys. The detective who investigated marveled "What would cause a boy to be so determined to die he forced himself to keep his knees bent?" The cieling was too low to properly hang from. If he simply stood up, he'd have lived.
13yr old Katherine found him the next morning. She eventually turned tomboy to take his place and please her dad. ...Dads.
Jesus Christ
Two Ryan Hollinger HOYEVER Horror retrospective videos in the same week? You spoil us.
Exactly! when he said a trilogy i was excited for what the next 2 weeks would bring
Dont forget ... HARROWING
the pretty thing that lives in the HOYSE
I love HOYEVA ❤
Came for the content stayed for HOYEVA. ...actually it also works the other way around.
HOYEVA - thx for the video, love it
Definitely something I love to see
I feel like the imminent death intro thing could’ve been done really well if it turned out to be Lily coming to terms with her own mortality and peace with the fact that someday she will go like Polly and Iris with only fleeting reminders of herself left. But those fleeting reminders are a good thing. Like beautiful echoes.
it's cool how you still give the film a fighting chance even though it's not your vibe. like i said in my comment on your gretel & hansel video, perkins is my favorite director, and obviously, i have a thing for the slow, flowery way he tells stories. it's cool to see it from someone else's point of view when these things are so personal to me.
Yeah, I liked the vibe, of the Blackcoat’s Daughter, and it’s one of Emma Roberts few performances, that I’ve ever enjoyed, with Kiernan Shipka, doing as well, even though she doesn’t get as big a moment, as Robert’s.
I rewatched, and sadly, other than a few hints at very ambiguous things, and I just never care, or get why, both girls do what they do.
Kat just suddenly Carrie’s out murders, thst she seems to not be wanting to do, as if it’s a pact, but the movie never shows enough to make me feel anything about it.
I likely missed something, as much of the movie, I found difficult to get through.
I have no issue with his type of pacing, but there are so many scenes that just aren’t needed, which only serve to make it a longer movie.
I have friends who love it, and just see it as they both made a pact with some evil entity or force, and neither have any choice in doing the murders, either Roberts character being g much more into it.
Whats your take. Is their a scene I missed, that better explains it, beyond the devil made me do it, after asking him for help?
Yeah this one is *very* artsy and I don't think the plot is even the point of it (though yeah it's hard to make out at times due to the artsiness). It's more about the camera work, framing etc. House on Haunted Hill this is not.
@@CorbCorbin My take is that Kat is initially manipulated by the devil (or a demon) to accept its presence due to her loneliness and the trauma of finding out her parents died. She is then possessed by it. Apparently her loneliness and isolation are so crushing that she actually WANTS to be possessed, as she feels some connection with the devil. This is why she asks it not to leave after the exorcism. But the exorcism works and she is put into a mental hospital. After six years, the devil is the only memory Kat has of someone caring for her after her parents died and out of desperate loneliness she decides she is going to try to force him to return. She kills a worker named Joan, steals her identity, and breaks out of the hospital. Then she runs into Rose's parents and kills them to bring their heads to the boiler of the school to summon the devil. It doesn't work and she weeps.
So basically Kat's motivation changes depending on the part of the film. Everything after Rose first sees her prostrated in front of the boiler, including Kat's initial murders, are the acts of the devil possessing her. Everything after she is exorcised, including after the 6 year jump and the murders of Rose's parents, are simply Kat's decisions. This is why she acts differently when killing the women and Rose as a kid compared to killing Rose's parents as an adult. When she is possessed the killings are done without hesitation, as she IS the devil. While the murders of the parents are deliberated over, and she vomits afterwards. She doesn't want to kill Rose's parents, but she is desperate to see her only friend (the devil) again. Her crying at the end is her realizing that she killed them for nothing and that, no matter what she does, she is totally alone in the world.
‘stay away from the mould in the walls’ resident evil reference
Loved the camerawork in this, it was so experimental and trippy. This combined with A Ghost Story are incredible examples of why I think it *being* a ghost is much scarier than encountering one. I got the sense we *weren't* supposed to really sympathize with either of the characters even though Lily appears to be the main character. It's actively hostile towards the characters. If you notice, the camera often frames her as far away, from the back or from a weird angle like someone's looking at her.
