You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I'll be
your host this evening. I'm joined by no one.
That's okay. I am kicking off this month. It
is October, after all, and it is Horror Month.
Yes, I am going to try to do five, count them,
five bad horror movies for this month. The first
of which is going to kick off tonight. I'll tell
you all about it, but first we got to do the
thing we normally do and talk about what we are
drinking. So before we moved to Charlotte, one
of the first places I went to on a trip before
we moved here was to Birdsong Brewing. Birdsong
Brewing is a female owned brewery. Just giving
you that little heads up in Charlotte. and they
have a new ipa series this one is called cosmic
debris and is definitely one of my favorites
of their ipas i've had it several times i've
tried all their ipas and this is the one i keep
going back to unfortunately it's only a limited
time ipa but cosmic debris is what it's called
honestly i could down so many of these in a row
and probably not even care that i threw up It
also is funny because one of the things that's
included in it is mango, and I'm not usually
a big mango fan, but it does have passion fruit
as well. Let me just read this description for
you. Inspired by the Zappa Hops namesake, which
is Frank Zappa, of course, Cosmic Debris takes
you on a flavor journey as twisting as one of
Frank's solos with distinct notes of passion
fruit and mango. This experimental IPA will have
you exclaiming, great googly moogly. I don't
know if I've ever said great googly moogly before,
but it's not an unjust description of this beer.
So if you're in the Charlotte area or you can
find Birdsong somewhere near you, try the Cosmic
Debris if you can. I highly recommend it. You
might say great googly moogly yourself. All right,
now that I've addressed the beers in the room
and the animals in the room, let's talk about
our bad movie. So what I've been on a mission
lately is to find bad movies that star great
actors because I always think it's better when
we all sit there and go, wait, what the fuck?
Why are they in this movie? So I found a movie
that is a Netflix original called The Silence,
which stars Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, and
Stanley Tucci. So obviously we all recognize
that last name of Stanley Tucci. I absolutely
love Stanley Tucci. That is not unironic love.
That is true love for Stanley Tucci. He does
everything thrown his way. He's done action.
He's done comedy. He's done horror. And he has
a show on CNN called Searching for Italy that's
pretty damn great, too. Stanley Tucci is a good...
Good actor and a fun person, I think. He's definitely
one of those people that if you ask me if you
were to have dinner with any person, he's not
number one on my list, but he's definitely somebody
in my considerations where I go, yeah, he kind
of seems like somebody I would love to get a
drink or a meal with. So the other two names
I mentioned were Kiernan Shipka and Miranda Otto.
Kiernan Shipka is Sabrina in The Chilling Adventures
of Sabrina. And Miranda Otto plays her Aunt Zelda
on that same series. So if you've seen that series,
you kind of know who these two are. Kiernan Shipka
is definitely one of those up -and -coming actresses.
And I say up -and -coming because she's done
a lot as a breakout star, as a young kid. She's
going to be doing a lot more. She also was a
part of the FX anthology series called Feud.
Funny enough, that also had Stanley Tucci in
it. It's really weird because all of them were
kind of... in something together, but not really
all together. They all know each other and they
all were connected to Netflix at some point as
well. So it just kind of felt like they were
all connected to it. Miranda Otto, by the way,
was also Eowyn in the Lord of the Rings series,
The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Just
in case you're wondering where that name sounds
familiar. This movie had some things going against
it already right off the bat. First, I'll say
that it's PG -13. and a movie like this probably
shouldn't have been PG -13. But they were trying
to get the biggest audience they could, as well
as why they put it on Netflix in the first place.
One of the things, though, that is funny about
this is that Emily Blunt, of course, was the
star of A Quiet Place, and she is the sister
-in -law to Stanley Tucci. And we also have to
address that The Silence was a book first, which
was published in 2015, three years before A Quiet
Place was even released. Now this film was filmed
in 2017, which was probably after A Quiet Place
started filming, but it got released a year after
A Quiet Place, which definitely does some damage
to it. So plot details, let's go. So the movie
starts with a mountain range that's being dug
into. We learn that it's the Appalachian Trail,
and there's a cave system that might be hidden
from the world that these people are trying to
find, so they're digging into it. So this has
already lost me in the fact that I just don't
want to be in a cave at all. These people are
celebrating because they found this secret entrance,
it seems like. And they start hearing something.
