In the movie Ritual, I kinda get why the creature is so angry. I mean he's the illegitimate son of Loki. Imagine if you're dad was a god, two of your brothers are literally the greatest threats to the entire universe, your other brother is the mount that the king of the gods rides into battle, your sister is a full blown goddess with her own entire realm, and all you get is some random forest and a few inbred weirdos to worship you. Life's a bitch
@@turkeyman631 I was going to say that, having your own forest to live and some stupid humans to play with sounds much better than being anyone's even a king's mount :/
The monster in The Ritual is seriously one of the best monster designs I’ve seen. The hands are so creepy with the hole for a face, they also shot it expertly.
I love in Ritual when he punches the old lady, I laughed so hard when I first watched the movie. I was so proud of him when he did that. Also, the monster is a Jötunn, it is not a god, just a giant from Norse mythology, they represent chaos. They summoned the Jötunn to Midgard because they are children of Loki and believe in chaos because Loki is their "father".
Funny enough, through norse mythology, these Jötunn are essentially demigod's as well, as Loki is half god and half Jötunn, meaning his kids(even the bastards) are also part god. Also, I loved The Ritual, when it first came out, it was genuinely a breath of fresh air. The genre of Folk horror has massively increased in that past 2-3 years though. Also, I stole your "ö" as I don't know how to type it on a keyboard lol.
@@animentamaxarius3931 All Loki's children are essentially God's because Odin basically made them God's, Hel is the ruler of the underworld. Sleipnir is Odin's steed. Fenrir is so powerful Odin has him chained to his throne. Jörmungandr is a terrifying serpent that not even Odin will touch (since he knows it will one day kill his son Thor). The Ritual was great when it first came out and I think GG would have liked it more if he had watched it when it first came out because now like every movie is trying to use gods or the devil in some way to make horror. I know thats been around for a long time but the use of Norse mythology is more recent and it's becoming increasingly popular
@@zoazede2098 Loki's children aren't gods, the Jötnar are not gods, they're considered anti-gods. Loki is only the son of a goddess and an honorary Aesir. His children are only powerful because the universe decided they would be to keep balance, since Ragnarok will always happen and cannot be stopped. The end times has to happen and Loki and his children will bring about the end because the universe decided that.
@@brianahoneybee2487 I was really into Norse myth for a long time but didn't stick with it. Some kids go through a goth phase, I went through a norse phase. Wich was weird since I'm a black dude. But I do have to ask. What the fuck is an "anti-god". Because right now my mind is thinking of creatures worse than humans and therefore weak and sht
On top of things, Killing of A Sacred Deer is actually a retelling of the Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. In it, the leader Agamemnon is sailing his forces against Troy and while stopping on an island hunts and kills a deer, but realizing he is within one of the sacred hunting grounds of the goddess Artemis (now you get where the title comes from). Artemis stops the winds and keeps his ships on the island, threatening to starve his men and lose the war in Troy, unless he is willing to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia as justice. With that knowledge in mind, Martin's dialog becomes WAY more fascinating because he's portraying Artemis and the unusual, often inhuman priorities and morals of the Greek Gods. Like when you bring up how Martin dismisses the daughter offering her body to him, he has complete apathy because that's not what he considers to be just in this exchange. Later we really see this in the famous spaghetti eating scene where Kidman's character is trying desperately to understand and plea with Martin to stop and meanwhile Martin is telling this weird story about being upset when he finds out the way he eats spaghetti isn't novel or unique, more upset at that than the death of his father, because to him that novelty held more value in the strange, capricious values of godhood. Really fascinating film.
What I loved in Ritual, is that monster often wouldn't even hide, it would just stand there in background, or in clear, frontal shot, among the trees, but you would not see/notice it, until it moves! Brilliant stuff...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is not only disturbing, but a genuinely fantastic movie to go in blind. I'm gonna double down on what GG said here: go watch it then come back. Seriously.
two things i'll always love about the ritual: 1. phil 2. the fact that all the characters are very realistic. they react like normal people instead of the usual horror movie shit. yes, they act like shitty people and often make the wrong choices, but their reactions, flaws and conflicts are so believable.
I would like to say one thing about the ending of The Ritual. I personally read the ending as a demonstration of an implicit conflict between what two characters were saying to Luke. Hutch was telling Luke to get out on his own and escape, saying that Luke was "the strongest of them." Obviously this conflicts with what happened with Rob, but we'll come back to it. The Jotunn (the monster) on the other hand, chose to mark Luke instead of killing him outright. It's stated in the movie that the Jotunn targets people who are carrying immense grief and pain with them, to bring them into his little cult of followers. The Jotunn killed the other three out of hand, because it knew it couldn't necessarily make them bow to it. And that's why it marked Luke instead of killing him. Because it thought it could make him bow, which is why it was pushing Luke to the ground towards the end. The Jotunn knew Luke to be a person to run, rather than fight, which was why it was so caught off guard when Luke kept fighting it. So the ending, to me, is a reconciliation of sorts. We, the audience, are asked who was right. Hutch was right, in that Luke was strong enough to escape with his life. But the Jotunn was right, in that Luke was too weak and cowardly to save his friends. And Luke himself is caught in the middle of this. He doesn't even know himself. It shows that he's an inherently selfish character. When he shot the Jotunn, I personally read that as more of an act of spite or anger, more so than an act of any sort of logic. Anyways, sorry for the long ramble. Great vid as always, GG! :] Edit: Full disclosure, I'm a massive fan of this movie, so I may be reading a bit deeply into things Lol. And also excellent point, the score goes hard in this movie.
I enjoyed The Ritual as well. It returned to certain themes a bit too often as it wasn’t a mystery how they happened, but I suppose revisiting them showed how tortured the main character was… I suppose. The creature? The god? Super creative in a film. Haven’t seen the second! I’ll peep it first and then come back for your review. 😊
Agreed, it was pretty creative overall. I figured it was just another 'unseen' entity but I actually liked the reveal, Norse mythology is interesting in its own right regardless of the Marvel franchise - I suppose a sharper eye may have seen the signs early tho. I personally appreciated the fact that the protagonist didn't change much. Unlike other movies, it was refreshing since a fair amount of people IRL don't and talk is mostly cheap.
@@cyborgorgeous hopefully you can one day. It’s one of the reasons I love living here. In the winter though it’s dark 21 hours a day, but you might see the northern-lights.
something i think you missed, the jotun in the ritual was _giving_ the characters visions. it was using the visions of trauma etc to herd them around the woods and make them go in particular directions. This is also why the villagers believed the jotun to be a god, as it could put visions in their minds to manipulate them into doing so, so they would sacrifice to it.
The best part of the ritual is the flashbacks because every single time you see those glowing eyes, you're staring at the monster. It's just mind fucking the characters (our perspective) so we don't realize we're looking right at the damn thing. And the tree shots where it moves or steps away and realize, once again, you were looking right at it and didn't realize it. It's hard to pull off the effect without it being cheesy, and the hand slithering behind the tree worked beautifully to startle me and give me that sudden chill of "oh fuck."
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer's title comes from the Greek myth of Iphigenia, one of the daughters of King Agamemnon. When the latter kills a sacred deer belonging to goddess Artemis, he is told to sacrifice Iphigenia to make things right.
Something absolutely no one cares about but I feel the inane need to mention: The creature in the Ritual is Female, not male....also it's explained why she's considered a god...she's a Jotun, a forgotten daughter of Loki, who is a Norse god. Also she was trying to force him to bow bc without followers she will die. She can't leave the forest bc that's her domain...etc etc
How does that work? Jotun are just a rival family to the Asar, right? They are just demigods. And Loke is half Jotun, and half Asar, so kinda if Romeo and Juliet had a kid. The Jotun are not monsters. Do you mean that the Deer is a forgotten offspring of Loke and Argisboda, the Jotun woman he had three of his other kids with: Fenris, Jörmungandr, and Hel. Because those kids are monsters because of Loke’s ability to shape-shift, nothing else.
@@maximillian1109 It's literally the lore of the movie that Moder is a Jotunn and bastard child of Loki You're barking up the wrong tree and it honestly just looks like some strange attempt at flexing.
