*What is the saddest horror movie you've ever seen?* Let me know in the comments, especially if you've got an obscure recommendation. See you next week!
@snakeswithhumantraits4504
5 жыл бұрын
Hereditary was pretty sad.
@JenniferMcMahonhawaii78
5 жыл бұрын
Ryan Hollinger I thought The Exorcism of Emily Rose was sad; but more disturbingly so. Also Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, but that was more in the character study of Nell and Luke.
@Joe-hi1zw
5 жыл бұрын
Haven't watched many so lights out 😂 I know I know
@chriscorben-green2640
5 жыл бұрын
@holy macaroni Excellent choice. In all of his films (and TV show) Mike Flanagan does extremely well at building up the troubled family situations, before the supernatural horrors fully enter.
@ghostkai8713
5 жыл бұрын
Alright, who’s the one going to bring up the ending to The Mist?
@sam-km8qh
5 жыл бұрын
honesty peaceful and sorrowful ghosts are more scary and painful to watch than vengeful ones
@nataneskaton
5 жыл бұрын
I know, that really weird that you said that, even though I don't believe in lingering spirits, it is really scary when they are just standing there, still.
@guitarman0365
5 жыл бұрын
@@nataneskaton still better to stand still than to lunge. I'll take a chillin spirit anyday over a harmful one that moves around never knowing when or where it will pop out. At least with a stationary spirit you know which area to avoid altogether.
@HelloThere-bj9rw
5 жыл бұрын
guitarman0365 true that
@jeffjones7108
5 жыл бұрын
The idea that your afterlife could be you trapped in a house that is no longer your home, in a world that no longer has a place for you. Alone, ignored, afraid and sorrowful. Forever. That's a far more terrifying ghost to me than a vengeful, aggressive ghost.
@JennyTheNerdBat
5 жыл бұрын
True tradegy of ghosts is that you cannot hug them :(
@whowantswaffles
4 жыл бұрын
The spookiest part to me was when Ally is telling the medium about her dream, she is literally describing being in her bedroom, her mother walking in and not seeing her, not speaking. This is exactly what her mother does after she has died...as if not only did she see her own corpse in premonitions, but her own future as a ghost, alone in the house, unnoticed. That's what hits so hard... they move away, able to move on, and she's left alone, the very thing she feared and saw in her dreams. It's super unsettling. Great storytelling!
@MrEsmaelguardian
4 жыл бұрын
Yup this particular scene made me sad and terrified at the same time 😭
@sophiefisher5083
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I always want to cry piecing those parts together. Its a proper helpless situation it makes you feel so sad watching
@leonardohenrique5172
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, that's what's so sad to me, the fact that her family moved on, but she didn't
@dylanmonstrum1538
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's the last scene. It's how it was edited. That's literally exactly what they're trying to say.
@bmck9345
3 жыл бұрын
**SEMI-SPOILERS AHEAD TO ANOTHER FILM** Great pick up Mushman - I watched this film last night and was trying to explain to myself why it was I was still feeling unsettled after the film - and it wasn't because of the reveal of Alice's actual ghost existing. There was a deep, harrowing sadness, and I think the fact that even in death her family didn't really know or see her (as mentioned in some of the other comments) is what makes this hit home. I compare this to a similarly unsettling film: 'Personal Shopper' with Kristen Stewart (highly recommend). Compared to the ending of Lake Mungo, I found the ending of Personal Shopper - another story where grief is the real ghost - almost uplifting.
@albablabla
3 жыл бұрын
The fact that nobody notices her, she's just stuck alone forever, her ghost is right in front of her mom and she will never see her; god this is such a heavy film.
@nikolaivanov1278
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not easily unnerved or scared, but the phone video of Alice encountering her own corpse gave me the creeps.
@Cortabo
5 жыл бұрын
i thought the same thing, i actually never felt that feeling of dread from a horror movie before that moment. I've never been afraid of going back and watching something, until now.
@dougrattmann3554
5 жыл бұрын
So.. is there actually something supernatural going on? How can she see her own corpse? I'm confused by that.
@aliceiscalling
5 жыл бұрын
@@dougrattmann3554 It's a premonition. She's able to see her own future, like a warning of her fate. It's sort of supernatural, just like how we see her real ghost in the end, but not in the "spooky monster" kind of way.
@permafrostthesand-icewing
5 жыл бұрын
Same, I'm not easily scared, but this - this just got to me. Imagine that being the last thing you see before you die. Knowing what'll happen to you.
@magicman3163
5 жыл бұрын
Deadnsd nah it’s A24 garbage I know people who believe they are superior for liking boring shit.
@Silvermoon424
5 жыл бұрын
This movie is fantastic, especially the ending. The family thinks that by solving the mystery like Alice wanted them to, they've put her spirit to rest, because she doesn't seem to be haunting them anymore. But the photo of her staring wistfully out at them standing on the lawn implies that her problems weren't solved at all. It's just that because her family has gotten closure and moved on that they can't feel her there anymore. Poor Alice.
@everforward5561
5 жыл бұрын
To be fair, we can't really say one way or the other.
@TheDeadlyEntiyGaming
5 жыл бұрын
Silvermoon424 It’s one of my favorite shots of all time. That slow zoom in made me cry the first time I watched wayyyy back. It’s a legitimate masterpiece.
@wikipediaintellectual7088
5 жыл бұрын
Honestly the big question I have to ask is what the hell killed her? A fit young woman who saw a premonition of her waterlogged corpse has no business drowning in a completely calm lake. Maybe she still wants her family to figure that out.
@wikipediaintellectual7088
5 жыл бұрын
HUMANS aintShit The neighbors snuck into the lake and dragged her underwater long enough to drown her and prevent her corpse’s discovery for over a day? I don’t think so. Sounds farfetched, not obvious.
@kragary
5 жыл бұрын
They moved on and left her behind.
@knicknack75
4 жыл бұрын
The bit where the dad talks about leaving the porch light on for her always really gets me
@aster7159
Жыл бұрын
it reminds me of the show hill house- "porch light means it's time to come home." an amazing show with some other parallels to lake mungo
@linasayshush
Жыл бұрын
A lot of families with missing loved ones do that.
@electromagneticdave7552
5 жыл бұрын
YES! Lake Mungo FINALLY getting the respect it deserves. As a filmmaker it scares the HELL out of me that a low budget film that was so well made could be forgotten so easily. The director never made anything else after this, probably because of how few people saw and acknowledged his film. But as time goes on more and more people are discovering this and acknowledging how well made it is.
@CocTheElf
5 жыл бұрын
A film flops harder than a book, a painting or a sculpture. However, don't get discouraged. Good artists shouldn't care about anything but making good art. Have you read the short story 'Enoch Soames' by Max Beerbohm? It is about exactly that... and deals with the devil... and time travel.
@Hatter5150
5 жыл бұрын
Really loved that you did this video! Lake Mungo is one of the best and most frightening movies about grief and fear of dying that I've ever seen. You did a great job explaining not only what was happening but also showing the thought and effort that went into making the film.
@madelinebitts2766
5 жыл бұрын
It's not really forgotten. It's shown regularly in film schools.
@FP19487
5 жыл бұрын
That scene at Lake Mungo is just one of the best scene in a horror movies genre.
@guscgonzalez
5 жыл бұрын
Because its not so great, sadly, despite people liking it. The story meanders and the characters are not very convincing... and the climax comes out of nowhere and is deus ex machina. Its a cool experiment like Blair Witch was, but nothing remotely interesting to garner attention.
@ghostkai8713
5 жыл бұрын
>A horror movie about a dead woman with the last name of Palmer found in a lake, and the struggle to figure out who she was, her hidden and turbulent life, and the mysterious supernatural mysteries surrounding it Director was a Twin Peaks fan, I think.
@nickes1176
5 жыл бұрын
Ive seen about 5 minutes of this video. You have me sold on the movie. Ill finish this vid when ive watched the movie. A question in my mind: do i show this to my friends and siblings while convincing them its real, and possibly mess them up with the dead body pics? Or should i just tell them its fictional?