It's kind of like this chittering sound. They
don't exactly know what it is. They have people
talking to them in their helmets because they're
like wearing, I guess, spacesuits. But really,
it's just to like be able to breathe in the cave
system if you go too far underground. So they're
talking to the people in their helmets and then
the chittering gets closer and they stop talking
and all of a sudden these things start flying
out and it's these like bird creatures. We don't
even know exactly what they're called at this
point, but they're like these bird creatures
that can't see, but they obviously are attracted
to sound because as soon as they start screaming,
they start attacking the two people that opened
the cave. That's it for the cave people. We assume
they died, but we don't exactly know. Again,
this is a PG -13 movie, so there's not a lot
of deaths that have been confirmed because you
just don't really see them. The opening credits
start rolling, and this is over swarms of animals
as well as technology building up and everything
like that. It doesn't really make sense, but
it's just kind of laying the groundwork for these
random creatures that are a swarm. Then we end
up at a high school, and Kiernan Shipka starts
doing narration. She tells the audience how she
lost her hearing not that long ago, so she doesn't
speak with a deaf voice, just in case that's
what you're imagining. But she is deaf. However,
she has this special ability where she can sense
when people are talking about her or when things
are around her and that kind of thing, and this
comes back later in the movie. But she can tell
that these high school boys are making fun of
her. Kiernan Shipka's character's name is Allie.
So I'm going to refer to her as Allie the rest
of the way. But Kiernan Shipka is Allie. And
then we've got Hugh. Hugh's her father. That's
obviously played by Stanley Tucci. Stanley Tucci
is a construction worker. He has a lot of jobs
that he just can't lose anymore. And he also,
you can tell, is very overprotective of Allie
ever since she lost her hearing. There also is
a little brother who they never really refer
to by name, but his name is Jude. The first time
we see him, he is playing Wave Race, which is
a N64 game that I had when I was a kid. And he's
playing it without a controller. He's using his
hands to move the jet ski and everything like
that. And that's just a nerd thing I wanted to
point out. The other characters we kind of meet
at this point in time is Kelly, who is Miranda
Otto. She is the mother. And then there's Lynn,
who is the grandmother who lives with them. Kelly
calls Hugh before he comes back from work and
is just kind of saying how Allie got made fun
of at school again and also that they need to
get Lynn's meds. Hugh is trying not to make a
big deal about Allie's situation. Or at least
that's what Kelly wants him to do because obviously
as the overprotective father, he gets a little
worked up about people making fun of his daughter.
Meanwhile, Allie is walking home from school.
She's walking home and this guy Rob comes up
and Rob's a high schooler as well. They obviously
have a little something going on. Rob is talking
to her with sign language and we learn later
in the film that Rob has been learning sign language
to get close to Allie. And they definitely have
a little relationship going on, but they're just
in the early parts of it. I'm going to try to
skip the unimportant parts. Basically, there's
a whole conversation with Hugh and Allie. That's
fine. There's a whole conversation with Kelly
and Lynn talking about Lynn doesn't want the
kids to see that she's taking meds. That's all
you really need to know at this point. So that's
like 15 minutes I saved you from already. We
basically go to the next scene where Allie wakes
up in the middle of the night, kind of sensing
that something's wrong. She goes to the front
room and the whole family is watching the news
where they see these things have broken out of
the ground. They're attacking people in cities.
So Hugh is kind of, hey, we need to get everybody
in the car. We're going to leave the city. I
will say this movie does a lot wrong. Don't get
me wrong. But the one thing I think they do right
is the fact that they address that these things
are attacking the cities first because it makes
sense. That's what the loud parts of the world
are, are cities. So Hugh makes the decision that
the whole family is going to get in the van.
They're going to get Uncle Glenn and they're
going to drive off to the middle of nowhere.
