PANIC ROOM: The Most Criminally Underrated Home Invasion Thriller
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04:20 - The Intense Filmmaking
08:37 - The Panic Room Explained
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Night in the Woods and Pink Floyd's The Wall
Session 9, the remaining, house of the devil, or pink floyd's the wall.
Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep or Midnight Mass. Keep up the good work, Ryan!
Watcher In The Woods
An 80's horror movie made by Disney. Everything about it off set is more interesting than the movie itself.
Predestination - my favorite movie. Based off "All You Zombies" by Heinlein
Fun Fact:
Jared Leto actually committed several armed robberies and spent 20 years in prison to prepare for this role. And i think this method approach really shows in his performance. Bravo, Mr. Leto!
What an incredible method actor wow
I heard he stole 2 morbillion dollars. Stunning!
Thx, to support most of my non sense!
can't believe he said "it's morbin timeliness this film. so ahead of his time
@@sickeningnoandrealfierceto morbillion oh man well played sir
Typically a panic room works because eventually the intruders leave,most likely they don't know you are even there and that's the point.
True, but the intruders in Panic Room knew the money they wanted was in there.
Ironically, if Jody Foster had simply run out the back door (instead of hiding in the panic-room) the thieves would have got their money out of the room and left without incident. But where's the thrill in that... 👍😆
I absolutely love this film, so much so I once wrote a paper for a comedy class proposing a comedic remake of it called “Man Cave” where Jodie Foster is instead a dad who keeps the panic room a secret from his family so he can use it as a man cave and when the home invasion happens and they hide in there he also has to deal with his family being absolutely pissed with him now that they’ve found out, meanwhile Burnham, Junior and Raul are completely unchanged because you can’t improve upon perfection
I would love to read that!
That's actually a really good premise
I would watch the shit out of this.
Especially if the Dad is played by an eccentric actor like Sam Rockwell or Donald Glover.
@@bobbycallaway1819 Shit, sam rockwell would be perfect. somebody greenlight this asap
This needs to be made!
Forest Whitaker plays internally conflicted so damn well.
Meg: "There is no way he can get in our panic room."
Ryan Hollinger: "HOYEVER."
:::door unlocks::
Sarah: "We're doomed."
i didn't even see how you spelled however before pronouncing it the same way lmao
@@maefromnitw4091 That's physically impossible. I'm calling you out, Mae from Nitw -_-
Wtf's a Nitw anyway?
@@ryans756 NITW=Night In The Woods. Great game
@@maefromnitw4091 Nice Mae pfp and username :)
I was literally singing this movie’s praises today. Comparing Raul’s face reveal to Rorschach’s from Watchmen. Such a “badass cool and tough” character and then they’re revealed to be a bus driver and a sweaty creep or in Rorschach’s case, being short, having red hair, and stinking. Absolutely love both of them for that
The mask probably gave him a lot more confidence.
The Machine from 8mm is another like that.
Not only that, the actor turns out to be Dwight Yoakam, maybe the greatest honky tonk singer in all of country music. It's a casting choice both absurd and pure genius.
Nothing's worse than seeing a new video from this channel where the movie is good, and knowing you can't watch the full vid until you've checked out the movie.
I have the same thing with Killcounts, CinemaWins and Ending Explained.
Oh shit what up h2hoe
what's up neckbeard
Mute video, play video in other tab, then add to watch later list.
Creator gets view, you get reminder to watch movie.
OMG hey cue!
The ambiguity is definitely the selling point.
I never knew whether I should be laughing at these crooks or be terrified of them.
It makes for a very tense viewing
I liked it until the end when it really gets stupid. The way Foster gives the crippled Stephen the gun made no sense at all, and even supposing it did, she had plenty of time to grab it from him (or even Sarah could have) to finish Raoul off. Otherwise it's a pretty good movie with an unsatisfying ending.
"Sleep tight" is a film from Spain that is severely underrated and underseen. One of the most suspenseful and well shot movies I've seen
That movie sucks
Suspenseful is clunky
@@WetBoy terrible take
Is it a 2011 movie? By Jaume Balagueró?
@@JaneDoe_123 yep!
I love the camera work after the family goes to bed. The low camera and interesting angles show the scope of the big empty house as if from a stealthy intruder perspective. It does show the intruders arrive and peek in windows to find the best way in but the camera kinda foreshadowed how vulnerable the family already is.