@xamannatati2479
5 жыл бұрын
Nick Es I told my sister to watch it straight on without telling her it’s fictional, you know, for the culture!
@Edmasterz
5 жыл бұрын
@Ghost Kai Exactly what I thought watching it. Also, had some strong Silent Hill vibes throughout.
@crazziemonkke
5 жыл бұрын
I also saw the Twin Peaks parallels! got a little House of Leaves vibes too
@TakkyEU
5 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too!
@marsella527
4 жыл бұрын
You know what kills the mood of this vid? When Ryan says "a bone chilling discovery... then this happens..." and an ad for the Lawnmower 3.0 comes up on cue
@funnyfella8198
4 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? Lawnmowers are fucking terrifying.
@videogrouch1231
4 жыл бұрын
They are like oml they like to eat babies
@LegoLad01
4 жыл бұрын
Same here but with a deluxe BBQ that works on gas....lmao
@joesmith3650
4 жыл бұрын
Consider yourself lucky, I had to endure the horror of seeing a chewing gum that had antacid in it !
@5facts30
4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣 thought i was the only one
@coreya603
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, great video, but while I wholeheartedly agree that this is the saddest horror movie ever, I 100% disagree with your conclusion. Alice isn’t “with” the family at the end, or watching over them. The family moved on, and Alice is left behind. This is spelled out in one of the later scenes, when Alice is recounting her dream to the psychic, about her mother not being able to see her, spliced together with June’s present time walk-through of the house, feeling confident there is no ghostly presence remaining. This makes the movie much sadder and, in my mind, is the real source of its horror. The living move on. The dead are left behind
@Hollythesheep
5 жыл бұрын
This, a thousand times this. The final family photo with her forlorn face in the window is so powerful.
@Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan
5 жыл бұрын
But will this post get the beloved "Loved" comment marker? I doubt it.
@AmbeyPankake
5 жыл бұрын
coreya603 I saw this as well! The way Alice talked about how her mom was leaving and didn’t seem to see her. THAT made me really sad. Like Alice is almost saying wait, don’t go, I’m being left behind. Depressing
@kaygon.5202
5 жыл бұрын
Also I think it's interesting Alice, a 15 year old girl, was being staturorily raped by her neighbors and the parents didn't press charges when they found out. Perhaps her drowning was her giving up in life, and like you said the family moved on after hefreer death, leaving her behind in and the people who hurt her free
@PartiallyDeafBoi
5 жыл бұрын
subscribe to PEWDIEPIE Well, I think they found the tape after the neighbors already moved, and no one knew where they moved. And even if they were found and Alice’s family wanted to press charges, they could claim it was consensual and have the charges dropped. The officer even said that in the film
@redi4deth
2 жыл бұрын
I had a very different take on the ending. I felt it was showing that Alice was left behind, alone in their home, perpetually trapped. I also think that the mother lied in the interview; I think that she did see her daughter in the room, or felt her presence, and decided to leave anyway. I think she left either for the sake of her husband and son's mental well being, or because she was simply in denial and couldn't accept that her daughter was still there while she could do nothing for her, or darkest of all, because she realized that she never really knew her daughter anyway, that they were always just strangers.
@DannBP1
Жыл бұрын
I agree. I felt there was an intense sadness at the end of the movie. The family moved away and moved on with their lives, but Alice must stay tied to the house forever. Tragic.
@SonicVision
10 ай бұрын
@@DannBP1 100% this, intense sadness, for me. I have lost a child and now I don't know if I will ever move from the home we lived in.
@yuuneeq9494
8 ай бұрын
They show that the mom is closed off from the daughter to a certain degree. If she did pretend not to see her, that was just one more final rejection to twist the movie's narrative knife.
@fordjohnson5875
5 ай бұрын
this is my new favorite interpretation
@elrey8876
3 ай бұрын
@@SonicVision I've come to believe that grief is stronger than love, because it is love, compounded by loss. I hope you're finding purpose in each day.
@a.p.5342
4 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised he came to the conclusion he did. I thought the whole point was to show that Alice is abandoned and forgotten about. That everyone left her in the house.Not that she’s watching over them.
@aster7159
Жыл бұрын
i think we can't really know how alice feels about them moving on, whether it upsets her or comforts her- it's another part of the themes of tragedy and uncertainty in the film. they couldn't fully know alice in life, and even now, having learned more they can't fully know her in death.
@TheG_Boy
5 жыл бұрын
*Watch video instead of movie to not get spook* *gets spooked anyways*
@ichora8011
5 жыл бұрын
G_Boy you can never escape the spooks
@erikho6936
5 жыл бұрын
That's how horror works
@payden0_086
5 жыл бұрын
HOOOOLD ON I keep seeing people like you with the profile picture where did you come from and why
And I just HAD to watch this video at 3 am smh ... scared the shit out of me
@zynosgd9982
4 жыл бұрын
in short: family is haunted family is not haunted family is haunted
@burgbass
3 жыл бұрын
Family’s haunted.
@wyd_marco4107
3 жыл бұрын
@@burgbass oh no
@whoislpj
3 жыл бұрын
@@burgbass uh oh
@Ran1906
3 жыл бұрын
More like: Family is haunted Family is not haunted Family is kinda haunted? Family is not haunted Family is haunted (kinda)
@9gemini
3 жыл бұрын
Family exploit their dead daughter and her privacy instead of grieving her death. They way they smiled says it all 🙄
@hootax8980
5 жыл бұрын
**SPOILER ALERT** That doppelganger scene is one of the most chilling things I've ever seen and it still gets to me to this day.
@arya2571
5 жыл бұрын
Aspie Mt69 oh that’s freaky, I saw someone who looked exactly like me at the market the other day lmao
@cristaljustice4534
5 жыл бұрын
The name of the movie??
@hootax8980
5 жыл бұрын
@@cristaljustice4534 Lake Mungo
@gareththorn4356
5 жыл бұрын
@Aspie Mt69 well recorded? It isn't real mate. Supernatural doesn't exist.
@abartel6
5 жыл бұрын
@Aspie Mt69 could I get a source on that
@strangemisguided6593
5 жыл бұрын
I'm a huge horror fan, and adore gruesome imagery but the scene of the bloated corpse looming gives me a feeling I've never had before. Realism in horror (especially in realistic deaths) is hard to find, this perfected it.
@chiofunnylove
5 жыл бұрын
Completely agree. It happened to me too. I never really overcome that escene
@sweetest-of-memes
Жыл бұрын
I want to call out some things I don’t really see elsewhere in the comments: This movie gets away with so many little details that are even creepier when you realize how unresolved they are. Here’s some details I found really creepy. - What was up with the bruises? - Whatever happened to the Tooheys? - What was up with the extremely strange behavior from the mom and the brother, was it just grief or is there more implied there? - Why didn’t the psychic tell the family she had been seeing him? Why didn’t he reach out to the family about her dreams? - What else don’t we know about her life? In most ways she seems like a lost, hurting, exploited girl - but in some ways she also seems a bit sinister, like there’s more to her own story - How did she manage to drown after all? Maybe some or all of these have explanations that can be pieced together in the details of the movie, but there’s ultimately this sense of dread and mystery and uneasiness that makes it all so unnerving.
@SonicVision
10 ай бұрын
All good questions/points!
@trawlins396
5 ай бұрын
The Tooneys moved away.
@christoohey
5 жыл бұрын
I took away something completely different... and now I think I have to go back and rewatch Lake Mungo. Spoilers below... 1) It's mentioned that Alice complains about having bad dreams about her family ignoring her and leaving her. Something about them moving out and no matter how much she screams they can't hear her. 2) it's revealed that her "ghost" was in the doctored photos the entire time. 3) the bad dreams Alice describes play out scene by scene as they show the family moving out of their house. Living Alice was seeing into her future and beyond her death. She not only had the encounter at Lake Mungo, but she was seeing how her family would be after her death... but she didn't realize it was "after her death" reactions she was foreseeing. Tragically, her ghost is haunting her family, but as they did in life they don't notice her.