@@mechanomics2649 eh was probably an honest mistake. When I first read these comments calling the creature a Jotun and saying that means it’s a child of Loki, I was high key confused too. I like Norse mythology and haven’t seen Ritual, so my first assumption was that people were just confusing some parts of the mythology. Which is totally fair cause Norse mythology is complex and isn’t really common knowledge. Plus Marvel has totally wrecked the original myths as far as popular culture. Learning that this is just the mythos of the films cleared up my confusion completely tho. Hopefully it’s the same for that other commenter 🤷🏽♀️
I took Mista GG’s word. Paused the video when he said spoilers for The Killing of a Sacred Deer started, went and watched the whole thing, and am now back for his review. 100% worth the watch blind.
I personally would recommend people to watch blind ONLY if they know Lanthimos other movies or are generally into these kind of movies. I know people who watched them without knowing Lanthimos work and they basically were laughing throughout the entire movie because they found it stupid and awfully acted. I personally loved it because I loved both The Lobster and Dogtooth.
The Ritual is one of my all-time favorite horror movies. The plot is basic, the characters are basic, but the monster...HOO BOY, the monster design was 10/10. The atmosphere is also amazing. I've lived in/near the woods for a solid chunk of my life and in my opinion it does a really good job at capturing just how fucking terrifying the woods can be. Also, when you re-watch the movie, you can actually see the monster just watching the main characters from a distance. I think the scene with the withered people breathing was also really good. I dunno, this movie never fails to give me chills and inspire me to make spooky creative stuff of my own.
The characters were far from basic and the monster ties in directly with the plot of Norse mythology, if you know anything about the Norse afterlife for heroes that is.
Since I already read the Greek play, Iphigenia, that the Killing of a Sacred Deer was based on, it was already low key spoiled. Although I did not expect the person who was killed to be killed. I thought it was gonna be the daughter since the teacher said that she literally wrote a paper about Iphigenia.
And I think what makes it better is that the kid who plays Bob is the same kid who plays Atreus/Loki from God of War. He’s the son of a Spartan of Greece lol.
You should watch Kung Fu panda next, I heard it’s crazy disturbing. This Snow leopard straight up destroys this coalition of animals like a tiger, crane, snake, monkey and even praying mantis. It’s crazy af
The Ritual being recommended as a "disturbing" movie in the comments of the last video really had me scratching my head - and I really love that movie - but it's not remotely disturbing. A good disturbing movie will generally leave you shaken to the core for days so troubling the subject matter is and not many manages do to that. I find that real life is far more succesful in that sense... That there are real life monsters doing the vilest of things is more disturbing to me than most movies.
I think the creature and the town people who worshipped it were a little bit disturbing, but not nearly enough that I’d even call it a disturbing movie.
For day's? ? My cousin made me watch the omen and I'm still troubled by it to this day! That's truly disturbing! To me any way I was only ten or so and the woman who hanged herself saying "this is for you Damien! !" Has been my most potent nightmare since!!!! Great comment btw! !!
I think its just because it has some shocking gore on a first viewing cuz i didnt expect the whole being ripped apart the fist time (BTW i dont think its disturbing im just trying to come with an idea)
Nice breakdown of The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Fantastic movie. I love how detached the family is, except for Bob. The ending is brilliant with the dad covering their heads with bags like if he can’t see it, and he makes a random choice, then that makes it okay. And what’s up with Martin anyway? I feel like he has powers, because there was no trace of anything in their system, and he was able to seemingly turn it on and off in that scene where Kim can walk for a bit.
I read theories and also thought the same concept, that the world that they are in is not an exact copy of Earth, but one that is possibly based more on curses or matters related to Greek mythology, since that's where the name of the movie comes from
This is totally a personal gripe, but I cannot goddamn stand movies that do this. I spent the whole review wondering what the big reveal was going to be about the nature of their illness, and was honestly way more interested in that than the dilemma itself. Leaving certain details up for interpretation is one thing, but movies that set up super interesting mysteries and deliberately give no conclusion drive me up the fucking wall.
@@360.Tapestry If he was logical he would have offed Kim so he still has a male heir to carry on the family line and a wife to create more Kims with. He was dumb.
@@Judgement_Kazzy What really disturbed me in the movie is that Martin survived. If i was the main character i would have tortured had ripped him to pieces for days untill he died.
Love the Ritual, not for being 'disturbing' or anything, but the cinematography was nice, really liked the hallucination scenes where the forest and the liquor store are merging, the pine needle instead of tile and such, also love the creature design. Like i havent seen an original creature design in a looooong while but the Ritual creature has been a new favorite for me. Also the book is pretty good, author has another called 'the reddening' which is super fun too ;p
Oh yes Apostle lost me a little bit towards the end but the whole vibe of the movie is definitely captivating and just feels wrong in the best way. An other movie worth the watch in the disturbing atmosphere theme is "the witch" the baby scene at the beginning really sets the mood.
It’s definitely my favourite disturbing movie! I personally loved it and was terrified to the end, but on the second viewing it just was an interesting media to analyse and theorise on ❤️
If you enjoyed “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, you’ll absolutely love “The Lobster” I’m pretty sure Netflix removed it really quickly, but even if you don’t add it to this series it’s still a fantastic watch
The director of The Killing of the Sacred Deer also directed Dogtooth (crazy family crazy kids) and Lobster (crazy man crazy community) and both are absolutely must watch in my opinion. The emotionless characters talking like monotoned machines thing is kind of his staple, but just like GG said, they only make the emotional parts hit harder.
"A cure for wellness" is a disturbing one. Enough to dethrone this one? I dont know but if you're looking for uncomfortable that one is definitely a great one. Was genuinely disturbed when i saw it for the first time.
I'm so glad you liked Killing of a Sacred Deer. It is one of my personal favorite movies, I haven't seen The Lobster yet, which is also directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and similarly the characters show no emotion and he uses the same main actor from Killing. But in The Lobster it makes more sense because they are in some weird alternate world or dystopian future, that movie is very open to interpretation and I would say it's in the same vein as Under the Skin, so if you liked that movie or enjoy vagueness in your films check that one out, it's also very disturbing in concept. I don't think it's on Netflix unfortunately.
the lobster is amazing! i would also recommend dogtooth which is one of yorgos' earlier films in greek. i haven't watched the favourite yet and i haven't seen the lobster/killing of a sacred deer in a couple years but dogtooth is definitely one of his most disturbing imo
It IS a great movie! Lobster was a pleasant surprise too because I really didn’t know anything about the director or what it was about before I went in. 😀
I watched this movie on Netflix called “The eyes of my mother” and it most definitely did not sit right with me. And I think THAT is the most disturbing movie I’ve seen on Netflix.
I just watched the Sacred Deer movie after watching this (spoilers and all) and the fact that you didn't mention Martin's mom having a weird ass thing about hands but talked about the unconscious kink KILLS ME. Steven's kink is way weirder, but a thing for hands is hella weird too 😅😂
Jötnar are creatures in and of themselves and not at all related to Loki. Loki had children *with* a jötunn woman (which are the Fenrisúlfr and Hel), but he isn't one of them, either (Marvel lore notwithstanding, in actual Norse myth he's just a minor deity). Jötnar ("giants") can be whatever shaped, so, yeah, there is that.
@@skadi9520 Right! I forgot Jörmungandr. Sleipnir's daddy Svaldifari did belong to a jötunn as well but, yeah. Dude loved some jötunn tail... and hooves, I guess.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer really is an interesting watch, just as an experience if you're into uncanny valley type films. The strange way that they speak isn't just that there's no emotion on their voices, but they also are very blunt with what they say and how they say it in every aspect. To the point that the conversations they have would never actually happen even if they were speaking normally and it makes you feel uncomfortable hearing them.
Too bad his movies are too smart for some people, I went to see "the killing..." in the theater and couples in front and behind me watched it in blind, clearly couldn't understand a thing and at the end of the movie proudly said out "that was the worst movie in the world!". It wasn't just a case of preferences, it was just them being rude as fuck.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet but the Jotunn is actually rather relevant to the location of the film. Hinduismos the Jotunn is actually based on a “real” creature that has the same name. The Jotunn is based primarily from its source, Norse mythology; and, in this mythos the Jotunn is a spawn/child of Loki just like Fenrir (a giant wolf), Hel (think Hela from MCU), and Jörmungandr (Giant snake like from GOW). Anyhow Norse people would go on to spread to other nations and appeared under new nationalities, one of which was the Swedes. Since the film takes place in the Swedish boonies it’s safe to say that a Norse following cult following a literal Jotunn is highly possible (@9:07). Idk knowing this made me appreciate it more. It’s also incredibly interesting as all cultures’ mythologies tend to be
I’m one minute into this and I’m going to say “I Saw the Devil” is one very disturbing movie you’re going to have to watch. Last time I checked on Netflix there were many great Korean movies like this on the service
I don’t think Luke was ever meant to have a redemption arc. The “god” chose him to be a disciple due to his status as the psychologically weakest person in the group. His escape was more catharsis than redemption. Because he did have to confront his faults and failures. But he still sucks.