The scene of Jodie Foster smashing the security cameras seems to reference "Wait Until Dark" from 1967. Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman whose home is broken into by a thug looking for some hidden drugs. She smashes all the light bulbs in the house to get the advantage as she doesn't need the light and knows the layout of her house.
I absolutely LOVED this movie. Kirsten Stewart gave a great performance for her age. I was really young when I watched it so it was more terrifying than I’d find it now but it’s still a solid movie.
can we all just agree on one thing, jodie foster is a fucking badass
I really like this suspense movie. David Fincher can take practically any type of premise and make it unique. Forrest Whitaker and Jodie Foster were great.
An incredibly simple plot, brought to life by a phenomenal director. I forget how much I love this movie until I stumble upon it on a streaming service and am spellbound for an hour and a half.
Dwight Yoakam is such a good actor. He don't do a lot of roles, but when he does he is always really good.
If I remember correctly, Burnam's character is also in dire straights for money. He needs this job to help take care of his family (though I am blanking on why he was no longer employed with the security company). Either way, this element can weigh on our moral feelings about his character as well. For me, I'm more empathetic towards someone who steals out of desperation to take care of themselves and loved ones, but if, say, that theft ends up with someone getting hurt or killed, then is the reason for stealing suddenly less reasonable or valid, even if the injury/fatality wasn't directly their fault? It's one of several themes that Panic Room makes me ponder when I watch it.
"I'm playing a criminal burglar? Hmmm.... I bet he'd have corn rows."
Jared no
"He's a seasoned street ruffian, I'll need to embody that."
Jared please dont.
Finally someone does a video on this movie, no one talks about it anymore. By far one of, Fincher's most underrated film
Generic movie, script is nothing special honestly
@@leob4403 I bet you obsessed with marvel eye candying chris pratt 56' chest
@@chrillsimslovesgretathunbe9771 okey I rewatched Panic Room, its a bit better than I remembered, not that generic, but the whole premise still makes barely any sense
@@leob4403 House is sold on the cheap after it’s wealthy, paranoid owner died and it’s new owners are invaded by rag-tag bunch of burglarers, who have knowledge that there is a cash stash in the house. The wild-card Raul is a POS psychopath, whilst the other two aren’t keen on spilling blood but are coerced or threatened into continuing rather than fleeing.
It’s makes a fair bit of sense. Outside of the actual panic room, it isn’t much different to real life home invasions.
@@johnd8726 and where the hell are the police? No neighbours complaining about shootouts and bombs going off in Manhattan? sure...
The Camera Angles alone that's what I remember Beautifully Shot
Another well crafted and articulate video. Quality is legit getting better and better, plus I get more film suggestions. Thanks Ryan
I’ve always really enjoyed this movie, and it was one I would point to as a positive example when people said Kristen Stewart is a bad actress (She’s also phenomenal in Speak, though that’s a rough watch because of the subject matter).
Kristen Stewart did what she could with how shitty the scripts for the Twilight franchise was. She's nowhere near a bad actress and I truly feel like people who say she is are walking red flags.
@@katyfaise Kristen Stewart did the character exactly as written. Her acting was stiff and awkward and boring because Bella was a stiff, awkward, and boring person. For some reason the rest of the cast doesn’t get picked on as much but they all had the same issues: the acting was bad because the characters were poorly written to begin with.
The CakeEaters is very good as well. And her performance in the new Diana biopic was amazing. She’s actually a fairly great actress.
@@MistyWarden Completely agree!!
I have to agree that although I really enjoyed the Twilight Saga books, her acting as well as the rest of the cast was quite bland. I did like her in Underwater
I haven't seen this movie in years, but I remember really liking it when I did. I also very vividly remember being disappointed and sad for Burnham when he was caught at the end. For me, the choices that he made made me feel like he wasn't a bad guy, just doing a bad thing. Forest was great in the role. Great analysis, Ryan!
I agree I felt bad for him! You could see the sadness in his eyes when he got caught. He wasn’t a bad guy just was associated with the wrong people
Saw this with my mom back in April of 2002 in a nearly empty theatre. It was great on the big screen!