@libertatemadvocatus1797
5 жыл бұрын
That is a great (and depressing) analysis.
@satellitetvaxarquia5727
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! That's exactly how I interpreted it too, and it makes it even sadder as you imagine a girl desperately calling out to her family even after death and never being heard.
@multieyedmyr
5 жыл бұрын
I thought about the same thing. The moment she saw her corpse she was dieing. Slowly moving twards death, then dead and becoming more dead and less alive till presumably fades to nothing. Like life and death overlapped.
@dune3001
5 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking when I saw the movie that maybe it was Alice who was psychic, and was seeing her own future.
@JeantheSecond
5 жыл бұрын
Exactly. There’s also the scene where they intercut Alice’s session with the psychic and her mother’s session after Alice’s death. The mom sees herself in Alice’s room one last time as the family is moving out of the house and says, “Alice isn’t here.” Then she leaves. Alice says her mom walks into her room but “She doesn’t know I’m here.” The family moved on with their lives, even moved away. They left Alice behind. I love this movie. So many layers.
@yeasick4554
5 жыл бұрын
not gonna lie this video scared the shit out of me
@artymovich1183
5 жыл бұрын
yeah i dont get spooked easily but there's something about this movie that creeps me the fuck out
@Hey-Its-Sara
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, tell me about it. Probably the most terrifying movie I've ever seen. It has a uniquely oppressive atmosphere.
@kaileyy
5 жыл бұрын
ok glad i’m not the only one experiencing genuine fear watching this, which is not a feeling i experience easily.
@maicalk5405
5 жыл бұрын
at least you didn't decide to watch this at night 😓
@kaileyy
5 жыл бұрын
Mai Calk i watched before bed 😅
@drguets
4 жыл бұрын
Strange how no one mentions that her mother truly had nightmares and they matched with Alice's dreams of her being at the top of thir beds screaing for help but being completely ignored.
@brandih9802
5 жыл бұрын
So... I watched this movie thinking it was real. I was so upset that the family was exploiting the daughter. My husband couldn't figure out why I was so passionate about it. Then he explained to me it was faux found footage. I've never felt so stupid. But, watching it thinking it was real made for a damn good movie.
@shastealyomeal
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@ReneAensland
4 жыл бұрын
If you wanna watch another "Fake Faux Found Footage" try the 4th Kind. I was so pissed it wasn't real because it was so convincing.
@brandih9802
4 жыл бұрын
Rene Aensland , thank you! Will do!
@danielshore1457
4 жыл бұрын
Well then that means the film did its job didn't it? It's so convincing it left you thinking it was real
@mariannecontrino6297
4 жыл бұрын
I went into it knowing it was fake, but I often wonder what it would have been like watching it without that knowledge. I'm a skeptical person, and don't really believe in the paranormal, but this movie is so well done, I'm guessing I'd have been questioning a lot of my beliefs by the end if I thought it was real. Oh well, still a great film/experience regardless, and deserves far more recognition, and praise than it received. Maybe then we'd get "horror" films like this, instead of "Saw 34", and "Annabelle 12", or whatever the hell they're on.
@SawGoodMan
5 жыл бұрын
Once I got to the scene where Alice sees herself, I felt a cold sweat and utter terror run down my back, that already makes it better than most modern horror movies. Edit: Thanks for the likes! And also there's a second scene that made me feel this and it's actually an after credits scene.
@thederp9183
5 жыл бұрын
When
@nataneskaton
5 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness, tell me about it.
@thederp9183
5 жыл бұрын
@@nataneskaton when is that part?
@nataneskaton
5 жыл бұрын
@@thederp9183 I don't know the exact time cause I don't have the movie on hand, but it is around the time when her and her friends are out in the outback or dessert and it is night time. She drifts off on her own for a second, and is recording herself walking, and she starts to see somebody in the distance. Thinking it's one of her friends or someone, she is filming on her phone and her camera comes up really close to her own image, all bloated up, white and puffy from the drowning. It's fricking terrifying. I would say it's about 2/3 through the movie. It's more towards the end I believe. That is one of the scariest moments in filming history to me, because I was watching this by myself when I first seen it. Watch the movie, you cannot miss it, cause a chill will run up your spine guarenteed, if you are watching it alone, in the dark.
@nataneskaton
5 жыл бұрын
@@thederp9183 I found it. Look up Lake Mungo Scene, it is the youtube video about 2:07 long, with a pale white face in the dark. Beware!
@Gr8ApeNappa
5 жыл бұрын
I interpreted that final zoom-in on Alice's ghost completely differently. To me it means that even though the family is now at peace and move out of the house believing that Alice is at peace, she is actually still there in the house. The family has moved on and left her behind, dooming her to be alone forever.
@RogueThr333
4 жыл бұрын
100% agree, I don't think this film had a 'happy' ending at all. The family maybe believed everything was smoothed over and they were beginning to move on. But Alice was still there, and I think the fact she was in the images but unnoticed mirrored her life - she was not really known to anyone and its sad to essentially see her being overlooked in death also. There was ALOT going on this film, and I think it went a little deeper than even I can see, but I defiantly don't think this is a happy ending.
@rongarza1974
4 жыл бұрын
That is how I interpreted it as well. In the end, the medium talked to Alice and the Mom. Alice seemed to have a curse or gift of premonition, and she said that her mom walked into the room and did not notice her and left. Her mom said that she walked into Alice room, and it was empty. She left the room. I think that was how the scene went down. Just wow.
@aror6480
4 жыл бұрын
Right. That's what made it so good for me. It is that ending. My heart shrunked (not sure if that word is correct). It was so sad and so terrifying she jus being abandoned and forgotten, ignored. That's what terrified me, that feeling of un wellness when I watched it. She was calling her mom, but he rmom did not see her. She is damned to be alone in that house forever.
@rongarza1974
4 жыл бұрын
@@aror6480 Yeah. I would also add that the Mom never really knew her daughter. They were close, but she never really expressed her feelings to Alice. She did not want closure at first, and on and on. The video touched on that relationship a bit. Maybe Alice tried to reach out her mom in life, but was not noticed much? Suffice to say that this movie stayed with me for days after viewing. That is a sign of a really good movie to me.
@aror6480
4 жыл бұрын
Right. That's it. It stay for some days. That anguish and sadness I felt at the end it was there for some days. I really enjoyed it. I like this kind of horror. this one together with the Hill House episode that focused on the bend neck woman, and the ending of sharp objects produced in me the same reaction. Was some kind of wave through my whole body. It gave me goosebumps, it made my heart rate change and just sadness. They all stayed with me for some days
@dahliawouldbeking
5 жыл бұрын
ok, breaking out the silent hill music again, i see you ryan
@RyanHollinger
5 жыл бұрын
Special occasion!
@mandalorianhunter1
5 жыл бұрын
@@RyanHollinger I love Silent Hill one's Fear of the Darkness. You are the best Ryan.
@Aeshir2
5 жыл бұрын
@@RyanHollinger like ten years ago i added akira yamaoka on Facebook and he accepted my fr and messaged me like "thanks for the friend request" it was so fuckin wild
@berserkerguts9089
5 жыл бұрын
What's the song in this video I can't find?
@michelle.pearl.
5 жыл бұрын
Berserker Guts, It's "Room of Angel" from Silent Hill 4
@MCL0VIN42595
5 жыл бұрын
Idk why but for me the scene that hit the hardest was when they found Alice’s taped encounter with the neighbors... something about that just made my stomach turn and made me feel sort of uneasy. You think you know someone and then you find out something so shocking about them that you never otherwise would have imagined. And especially to have that sort of revelation whilst mourning someone and trying to preserve innocent memories ... that’s heavy.