I feel like the fact it's tied in with elder care is really key- anyone who's worked in a hospital or nursing home will tell you death isn't at all like the movies. It's not dramatic and shocking, it's mundane, normal, even boring. People dying is part of the procedure- eventually you go to the hospital and don't come back or get carried out on a stretcher and then they clean your room, someone has to deal with your stuff, and then someone else moves in. Humans are in the end just meat that eventually stops moving- once you're gone you'll rot or burn away and then that's the end as far as we know anything for sure.
Makes me wonder what would have happened if this movie was a short indie videogame instead. Not sure how much some things would have improved and some things would have stayed the same (especially if the payoff is still iffy and if there's no additions/changes added to the story), but I wonder if most of the meandering parts and basic plot of the movie would've been handled better in a videogame.
It would probably feel somewhat like a darker version of Going Home maybe? A game that...isn't really a game. I would so go for that.
I think it might be more of an atmosphere piece like What Remains of Edith Finch.
I guess the game Paranoiac by Uri games plays along with similar concepts (content warning if anyone does decides to check it out).
Just got done watching it for the second time and I think either I misunderstood some bits or maybe Ryan did? The thing about cosmetic changes is that the estate will *not* pay for 'cosmetic' repairs rather but will for structural ones. Which gave me the impression that Mr Waxcap was implying that it wasn't important enough to be dealt with yet, as Ms Blum was going to die soon anyway. There was something else but I've already forgotten it...
The other thing that confused me is the fact that Ms Blum made the deliberate choice *not* to put in Polly's death, rather than put it in, as we find out later that Polly didn't know how she died, so Iris didn't want to rewrite her story. I might have confused these points though.
One of my favorite films. When people talk about having a horror genre "comfort movie" this is the one I think of. Love it!
For me, this was the perfect gothic horror - and infinitely more unsettling than most 'horror' movies of late. Perkins' use of darkness was masterful; you can feel something looking back at you from the negative space. But, mostly, he goes for *dread* rather _terror_ - and probably why people either love it or hate it. Give me one _The Pretty Thing_ over a hundred _The Conjurings_ - a movie so tedious I started doing laundry 30 minutes in.
You know the options aren't either of those? Hush came out 4 years before this... Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor (an actual satisfying gothic horror) came out the same month. Hereditary was always an option. Like, just because something is shite in the other direction doesn't mean this is somehow close to good.
Honestly has a good point. It's not scary because there is some murder ghost but is instead scary because a person is dying alone in their big empty house with the only company being of a hospice nurse who barely knows her. Though the angle of being reminded you will be forgotten after you die is both sad and scary.
@@kaingates I watched both Hill House and Bly Manor and they were entertaining, but I've watched Pretty Thing three times and I'm riveted every single time.
i watched this movie years ago and really enjoyed it. i remember it as being more sad than scary, i felt bad for the mc
Yeah I figured that's why they told us she dies right away. It really really doesn't want us to be surprised. I mentioned A Ghost Story in my post above but also The Innkeepers is an interesting film in this vain where nothing happens for a long time and the ending is more sad than scary. I think that's often the case with ghost stories bc ghosts can't usually do much to hurt you in traditional stuff
It actually reminds me a little bit of the 2002 film Dark Water. Although that film is labeled as horror, I found it to be more tragic and sad. As opposed to being scary
@@CoOlKyUbI96 Talk to Me was super sad in the end, at least for me. Though it did have plenty of gore to keep you awake
@@CoOlKyUbI96 The Japanese original of Dark Water is even more sad and oppressively atmospheric than the remake, and the subtle acting is supurb. I highly recommend it!
@@thing_under_the_stairs I do think it’s a good film. That’s the version I was referring to. The original Japanese version came out in 2002. The American remake came out in 2005.
I adored Pretty Thing. It felt like it truly knew death and loss, and even though I knew she would die the whole time it still broke my whole heart
I truly love this movie. Had a cat that came around for a while that I called Mr. Waxcap.
Wonderful cat name!
Glad to read in the comments that I am not the only one who loves this film. I am a big fan of Perkins’ work and I feel this is his most underrated. I will always appreciate Ryan’s reviews, however. He’s always measured and thoughtful. One of my favorite Film reviewers on this site
I've told friends of mine about PRETTY THING when discussing LONGLEGS, and I describe it thus: "There are about 10 people in the world who adore that movie, and I'm one of them." And I fucking love, LOVE it. It was exactly the kind of horror/ghost movie for me, and I'm so happy the praise for Perkins' latest is getting PRETTY THING more views now. One of my fave horror films of the 21st century. It is on the same list of underrated horror gems as the SUSPIRIA remake for me. Criminally underrated.