Change my mind, but this is the best fincher movie right after Se7en. Such an intense experience with awesome actors and a cool early 2000s look.
Fight Club
Its nowhere near the level of Social Network or Zodiac
@@leob4403 social network sucks
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 no
I love how you’re just going through films I watched as a child/young adult for the most part. I remember really enjoying this one, Raul was such a disgusting rat of a character.
The time period was very interesting with it being so close to 9/11, you can still feel that paranoid fear most of the country had.
Ah, Panic Room: the movie that got me to pay attention to diabetes and insulin in fiction.
14:03 raoul looks totally scared, reminded me of the bad guy in silence of the lambs
I knew it! you live inside my walls, I was talking about this movie yesterday, how it had been forgotten even though it was all the hype when it was released.
I still remember the door lock scene where the camera goes inside the locking system in an early 3D visual
This movie actually scarred me for life. When it first came out we watched it in the theaters when I was 9. I've had a phobia of home invasions ever since.
Only thought I would add: I was annoyed by the flashiness of the digitally-assisted tracking shots when I first watched it - they felt show-offy and gratuitous - but when I watched it again years later I realised they served a narrative purpose. They show that all the rooms in the house, and by extension all the people, are inextricably linked to each other. It also reinforces the geography of the house, showing the audience very clearly where everything is relative to each other, and also gives a sense that the house is terribly porous, and no supposed isolated, safe space is truly cut off from the outside. There are always holes in everything, no matter how secure you think it is.
This movie is soooo good. It really builds the tension well and Jodie and Kristen are great!
It is an absolute crime that Panic Room has yet to be officially released on Blu-ray!
luckily dvd is still "in"
The first thriller I ever saw at the drive-in. I think we'd gone to see Ice Age, and I just happened to stay awake long enough to see Panic Room directly after. To be fair, the film was so dark that I couldn't see the bloody bits all that clearly at the drive-in, so it was years before I knew how bloody certain scenes were. I think it holds a special place in my heart purely for that drive-in experience.
Would love to see your take on what major events have shaped horror (9/11, Manson Family, technological advancements, etc.) Even if it takes a slew of videos to do so
YES. this film is amazing and severely underrated. A masterclass of tension and suspense showing, since back then, Fincher's genius. And Jared Leto dies with a shot in the head which makes this even more delightful.
To me this is just a generic thriller, Fincher should have reworked the script to make it more unique
@@leob4403 it's generic only on the surface. It is a genre exercise, that only great filmmakers can pull off right. Some are experts on that, doing a formal exercise on a specific genre. It's like what Spielberg did in his debut, Duel, or what contemporaries like Jaume Collet-Serra has always done: movies that may sound generic plot-wise, using a lot of familiar tropes, but they master the craft of that kind of thing like few others.
No wonder it's very rare to find films that try to do the same but end up as successful as this one.
@@agraciotti Duel yes that movie is amazing. Panic Room has some strong points but the plot though, how did the bad guys ever expect to get away with this thing, they are on millions of video cameras all over the place, and they seem to be in no rush whatsoever to get out of there, standing around arguing about petty bullshit. "I cant believe you like pepsi better than coca cola blabla" for 30 minutes like that 😹
I love that movie. David Fincher really uses the house to the full extent. The editing is excellent and the relationship between the mother and the daughter works really well. Except for Raoul, the criminals are well defined, especially for Forest Whitaker's character. Loved the fact that they assumed she would be the defenceless mother and daughter to finally realize how she manages to control the situation the best she can. The house feel's like a character in itself. I think it was on purpose to film this movie in NY, being the most overcrowded city, versus her feeling alone in this huge house. Isn't what most New Yorkers felt after 9/11, alone in the city? Love it!
brilliant film, so unnerving, stripes back. the keyhole shot alone was so good at the time it’s possible to stay within the film and also ask yourself ‘how on earth did they get a camera there?!’
When I first saw the movie way back when, I remember feeling legitimately bad for Burnham by the end.
Sidenote: I recommend checking out The Glass House, which is a similar thriller that came out around the same time I think.
Ohhh man is The Glass House the one with Leelee Sobiesky? I remember really digging that.
@@actualturtle2421 yup, that’s the one. I remember it being a pretty intense domestic psychological thriller.