@justinsarchive4111
5 жыл бұрын
You didn't mention the last and most important twist. While alive Alice was alreading seeing visions of what what her "ghost life" would be like. This is seen towards the end of the movie where alice is talking with the the psychic and she notes that her mom can't see her. It's the theme of the whole movie. She's always been able to see hints of not just her imminent death, but also what comes after. She just isn't able to put it all together until she sees herself at the lake that night. She is not looking over them in the backyard with the last picture... she is still there begging not to be left behind but knows she can't be heard. Now, as a ghost, she has the knowledge of her living past... and infinite lonely afterlife , but cannot change anything.
@ElliotJatomiSan
5 жыл бұрын
*SpOiLeR tAg* Hereditary was in my opinion the saddest horror movie I’ve ever seen. Being forced to sit back and watch this family meet their violent and tragic ends with no control, along with the elements of grief and complex family dynamics was so jarring to me.
@apothecurio
5 жыл бұрын
yeah. thats what stuck with me the most. The scary imagery and scarring imagery stayed with me for a couple of days but the emotional trauma that movie gave me didn't leave me for WEEKS.
@TrangleC
5 жыл бұрын
That movie is strange in the way of how differently people perceive it. For some it is a disturbing horror movie, for you it is a sad horror movie, for others, including me, it is a subversive comedy. The way certain scenes are filmed hits beats that are usually found in comedy movies and other scenes, like when the headless body floats into the tree house, seemed as if they were supposed to have a laugh track playing over them. Apparently certain things the director and writer said in interviews, support that theory too, although I personally never read any interviews.
@skullsquad900
5 жыл бұрын
My whole family went and watched it...when it was over, we were just laughing.
@gumballwatterson2020
5 жыл бұрын
To me its just a very "disturbing" movie... I honestly don't know how to describe it, it definitely unsettles me but I can also find it funny at parts. Honestly a lot of movie don't scare me but Hereditary did for some odd reason
@TedTeddison99
5 жыл бұрын
That movie was ass.
@sebastianvaladez2796
5 жыл бұрын
I had to go watch this video 10 steps away from my computer and leave the lights on.
@oliverbk695
5 жыл бұрын
Preaching to the choir, pal
@beesuschrist7128
5 жыл бұрын
I had to play a comedy video on my laptop while I watched this on my phone
@GebTM
5 жыл бұрын
Mungo sounds like a fruit you would find at a shady fruitstand in south america
@violetblue1251
5 жыл бұрын
Mango??
@calbe8614
5 жыл бұрын
@@floofyowls8989 true true
@Warm_Ice0
5 жыл бұрын
Look up Munggo
@jmgmarcus808
5 жыл бұрын
Charlie Hermansson You sir are on the level, I immediately lost interest in the first 30seconds and also wanted to talk about other things such as fruits and hot Filipino chicks in the comment section while the others figure out how sad the movie is or isn't. Don't care, never gonna see it.
@cristaljustice4534
5 жыл бұрын
The name of the movie??
@zacktodd6965
4 жыл бұрын
I believe Alice’s spirit is left behind at the end when the family moves out. Closure for them, but sadly not for Alice. Heartbreaking stuff.
@alextromagnetic
5 жыл бұрын
Not a movie but the recent Haunting of Hill House Netflix series is heartbreaking, especially in the characterisations of Luke and Theo
@sleepingdogpro
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved it until the last ten minutes of the last episode, which literally undoes everything that comes before it and throws schmaltzy acoustic music over the top as it does. But everything in the middle episodes worked like gangbusters, especially Bent Neck Lady and Two Storms.
@VillemR
5 жыл бұрын
@@sleepingdogpro yeah, that's what I immideatly thought about, except the "bent-neck lady" story arc more specifically
@28Pluto
5 жыл бұрын
Although I agree the ending was rather weak, it doesn't ruin everything that came before it... Unless you're just dumb and missed the point.
@MichaelRodriguez-ci3dr
5 жыл бұрын
I’m almost sure that I’m the only person who did not enjoy that show at all.
@dariorock553
5 жыл бұрын
Losing a child is such a pain that only a parent could understand. That ending had me in tears, specially since none of them made it out of the red room. They all die.
@tylertheguy3160
5 жыл бұрын
That last shot of the actual, real ghost. Just... damn.
@AlienWithABox
5 жыл бұрын
Even sadder, the "fake" images and footage are shown again in the credits, zooming in on the *real* ghost that you can see in each picture. She really was there, trying to send a message but, much like in life, no-one noticed her.
@SpaceCattttt
5 жыл бұрын
@@AlienWithABox Whatever. As soon as she spread her legs for her middle-aged neighbour, she lost all my sympathy.
@Knavecuh
5 жыл бұрын
@@SpaceCattttt Whoa there edgyboi!
@BlackbirdMJ
5 жыл бұрын
@@SpaceCattttt Holy shit! I can't believe people as cruel as you actually exist. O_o
@SpaceCattttt
5 жыл бұрын
@@BlackbirdMJ I'm not cruel. I still treat whores as people and would defend their human rights if need be. But I don't want to socialize with people who treat sex as something to play around with or sell. Sex is a fun activity with serious lifelong consequences. And people who so flippantly throw caution to the wind and fuck around.....well, they don't really come off as responsible individuals, do they? I realize that by this definition, 90% of the world's population are whores. But that's also why I don't like many people. It's me against the world, baby.
@oof_ow_my_bones
4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely hate the picture on the monitor thank you very much for having that there :))))))
@soerry2
5 жыл бұрын
The saddest Horror movie ive ever seen is probably the blackcoats daughter. Just how alone, abandoned and desperate she is at the very end makes that film incredibly tragic for me.
@megan4377
5 жыл бұрын
soerry2 I agree. To be so alone that you yearn for a demon to take you over... that’s awful.
@fleabaguette
5 жыл бұрын
soerry2 yes, that one’s sadder.
@theupwardspiral1580
5 жыл бұрын
I agree. I dont know if its more sad than this one since ive never seen this one. But when black coats daughter was over, i was like dang. All she needed was one real friend or a cat or dog or somethin. She was all alone :(
@stephaniemac4637
5 жыл бұрын
That’s a great movie..
@lightmj9650
5 жыл бұрын
I just watched that movie. It ain't sad at all...I mean wtf she worships a devil and kills people. That priest was trying to help her and yet she killed him just to sacrifice his head.
@stevetimbo444
5 жыл бұрын
The interweaving of the themes at the very end is storytelling perfection. This review is great but somewhat brushed past how great it is. The recorded sessions with the medium between the daughter and the mother and what they claim to see separately in Alice’s room is one of the most heartbreaking moments I’ve ever seen in a film. She was never truly seen in life and in death, not even by her own mother, who leaves her thinking she’s in peace.
@trawlins396
4 жыл бұрын
That part was really interesting. I wish it would've been longer.
@Tina_95
3 жыл бұрын
I'm very late on this reply lol but yeah I kept hearing about how sad this movie was and honestly I was mostly just unsettled and disturbed up until that point. Once Alice said "someone is coming in my room" I just had instant tears because they're both there but the mom doesn't see her.
@tomkearns5123
5 жыл бұрын
Love this movie. The climax is one of the few scenes in a horror movie to actually leave me chilled. Not frightened, but deeply unsettled.
@ninethreefivesix
5 жыл бұрын
It still think about it to this day, some 6+ years after seeing it.
@adaml1867
5 жыл бұрын
I watched lake mungo before watching this video and it was definitely worth it. The ending works so well with the entire film it's utterly chilling
@InformerMaz
5 жыл бұрын
adam L I remember this movie. The phone footage scared me when I was younger. And the ending was really sad. Like, I don’t know. Like, knowing she as stuck there, it’s just a lonely feeling.
@chloe41120
5 жыл бұрын
so how did she die?
@adaml1867
5 жыл бұрын
@@chloe41120 have you seen it
@chloe41120
5 жыл бұрын
@@adaml1867 no, I'm trying to find a copy online.