1:28 E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey is out. Ryan Hollinger's Seven Shades of Sh*t is in. 😆
Without a doubt, this is one of my favorite ghost stories. It reminds me of the first ghost story I ever read as a kid and the slow buildup of dread it made me feel. I think a good ghost story should be a slow burn rather than a bunch of jump scares, ‘cause it’s not about the momentary burst of adrenaline; it’s about the dread and the isolation and the slow but precarious slip into madness
Super Hype for Blackcoats Daughter. One of my favorite movies
Longlegs is from the same director, coming out soon!
Same!
That movie was truly creepy and I watched it on a whim & was quite engaged with the 2 lead characters (Emma Roberts in probably her best role). I’m excited to see what Oz has in mind for Longlegs; I’ve avoided the trailer so I can go in blind
@@LucyLioness100 Yeah Kiernan Shipka is good in it and she has had some truly awful performances more recently. I really wanted to like her bc of Mad Men but she seems to have the same issues as January Jones. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was at least already completely stupid (though there were several actors that still managed to be fun) but she was really bad as the daughter of Bette Davis in Feud and everyone else did their damndest there and there was definite meat to work with in her role
I really love this movie, I'm glad you're covering it's I feel it's underrated but I understand why so many people don't like it. It just brings that spooky vibe to the max sometimes.
I got deadlines, HOYEVER, I can always make time for a Hollinger review!
I love old, ambiguous ghost stories from the golden age of spiritualism - stories like _Turn of the Screw._ I knew from the opening narration exactly what was going to happen. The dread and suspense came from not knowing exactly when or how. For me, the result is masterful and tremendously unsettling. The theme of being trapped in darkness resonated with me. Our main character and her charge are ghosts even while they are alive - though, for different reasons, neither of them know it, yet. Like Oz Perkins, I lost one of my parents to AIDS. I got to watch them wither away, sink into AIDS-related dementia, and become a ghost long before they passed. We had a complex and not-altogether-healthy relationship, as well. So - while your review is thoughtful and detailed, as always, I find I must gently differ. For me, _I am the Pretty Thing That lives in the House_ is near perfection. Cheers!
I definitely must have an affinity for this sort of storytelling because I really enjoyed this movie. I'm glad to see other people talking about it.
I unironically love this movie, but I really love gothic ghost stories overall. I can recognize how it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea though.
When Ryan said that he was going to cover the remaining work of Oz Perkins, I didn't think he meant this $@#& week!
I read the title and instantly thought of the movie, this movie is just that depressing. It's kind of a vibe though and it the ending really stuck with me. I really wish we had more horror movies like this, personally.
I LOVED this movie. The opening alone I have viewed dozens of times. It isn't just eerie, it's fascinating.
Since i was a child I've been consuming horror movies, now turning 20 I've watched hundreds of horror movies in my life yet out of all of them this one somehow always gets under my skin and gives me goosebumps
Such a good film
Missed a few weeks, it’s time to marathon
I'm curious about Ryan's take on this movie. It didn't do much for me but I did think it was well-crafted.
I just realized who Oz’s dad is, and he looks just like him.
Man two vids from Ryan in the same week? The hype for “Longlegs” must be worth the binge of the director’s prior work 😉
I watched this movie 3 times when it came out hoping that I would understand it more, but I got nothing! I even forced my mother to watch it hoping we could come to some kind of conclusion. In the end we just felt like we had wasted our time. Thankfully, as always, your video helped me get SOMETHING out of this movie.
Same I felt totally lost and that ended up = not liking it.
I remember watching it based completely on the eerie 'somethings gonna happen' vibes and came away pretty satisfied. I could not tell you what happens either though 😂
It's funny but like I was legit scared from begining to end. For me what really takes me is when you are in a house but not quite alone. Also when I watched the movie with the opening line I knew the mc would die in one way or another. Maybe because I am less sceptic and already went with the "oh ghost that makes sense."