@@momentofzen np I blind watched it when it first came out and instantly loved it and ended up watching it again which i never do. I understood it alot better watching it again and have watched it a few more times since then. I knew what you were trying to say though.
Literally right after you said that we’re moving onto an actually disturbing one I got an ad for Barbie, it was perfectly cut. I actually thought you might have put it in as a joke lol.
I'd love to see your review of Creep. It is hands down my favorite Netflix horror movie, its not too disturbing, more so unsettling to the extent where it really sticks with you. It has mostly improv acting which gives the entire movie this sense of uncomfortable realness. I'd recommend going in completely blind, I think spoilers and trailers completely ruin the experience. I would like to see your opinion on it.
I watch a lot of horror and I’ve got to agree that Netflix is lacking in the genre. Here in Australia I’ve found a few hidden gems though. Firstly Creep is a movie I love to scare my friends with, it’s a slow paced found footage film that I think you’d love the plot of. Secondly the Babadook is an Australian made horror film praised around the world for its psychological trauma it causes on the characters, there’re truly two of the most disturbing films you can find Netflix.
Babadook is a great movie because it fills all the categories of great horror movies with an R rating but did it with a pg-13 rating It was scary the characters were very realistic that (boy is a better actor then a lot of young actors in scary movies) the score was done, it wasnt the ole kill the monster and go back to normalmovie and i think thats what maked it great The ending of that movie actually made me happy and i thibk alot of peole having a hard time in life should see it and appreciate it I kinda took the ending as learning to live with your burdens and monsters
I didn’t think either of those were disturbing and I think the babadook really lacked components that make up a “good movie” but Creep is definitely up there on my most favorite Netflix thriller movies
Anyone out there who is interested in The Ritual movie I implore you to read the book! It goes way more into detail with the guys pasts and traumas and has a slower but more creepy pace. Also no spoilers but the reason Luke doesn't leave the forest sooner in the book makes a lot more sense than in the movie.
I found it more terrifying after knowing that it was about us and the earth. And it is relatable to how we humans treat everything and the greed, need and demands of the earth. How we will take everything and do anything for our own agendas. Also watched this first from the eyes of somoone in a toxic relationship and tgat was terrifying. Almost puked on some parts, just how disgusting some people can be. How her husband ignored everything that hurt her and just did not care as long as he made everyone else happy and content. Think about this often. The part with the baby made me cry for so long, felt so disgusted to gave watched that.
I haven’t fully enjoyed it- I actually watched it over the shoulder of a man on the airplane that had the subtitles on (I assume he was deaf because he wasn’t listening to it either- and was tapped by his wife when the stewardess came by and made a few gestures to his wife rather than the stewardess) and even without sound, I can say it’s probably the creepiest movie my eyeballs have witnessed in a while.
@@aligmal5031 “In an interview, Lawrence stated that the film is an allegory; she said that the film "depicts the rape and torment of Mother Earth ... I represent Mother Earth; Javier, whose character is a poet, represents a form of God, a creator; Michelle Pfeiffer is an Eve to Ed Harris's Adam, there's Cain and Abel and the setting sometimes resembles the Garden of Eden"”
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a fantastic blind watch. I just got done with it and it's been a long time where a film could legitimately keep me in suspense because I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen next. Really masterful pacing.
Bro when you watch The Ritual with headphones, it is a totally different game. It's just so mysterious and terrifying. Also the friendships feel so real between the characters. I actually felt gut wrenched when Hutch died, and love how Dom and Luke had so much development between their tension. I just really love the movie.
The interactions between the characters was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. It just feels so genuine and realistic, it adds a ton of depth to the group's dynamic and doesn't feel like they're just reading from a script in the slightest. Like that's probably how I would talk to my friends - at least before they start going hysterical as I've never been in that kind of situation with my friends and have no idea how we'd react.
The Gift has some pretty disturbing moments (for me), and Creep makes me really uncomfortable. 1BR, Green Inferno, and 13 Sins were also intense for me to watch, but I don’t know if I’d qualify them as disturbing at the same level as the ones you’ve watched so far. More than Hush, certainly, but I don’t know beyond that.
The Ritual is such a good movie. One of the only horror movies my fiancé and I have wanted to watch for a second time around. The themes and ideas of a broken man re-finding his manhood and honor amidst losing his “brothers” is just so well done. The last scene in particular just drives it all home. Edit: it’s also kinda like a coming of age story (albeit for an older character) in the sense that the main character learns to finally grow up and move on just as his friends had.
I forgot all about the ritual! What a great movie. I reccomend a movie called "The Jungle". Its not really a horror, but if you want a semi disturbing walk into the jungle with adult harry potter, its definitely the film for you
now that you watched the killing of a sacred deer plss watch dogtooth, it’s one of yorgos lanthimos’ first internationally successful movies and it’s really disturbing as well, it’s in greek tho idk if you mind
Also I laughed at the part you said how did they know he's a god and all that but personally I just assumed that this community has been shut off from the outside for a long time and still have their old beliefs in the gods like ofc a monster would be assumed to be a demigod here! Especially because if they sacrifice people to it then it leaves most of them alone
The Ritual was pretty damn great, but I'm not sure if people are familiar with its source material, a novel of the same name by Adam Nevill. I'd say it's just as good as the film, but it's also way different. Especially concerning the ending. Definitely recommend checking it out
I skipped the movie because I read the book a few years back and distinctly remember thinking "well that was boring and dumb". Hardly anyone mentions that it was based on a book
The Ritual is much better as a book. It has elements of the Norwegian Black Metal scene and you delve into the boys backgrounds much more and get more connected to them, there for making their deaths more emotional. Luke is such a complex character in the book and is saddled with the confusion of being an outsider, Rob never existed in the book either.
I finally watched TKoaSD last night after seeing this review when it first came out so didn't remember much thankfully. After my bf and I watched it and read up a bit, the ending is wild. You can tell in the diner they're all still scuffed so it was likely the next day. The whole family eyeballs Martin warily and it's because Steven never actually "chose" which family to kill, so it's uncertain if they actually are off the hook. Also, I don't think Kim was trying to sacrifice herself. She tried to leave before and this was her last-ditch effort to make herself look good, just like Anna wearing the dress he likes and Bob cutting his hair and saying he wants to be a cardiologist. They were all subtly begging to be spared, which makes him not 'choosing' that much more impactful. The movie is also based off a greek myth that the principal mentions Kim had written an amazing essay on.
If you're not a horror fan then you can't assume horror fans will run to watch ritual. As a horror junkie, Its not something we run eagerly to watch. I still haven't bothered to see it. It's plot isn't horrific and is pretty straight foward
@@moxiemaxie3543 it’s plot isn’t horrific? It’s about humans sacrificing others in horrible ways to an abstract god while people who don’t know any better stumble across it all. Sorry, but that’s a horror plot. No way it isn’t.
I don't know if either of these are on any of the streaming platforms, but as far as disturbing movies go, Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" and "Prospero's Books" are absolute masterpieces. Keep up the great work. Your content is fantastically smart, unique and original. ✌
Please review Creep! It's on Netflix and I just watched it last night, I think it's pretty disturbing on a psychological level. There's no gore or heavy blood but it's a "found footage" movie that plays a heavy psychological game. I loved it
That movie is terrible I had to fast forward most of it because I was falling asleep due to boredom. I can't believe they made a sequel.. -Mercy(sorry for the name confusion I'm on my dads phone at the moment)
there's one scene from "apostle" that still pops up in my head and disturbs me. It's an amazing movie too, I'm not usually a fan of slow burns but this one did it right in my opinion. Strange.
the ritual is a favorite movie of mine. I love when a lurking monster is revealed after a long build up and isnt disappointing. good monster design is a weakness of mine.