@xamannatati2479
5 жыл бұрын
Chloe i was trying to find a copy online too, but then I searched on facebook and they have it there so I watched it in facebook. Hope this helps
@siddsen95
5 жыл бұрын
The last shot of the movie isn't the photo of the family standing outside their former home. It's reserved for after the credits end. A strange, repetitive electronic beeping is heard ( Resembling the sound an ECG makes). Light flashes and we see Lake Mungo at night, the dark silhouette of Alice standing at the center; for a split second. Lightning flashes six more times and we see her standing still. There is an indication that time is moving fast while Alice is motionless (Clouds illuminated by flashes of light swirl by). No idea what it means but that is unsettling and probably supposed to further the movie's lore.
@thebatman4279
4 жыл бұрын
That bit truly messed me up. I didn't expect that.
@Greaust
4 жыл бұрын
I think it refers to the family moving on and leaving her behind, abandoning her.
@oreogazmic991
4 жыл бұрын
That scene after the credits reminded alot of Twin Peaks the return, especially the flashback episode that is all black and white. To me it is there to reinforce the theme that we will not understand what happened to Alice because we will never understand death. It shows she is still alive in the afterlife because she cannot come to terms with her fate, that she is dead, and her family is still trying to come to terms with her death as well as their own morality. And as viewers we struggle to come to terms with it as well. They will never truly forget her because how can you ever forget a family member who died too early? You can move on but their memory will keep her alive, in a sense, even if it is a painful one. Her death and encounter at lake Mungo being unresolved gives us as a viewer that same feeling. There is a whole world after we die that we can't understand. We will never understand death (until we die at least) which is terrifying. And death is certain. We will die some day as Alice did, we chose to not look at it. But she was forced to. This movie takes every ghost horror trope and turns it upside down. Literally we find out halfway through the photos are faked by her brother. It actively challenges us and plays us because we are so accustomed these tropes, probably why so many people are frustrated with this movie. But If it told us how and why she died we would have forgotten and moved on like what happens in most horror movies. This is a very self aware movie. From themes, to plot devices, technical creation (choosing to be documentary) it uses existing horror tropes to move the plot forward while also transcending them and subverting the viewers expectations. Referring to twin peaks, that show did the same thing, and is vital in my understanding of this movie. David lynch never wanted the killer of Laura palmer to be discovered but was forced to by producers and Frost. Becuase as soon as we find the murder everything gets wrapped up with a nice bow and we move on. But in real life, people cant just move on from a death of a loved one. A death like that cant just be forgotten. Lake mungo took this idea, it's understanding of grief and made an extremely effective horror movie that taps into to our fear of the unknown world of death and gives it an extremely realistic take on it. Really a fantastic movie that is extremely well crafted in subverting expectations, using horror tropes and red herrings to drive these themes home and challenge viewers to think, feel and derive their own personal understanding of grief to Alice and her family greifing. Also this scene after the credits is significant for viewers because it breaks the 4th wall. This is the only scene that isnt created by the fictional documentary crew or someone in the movie. Why would a film crew have footage like that?? Seems like a stretch. This is because now we are haunted by this lack of understanding as was the palmer family. The movie is self aware it is a movie, and that was the directors intention. Not only to blur fiction and reality but also characters in the movie and us as a viewer watching it. Ghosts lived in the photos and videos taken in the fictional world. Now Alices ghost is haunting us as viewers through that final scene. Transcending the documentary to our real world. A very nice touch to end on and very meta. The director was 100% a fan of twin peaks without a doubt. The ending scene was a very small detail but adds so much. Great film making in my opinion.
@misery441
4 жыл бұрын
@@oreogazmic991 Great comment. No need to ask why Alice's last name is Palmer.
@MidnightRain1997
3 жыл бұрын
But is it really Alice? The dark silhouette could be anyone. I think it means this is the viewers silhouette staring back at them. The scene is very dark.
@raam726
5 жыл бұрын
The saddest horror movie I've ever seen is "the wailing". Also, "the mist".
@dsaillant811
5 жыл бұрын
The Wailing is brutal, such an underrated gem.
@raam726
5 жыл бұрын
It's very depressing
@folbykleetwood7462
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the Mist got to me
@raam726
5 жыл бұрын
The mist hits you hard coming out of nowhere. The wailing is like a thousand cuts and then rips your heart out
@31webseries
5 жыл бұрын
@@raam726 Well said.
@gagechase1413
5 жыл бұрын
I have to say that you make some of the best video essays I’ve ever seen and these have gotten me through some pretty dark times. Thank you for everything you’ve done.
@RyanHollinger
5 жыл бұрын
Good luck!
@nathanisaksson
4 жыл бұрын
That scene made my skin crawl. Dreadful tingles on my shoulders and scalp, a sinking in my stomach. I can’t even remember another time when that’s happened to me. This movie really made my house feel creepy as hell afterward!
@lau-uv5vt
3 жыл бұрын
At night time it's the worst I feel like theres a ghost in every dark corner or wall way watching me in my house I have to leave some lights on when watching TV
@abrickonjupiter
5 жыл бұрын
This movie, in my long career as a horror buff, is one of the few that also gave me night terrors. I bought it almost to say, "You win," but I haven't watched it since. Just the very dark, sad pall of the whole thing, culminating in some unexplained force of the supernatural dangling this girl's own death in front of her face as a specter in her clothes rushing at her, really fucked with me. It's so odd, because I would see screenshots of that climactic scene before I saw the movie and be like, "Okay, whatever," but then context made it almost unbearable to look at now. The only one that's hit me in a similar yet also different way ever since is Hereditary.
@sucodefuta
5 жыл бұрын
i felt the same thing when watching, i almost couldn't look at the screen
@jackpandora3160
5 жыл бұрын
I actually had no idea of anything of the movie and the minute the screen froze and showed the face i actually like froze in fear that image burned into my mind and actually gave me fuckin nightmares. I pride myself on not being too scared by horror films, like jumpscares are whatever, you cant ever get used to that your brain is primed but everything else doesn't affect me. This movie was the first one to actually make me almost have a pure sense of just cold wash over me as my heart beat faster and faster.
@sucodefuta
5 жыл бұрын
@Pills here Here it's on netflix
@sucodefuta
5 жыл бұрын
@Pills here Here unlucky
@iamjacksennui
5 жыл бұрын
@@jackpandora3160 "...you cant ever get used to that your brain is primed..." Probably because it's looks very similar to what a drowning victim(or any corpse for that matter) actually looks like. As someone who once had an interest in emergency medicine(former EMT student here), I've seen some graphic pictures of both injuries and dead people. The daughter's corpse sitting in this film is the most realistic dead body I've seen in a while regarding movies. Sorry if this fucks you up more.
@arvinjay336
5 жыл бұрын
"a boring movie about a crazy mother and her crazy daughter who dies." - Google Reviews hahaha
@justinkroboth360
4 жыл бұрын
Okay, I laughed - Google provides.
@jathushankar2550
4 жыл бұрын
True
@doctabaldhead
4 жыл бұрын
That could also be a pleb review for Hereditary which is kind of funny.
@gaminganimators7000
3 жыл бұрын
That review is stupid lol
@chefboyardee5273
3 жыл бұрын
neither of them was crazy what
@tricky1506
2 жыл бұрын
Spoiler: I'm not sure why, but when I realized that alice isn't moving toward the corpse, it's coming towards her, that little detail made it somehow even more horrifying than I already found it. Top 5 scares I've ever gotten easily
@Odinsday
5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best mystery movies ever made. It's short, sweet, and insanely well done. It is a crime this movie doesn't get more recognition.
@SpaceCattttt
5 жыл бұрын
Which film are you talking about, because it certainly wasn't Lake Dumbo.
@b1ggestslut
5 жыл бұрын
teppolundgren H03
@SpaceCattttt
5 жыл бұрын
@@b1ggestslut Damn you Internet slang! I actually Googled that shit in case it was a film...