I remembered watching Panic Room when I was a kid. It is easily one of my favorite home invasion movies simply because I think it's kinda cool to have a panic room like that.
i had a similar mask moment when i watched Hush. As soon as the intruder took off his mask, he was alot less scary and threatening
See, I felt the exact opposite about Hush. Once the mask came off, it was basically a signal that said "There is no escape. You are going to die." It might have made it less "scary," but it definitely made it a lot more tense for me. The genuine threat was way more true to life.
I have to say, your presentation in your videos is top notch. I'm typically not even a fan of the films you cover, but I always get excited to watch them just because you make them so well.
I helped build a panic room for a client in Medina, WA. It had the only non gas tight door in the entire house. Thats because it ran at an overpressure, so air escaping outwards makes it impossible for any other gas to get in.
There was also a HALON fire suppression system, which you could trigger from the saferoom. With the rest of the house on lockdown, you could trigger the halon system and it would displace all the air, asphyxiating and smothering everyone in the house but outside of the panic room
Oh and we built two emergency exits too
One of my favourite "problem/solution" movies. It's just a brilliant movie on all fronts
This one was so good. I watched it over and over when I was younger. The thumbnail alone sent me SOARING into a nostgia trip
I love the way you broke down Burnham's arc and the ending to it. I always had so many mixed feelings about him and how it ended for him, and you explaining the middle ground/purgatory like outcome was perfect!
I feel like Nicole Kidman's broken leg was her escape from the tyranny of the panic room that is a David Fincher film set. But Jodie Foster did an incredible job here, and she would go on to do two other thrillers, Flight Plan and The Brave One, that would explore different retaliations against terror and trauma.
Where the hell is the Blu-Ray for this movie?! Also, great video as always Ryan!
It’s on the way!!
I haven't seen this movie in over 15 years because I figured I'd watch it again whenever the Blu-ray comes out...... Criminally underrated indeed.
This movie would come on on TV in the early 2000's all the time and my mom and I loved it. Never knew it was directed by Fincher
I remember this movie now Family Guy made a parody of it. You know the one where Peter says that he’s not a big fan of The Godfather. That brings back good memories.😺
Well, it does insist upon itself.
And then Meg (Griffin) gets arrested for sexually harassing one of the intruders lol
This one of my favourite movies period. 🎬 Good to hear someone I respect talking about it 👏🏾
I'm so glad that you're covering another thriller. This is one of the best!
I remember seeing this, I really enjoyed the complex morality question plays out. It seemed very grounded in reality, there was nothing over the top, just an examination of the factors at play in this tense setting.
Love your videos Ryan! Each new one gets tremendously richer and richer! Panic Room was a sleeper hit to me. I didn't realize it was good until I started to admire Fincher's other works, but this always felt quite special to me. Thanks bro
Great video to watch after coming home from work, Cheers Ryan.
Dwight Yoakam is a pretty damn good "Bad Guy"
I’ve been thinking about this movie for so long! I watched parts of it when I was a kid and I didn’t know the name of it. Thank you!
Yes!! A classic
imagine getting home invaded by doctor michael morbius the living vampire damn
😆
The one thing i found hilarious though is that you literaly can go days without Insulin in worst cases (as a type 1 Diabetic), but on low blood sugar and nothing to eat, literaly minutes/hours can be critical. But i guess for "movie-magic" sake it's more dramatic for the protagonist to fetch medicine/insulin instead of a snickersbar.
Your channel has been a consistent entertainment stream for me and I love your videos, thank you for your hard work Ryan
After seeing this film, I did two things. The first was calling myself Raul. The second was having a fetish for black tank tops.
5 minutes into the movie I thought to myself "this is like a Hitchcock film".
i was an insomniac in high school and i watched a lot of 90s horror thrillers, so those are my favorite. love it when you cover them! great video!
Very well done, thanks for a bit of nostalgia as well, this was one of the dvds we had when i was very young and i have fond memories watching it with my family and friends in the early 2000s!
Love the channel mate. There's so many great thrillers from this period.
I do remember watching this around the time it came out. I was a kid and I remember it being pretty gripping. I do remember thinking, and still think, the raid at the end was a little too neatly wrapped up. If this had ended as a pyrrhic victory of sorts I feel like it would have been better. Endings with a little unfairness in the end feel far more evocative than something where everything gets wrapped up with a nice ribbon in the last 5 minutes.