The killing of a sacred deer is honestly one of the best movies I've ever seen, the and eery feeling of not knowing during the whole thing makes it such an experience and its one of the movies I recommend to almost everyone
Hey @mistagg, I have a recommendation that I think you would like. "Mandy" with Nicholas Cage; not what you would consider disturbing by normal standards, the atmosphere it creates with the soundtrack and its foreboding-ness(? Lol) love your content, discovered you while movie review surfing (huge movie buff) and love the personality and your style of breaking down movies (which I must admit, is not too dissimilar to my own) but love seeing new review vids along with everything else. You have fans in alabama, keep it up brotha.
killing of a sacred deer was trash, legitimately filled to the brim with plot holes that y’all ignore even admitting y’all can’t even bare to watch it twice because it has zero worthwhile
I loved The Killing of Secret Deer. The ending gave me such an anxiety, I initially naively thought nobody was going to die lol but nah. it was one of those movies I kept thinking about for the next few days.
"American Mary" has the worst title I've ever heard but in terms of enjoyment, it's aight. I would say it's probably pretty near the "darkest depths" of Netflixs disturbing genre, so... not too bad.
I havent seen the movie for the ritual but the book is seriously one of scariest books ive ever read. It is so well done and from this review i would say in the case the book is probably better than the movie. So if youre looking for a really genuinely scary book to read... read the ritual.
Also fun fact apparently the author of the ritual was inspired to write the book because of a hiking or camping trip he took where he saw a deer or some type of animal strung up in some trees. So thats kinda creepy
I fucking love The Ritual, far from disturbing but i’m a sucker for films made with charismatic charming british actors and also this film scared me a lot, 8/10.
12:24 @Mista GG I'm surprised of your reaction. I rooted for Luke the entire movie because he was being bitched on by the rest of the crew _for not risking his life_ ...bruh, sorry to break it to you, but you only get one of those. Ever. Haven't you ever done something shitty that you regret? Something that you wish you could have done differently? Something selfish maybe? Something that got amplified by the circumstances? I think we all make mistakes, and we all have defects, and we all deserve to be the protagonists of our own lives. We all deserve an opportunity to fix our mistakes. Sometimes we torture ourselves with regret, and unless you're the one who pulls the trigger, I think we deserve an opportunity to get rid of that regret.
Ritual: Moder, a Jotunn. Pretty much the opposite of Aesir/Vanir gods, and actualy offspring of Loki. Moder shares a father with Fenrir, Jormungandr, Hel, (more bad sh*t) and Sleipnir.
Earlier this morning a watched an entire video about that movie, I couldn't pinpoint who Exactly was that according to the Norse mythos. Thanks for pointing it out
@@meetaverma8372 It doesn't appear to actually line up with any specific character in the mythology. I think the idea is that, given the variance present in much of mythology, it's reasonable that something like Moder could exist despite no mention of it in the mythology itself.
i LOVE the ritual. it’s one of my favorite horro movies because i love the characterization of the main character and the atmosphere is amazing and creepy. i also love the monster because it’s genuinely terrifying to me how unidentifiable everything is on it.
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In the movie Ritual, I kinda get why the creature is so angry. I mean he's the illegitimate son of Loki. Imagine if you're dad was a god, two of your brothers are literally the greatest threats to the entire universe, your other brother is the mount that the king of the gods rides into battle, your sister is a full blown goddess with her own entire realm, and all you get is some random forest and a few inbred weirdos to worship you. Life's a bitch
True that
Tbf all of Loki's children are illegitimate
I mean hey at least you're not a mount for your family to ride ! lol
@@turkeyman631 I was going to say that, having your own forest to live and some stupid humans to play with sounds much better than being anyone's even a king's mount :/
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The monster in The Ritual is seriously one of the best monster designs I’ve seen. The hands are so creepy with the hole for a face, they also shot it expertly.
The artist is Keith Thompson, in case you'd like to see more of his art
It's one of my Favorite movies. So good.
@@WittyDroog i appreciate ppl like you.
I’m watching it purely for the monster, I absolutely love their design as well-
It absolutely is the most original creature.
I love in Ritual when he punches the old lady, I laughed so hard when I first watched the movie. I was so proud of him when he did that. Also, the monster is a Jötunn, it is not a god, just a giant from Norse mythology, they represent chaos. They summoned the Jötunn to Midgard because they are children of Loki and believe in chaos because Loki is their "father".
Funny enough, through norse mythology, these Jötunn are essentially demigod's as well, as Loki is half god and half Jötunn, meaning his kids(even the bastards) are also part god. Also, I loved The Ritual, when it first came out, it was genuinely a breath of fresh air. The genre of Folk horror has massively increased in that past 2-3 years though. Also, I stole your "ö" as I don't know how to type it on a keyboard lol.
@@animentamaxarius3931 All Loki's children are essentially God's because Odin basically made them God's, Hel is the ruler of the underworld. Sleipnir is Odin's steed. Fenrir is so powerful Odin has him chained to his throne. Jörmungandr is a terrifying serpent that not even Odin will touch (since he knows it will one day kill his son Thor).
The Ritual was great when it first came out and I think GG would have liked it more if he had watched it when it first came out because now like every movie is trying to use gods or the devil in some way to make horror. I know thats been around for a long time but the use of Norse mythology is more recent and it's becoming increasingly popular
All of them are Gods, it's just that they're not Æsir, but they where not the only gods, there's also the Vanir, for example
@@zoazede2098 Loki's children aren't gods, the Jötnar are not gods, they're considered anti-gods. Loki is only the son of a goddess and an honorary Aesir. His children are only powerful because the universe decided they would be to keep balance, since Ragnarok will always happen and cannot be stopped. The end times has to happen and Loki and his children will bring about the end because the universe decided that.
@@brianahoneybee2487 I was really into Norse myth for a long time but didn't stick with it. Some kids go through a goth phase, I went through a norse phase. Wich was weird since I'm a black dude.
But I do have to ask. What the fuck is an "anti-god". Because right now my mind is thinking of creatures worse than humans and therefore weak and sht
On top of things, Killing of A Sacred Deer is actually a retelling of the Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. In it, the leader Agamemnon is sailing his forces against Troy and while stopping on an island hunts and kills a deer, but realizing he is within one of the sacred hunting grounds of the goddess Artemis (now you get where the title comes from). Artemis stops the winds and keeps his ships on the island, threatening to starve his men and lose the war in Troy, unless he is willing to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia as justice.
With that knowledge in mind, Martin's dialog becomes WAY more fascinating because he's portraying Artemis and the unusual, often inhuman priorities and morals of the Greek Gods. Like when you bring up how Martin dismisses the daughter offering her body to him, he has complete apathy because that's not what he considers to be just in this exchange. Later we really see this in the famous spaghetti eating scene where Kidman's character is trying desperately to understand and plea with Martin to stop and meanwhile Martin is telling this weird story about being upset when he finds out the way he eats spaghetti isn't novel or unique, more upset at that than the death of his father, because to him that novelty held more value in the strange, capricious values of godhood.
Really fascinating film.
Thank you i enjoyed reading this
What I loved in Ritual, is that monster often wouldn't even hide, it would just stand there in background, or in clear, frontal shot, among the trees, but you would not see/notice it, until it moves! Brilliant stuff...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is not only disturbing, but a genuinely fantastic movie to go in blind. I'm gonna double down on what GG said here: go watch it then come back. Seriously.
I agree. It was definitely a, "WTF is going on?!", film. Better to go into blind, but creepy as hell either way.
Thanks for saying the name of the movie seeing as GG didn't
Thanks gana do that
I wish I could have done that but it isnt on Netflix in my country apparently
@@noah3369 he said it right before the AD plug
"Just like losing in Deal or No Deal, that is not the case."
This made me laugh far harder than it should have.
I was literally about to comment that his little puns and jokes are gold because of that one
What am I missing here?
We love a good pun
You sound like your mother. Hey yo!
Classic. 😂😂😂👏👏👏
Lmao when he punches the old lady, me and my gf laughed so hard even though we were really into the movie lol
Me sans girlfriend. 🤣
That was a golden moment. As funny as the scene from Wicker Man where Nick Cage kicks the hell out of the girl
That’s how my mom and I laughed at Pierce Bronson in the false positive movie, in the hotel scene. We where dying with laughter
I didn't see the film but punching an old lady isn't funny. It's sick
@@MissCane9 watch the film then lmao
two things i'll always love about the ritual:
1. phil
2. the fact that all the characters are very realistic. they react like normal people instead of the usual horror movie shit. yes, they act like shitty people and often make the wrong choices, but their reactions, flaws and conflicts are so believable.