@b1ggestslut
5 жыл бұрын
teppolundgren teppolundgren more like teppolundumb
@crossfoot4612
5 жыл бұрын
This honestly creeped me out. This movie sounds genius. I'll have to buy the movie if I can find it
@inkedge1519
4 жыл бұрын
It is free in youtube
@leanmeangreenbeanmachine3347
4 жыл бұрын
You can watch it for free with ads on Tubi TV
@geenhaaien
4 жыл бұрын
well it’s on amazon prime for free and it’s only available on dvd
@neotheresa
4 жыл бұрын
The choice to use “Room of Angel” as the background music made this video *that* much better. And it’s already a fantastic video
@mcromance257
3 жыл бұрын
is it from Silent Hill? the vibe kinda reminds me of the series
@neotheresa
3 жыл бұрын
@@mcromance257 Indeed it is! It’s from “Silent Hill 4: The Room”
@ismaill-0819
3 жыл бұрын
@@neotheresa RIP Silent Hill
@orioneden7529
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who noticed "Room of Angel". Silent Hill is a horror masterpiece and so is Lake Mungo
@tikalthewhimsicott2736
2 жыл бұрын
@@ismaill-0819 I wonder what a late 2000's early 2010's game created by the original developers would have been like
@residentdingus
5 жыл бұрын
The Orphanage comes to mind as the saddest horror film I’ve ever seen for sure
@31webseries
5 жыл бұрын
It's definitely up there. When you find out the truth about what happened, god fucking damn, right to your heart!
@ervienace2123
3 жыл бұрын
Just watched this and this reminded me of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, particularly how it uses a horror context to explore the more real and terrifying theme of confronting grief.
@trawlins396
5 ай бұрын
Haunting of Hill House doesn't belong to Netflix. Shirley Jackson wrote that ghost story way back in the 1950s.
@ervienace2123
5 ай бұрын
@@trawlins396 what i meant when i said "netflix's the haunting of hill house" is the netflix miniseries adaptation of the shirley jackson book. I didn't specifically attribute netflix with the original story 🙂
@amyswallow742
3 жыл бұрын
the cell phone part actually gave me chills when the foreshadowed corpse jumps at the screen. i also like how after it happens Alice becomes really disoriented and it feels like she is under water trying to reorient herself.
@jenniferbrunk4170
5 жыл бұрын
I full cried in a public theater watching Train to Busan, which is inexplicably getting a probably terrible American remake.
@ToastyJunebugs
5 жыл бұрын
The zombie horror movie? I remember I did get teary eyed watching that, but I can't remember why.
@OOU2999
5 жыл бұрын
Man that film caught me off guard. It exceeded my expectations with its horror as it was the first time in a long time I was genuinely intimidated by the zombies on screen. But more importantly, the multiple emotional moments that showcase the true loss and pain that comes with any disaster, in this scenario the disaster being rather extreme.
@jenniferbrunk4170
5 жыл бұрын
oneoneup I was caught off guard, too. I expected it to be, for lack of a better word, more fun and not nearly as poignant. I felt genuine emotional investment in the characters and their plight, and my tear ducts could not cope.
@31webseries
5 жыл бұрын
Oh God yes! Several emotional moments but god damn that ending!!! If I even see a clip of it or hell hear a clip of it I cry!
@jenniferbrunk4170
5 жыл бұрын
God, yes, the ending was where I lost it. I watched it with a friend in an indie theater with tables instead of the stadium seating, and at the end, we looked across the table and just tears 😭
@Overlord99762
5 жыл бұрын
Me: *getting sad for real* Ryan: It's completely fictional
@effie4749
Жыл бұрын
This film is a masterpiece and has, in my opinion, a lot of symbolism as well. I think that the encounter Alice had with the neighbors was not just a plot device that finally lead the parents to discover the phone and the truth about what happened. Maybe there was not consent after all and that deteriorated Alice's mental health which in combination with the fact that her parents were already emotionally distant broke her. Maybe the death was self inflicted. The ghost was a representation of her mental illness and maybe a sign that she had to do it. She buried her things as a funeral for herself, by herself because she felt alone. She then died surrounded by the people she loved as a final goodbye to them. The opening line was not just a bad premonition but what she was actually planning to do because she felt she had no other choice.
@trawlins396
5 ай бұрын
But it shows her in the video consenting. The Dad even says that.
@trcsonic
5 жыл бұрын
The Descent is pretty sad. The incident in the cave is an allegory with the depression of the main character.
@jessebond4280
5 жыл бұрын
It is by far the saddest horror movie I've ever seen. It's sadder than Lake Bungo.
@jackkraken3888
5 жыл бұрын
I didn't even think of it like that.
@weirdguy4948
5 жыл бұрын
The descent is such a shit movie tho
@21minute
4 жыл бұрын
The original ending is pretty sad.
@Zac-oz9lj
4 жыл бұрын
@@weirdguy4948 In my opinion it was a great film.
@RatchetandSly
4 жыл бұрын
Great usage of Silent Hill 4's "Room of Angel" in this review. That track really suits the tone of this movie.
@kierans5583
5 жыл бұрын
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Really really sad.
@Kazooples
2 жыл бұрын
I saw it, I cried, I should add that I’m Australian and they really did a good job at making it feel like an Australian documentary, when they show news segments it feels very authentic.
@Thebossstage1
5 жыл бұрын
Nice use of silent hill 4s theme song at the beginning
@RyanHollinger
5 жыл бұрын
Perfectly fitting!
@fernie-fernandez
5 жыл бұрын
I sort’ve wish it was Lisa Garland’s theme...but, oh well...
@kierandavis5884
5 жыл бұрын
While not a movie, the game SOMA really asks some hard questions and has one of the saddest endings I've ever seen.
@otaldomatheush
5 жыл бұрын
...please don't leave me alone...
@endlessevanescence3502
5 жыл бұрын
Don't remind me. SOMA had me in my feelings for weeks. Took a long while trying to emotionally recover from that ending. That game actually makes you THINK about the _permanent_ end of humanity. It also made me think about how lucky and fortunate, and thankful I am to be alive while the world is still beautiful now. I'm not even kidding.
@ghostwriterl2486
5 жыл бұрын
Another sad game ending is crossing souls really good if you like 80s nostalgia
@coppersssnek9619
5 жыл бұрын
soma was amazing.. played it twice and felt the same emptiness and despair inside both times..
@Fourloko45
5 жыл бұрын
Play life is strange: before the storm and then tell me there is a more sad ending in video game history
@MsRee713
4 жыл бұрын
I have never heard a more exemplary use of “Room of Angel” even in Silent Hill 4. Extremely well done and I don’t think that this video would’ve scared me as much as Lake Mungo did had it not been used. There seems to be something incredibly epic about each one of Ryan’s videos.
@davebeaudoin6210
5 жыл бұрын
1:45 Akira Yamaoka - Room Of Angel (Instrumental Version) Sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. From the game Silent Hill 4: The Room. (Just in case anyone was wondering...)
@adhamhocaoimh
5 жыл бұрын
Dave Beaudoin One of my favourite songs.
@the_kingkiwi1453
5 жыл бұрын
I was looking over the comments to see if anyone had mentioned it. I love that man's music.
@naomi3557
5 жыл бұрын
Good ol' Yamaoka. ❤️
@MsRee713
5 жыл бұрын
Akirasan
@MsRee713
5 жыл бұрын
I actually got to speak to him in Mexico on Twitter when he and Mary Elizabeth were doing a convention there. I couldn’t speak Japanese but we both could speak Spanish so it was a cool time.
@Sandullos
5 жыл бұрын
Dude, Lake Mungo is such a great film. It is so eerie and the ending took me completely by surprise.
@Spider_lily021
2 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie in a psychology class and we were presented it like a documentary by our professor. It was a good lesson for us in perception and framing.
@thehitherto5348
5 жыл бұрын
Genuinely sad horror movies are to me far more engaging than horror movies being plain depressive and disturbing. Far too many directorial bravados seems to be content making bleakness-porn and shocking endings with the sole purpose of making people feel like shit. I'm much more impressed when filmmakers succeed making us care for the characters and wants us to feel bad for their miserable fates. I think Mike Flanagan has been very good at this over the last 4-5 years or so.