Don't forget the references to his mother as well -- Berry Berenson's photo is literally on the wall of the living room.
EDIT: his family history is laden throughout most of his filmography. Paula Prentiss was a family friend who literally came out of retirement to play this role. (Re: Paul Jasmin, the voice of the demon in The Blackcoat's Daughter, who was one of the voices of Mother in the Psycho series).
Sir, I just cannot tell you how much I simply enjoy your videos. They are an absolute highlight to my day. Thank you.
The first time I saw this movie I hated it. Years later I watched it again and now it's one of the best ghost stories I've ever seen on screen.
I liked this movie a lot once I finally watched it all the way through but it took me three tries because I kept falling asleep during it. The only thing that made me keep trying to watch it was that my brother finished watching it that first time and said it was really good.
This is the most Ryan I've had in such a short time. Kinda wish I hadn't watched it because I expect it now. Let's go for video number three!
The protagonist revealing at the start that by the end of the film, she'll be dead: that's fine! Leaves us in suspense of how it's going to happen. Her literally telling the old woman "you almost gave me a heart attack" and then me joking "well, she's dead by heart attack". THAT pisses me off.
The house feeling slightly crooked a la Hill House: that's awesome! Completely falls to shit when the house is just... cozy?? Like, I could tell the film was trying to make the viewer uncomfortable with the type of camera angles it was using but I'm like "it's cozy, lots of light, clean carpets, you hear the nature from outside, I wanna live here." And I thought that that's what they were going for, at first, like Nellie in the Haunting, she falls in love with the haunted house in a way that's distinctly Uncomfortable only for her to never leave again. And then they DIDN'T GO FOR THAT??? It just gave off all the wrong signals than I think it wanted to give off. The main character has very little personality, her anxiety has no build-up, she has no build-up of any kind really and if she did, the movie's too slow for it to be really visible (or it became visible past the point I stopped paying attention cus fuuuuuck was this boring).
Maybe if the lady in the walls was slightly visible in the wallpaper, like that's how she travels around. Maybe if the main character and the old lady had more of a relationship. Maybe if the main character acted like a normal person and then slowly became the character she is in the film now, as if she represent the normal world slowly losing itself in the isolation of this house (me, yelling at the screen: UHM, if the old lady you're taking care of is yelling, MAYBE SPEED UP A BIT). Maybe if the reveal of Polly's death was more... I dunno, logical. The book doesn't have the ending, the old lady writer says she doesn't know the ending cus the ghost won't tell her. In fact, the relationship between the old lady and the ghost is more established than the old lady and the protagonist. How do we know how Polly died if nobody told us/knows it in the first place? Or maybe if it was the protagonist's imagination that got the better of her, which, again, I thought was what they were going for and then they revealed 'no, her imagination is right, a woman's dead body is in the walls and her ghost whispers in your old lady's ear' and then they promptly kill her. THE MISSED POTENTIAL, I CAN'T -
Just... Yikes, I really did not like this, felt like an hour wasted. Which is a shame cus I love slow-build spooky stories. But maybe I've been spoiled too much by Mike Flanagan, the master of slow-build spooks
My wife, roommate's and myself all watch this film together. The movie emanates the vibes it sets out for the whole time. The problem we had as Ryan brings up, it's slow and just very bare bones. We started to refer to the film as "I am the pretty door in the house" because of how many lingering shots on the front door there were.
If you like this sort of story telling all the power to you, but I can't bring myself to even try and watch it again.
I tried watching this movie on Netflix, but even with the volume all the way up and no other sounds as it was the middle of the night, I couldn't hear enough to understand anything, so I just turned it off and forgot it existed.
I remember watching this movie on a whim years ago and being so terribly bored and underwhelmed by it, so I was hoping this might help me see if I was wrong BUT I guess it just wasnt a movie for me haha
Same thing here, i was shocked going through the comment section and seeing how many people loved it lol. I'm usually good with connecting with horror films that are actually more about the emotional stuff than the horror, but idk, nothing about this movie connected with me.
i absolutely adore this movie, i watched it in early quarantine and it shook me to my bones. sad that there's been such little discussion around it
I like that this film actually feels like ghosts, not monsters. It feels eerie. like a gothic novel. For cheap jumpscares I could pick any other Hollywood movie.