Uncle Glenn is also not a real uncle. He's just
a friend that. he has had since high school,
that they all refer to as Uncle Glenn. Uncle
Glenn basically just says, I need to get some
supplies, and then we'll meet here, and then
go from there. Uncle Glenn's supplies are like
40 guns, but you know, whatever, it's not that
big a deal. So they head out, we see them leave,
and then it flashes to another scene of people
stuck on a subway car. The subway car, it's obvious
they've been there for a while. And one of the
people that's there is a mother with a baby.
They've all been told not to make noise and the
baby starts crying. So one of the people grabs
the baby and is about to throw them off the subway
car when the mom's just like, no, no, stop it.
I'll go with her. I'll go. It's fine. And walks
out of the subway car. And basically the baby
is quiet for a while. They walk for a little
bit and then the baby starts crying again. And
you hear the things chittering and she goes,
no, no. And it flashes away because obviously
it's a PG -13 movie. They can't show you that
the mother and baby died. That's it from that
scene, by the way, that never comes back into
play again. That just wanted to show you that
anything can happen. Babies are probably going
to die because these creatures are attracted
by sound. So we go back to the family as they're
driving in two separate cars. Uncle Glenn and
Jude are in one car and the rest of the family
are in a van that is heading down the road. Allie
is sitting there with their dog Otis. Otis is
kind of a whiny boy and a barky boy. So I don't
know why they bring him with because let's just
face it, he's going to bark. But at the same
time, I'm also happy that they brought him with
because I don't want to see any dogs die today.
Allie is also texting on this big old iPad so
probably that the viewers can also see what she's
saying. She's texting Rob and learning that Rob
is going to stay put. He's going to stay with
his family and they're just going to stay in
their house and not go anywhere. Because she
was trying to convince him to come with because
they're going to the middle of nowhere and they
lived in a big city. Not quite New York, but
kind of there. Then after she's done texting,
she kind of goes to the news. And this is a constant
thing where she goes to the news. She learns
that these creatures, they've called them Vesps
because they swarm. And Vesps is a play on. It's
not quite the same word, but it's Spanish for
wasp. That's kind of what we learned. So these
things are called Vesps. Ignoring a couple scenes
that are not important. There's a part where
basically Jude just kind of decides that he wants
to go back with the family. He just misses them
and doesn't want this. He gets scared pretty
much. He just doesn't want to die without being
with his real family. He was all cool with like
riding with Uncle Glenn because he thought he
was cool and had all these guns and everything
like that. But now he's just kind of like, I
just want to be with family and everything like
that. So he hops in the car. You can also kind
of tell that Uncle Glenn is a loose cannon. Like
he's a little, he's going to rush into a fight
or something like that. You know, you can kind
of tell that at this point. They get stuck in
traffic that's not moving. So Uncle Glenn decides
that they're going to take a shortcut to the
middle of nowhere and they're going to go off
-roading. His car is built for that. The van
is not. So he's just kind of like, just follow
me and I'll help you if you get stuck or anything
like that. This is the point where I'm just like,
he is a loose cannon. Something's going to happen.
Like he's going to do something or something
like that. There's going to be something crazy
that happens along the road. And of course, as
soon as I say that, these deer rush in front
of Uncle Glenn's car and he tries to get out
of the way and flips his car off the road. and
not just flips once or twice or anything like
that. He flips like nine or ten times. He is
off the road, and his car is smashed. Hugh stops
the van, gets out, and is all ready to help Uncle
Glenn. So he rushes down to the car where Uncle
Glenn is, and basically Glenn's leg is pinned.
He can't get him out. He tries and he tries.
He grabs a tire iron, can't pull the door open.
He can't get him out. And Glenn asks him for
his guns. Hey, can you get me my guns? Get me
my guns. Get me my guns. And Hugh finally is
just like, okay, fine. Grabs the guns, gives
it to him. And he's just like, what do you want
those for? And Glenn goes, I'm going to shoot
you if you don't take your family and go. Glenn
knows that he's stuck. And so Hugh kind of like
gives in and goes, okay, fine. I'm going to go
get help and I'm coming back. That's what's happening.