@cleetuscleetus2535
4 жыл бұрын
6:30 "And then this happens..." **Wal-Mart ad**
@notafan1139
5 жыл бұрын
Le-ack mongo
@hollygolightly7207
5 жыл бұрын
Stop LMFAOOOO
@NwahSwit
4 жыл бұрын
Læk
@MihaiMarcut
4 жыл бұрын
I feel you left some important things out. For example, I can't stop thinking about that session with Ray in which she says she was watching her parents when they were sleeping and then started to cry. I mean, she is speaking of an event that already took place, cause she was alive in the tape, BUT that exact shot of her watching over her parents was one of the shots discovered in those tapes they planted AFTER starting to have some paranormal experiences. Another example is the Lake Mungo scene. She saw an anterior future self of hers. I mean, it's like Alice and her ghost (or whatever that was) broke what we know about time and space. This thought terrified me the most and I still can't fully comprehend what happened.
@Marigen1971
5 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite mockumentaries, thanks for making a video of it. When you asked what was one of the saddest horror movies I've seen the first thing that came up was A Tale of Two Sisters (S.Korean). The melody is one that sticks in one's head, weeks after seeing it.
@stephenduble1901
5 жыл бұрын
GREAT movie!
@8yerbrain
5 жыл бұрын
Hear, Hear! A tale of two sisters is damn near a masterpiece.
@oldmoviemusic
5 жыл бұрын
@@8yerbrain I've wanted to watch that film, but I'm more of a psychological horror person - it's not that I can't take violence, it's that I hate gratuitous gore... should I watch A Tale of Two Sisters, or does it lean more gory than psychological?
@8yerbrain
5 жыл бұрын
@@oldmoviemusic Definitely psychological.
@djkoz78
5 жыл бұрын
Check out 3 extremes
@aphroditeeeaye1224
5 жыл бұрын
That footage just gave me so much anxiety omg
@rosekay5031
5 жыл бұрын
Pan’s Labyrinth, terrifying, horrifying and hauntingly heartbreaking. Have you seen it?
@Penny.Dreadful.formally.known.
5 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@TJ20232
4 жыл бұрын
Is she really a princess or is it all her fantasy?? I was always of the opinion that she just dies, and it was all her imagination.
@jesseperry7597
4 жыл бұрын
@@TJ20232 I think that's the true brilliance of Pan's Labyrinth. The ending is left open ended and how you interpret it says more about you than it does about the movie.
@Kardinaalilintu
3 жыл бұрын
I wasn't ready for that movie when I saw it. I ended up shaky sobbing alone in my room in the early hours of a morning and can never get the image of the hunters son being beaten to death out of my head. I should re-watch it now as an adult.
@krashd
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kardinaalilintu That's how I felt after Bridge to Terabithia, talk about a kick in the guts.
@NoirFan84
5 жыл бұрын
Do an analysis of Eyes Without A Face, Ryan. Another great classic horror masterpiece that not enough people know of. Other than that, try Don't Look Now, Picnic At Hanging Rock or Night Of The Hunter. These are deep, unique & brilliant movies I'd love to hear your thoughts on.
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380
5 жыл бұрын
You've just named some of my all time favourites, I'd add the original B&W film, "The Haunting,"
@NoirFan84
5 жыл бұрын
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 Yeah, mine too. Also, I'm just about to put on Dead Ringers & pretty much any of Cronenberg's body-horror titles would make for fascinating study pieces.
@stephentoth6003
5 жыл бұрын
Is that in any way related to The Face Without Eyes? Because that was a fantastic biopic about Ray Charles, hats off to.the filmmmaker.
@TheAutistWhisperer
5 жыл бұрын
Night of the Hunter is one of my favourite films, very unnerving film.
@NoirFan84
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheAutistWhisperer One of the most beautifully shot films in cinema history. The way the film is lit & framed is unlike any other. Charles Laughton's one & only directorial effort but its an outstanding one.
@NonniR
5 жыл бұрын
This was great man. Very well done. It's interesting though how differently we interpreted the movie. You have this ending where the family moves on in this somber, tragic but ultimately positive ending in some ways. Where as I view it as a full-blown tragedy and in some ways terrifying. My interpretation of the movie is that while the family can move on from her death and get a sense of closure, Alice can not. Just as her problems were hidden from everyone in her life, she herself is now literally hidden from everyone in her death with her own family leaving her, incapable of seeing her. Adding to this horrifying interpretation is that we still have no idea what actually killed her. In fact, here you have a recording of her own future corpse meeting her, signaling that she will die. Which begs the question, what the hell was that? Some kind of intelligence that "chose" her? Was she haunted by something (perhaps from the Lake?). Can that "thing" choose somebody else? Regardless, we have no idea and more horrifyingly, Nobody (in the family at least) seems to care. They just move on. Either way, sorry for the long rant. It was a fantastic film and really made me think. Especially since if supernatural things were to happen, I imagine they would just ... happen and I feel that this movie captured that quite brilliantly. Anyway, subscribed.
@tobosauce3404
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but the saddest horror movie I’ve seen was my parent’s wedding video. Edit: oh my fucking god it was a joke
@Quasarii
4 жыл бұрын
???
@weirdred3537
4 жыл бұрын
Could you elaborate on this? Please?
@Justme-qy6hw
4 жыл бұрын
@@weirdred3537 so in short its because their relationship its toxic,or at least its what ive got from that🤷🏻♀️
@weirdred3537
4 жыл бұрын
@@Justme-qy6hw Oh. I see. I thought Tobo here didn't want to see their mom or dad get married due to Tobo being selfish or something. Thanks for your perspective!
@Justme-qy6hw
4 жыл бұрын
@@weirdred3537 no prob,your idea was cool too
@Aarzu
5 жыл бұрын
I just watched this movie a couple of days ago. It was incredibly terrifying. As you said, it's one of the biggest pieces of existential horror I think I've ever seen. Also, in agreement with you, it's one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. I've lost people who, after losing them, I came to find out things about them that were just absolutely shocking. I really like your interpretation of the ghostly images revealed at the end, because I honestly wasn't entirely sure that was really a happy thing myself. My knowledge of ghosts is that if they continue to linger, there's still something keeping them from passing on. My thoughts were that, while the surviving family members have found peace and have been able to move on with their lives, Alice still hasn't and is trapped. It seems clear she didn't hold any denial about her impending death, she didn't seem to accept it either. It also calls into question what other secrets she had or continues to have, as well as her regrets.
@鳥山明-x2m
5 жыл бұрын
So this is what it feels like to get goosebumps early in the morning surrounded by your family. And I've yet to watch the movie.
@joeyxl3456
5 жыл бұрын
you might have a writing talent
@jeffjones7108
3 жыл бұрын
8:42 "Knowing who Alice really was can only be answered by her." With Alice looking directly at the camera on "her". Nice touch. Creepy.
@EdmundKempersDartboard
4 жыл бұрын
Australia produces some of the most depressing horror i have ever seen.
@MrPokination
3 жыл бұрын
We just gotta look at our politicians, that's truly the most depressing horror of all
@matthayes8631
5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad to see someone talking about this movie. Actually, Haunting of Hill House got me thinking about this movie again. Specifically, the ending of Episode 6 of HoHH reminded me a lot of the ending to Lake Mungo. Reminded me so much in fact, I actually wouldn't be surprised if Mike Flanagan was directly inspired by this movie.
@xenomorph6272
5 жыл бұрын
When watching this film we saw a glimpse of the street name and went on a goose hunt and found the house on google maps, Turns out it was up for sale.
@bubbadoo10
4 жыл бұрын
It being vacant was probably how they could use it to shoot their movie, so makes sense.