Agreed.
Yep. Overcoming trauma os different to becoming a good person, The Ritual is about the former and not the latter
Watched your disturbing iceberg vid and had to binge your entire channel dude 😂 Your comedy style is sooo good can’t wait for more vids 👌👌
Welcome to the cul...... I mean squad my dude
LOOL crab lord what are u doing here this is so random
Just came here to say this 👏
Better late than never
Ayeee u found him the same way i did
I would like to say one thing about the ending of The Ritual. I personally read the ending as a demonstration of an implicit conflict between what two characters were saying to Luke. Hutch was telling Luke to get out on his own and escape, saying that Luke was "the strongest of them." Obviously this conflicts with what happened with Rob, but we'll come back to it. The Jotunn (the monster) on the other hand, chose to mark Luke instead of killing him outright. It's stated in the movie that the Jotunn targets people who are carrying immense grief and pain with them, to bring them into his little cult of followers. The Jotunn killed the other three out of hand, because it knew it couldn't necessarily make them bow to it. And that's why it marked Luke instead of killing him. Because it thought it could make him bow, which is why it was pushing Luke to the ground towards the end. The Jotunn knew Luke to be a person to run, rather than fight, which was why it was so caught off guard when Luke kept fighting it. So the ending, to me, is a reconciliation of sorts. We, the audience, are asked who was right. Hutch was right, in that Luke was strong enough to escape with his life. But the Jotunn was right, in that Luke was too weak and cowardly to save his friends. And Luke himself is caught in the middle of this. He doesn't even know himself. It shows that he's an inherently selfish character. When he shot the Jotunn, I personally read that as more of an act of spite or anger, more so than an act of any sort of logic. Anyways, sorry for the long ramble.
Great vid as always, GG! :]
Edit: Full disclosure, I'm a massive fan of this movie, so I may be reading a bit deeply into things Lol. And also excellent point, the score goes hard in this movie.
oh yeah, you went hard for this one. but honestly, this makes way more sense than anything I said lmao
This is an excellent comment and makes me appreciate the movie more. Thank you!
@@ErinJeanette Aw, thanks! :D
@@MistaGG ah, you’re too kind. Thanks man
@@jaxsaurus wow that give me a whole new respect for the film. Thanks for that input. People like you make comment sections a really dope place.
I enjoyed The Ritual as well. It returned to certain themes a bit too often as it wasn’t a mystery how they happened, but I suppose revisiting them showed how tortured the main character was… I suppose.
The creature? The god? Super creative in a film.
Haven’t seen the second! I’ll peep it first and then come back for your review. 😊
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I will never lose the joy of seeing a YoTuber I like in the comment section of another TH-camr I like, so fun.
Agreed, it was pretty creative overall. I figured it was just another 'unseen' entity but I actually liked the reveal, Norse mythology is interesting in its own right regardless of the Marvel franchise - I suppose a sharper eye may have seen the signs early tho. I personally appreciated the fact that the protagonist didn't change much. Unlike other movies, it was refreshing since a fair amount of people IRL don't and talk is mostly cheap.
Fun fact: they had to film The Ritual in Romania, because they hadn’t thought of the midnight sun. It never got dark enough to film here in Sweden.
Whoa that's awesome, I'd love to visit during that time of year.
@@cyborgorgeous where I live the sun sets at 11pm and rise at 1am during the summer, doesn’t even get dark.
@@Pysslis I'd love to experience that
Oh yeah! I wanna see that though. A never ending (essentially) day
@@cyborgorgeous hopefully you can one day.
It’s one of the reasons I love living here. In the winter though it’s dark 21 hours a day, but you might see the northern-lights.
something i think you missed, the jotun in the ritual was _giving_ the characters visions. it was using the visions of trauma etc to herd them around the woods and make them go in particular directions. This is also why the villagers believed the jotun to be a god, as it could put visions in their minds to manipulate them into doing so, so they would sacrifice to it.
The best part of the ritual is the flashbacks because every single time you see those glowing eyes, you're staring at the monster. It's just mind fucking the characters (our perspective) so we don't realize we're looking right at the damn thing. And the tree shots where it moves or steps away and realize, once again, you were looking right at it and didn't realize it. It's hard to pull off the effect without it being cheesy, and the hand slithering behind the tree worked beautifully to startle me and give me that sudden chill of "oh fuck."
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer's title comes from the Greek myth of Iphigenia, one of the daughters of King Agamemnon. When the latter kills a sacred deer belonging to goddess Artemis, he is told to sacrifice Iphigenia to make things right.
did not know that
very interesting, thanks!
Something absolutely no one cares about but I feel the inane need to mention: The creature in the Ritual is Female, not male....also it's explained why she's considered a god...she's a Jotun, a forgotten daughter of Loki, who is a Norse god.
Also she was trying to force him to bow bc without followers she will die. She can't leave the forest bc that's her domain...etc etc
How does that work?
Jotun are just a rival family to the Asar, right? They are just demigods. And Loke is half Jotun, and half Asar, so kinda if Romeo and Juliet had a kid. The Jotun are not monsters.
Do you mean that the Deer is a forgotten offspring of Loke and Argisboda, the Jotun woman he had three of his other kids with: Fenris, Jörmungandr, and Hel.
Because those kids are monsters because of Loke’s ability to shape-shift, nothing else.
oh I didn't know the creature was a woman, I thought it was called the bastard son of Loki but thanks for this.
@@maximillian1109 It's literally the lore of the movie that Moder is a Jotunn and bastard child of Loki
You're barking up the wrong tree and it honestly just looks like some strange attempt at flexing.
@@mechanomics2649 eh was probably an honest mistake. When I first read these comments calling the creature a Jotun and saying that means it’s a child of Loki, I was high key confused too. I like Norse mythology and haven’t seen Ritual, so my first assumption was that people were just confusing some parts of the mythology. Which is totally fair cause Norse mythology is complex and isn’t really common knowledge. Plus Marvel has totally wrecked the original myths as far as popular culture.
Learning that this is just the mythos of the films cleared up my confusion completely tho. Hopefully it’s the same for that other commenter 🤷🏽♀️
That's right. I forgot about that little tid bit.
I took Mista GG’s word. Paused the video when he said spoilers for The Killing of a Sacred Deer started, went and watched the whole thing, and am now back for his review. 100% worth the watch blind.
how did it end?
Because you and so many others said this, I'm going in blind. Thank you! -- Edit after: Holy crap.
it wasn’t that good IMO... i really think it was more shocking than anything. extremely nonsensical plot.
I personally would recommend people to watch blind ONLY if they know Lanthimos other movies or are generally into these kind of movies. I know people who watched them without knowing Lanthimos work and they basically were laughing throughout the entire movie because they found it stupid and awfully acted. I personally loved it because I loved both The Lobster and Dogtooth.
Dudeeee same!
The Ritual is one of my all-time favorite horror movies. The plot is basic, the characters are basic, but the monster...HOO BOY, the monster design was 10/10. The atmosphere is also amazing. I've lived in/near the woods for a solid chunk of my life and in my opinion it does a really good job at capturing just how fucking terrifying the woods can be. Also, when you re-watch the movie, you can actually see the monster just watching the main characters from a distance. I think the scene with the withered people breathing was also really good. I dunno, this movie never fails to give me chills and inspire me to make spooky creative stuff of my own.
The characters were far from basic and the monster ties in directly with the plot of Norse mythology, if you know anything about the Norse afterlife for heroes that is.
The monster is supposed to be one of lokis children I believe
@@s41tysilver59 moder is his name i looked it up shits mad interesting
Agreed! Best film on Netflix right now.
@@camisntfam her, Moder is Lori's daughter
Since I already read the Greek play, Iphigenia, that the Killing of a Sacred Deer was based on, it was already low key spoiled. Although I did not expect the person who was killed to be killed. I thought it was gonna be the daughter since the teacher said that she literally wrote a paper about Iphigenia.
And I think what makes it better is that the kid who plays Bob is the same kid who plays Atreus/Loki from God of War. He’s the son of a Spartan of Greece lol.
You should watch Kung Fu panda next, I heard it’s crazy disturbing. This Snow leopard straight up destroys this coalition of animals like a tiger, crane, snake, monkey and even praying mantis. It’s crazy af
@Cloak & Dagger and that tyrant lemur who abuses the bear physically and verbally about being overweight
Haha
I saw that shit when I was a kid, never was the same.