Watched this. I love it. Even though I wouldn't watch it again and actually think its pretty boring. But it has...idk a VIBE that charmed me. It did so well at what it was trying to do.
I had a hard time watching this one, and I fully own up to the fact it wasn't for me. God bless you for analyzing this. (My ex and I always called it "I Am The Terror That Flaps In The Night" because the title always reminded us of Darkwing Duck's speeches.)
1:53 He just described a Junji Ito story.
I absolutely adore this movie... I love slow burns and this creeped me out so much!
omg even just seeing the poster still gives me chills. watching it gave me the creeps even tho it was so subtle in its story
Not Ryan making my work hours better.
always.
@@MightiMidget *Snape and Lily's theme sounds*
Thank you SO MUCH for saving me 90 mins of my life and one less movie in my cue. All your vid does is make me want to just go back and rewatch the Haunting of Bly Manor.
this was the first movie in like 10 years that made me sleep with the lights on
Me too! Haunted me for months. Would be afraid to go pee in the night. 😂😂
I agree with your take! I liked plenty of his other movies, but this was the first movie I've ever fallen asleep to. I'm a scaredy cat, but it was such a slow burn that i actually fell asleep and it surprised me when i realized lol
I felt the same way 😅
This man is rolling out these videos like a train love em
I watched this film years ago during a trip with my friend. It was super late at night, the bus was super dark and we were in the verge of falling asleep.
The movie did creeped on us slowly, and we questioned ourselves why the main character is acting weird, and when she died of a heart attack we said the same thing you said: "that's it?"
But at same time, i felt weirdly melancholic about her death and how she also turns into a blurry ghost...
It really is a gothic story by the likes of Henry James and Shirley Jackson, authors i hadn't get in contact back then. Now i think i should absolutely rewatch this film again
I loved this movie, the opening narration had me hooked.
I LOVE this film. It makes the hair on the back of neck stand up every time I watch it. I also really enjoy the soft speaking throughout the movie.
I loved this film. It was more of an atmospheric story rather than a plot or character driven one, that slowly unfolds without giving so much away that there is no sense of mystery left. I absolutely wasn't asking "is that it?" The ending felt completely satisfying to me. You have to be willing to go where the film takes you and not expect it to be something that it's not. It's a horror story in the vein of The Yellow Wallpaper, not something with the typical Hollywood plot beats and big scares.
I had to watch this movie THREE TIMES because i kept falling asleep during the slow dragged out parts. Which is weird cuz i love flower-melancholy symbolism driven stories, so goth horror is usually my bread and butter, but this movie wasn't? for some reason? idk I just kept thinking "I wish this was a book" and "maybe i should just read the script" between snores.
I am also in the "I love this movie" camp, but I think this appeals to a very specific type of horror fan. I found it really beautifully sad and lonely...to me it really illustrates how in the end, no matter how we live our lives, we all take the journey of death alone. It's very reminiscent, as others have commented, of more traditional Victorian ghost stories. I get heavy Shirley Jackson vibes from it too. All that being said, I appreciate that you still gave it a shot. It's definitely not for everyone :)
I really enjoyed this movie. I like horror, but my favorites are psychological and atmospheric horror and this fell very nicely into the second category for me. Most jumpscares I find cheap, giving a brief in-the-moment scare that doesn't really relate back to anything and, upon a second watch, isn't scary because you know it's coming. Pretty Thing had such a tense atmosphere throughout the whole thing because it kept building and building, leaving you wondering just *how* Lily was going to meet her death. And in the end, it was such a simple thing--a heart attack based off of fear, which was foreshadowed to us in the very beginning when Lily herself told us how much she despises horror as a genre because she is easily scared. I can absolutely understand how this kind of horror, and this movie in particular, is not for everyone, but I ended up loving it and highly recommend it to people who also love atmospheric horror.
I'm one of those old people who actually has a collection of about 1000 flicks on disc (mostly obscure horror from the 70s). So for me, it is a damn crying shame this movie never had a physical release since it is one of my fave contemporary horrors and I'd love to have it on my shelf next to Let's Scare Jessica to Death. For shame Netflix.
Two videos in one week?!?!? You're really spoiling us man
Not all ghost stories need a big twist. How can anyone not love this film? It's brilliant and haunting (pun intended.)