So Hugh gets back to the car. He starts it and
is ready to go get help for Glenn. And he's talking
with the family. And all of a sudden, Allie gets
this strange, I won't say premonition, but she
gets this strange feeling. And she knows. Hey,
stop the car. And so Hugh stops it, just automatically
off the bat stops it. And Otis starts barking
at something. We don't know what exactly, but
he just starts barking. Then the first Vesp.
crashes into the car and the next one and the
next one and the next one they're all swarming
and they all crash into the car Otis can't stop
barking he's just barking barking barking barking
and so they all know they're in trouble because
Otis is barking at them and they hear it Glenn
starts hearing the animals or he starts hearing
Otis and he starts hearing the vests but go crazy
and so Glenn does the only thing he thinks he
can do remember he's in the ditch All alone.
And so he starts firing his gun. Boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And all the Vesps
start going away. Because the guns are louder
than Otis is barking. So the Vesps start attacking
Glenn. And to save his family, Hugh rushes to
the back of the van. Grabs the dog. Grabs his
face. And stops him for barking. And then opens
the back door and lets Otis run free. And we
don't see Otis anymore. I'm going to take a long
sigh. Otis was the best character. Otis deserved
better. Damn it. It's not his fault he's a dog
and he just barks at whatever. They never show
you his death, but you just assume that he's
dead. And they are monsters. I hate this family.
I don't care what happens to the rest of them.
Otis deserved to live. And I guess Glenn. Glenn's
fine, I guess. He deserved to live too. So the
Vesps, after they kill Glenn, and most likely
after they kill Otis, you monsters, are... just
hanging in that area. Cause they just kind of
assume there's more food in the area. So the
family camps out overnight in the car. They're
stuck. Now it seems like a very good time to
take a little break in between all the action.
And the only reason I'm taking a break is to
give a shout out to our friends that got the
bad movie guests. Correct. And that is our friends
at movies for real pod. That is movies. for the
number real R E E L pod basically is the host
of the movies for your podcast and a father who
loves films. Uh, go follow him on X slash Twitter
slash whatever the fuck we're calling it still,
uh, at movies for real pod. This is where he
releases all of his thoughts on movies, TV shows,
everything like that. Recently, uh, I see some,
I guess posts cause we don't call them tweets
anymore about Gen V. which is the boys' spinoff
show, one I'm definitely interested in watching
that I haven't yet. So definitely go check them
out. Movies4RealPod, at Movies4RealPod, host
of the Movies4Real podcast, and a father who
loves film. So there you go. Enjoy that. Thank
you for playing along with our game. They play
along every time, and I'm finally really glad
to say that they won. They were the first ones
to guess the silence correct. So there you go.
All right, we're back. Family's stuck in car.
Glenn and Otis dead. Vests are hanging out around
there. So Hugh gets out of the car basically
to find them a time where they can escape. What
he comes up with a plan to do, he sneaks away
slowly to light Glenn's car on fire. Basically...
This makes a lot of noise. And hopefully, when
it finally gets to the point, it's going to explode
and kill some of them. And I say that because
that's exactly what happens. He does light the
car on fire. All the Vesps start going in that
area. And the car finally explodes and takes
out some of them. There's a whole situation where
he kind of gets stuck in no man's land. Nothing
really happens. It's not that creepy. It's not
that scary. The only thing I'll say is that...
one of the Vesps you see close up and it's kind
of, it's bad CGI. Um, I can't say anything else
about it because it's just, it's just bad. Like
you look at these and you're not scared of them.
That's what it is. So he's able to get to the
car and basically they come to the conclusion
that they're not even going to be able to drive.
They just need to walk because that's going to
be quieter. After they start walking for a while,
it becomes nightfall. and they find this cabin
in the middle of the woods. It has a fence around
it, and more specifically, it has these bells
on it. So if you open the gates, it's going to
ring these bells, and people are going to know
that you're there, or the Vesps are going to
come and attack you. And as soon as they try
opening the door, the bell rings a little bit.