I love how this film has THREE Oscar winners in this small suspense drama.......all "Best Actors/Actress" too
“Who are you?”
“I’m Raoul”
Great film.
I watched this movie as a kid and it TRAUMATIZED ME. To this day, I am scared of big houses, houses with more than one floor. Nope nope, can't deal with the idea of people being inside my house without me knowing. Brutal.
There are two types of horror/drama/suspense films that get under my skin easier than almost any others....
That is movies dealing with isolation, and fkn home invasion movies. Even the worst films that fit these categories, I almost always love and have the softest of soft spots for. Love this movie.
The good old days before Leto became the modern movie death kiss.
And this is why instead of a panic room I want to simply rig one of my rooms to explode.
Kristen Stewart many times has said that she actually popped blood vessels in both eyes when her character has a seizure in the film. She was 10 when making the movie.
Oh, wow. I TOTALLY forgot about this movie! I watched it when I was pretty young and it scared me so badly lol
Never actually seen this film before, but it's always had a spot in my memory after seeing a trailer as a kid.
Love this movie, it was one of the best theater experiences i had as a kid in the movies, nobody could create such a mix of thrill and comedy in a movie set inside a house like Fincher has.
Hey Ryan, this was a great video. I remember watching Panic Room once or twice when I was a kid so this is a good throwback.
Also, you should do an analysis on the 1981 film 'Possession' by Andrzej Żuławski
stunning critique, Ryan.
I’ve owned this movie on dvd for ages… I always remember the copy I own is in an oddly thin case. Anyway, Dwight Yoakam, Forrest Whitaker, and Jared Leto are great as the burglar trio. Yoakam is so effective as a villain (Sling Blade for fuck’s sake), and Leto and Whitaker are almost always excellent, and don’t disappoint here. This one never has any lulls really. Glad you did a video on this one!
…I really wish you could do a video on Sling Blade, come to think of it. Would love to hear your analysis. It’s almost a thriller? Yeahhh.. probably not close enough. 😅
I think i owned this movie on VHS.
I also have it on dvd in that thin case, I'm pretty sure it's the Superbit version (I also have Coppola's Dracula in Superbit). Too lazy to get up and go look, though, I'm having my coffee.
I think everyone owns the super thin case, wonder if there’s a normal dvd or Blu-ray.
Thanks for another great video friend
Thx for the great content!
This cast is incredible. Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, baby Kristen Stewart? I need to watch this
Thanks for the work 👊🏻
I remember my mom taking me to see this 20 years ago when it came out and loving it.
I think Dwight Yoakham's realistic and disturbing role in Sling Blade has probably type cast him as a creep for the rest of his film days.
Yes!! Finally more love for this film and from Ryan of course.
Dwight Yoakam's acting is highly underrated, IMHO. Ever see "Sling Blade?"
He also put his stamp on the part he played in "Red Rock West."
@@mbryson2899 Haven't seen that one.
@@tmamone83 I enjoyed it, lots of talent, good story.
Will watch this when i get back from work
Still have to watch this movie at some point! Would love to see an analyzing video about dario argento's movies from the 70's-90's by the way!! Very few shed light on his amazing filmography during that 20 year period!
Always love your videos, man. Hope you don't take it wrong when I poke fun at your use of "however". Just a pattern I noticed throughout your previous videos and it became a little thing I look forward to with each subsequent post. Hope all is well where you are!
Good analysis. I’ll have to check it out again.
Welcome to the panic room. Where all your darkest fears are gonna come for you
such a fun Fincher film
I was 12 when this movie came out. I used to love watching it with my mom, as it was just suspenseful and thrilling enough to keep us hooked but mostly lacked excessive or gory violence which neither of us cared for. This movie had me memorizing the SOS Morse code out of pure frustration that the neighbor didn't recognize it. I suppose it helps that the audience in our case was 1 divorced mom with her young daughter watching a film about 1 divorced mom and her young daughter survive a variation of "the nightmare scenario". I even had a medical condition like Sarah did, except it was a heart condition rather than diabetes.
It still gives me chill,so underrated!
Thanks, Roland !
Since I saw panic room as a kid in 2003, I religiously watched this annually, it became my tradition to watched my most favorite movies of all times without a fail.