Now that movie really took my soul I couldn't even finish it
First time i saw it not even my parents could watch it, 100000/10, would piss my pants to it again
The Ritual being recommended as a "disturbing" movie in the comments of the last video really had me scratching my head - and I really love that movie - but it's not remotely disturbing. A good disturbing movie will generally leave you shaken to the core for days so troubling the subject matter is and not many manages do to that. I find that real life is far more succesful in that sense... That there are real life monsters doing the vilest of things is more disturbing to me than most movies.
I think the creature and the town people who worshipped it were a little bit disturbing, but not nearly enough that I’d even call it a disturbing movie.
For day's? ? My cousin made me watch the omen and I'm still troubled by it to this day! That's truly disturbing! To me any way I was only ten or so and the woman who hanged herself saying "this is for you Damien! !" Has been my most potent nightmare since!!!! Great comment btw! !!
I think its just because it has some shocking gore on a first viewing cuz i didnt expect the whole being ripped apart the fist time (BTW i dont think its disturbing im just trying to come with an idea)
Yeah those people obviously haven't seen A Serbian Film, August Undergrounds Mordum, Irreversible etc...
@@lukeslayer are those on Netflix though?
The granny punch to the face is quite possibly the funniest scene I've ever watched
Nice breakdown of The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Fantastic movie. I love how detached the family is, except for Bob. The ending is brilliant with the dad covering their heads with bags like if he can’t see it, and he makes a random choice, then that makes it okay. And what’s up with Martin anyway? I feel like he has powers, because there was no trace of anything in their system, and he was able to seemingly turn it on and off in that scene where Kim can walk for a bit.
I read theories and also thought the same concept, that the world that they are in is not an exact copy of Earth, but one that is possibly based more on curses or matters related to Greek mythology, since that's where the name of the movie comes from
This is totally a personal gripe, but I cannot goddamn stand movies that do this. I spent the whole review wondering what the big reveal was going to be about the nature of their illness, and was honestly way more interested in that than the dilemma itself.
Leaving certain details up for interpretation is one thing, but movies that set up super interesting mysteries and deliberately give no conclusion drive me up the fucking wall.
@@Judgement_Kazzy you're focused on the wrong thing. it doesn't matter who he kills
@@360.Tapestry If he was logical he would have offed Kim so he still has a male heir to carry on the family line and a wife to create more Kims with. He was dumb.
@@Judgement_Kazzy What really disturbed me in the movie is that Martin survived. If i was the main character i would have tortured had ripped him to pieces for days untill he died.
Love the Ritual, not for being 'disturbing' or anything, but the cinematography was nice, really liked the hallucination scenes where the forest and the liquor store are merging, the pine needle instead of tile and such, also love the creature design. Like i havent seen an original creature design in a looooong while but the Ritual creature has been a new favorite for me. Also the book is pretty good, author has another called 'the reddening' which is super fun too ;p
oh i might have to read the book
"Apostle" has some genuinely disturbing violence.
It's directed by Gareth Evans, who made both "The Raid" movies
This ^
Oh yes Apostle lost me a little bit towards the end but the whole vibe of the movie is definitely captivating and just feels wrong in the best way. An other movie worth the watch in the disturbing atmosphere theme is "the witch" the baby scene at the beginning really sets the mood.
Ugh I love that movie
It’s definitely my favourite disturbing movie! I personally loved it and was terrified to the end, but on the second viewing it just was an interesting media to analyse and theorise on ❤️
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Honestly watching Mista GG talking about disturbing movies is like my favorite thing to do
Mood!
If you enjoyed “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, you’ll absolutely love “The Lobster” I’m pretty sure Netflix removed it really quickly, but even if you don’t add it to this series it’s still a fantastic watch
Last I checked, it’s still on Netflix!
all yorgos lanthimos films are great tbh, dogtooth as well although it sadly isnt on netflix :/
The Lobster is just so upsetting.
Lobster is one of my favorite films and I wish there were more like it on streaming services
I'm usually a fan of weird arty movies but the pacing and tonality of this director just bums me out.
The director of The Killing of the Sacred Deer also directed Dogtooth (crazy family crazy kids) and Lobster (crazy man crazy community) and both are absolutely must watch in my opinion. The emotionless characters talking like monotoned machines thing is kind of his staple, but just like GG said, they only make the emotional parts hit harder.
The overhead angles in "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" were very Kubrick/Shining-esque.
"A cure for wellness" is a disturbing one. Enough to dethrone this one? I dont know but if you're looking for uncomfortable that one is definitely a great one. Was genuinely disturbed when i saw it for the first time.
Is that on Netflix or something? Had wanted to see that since I saw the trailer.
I hated plot but totally agree it's pretty disturbing
@@BonyHawksToeSkater Yes its on Netflix
@@allthetrees What was it that you hate about the plot?
@@eva1585 I don't want to spoil it for others so I'm going to be a little vague. I didn't like that the "father" being what he was.
Ritual is one of my most favorite recent horror films. It's been a while since I didnt walk away disappointed from a movie. This was a great one.
It's funny because book It's based on totally fumbles the third act. The movie cuts it out and it is a better story for it
@@CypherComplex it's rare that happens, too!
"It's been a while since I didn't walk".... Hehe
I'm so glad you liked Killing of a Sacred Deer. It is one of my personal favorite movies, I haven't seen The Lobster yet, which is also directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and similarly the characters show no emotion and he uses the same main actor from Killing. But in The Lobster it makes more sense because they are in some weird alternate world or dystopian future, that movie is very open to interpretation and I would say it's in the same vein as Under the Skin, so if you liked that movie or enjoy vagueness in your films check that one out, it's also very disturbing in concept. I don't think it's on Netflix unfortunately.
the lobster is one of my favorite movies for sure, so well done. the subtle humor thrown in gives you a nice pallet cleanser as the movie progresses!
the lobster is amazing! i would also recommend dogtooth which is one of yorgos' earlier films in greek. i haven't watched the favourite yet and i haven't seen the lobster/killing of a sacred deer in a couple years but dogtooth is definitely one of his most disturbing imo
@@addisonharms7497 hell no. Sacred deer Definitely outranks DOGTOOTH
It IS a great movie! Lobster was a pleasant surprise too because I really didn’t know anything about the director or what it was about before I went in. 😀
You should check The Alps too
I watched this movie on Netflix called “The eyes of my mother” and it most definitely did not sit right with me. And I think THAT is the most disturbing movie I’ve seen on Netflix.
I just watched the Sacred Deer movie after watching this (spoilers and all) and the fact that you didn't mention Martin's mom having a weird ass thing about hands but talked about the unconscious kink KILLS ME. Steven's kink is way weirder, but a thing for hands is hella weird too 😅😂
In 'Ritual', the entity that the cult worships is a jötunn. A child of Loki, the Norse God of mischief.
What? Jætter (jötunn) is what Loki is
Is it only in the movie's canon? Because none of Loki's children look like that.
Jötnar are creatures in and of themselves and not at all related to Loki. Loki had children *with* a jötunn woman (which are the Fenrisúlfr and Hel), but he isn't one of them, either (Marvel lore notwithstanding, in actual Norse myth he's just a minor deity). Jötnar ("giants") can be whatever shaped, so, yeah, there is that.
@@darkunykorn404 he also had Jörmungand with angerboda and Sleipnir not with angerboda but with Svadilfari
@@skadi9520 Right! I forgot Jörmungandr. Sleipnir's daddy Svaldifari did belong to a jötunn as well but, yeah. Dude loved some jötunn tail... and hooves, I guess.
“I may not have the best right jab but I will lay out the elderly” done 😂
The Killing of a Sacred Deer really is an interesting watch, just as an experience if you're into uncanny valley type films. The strange way that they speak isn't just that there's no emotion on their voices, but they also are very blunt with what they say and how they say it in every aspect. To the point that the conversations they have would never actually happen even if they were speaking normally and it makes you feel uncomfortable hearing them.