They were being quiet enough. This woman comes
out and starts yelling at them. She is also holding
a shotgun and basically just yells at them, get
off my property, get the hell off my property,
and fires the gun into the air. I know I said
there was a fence around this thing, but there's
not a fence in the air. We all know these things
attack sound. We all know they like silence.
So why the fuck are you yelling? Get the hell
off my property and fire your gun in the air.
The Vesps immediately swarm down. This is hysterical,
by the way. The Vesps immediately swarm down
and start attacking her, and she's trying to
back away as they're attacking her, and she falls
into a well. I wish I was joking, but that's
exactly what happens. So the old lady that lived
in this cabin is now dead because she fell down
a well. They're still behind the fence, so they
decide that Hugh is going to go through this
pipe that can get into the area so he can sneak
in and kind of make sure that nobody else is
there. As soon as he goes through the pipe, you
see that a snake is in the pipe, but the snake
doesn't attack at that point. Hugh gets through,
and he's just kind of, yes, we're good, come
on through. The whole family then decides to
go through the pipe. The little kid Jude is leading
the way. And he gets the snake and the snake
is staring at him. And of course, it's a rattlesnake.
So the rattlesnake starts rattling its tail.
And he starts freaking out. Well, then the vesps
come up one side of the pipe and start attacking
the rattlesnake because it's making enough noise
that... They can attack it. And then the other
Vesps are trying to come from the other side
and they run into the mom and they start biting
her leg. So the Vesps are on both sides of the
pipes. The family is stuck in the pipe, except
for Hugh, who comes up with the brilliant decision.
And this is a brilliant decision. Don't get me
wrong. This is a brilliant decision. But for
whatever reason in this movie, it's unintentionally
hilarious. He turns on a wood chipper that happens
to be in the yard. And the wood chipper makes
enough noises that the Vesps swing out of the
pipes and start flying directly into the wood
chipper. And I don't know why. It's just so fucking
funny. And it's a smart decision because he was
like making noise to get them away from his family.
And I get it. It makes sense in this situation.
But for whatever fucking reason, this is hysterical.
Because all these Vesps just fly in. No thoughts.
All this thrown to the wind. Fly straight into
the wood chipper. And all of them are gone pretty
much that quickly. So the family's able to get
through the pipe because the rattlesnake was
killed by the vesps. The other vesps flew into
the wood chipper. So the entire family's able
to get into this cabin. And they learn that mom
is in bad shape. They're going to watch overnight,
but she has a really big, deep cut on her leg.
She's not doing well. So all of them get their
own rooms and everything like that, except for
Grandma's on the couch and Jude's on the couch.
They get two different couches, but for whatever
reason, they give Allie her own room and then
they gave Grandma a couch. I don't know why,
but that's just what happened, I guess. Who knows?
When they get there, Allie opens up her iPad
and is able to FaceTime Rob. Uh, when Glenn was
pinned down, mom was trying to call for help
and she wasn't able to get to anybody. Like literally
the lines were down yet. Allie's able to call
Rob on this, not only call him, but like voice
call him, you know, seeing the video and everything
like that. Rob is talking about the vests. He
also learned about this place called the refuge.
And they're talking about all of that because
Rob's parents are dead. And Rob, basically, Allie
goes, I can tell you where we're going. You can
find us and everything like that. And he goes,
no, I'm going to try to find this refuge. I've
heard this is where people are safe. And then
all of a sudden the connection dies. And we don't
know if basically he's kind of like looking around
like, oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit. So we don't
know if Rob lives or dies or whatever at this
point. I think we can all guess what happens.
But, you know, at this moment, we don't know
if he lived, died, who lives, who dies, who tells
your story. Right, Hamilton? So Rob is out of
the picture for right now. Next morning, we learn
that mom is in bad shape. So they need to get
antibiotics. Antibiotics. Antibiotics. Antibiotics.
My God, I wish I could speak. Sometimes I wish
I could speak so I could be unstoppable. So they're
going to get antibiotics. they decide that Hugh
and Allie are going to go. And I think it's because
they're just the biggest names in the movie.