@patyboy2628
4 жыл бұрын
i found where the house is after i watched the movie, turns out i used to live on the same block. its the house next to the veterinarian. The damn where alice drowns is just outside of town and the funeral home and church scenes were actually shot in the local funeral home and church.
@commandercat10
4 жыл бұрын
paty boy 26 huh neat
@Mimickolas
10 ай бұрын
this movie hit me the same way that "the bent-neck lady" episode of Haunting of Hill House hit me.
@sk8mike
5 жыл бұрын
Requiem for a Dream - It's not really a horror movie, but it is disturbing and sad.
@31webseries
5 жыл бұрын
I've heard it called an "Urban Horror" movie and it is definitely the bleakest most horrific thing I've ever watched. (Not counting A Serbian Film which was horrific in a completely different way.)
@djkoz78
5 жыл бұрын
Definitely a horror film
@baneoftechnology
4 жыл бұрын
my hometown is the place the first officially ghost-finding device was invented. The inventor made it to "communicate" with his daughter, who died just before prom. We have a mural of her prom dress in the school. According to him, he was inspired to create it after he was in a deep depression, and he heard her voice tell him it was all going to be alright. This video brought it all back.
@skyefeyden
3 жыл бұрын
Are you talking about Gary Galka and his daughter? Either way, his is a very sad story.
@baneoftechnology
3 жыл бұрын
@@skyefeyden got it in one, her death was nothing but tragic. Not every ghost story has to have a horror element, sometimes the story is about the survivors.
@fakeplasticgamers9850
4 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie 12 years ago, when it came out. To this day, I never forgot the scene where Alice sees her own corpse. It was eerie, chilling, and unsettling in a way I wasn't expecting. I guess one of the reasons is that the movie sweeps the rug under you so often. We're so used to accepting the supernatural in a movie like this that the pictures of Alice created by the brother I immediately took as proof of the supernatural. But when that belief is taken away and they focus on the neighbor, I assumed it was going for a real killer route and the supernatural was a red herring. But then that fucking scene. It's not just the content within, but the context where it was placed -- in any other horror movie it might not have been that scary, but after what we had seen up until that point, it was a punch in the gut.
@lau-uv5vt
3 жыл бұрын
Which scene was that, the cell phone footage?
@redi4deth
2 жыл бұрын
I think for me it was because it was so surprising. Like, I knew it was gonna be creepy footage of something, but the last thing I expected was for her to see herself. Plus they did such a good job making that corpse look so disturbing. I'm not normally scared of corpses
@sangheiliwarrior86
Жыл бұрын
I honestly thought it was gonna be a meeting with the neighbor, when it fucking jumpscared me I jumped out my skin.
@clamshelljuice
5 жыл бұрын
The Orphanage is the saddest horror movie I ever saw. The ending was heartbreaking and I cried while watching it
@sapphiresushi3437
5 жыл бұрын
Could I hear more about it?
@lucymara2505
5 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@jt2284
5 жыл бұрын
@@sapphiresushi3437 it's a Spanish horror by Del Toro about a woman who was brought up in an orphanage goes back to buy it as an adult. As you can imagine, a lot of creepy ghost shit ensues. It's an absolutely heartbreaking ending. Thoroughly chilling.
@nikkihackborn8472
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds good. I haven't seen it but I cried like a baby at the end of Pan's Labyrinth
@suchafknladyyy
5 жыл бұрын
@@nikkihackborn8472 me too sis the color purple and pans labyrinth are guaranteed tear jerkers for me 😅
@acnbk
5 жыл бұрын
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (written/directed by Oz Perkins) is the saddest horror movie I’ve ever seen, alongside Fire Walk with Me.. Please give it a watch, I think it’s very worthy of a video
@GreatSnake777
5 жыл бұрын
The black coats daughter surprised me. I really enjoyed it.
@Thalice95
5 жыл бұрын
I've come around to the opinion, after several viewings, that The Blackcoat's Daughter (AKA February) is a modern masterpiece.
@gothictdk3792
4 жыл бұрын
The dead body freaked me out-no lies🤥🚫
@TheAutistWhisperer
5 жыл бұрын
The saddest horror film for me was The Mist, but I want to check this Lake Mungo, looks like my cup of tea.
@raycoughlin
3 жыл бұрын
Strangely enough, Funny Games is one of the saddest horror movies I've ever seen. More that it leaves you with a bleak sense of dread, senseless violence for the sake of violence, an ending devoid of hope, and the fact that the film makes the viewer complicit in the horror just makes the ending even more, I dunno, despondent.
@Stop_The_Car
3 жыл бұрын
I love Funny Games!
@SaveMeMoon
5 жыл бұрын
Paused the video at the Spoiler warning and went to watch the movie, just came back. Thank you so much for guiding me to this gem Ryan! It was something I needed right now.
@coppersssnek9619
5 жыл бұрын
did the same
@BrokenGeode
5 жыл бұрын
i love this movie but everytime i think about it i get a little bummed out
@yakiin9313
5 жыл бұрын
Pun
@i_am_it6142
4 жыл бұрын
"And well, this happens" And ad drops out of nowhere and scares me
@akiramts
5 жыл бұрын
I think The Babadook is the saddest horror movie I've ever seen. The grief, the struggle to move on, the difficulties of motherhood and the sense of insomnia really got under my skin. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the mother and her kid. Congrats on the video, Ryan! Definitely gonna watch Lake Mungo.
@djkoz78
5 жыл бұрын
I felt sorry for the mother that kid was hell
@endlessevanescence3502
5 жыл бұрын
The Babadook is such a damn good movie. In fact, "good" is selling it too short - it's _phenomenal!_
@shastealyomeal
4 жыл бұрын
More Like gay book 😂😂😂😂
@dr.crowsworld
5 жыл бұрын
The saddest horror film that I've seen is The Others 2001 and the Korean Hansel and Gretal 2007. Both movies were great at making you feel helpless but at the same time, feel really sorry for the main characters and their issues throughout the film. For The Others, it was the mother's tragic past and how it binds her down by guilt. Hansel and Gretal, no matter how hard you try to escape reality, you always have to face some sort of consequence by the end of it all. Both movies are very similar visually and storytelling wise, but are also really good stories and worth a mention.^-^
@arya2571
5 жыл бұрын
Buzz's Scrap Drawer oh my god the others is such an amazing movie, I remember watching it at age 7 and being confused, scared, and intrigued at the same time
@kurtberliner7049
3 жыл бұрын
This one kinda hurt. We lost my father to Pancreatic cancer, after three years of fighting it. He was 51, I was only 17. Sometimes I dream of him, other times I swear I can see him or hear his whistle in the wind on the farm he toiled on. It hurts as I just miss him, and wish he would just come home one day like he used to, in his old truck, with a tired but happy look on his face.
@elrey8876
3 ай бұрын
You brought tears to my eyes friend. It's almost two years since my Mom passed, and I'm still paying her mobile phone account because one day someone might call to talk to her. The photos we put up around the house for her farewell celebration are still there. I tell her I love her and miss her every day, out loud.
@AFarmerCalledChicken
5 жыл бұрын
Mama is the saddest movie to me. She wasn't inherently a bad spirit, she just wanted a child to love.
@simoneschwanitz1273
5 жыл бұрын
Hereditary is the saddest movie to me.Everyone dies.I feel so bad for Peter.He was only 17 had lost his sister in that horrible car accident his mom blames him for her death then she becomes insane.His dad gets killed and poor Peter realizes that his body is just a vessel for a demon.He commits suicide but the demon gets what he wants:Peters body.He is his new vessel.evil wins.Poor Peter never had a chance to defeat the demon.
@westkanye4005
4 жыл бұрын
Bby
@kelst75
Жыл бұрын
I felt like Alice was left attached to the house in that last scene. The family moved on but she couldn't.
@justinkroboth360
5 жыл бұрын
Silent Hill music is entirely appropriate - good call.
@waaurufu
5 жыл бұрын
Nice touch to have the image of the bloated corpse get closer to the camera every time you cut back to you and the monitor.
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