I took their vernacular and social interactions as being a hint that they are in some alternative universe where Earth is under different norms/rules
Too bad his movies are too smart for some people, I went to see "the killing..." in the theater and couples in front and behind me watched it in blind, clearly couldn't understand a thing and at the end of the movie proudly said out "that was the worst movie in the world!". It wasn't just a case of preferences, it was just them being rude as fuck.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet but the Jotunn is actually rather relevant to the location of the film. Hinduismos the Jotunn is actually based on a “real” creature that has the same name. The Jotunn is based primarily from its source, Norse mythology; and, in this mythos the Jotunn is a spawn/child of Loki just like Fenrir (a giant wolf), Hel (think Hela from MCU), and Jörmungandr (Giant snake like from GOW). Anyhow Norse people would go on to spread to other nations and appeared under new nationalities, one of which was the Swedes. Since the film takes place in the Swedish boonies it’s safe to say that a Norse following cult following a literal Jotunn is highly possible (@9:07). Idk knowing this made me appreciate it more. It’s also incredibly interesting as all cultures’ mythologies tend to be
Luke: **fires rifle**
Forrest demon: "I'm a god! How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence!"
The Ritual was the first movie in well over a decade that I've gone back to watch a second time. Absolutely loved it.
I’m one minute into this and I’m going to say “I Saw the Devil” is one very disturbing movie you’re going to have to watch. Last time I checked on Netflix there were many great Korean movies like this on the service
I don’t think Luke was ever meant to have a redemption arc. The “god” chose him to be a disciple due to his status as the psychologically weakest person in the group. His escape was more catharsis than redemption. Because he did have to confront his faults and failures. But he still sucks.
But I just have a lot of feelings lol, because something about the movie just really stuck with me and I love it to pieces.
Modor chooses those that suffer pain on an emotional level, not that he's psychologically the weakest in the group.
The monster basically chooses people with emotional baggage or have suffered. It basically needs you to suffer to accept its (gift).
@@scotty2hottie626 ugh yes thank you for wording that way better than did
@@momentofzen np I blind watched it when it first came out and instantly loved it and ended up watching it again which i never do. I understood it alot better watching it again and have watched it a few more times since then. I knew what you were trying to say though.
Literally right after you said that we’re moving onto an actually disturbing one I got an ad for Barbie, it was perfectly cut. I actually thought you might have put it in as a joke lol.
I'd love to see your review of Creep. It is hands down my favorite Netflix horror movie, its not too disturbing, more so unsettling to the extent where it really sticks with you. It has mostly improv acting which gives the entire movie this sense of uncomfortable realness. I'd recommend going in completely blind, I think spoilers and trailers completely ruin the experience. I would like to see your opinion on it.
He had basically the same reaction as me for the ritual. Wasn’t disturbing but I liked it, i’d give it a 6-7/10
I watch a lot of horror and I’ve got to agree that Netflix is lacking in the genre. Here in Australia I’ve found a few hidden gems though. Firstly Creep is a movie I love to scare my friends with, it’s a slow paced found footage film that I think you’d love the plot of. Secondly the Babadook is an Australian made horror film praised around the world for its psychological trauma it causes on the characters, there’re truly two of the most disturbing films you can find Netflix.
Babadook is a great movie because it fills all the categories of great horror movies with an R rating but did it with a pg-13 rating
It was scary the characters were very realistic that (boy is a better actor then a lot of young actors in scary movies) the score was done, it wasnt the ole kill the monster and go back to normalmovie and i think thats what maked it great
The ending of that movie actually made me happy and i thibk alot of peole having a hard time in life should see it and appreciate it
I kinda took the ending as learning to live with your burdens and monsters
They’re not disturbing at all
I didn’t think either of those were disturbing and I think the babadook really lacked components that make up a “good movie” but Creep is definitely up there on my most favorite Netflix thriller movies
I recommend The Invitation, the movie just leaves you anxious the entire time as it lets you see the mental breakdown of a father who lost his child
Such a good movie. I'll always show people this one to hear there guesses where it's going on the first watch.
Anyone out there who is interested in The Ritual movie I implore you to read the book! It goes way more into detail with the guys pasts and traumas and has a slower but more creepy pace. Also no spoilers but the reason Luke doesn't leave the forest sooner in the book makes a lot more sense than in the movie.
I love Yorgos Lanthimos' style. So unsettling and uncanny. Also you made me LOL multiple times in this one. Keep being awesome, dude.
“Mother!” (The film with Jennifer Lawrence) has got to be one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen
yes! anxiety inducing film indeed
I found it more terrifying after knowing that it was about us and the earth.
And it is relatable to how we humans treat everything and the greed, need and demands of the earth.
How we will take everything and do anything for our own agendas.
Also watched this first from the eyes of somoone in a toxic relationship and tgat was terrifying.
Almost puked on some parts, just how disgusting some people can be.
How her husband ignored everything that hurt her and just did not care as long as he made everyone else happy and content.
Think about this often. The part with the baby made me cry for so long, felt so disgusted to gave watched that.
@@sigrunsvavrsdottir2150 idk how some ppl see this movie as a toxic relationship it's clearly a metaphor about nature god and humans
I haven’t fully enjoyed it- I actually watched it over the shoulder of a man on the airplane that had the subtitles on (I assume he was deaf because he wasn’t listening to it either- and was tapped by his wife when the stewardess came by and made a few gestures to his wife rather than the stewardess) and even without sound, I can say it’s probably the creepiest movie my eyeballs have witnessed in a while.
@@aligmal5031 “In an interview, Lawrence stated that the film is an allegory; she said that the film "depicts the rape and torment of Mother Earth ... I represent Mother Earth; Javier, whose character is a poet, represents a form of God, a creator; Michelle Pfeiffer is an Eve to Ed Harris's Adam, there's Cain and Abel and the setting sometimes resembles the Garden of Eden"”
The ritual is one of my favorite horror movies, mainly because of the creature. It's just SO cool!
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a fantastic blind watch. I just got done with it and it's been a long time where a film could legitimately keep me in suspense because I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen next. Really masterful pacing.
That deal or no deal joke got me man. Honestly I’m almost embarrassed laughin as much as I did.
Bro when you watch The Ritual with headphones, it is a totally different game. It's just so mysterious and terrifying. Also the friendships feel so real between the characters. I actually felt gut wrenched when Hutch died, and love how Dom and Luke had so much development between their tension. I just really love the movie.
The interactions between the characters was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. It just feels so genuine and realistic, it adds a ton of depth to the group's dynamic and doesn't feel like they're just reading from a script in the slightest. Like that's probably how I would talk to my friends - at least before they start going hysterical as I've never been in that kind of situation with my friends and have no idea how we'd react.
The Gift has some pretty disturbing moments (for me), and Creep makes me really uncomfortable. 1BR, Green Inferno, and 13 Sins were also intense for me to watch, but I don’t know if I’d qualify them as disturbing at the same level as the ones you’ve watched so far. More than Hush, certainly, but I don’t know beyond that.
The Ritual is such a good movie. One of the only horror movies my fiancé and I have wanted to watch for a second time around. The themes and ideas of a broken man re-finding his manhood and honor amidst losing his “brothers” is just so well done. The last scene in particular just drives it all home.
Edit: it’s also kinda like a coming of age story (albeit for an older character) in the sense that the main character learns to finally grow up and move on just as his friends had.
LOVED both of these movies. BTW the creature in The Ritual is Modar - a Norse God and child of Loki. Makes the story better to know that imo.
Omgggg! I remember watching you in your early days! Your channel has grown so much! Can’t wait to catch up! I’m so happy for your success!
watching gg talk about movies i’ll never have the guts to watch is my favorite thing ever
Its like a long tease ,Waiting for a movie review to be uploaded
Haha you should checkout foundflix. Lots of movies I don't really want to watch he explains them well.
I forgot all about the ritual! What a great movie. I reccomend a movie called "The Jungle". Its not really a horror, but if you want a semi disturbing walk into the jungle with adult harry potter, its definitely the film for you
YESS
Then watch Swiss Army man for harry potter as a multitool
Then watch Swiss Army man for a multitool Harry Potter
now that you watched the killing of a sacred deer plss watch dogtooth, it’s one of yorgos lanthimos’ first internationally successful movies and it’s really disturbing as well, it’s in greek tho idk if you mind
13:20 "I didn't feel a certain type of way watching it"
Phil : Am I joke to you? 😤
I love the ritual! The guy who plays lukes character is really good at playing these kind of characters. The black mirror episode hes in is great
Also I laughed at the part you said how did they know he's a god and all that but personally I just assumed that this community has been shut off from the outside for a long time and still have their old beliefs in the gods like ofc a monster would be assumed to be a demigod here! Especially because if they sacrifice people to it then it leaves most of them alone
Apostle is mildly disturbing only for the “cleansing” scene. The rest isn’t super disturbing.