I also think it's because they need to drive
this next part of the story. And another thing,
because Allie is deaf. They all know sign language
and speak in sign language. But unlike a quiet
place where it's all quiet and you don't get
any words or anything like that, There's some
times where they're signing things, but they're
also talking out loud. So they'll be, like, signing,
like, what the hell was that? But they'll also
go, what the hell was that? And whisper talk
it while they're signing everything. And it just
drives me insane because I was fully prepared
to watch a movie with subtitles. Okay, I'm going
to talk in real voice now. prepared to watch
a movie with subtitles that's fine especially
because i knew what the story was about and everything
like that but now all of a sudden i don't need
to because they're signing but they're also talking
about what they are saying so long story short
hugh and ally get to this small town's grocery
store or drug store or whatever they're in there
and they're able to find the antibiotic There's
a part where the Vesps kind of are in the way,
but they don't really, it's not hard to deal
with them. And truthfully, I wasn't fully paying
attention because I was just kind of bored at
this point with this. But they do come across
some Vesps and they're able to get rid of them
pretty handily. That's not the next important
part of the story. Because as they're leaving
the drugstore, they run into this person that's
obviously like a cult leader. You look at him
and you just know. And his character is called
the Reverend. You know this dude is just like
this absolute cult leader. So the reverend, he
doesn't talk. And we learn later that they all
kind of broke their jaws so they can't talk.
So they can get around the Vesps. Basically,
we learn that he's like this religious kook that's
trying to get the family to join their cause,
where basically they repent and these vests are
going to go away. That's the idea. And so at
this point, A, I'm thinking, okay, they're smart
because they're trying to get away from him.
B, I'm going... It's just the second horror movie
I've seen for this podcast where there's like
this religious overtones because I also watched
Tsunami for this podcast. And basically the people
that were getting attacked by the it wasn't a
tsunami. It was a wasp tornado. Basically, the
people that were getting attacked by this wasp
tornado are people that didn't repent or believe
in God or anything like that. So I was really
worried that we were going down this rabbit hole
of religious overtones and everything like that.
Technically, I'm kind of right, but technically
I'm also kind of wrong when it comes down to
that. We're in the last quarter of the movie.
The Vesps no longer really become a part of it
anymore, kind of. So Hugh and Allie get back
to the cabin. They have the antibiotics. They're
able to give it to the mom. She is going to be
better. The grandma also was a nurse in another
life or something like that. So that's how she
knew how to take care of her and everything like
that. So the mom's better. Not exactly great,
but better. As they get back and the mom's making
a full recovery and everything like that, they
look outside and they see that the religious
leader is there. And he also has... His cult.
Which is like five people. And all of them are
creepy. And all of them have bruised jaws. And
this is when we learn that they broke their jaws.
And everything like that. And Hugh goes out there.
And is. What the hell do you want? Pretty much.
The reverend writes down in his little notebook.
We want you to join us. We believe that we can
save. The unrepentant. Hugh. is immediately no
we're not doing that and he writes down in the
notebook so that the reverend understands please
leave us alone leave us alone please and the
reverend holds up like this crooked finger like
one one second writes down something and he flips
the notebook and it says the girl is fertile
and he goes back in the house and i thought that
was it i thought he was just going back in the
house no he grabs the shotgun smart boy because
honestly i would have done the same thing in
that situation you fucking talk about my daughter
i am going to end you obviously he doesn't shoot
it the cult basically like smiles and walks away
like they understand okay it's done we've made
our point the girl is fertile God damn, it was
so that's like the creepiest part. And it's not
it's not creepy in a like. Oh, I was scared thing.