2 days, 2 Ryan's videos? FUCK YEAH MY FRIENDS!
FIrst "hoyevver" drops at 1:07. For we keep count of His progress.
What accent is this?
Cannot put my finger on the exact reason, but I absolutely love this movie. I also love The Blackcoat's Daughter.
You somehow gave the word house two syllables, i like it
I have tried for so long to remember the name of this movie. Thanks.
I'd never heard of this film prior to your video, but the way you describe it reminds me of my take on The VVitch. The film deserves a certain degree of props for recreating an antiquated genre of storytelling (puritan narratives vs. Victorian ghost stories) but does very little to update or modernize said genres that it winds up just serving as a reminder of how those genres became antiquated in the first place rather than being entertaining or engaging films.
I’ve really liked this movie for years but my biggest issue with the film is the sound mixing. It genuinely makes it hard for me to watch.
This video (and browsing comments below) is the first I've known of this movie, but I think for me the narration being known to be post-death sounds like it could be a nice touch, to find out what state of being that narration comes from, at least conceptually if not dryly mechanically.
More interesting than good for me, but well-acted, directed, shot, etc. I can definitely appreciate what he was going for its just not my preferred thing. Even so he's a director to watch and I'll see longlegs when it opens.
I feel like a spoiled child on christmas getting this amount of good content! :D
You gotta admit the title name of the movie is pretty darn good
Has overusing the word pretentious ironically come full circle and is now....pretentious?
Thanks for 2 whole videos in 1 week!
Had to look twice or three times, two videos in one week? Awesome
I can't wait to see what this dude does for Halloween. It's going to be amazing.
as a gothic horror lover, i find this movie to be fascinating in its slow burn. i think it would've been better as a novel, but i still enjoyed the cinematography in the movie itself
This is my favorite Oz Perkins film (so far, I have high hopes for Longlegs). And one of my favorite horror films in general. All the things you see as negatives are what sells it for me. But I appreciate that it’s a pretty niche film and it’s not one I would typically recommend.
This interpretation has made me appreciate the movie so much more. It definitely made me feel like I didn't get what the director was going for, and the ending felt like "oh ok" and nothing more.
Ryan Hollinger drinking game: take a shot every time he says "noy".
Or however
@@Pipapisca Oh, you mean "hoyiver."
I love what you said about rewatching a movie for more details; I need a movie to be interesting on the surface level AND have deeper meanings. I think Hereditary is a great example of that. So hype for the reviews this week, and can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Longlegs (after I see it)!
I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH but no one will ever watch it with me because they think it's boring 😂
"pretentious is an overused word"
Maybe if there weren't so many pretentious,self-important artists out there in need of serious humbling,it wouldn't be...
Oz Perkins?! I haven't heard that name in years!
If anyone doesn’t know, his dad was the O.G. Norman Bates, the actor Anthony Perkins.
Oz's younger brother Elvis is an indie rock musician who has released several fairly interesting albums. The first is largely about their mother, Berry Berenson, who was a granddaughter of avant fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and who died on Sept 11, 2001, as a passenger on a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center towers.
I think all of this background really adds context to why Oz's films are the way they are.
Props: You told us we would say, "Is that it?" and as your video finished, I said, "Is that it?" and then promptly laughed.
Good call, Ryan
I LOVED this film! Thought it was fantastic! Not a bunch cheap, jump scares, or overly done found footage. It was actually creepy, haunting, unsettling, and scary. I love Perkin's films.
This movie is so dim, like its light setting is down to zero. Why? I want to see the set and actors!
This was the first Oz Perkins film I saw. Hard to believe my parents were still alive when I watched it. Bewildering.
I definitely found it pretentious. But also, very pretty. It certainly motivated me to watch _The Blackcoat's Daughter_ and follow his career from that point forward.
Also, Ruth Wilson has a very interesting face.
I thought I was alone on my opinion on this one, I watched it on a whim back near its release and was so taken back by how much I didnt connect with it. I dont think its a terrible movie but I really dont care for it. Keep up the great work man!
I hate that I'm subscribed and have it set to all, but CZcams hasn't been giving me my notifications for Ryan's videos
I saw Blackcoat's Daughter a few years back when I was sick and bored. I thought it was good and still thought it was good on a rewatch later. Good stuff as always Ry