It's creepy in a like, why did we go down this
rabbit hole? It goes to that night and everybody's
asleep and all of a sudden they're woken up by
this feeling. Essentially, Hugh starts looking
out the windows and he starts waking up the family
like I know something's wrong. Something something's
here. Something's wrong. And they see this little
girl on the porch. And they're kind of looking
around like, oh, this little girl, where'd she
come from? Oh, God, where is this little girl
from? And the mother's just kind of we can't
leave her out there. So they bring her in. They
start examining her and they see that her jaw
is broken and they just think, OK, she she escaped
from the cult. And that goes to Ali's room and
Ali. wakes up because she senses something as
well and she like opens the window and i'm expecting
fully that she's going to see like the cult or
whatever no she sees a cell phone and all of
a sudden all hell breaks loose all uh all of
it the one cell phone on the window the alarm
starts going off and then The little girl has
like five cell phones attached to a belt around
her waist that also all start going off with
alarms. And you just hear the Vesps go crazy.
And they come in and they start attacking the
house and they're breaking the windows and everything
like that. And the mother, like in one fell swoop,
removes the belt off the little girl. and throws
it in some water and just starts drowning the
phones to make the alarm stop going. I call this
the noise bomb sequence because I think that's
what is the best description of it. Hugh is fighting
off the Vesps that get in the house or trying
to block off the windows and everything like
that. Jude's helping him, and he basically sends
Allie, the mom, the grandma, all to the basement
to hide so they can block everything off and
everything like that. As soon as they get to
the basement, there's two cult members waiting
for them. They attack the mom and kick her in
her leg wound. And I don't think they knew it
was there. They just got lucky pretty much. And
then the grandma was no threat and they were
able to grab Allie and take her outside the basement.
So the two are carrying Allie outside the door
and the grandma starts chasing after them. And
basically she just throws herself. at the two
kidnappers and grabs them both by the legs and
takes them out. Allie gets tossed a little bit
further away, and the grandma looks at Allie
and starts going and screaming bloody murder,
just everything she can scream, and the Vesps
start going after them. Basically, grandma and
the two cultists are getting all the Vesps, and
grandma's just sacrificing herself so that Allie
can get away. Now, the rest of the cults finds
Allie and grabs her. But this gave just enough
time that the rest of the family can grab these
silent weapons. Hugh has a tire iron. Jude has
a spear. The mom gets, I can't remember what
she had exactly because she kind of like. got
knocked out and then grabbed the spear and was
able to save the day but it just starts the slow
motion fight that's all of like 20 seconds where
they each take out a cultist member even though
he takes out the reverend he was stabbed but
he's still okay and then of course this is in
a rainstorm so every stab every scream isn't
heard over the thunder Even though Grandma was
just screaming and she got all of the Vesps.
And they each take out the cultist members. So
now Jude, the mom, Hugh, and Allie are all still
alive. And they just realize they need to get
out of there because this cult, they don't know
if there's more members or anything like that.
And Allie remembers that she learned about the
refuge. So the family takes off and they head
towards the refuge. The refuge is basically in
the mountains, and then the movie ends with Allie
meeting up with Rob and giving some narration.
Yes, Rob is still alive. He did make it to the
refuge. Basically, the Vesps don't like cold,
but will they evolve, or will the humans evolve
first? That's what we're left on, this message
of evolution and Vesps. All of that stuff. The
end. So like I said, I'm going to compare this
movie to A Quiet Place. And unfortunately, that
double works against this movie. Because overall,
I don't think this movie would have done well
anyway. And that we've seen the same movie and
done better is what hurts it as well. What A
Quiet Place does really well is that it was completely...
quiet there's not a lot of talking there's no
real talking it's a lot of sign language and
it's subtitles this what bothered the crap out
of me is that as they're signing they're also
saying what's happening and i get it you're trying
to do it for the audience and everything like
that but we've shown that we can do it in a quiet
place that we don't need you to speak every line
still We're okay with reading subtitles. And
that goes back to a lot of points where it's
like, there's all these great foreign movies,
and if you're just willing to read subtitles,
you can see all these great foreign movies. You
don't need remakes of these foreign movies. You
can just watch these great pieces of cinema if
you just read the bottom line. And that's my
main issue with this movie. There's parts where
it's just unintentionally hilarious. Like when
the woman fell down the well, I was losing it.
And it was supposed to be... Well, I don't even
know if it was supposed to be. It might have
been just actually funny. Somebody asked me if
this was a parody because they heard me talking
about that part and going, oh, are we just making
fun of A Quiet Place? No, this is a legit movie.
Like, Stanley Tucci really tries in this movie.
He really does. And I love the guy, and I think
he does a good job that I'm okay to forgive his
performance. And even Kiernan Shipka did really
well, too. The rest of the family, meh. I'm not
a big fan of. Kiernan Shipka, this is not her
fault, but the way her character is written,
there's a lot of unbelievability. And it doesn't
help that it's an ableist casting. Again, A Quiet
Place had an actual deaf girl play in the film
and learn sign language and taught the family
sign language and everything like that. I don't
know if the sign language is legitimate because
obviously I don't know sign language, but I think
for the most part it is. But because Kiernan
Shipka we have seen in other things and know
that she's not deaf, it becomes a little tough.
And again, this is not her fault. She was just
cast in this film, and she's a great actress
for her age and everything like that. I'm excited
to see her in more. However, this was not the
film that she should have been in a starring
role for. She should have said no somehow, some
way. And because it's in Netflix originally,
because The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina are
in Netflix as well, she may have not had a choice
on this. Who knows? I would not, if I were her,
go for this role. That being said, she did very
well. Stanley Tucci gave it his all. Not shocked
by that. I don't know. I just had parts that
were unintentionally hilarious, including the
fact that you knew Uncle Glenn was a loose cannon,
so they just kind of tried to throw you and say,
oh, he's a loose cannon. We know he's a loose
cannon. Now we're just going to kill him suddenly.
the wood chipper scene was hysterical. And I
actually really think that would have worked
in real life. I think that was a great solution,
but for whatever reason, that just made me laugh
so freaking hard in this movie. And truthfully,
the Vesps were kind of just secondary characters.
That was another hard part with this whole thing.
The movie devolved into, look how evil humans
are. Humans are the worst. And this happened
within a matter of like three days. It's just
kind of hard to believe that a cult would have
developed this fast. And especially one that's
like, cool, we need to repopulate the earth.
Let's find this little girl and just like start
repopulating with her. It was like three days.
It wasn't that long that we're doing this. Um,
PG 13 rating didn't help it. It was definitely
like low blood shed. There was no blood whatsoever.
And especially because this is a horror movie,
I'm okay with an R rating. Like especially it's
a, it's a Netflix one. Like we're not looking
for, I don't know what I think Netflix could
do is. you don't need to expand to the wider
audience yeah you can try to don't get me wrong
but you don't need to do that per se because
you're not this budget isn't set on you need
to get this many butts in theaters And so that's
what's my hard part with this whole thing is
I think it would have done better with a little
bloodshed with a little seeing this and everything
like that. Maybe you would have actually felt
something besides seeing her fall down a well
and she starts getting attacked and you're just
like, oh, there's no blood. I don't care. Even
the mom's wound that you saw, it just it looked
bad. Don't get me wrong, but it's not like bleeding
or anything like that. It was just a bad wound.
So. I don't know. It probably would have helped
if it was an R rating versus a PG -13 rating.
There's certain things like showing the mother
and the baby dying in the subway car and never
coming back to it. I don't know who these people
are. I don't care about these people. I get it.
You're supposed to feel that a baby died. And
I do. Especially because I'm the one who says
that you killed Otis, you bastards. Otis the
dog did not deserve to die. you're at fault for
bringing a barky dog with you. Just leave him
at home. And he would have been fine inside the
house probably if you would have closed the windows
or something like that. He would have been fine.
You didn't have to bring him with you. I don't
know. Part of it is we've seen a better movie
before that does the same exact thing. Part of
it is that some of the stuff came across as unintentionally
hilarious. And part of it is just it's a PG -13.
So rating, I'll give it a 0 .5 out of 5. The
Mitchell Zero texts that go through when obviously
there was no service anywhere. They couldn't
get television, let alone a phone signal. Ali
was able to contact with Rob multiple times and
learn about these things like the refuge and
everything like that. It's just Deus Ex technology
pretty much. So 0 .5 out of 5. It's the first
of five bad movies that I'm going to watch for
the month of October that I'm going to review.
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