I loved that movie and that scene was gruesome.
I actually really enjoyed Apostle, slow burn but worth it
I think the buildup and constant turning of the narrative disturbed me, but I see what ur saying for sure lol
I think it was pretty disturbing overall.. but probably not worth being in a list of "most disturbing"
Apostle is a great film. I love Dan Stevens in it.
The Ritual was pretty damn great, but I'm not sure if people are familiar with its source material, a novel of the same name by Adam Nevill. I'd say it's just as good as the film, but it's also way different. Especially concerning the ending. Definitely recommend checking it out
I probably won’t get around to the book but I Loved the movie. Can you spoil the book ending for me??
I skipped the movie because I read the book a few years back and distinctly remember thinking "well that was boring and dumb". Hardly anyone mentions that it was based on a book
Yes the book was very disturbing like the movie.
It would have been kinda hilarious if since he took 3 shots he actually hit all 3.
The Ritual is much better as a book. It has elements of the Norwegian Black Metal scene and you delve into the boys backgrounds much more and get more connected to them, there for making their deaths more emotional. Luke is such a complex character in the book and is saddled with the confusion of being an outsider, Rob never existed in the book either.
I finally watched TKoaSD last night after seeing this review when it first came out so didn't remember much thankfully. After my bf and I watched it and read up a bit, the ending is wild. You can tell in the diner they're all still scuffed so it was likely the next day. The whole family eyeballs Martin warily and it's because Steven never actually "chose" which family to kill, so it's uncertain if they actually are off the hook. Also, I don't think Kim was trying to sacrifice herself. She tried to leave before and this was her last-ditch effort to make herself look good, just like Anna wearing the dress he likes and Bob cutting his hair and saying he wants to be a cardiologist. They were all subtly begging to be spared, which makes him not 'choosing' that much more impactful. The movie is also based off a greek myth that the principal mentions Kim had written an amazing essay on.
I'm honestly surprised you haven't seen the ritual until now, I really enjoyed it and I'm not much of a horror fan.
Yeah, i forgot all about it until now
If you're not a horror fan then you can't assume horror fans will run to watch ritual. As a horror junkie, Its not something we run eagerly to watch. I still haven't bothered to see it. It's plot isn't horrific and is pretty straight foward
@@moxiemaxie3543 way to discredit a subjective opinion horror "elitist"
@@moxiemaxie3543 it’s plot isn’t horrific? It’s about humans sacrificing others in horrible ways to an abstract god while people who don’t know any better stumble across it all. Sorry, but that’s a horror plot. No way it isn’t.
I don't know if either of these are on any of the streaming platforms, but as far as disturbing movies go, Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" and "Prospero's Books" are absolute masterpieces.
Keep up the great work. Your content is fantastically smart, unique and original. ✌
Also worth watching: Another Yorgos Lanthimos (Killing of a Sacred Deer director) film, “The Lobster.” Not “disturbing,” but, imo, pretty great.
Ah that movie was so interesting to watch. Really need to look at it again
not disturbing ? bruh
@@aligmal5031 Ha. I guess it’s disturbing on some level-just not “disturbing” as defined by this series.
The kid that plays Martin is still wearing his disturbing training wheels. One word. Saltburn.
“I don’t know. I’m not a fucking bear expert,” is an objectively funny line.
gg lookin slimmer. good for you, my dude
also, that hoodie is sick
Please review Creep! It's on Netflix and I just watched it last night, I think it's pretty disturbing on a psychological level. There's no gore or heavy blood but it's a "found footage" movie that plays a heavy psychological game. I loved it
Yessss! Creep is a good one!
Peachfuzz! 🐺
A great film! Creep 2 is still a decent watch too.
That movie is terrible I had to fast forward most of it because I was falling asleep due to boredom. I can't believe they made a sequel.. -Mercy(sorry for the name confusion I'm on my dads phone at the moment)
“Now, after browsing a whopping four titles...” 😂😂😂😂 why’d the way you said that make me laugh so hard
The Ritual is my favorite Netflix original. I'm so glad GG enjoyed it as well :D
the ritual is one of my favorites movies i just looove nordic "forest" legends and the tree druidsh aesthetics!!
Not exactly an aesthetic, just pagan.
@@jebaited9612 It absolutely follows a certain aesthetic. Let's not split hairs for the sake of semantics, it helps no one.
there's one scene from "apostle" that still pops up in my head and disturbs me. It's an amazing movie too, I'm not usually a fan of slow burns but this one did it right in my opinion. Strange.
"what's the best video to watch while eating lunch?" I asked myself "ah, yes, the one about disturbing movies, great choice" 😂
the ritual is a favorite movie of mine. I love when a lurking monster is revealed after a long build up and isnt disappointing. good monster design is a weakness of mine.
Me and some girls watched Ritual a few years back. We all loved Phil. Conclusion: The ladies love Phil.
The Ritual is less disturbing and more just a quality made horror movie.
The killing of a sacred deer is honestly one of the best movies I've ever seen, the and eery feeling of not knowing during the whole thing makes it such an experience and its one of the movies I recommend to almost everyone
Thats like recommending Caligula
Hey @mistagg, I have a recommendation that I think you would like. "Mandy" with Nicholas Cage; not what you would consider disturbing by normal standards, the atmosphere it creates with the soundtrack and its foreboding-ness(? Lol) love your content, discovered you while movie review surfing (huge movie buff) and love the personality and your style of breaking down movies (which I must admit, is not too dissimilar to my own) but love seeing new review vids along with everything else. You have fans in alabama, keep it up brotha.
"now you's cant leave" i respect the "A bronx tale" reference.
killing of a sacred deer was trash, legitimately filled to the brim with plot holes that y’all ignore even admitting y’all can’t even bare to watch it twice because it has zero worthwhile
The Ritual is actually one of my favorite horror movies period. Easily my favorite from the last 5 years or so.
I loved The Killing of Secret Deer. The ending gave me such an anxiety, I initially naively thought nobody was going to die lol but nah. it was one of those movies I kept thinking about for the next few days.
"American Mary" has the worst title I've ever heard but in terms of enjoyment, it's aight. I would say it's probably pretty near the "darkest depths" of Netflixs disturbing genre, so... not too bad.
Love the editing here, it's top quality. Whoever the editor is, you should pay them more
I havent seen the movie for the ritual but the book is seriously one of scariest books ive ever read. It is so well done and from this review i would say in the case the book is probably better than the movie. So if youre looking for a really genuinely scary book to read... read the ritual.
Also fun fact apparently the author of the ritual was inspired to write the book because of a hiking or camping trip he took where he saw a deer or some type of animal strung up in some trees. So thats kinda creepy
“I will fucking lay out the elderly for freedom”
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I fucking love The Ritual, far from disturbing but i’m a sucker for films made with charismatic charming british actors and also this film scared me a lot, 8/10.
If you liked the movie I would recommend the novel. It's sooo much better
12:24 @Mista GG I'm surprised of your reaction. I rooted for Luke the entire movie because he was being bitched on by the rest of the crew _for not risking his life_ ...bruh, sorry to break it to you, but you only get one of those. Ever.
Haven't you ever done something shitty that you regret? Something that you wish you could have done differently? Something selfish maybe? Something that got amplified by the circumstances? I think we all make mistakes, and we all have defects, and we all deserve to be the protagonists of our own lives. We all deserve an opportunity to fix our mistakes. Sometimes we torture ourselves with regret, and unless you're the one who pulls the trigger, I think we deserve an opportunity to get rid of that regret.
Ritual: Moder, a Jotunn. Pretty much the opposite of Aesir/Vanir gods, and actualy offspring of Loki. Moder shares a father with Fenrir, Jormungandr, Hel, (more bad sh*t) and Sleipnir.
Earlier this morning a watched an entire video about that movie, I couldn't pinpoint who Exactly was that according to the Norse mythos. Thanks for pointing it out
Loki is Sleipnirs mother, not father
@@jemsilver true, just wanted to point out it has pretty famous siblings
@@Bratkip it's cool, always nice to see someone who knows mythology
@@meetaverma8372 It doesn't appear to actually line up with any specific character in the mythology.
I think the idea is that, given the variance present in much of mythology, it's reasonable that something like Moder could exist despite no mention of it in the mythology itself.
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As soon as GG said “let’s move on to something that will” and looked into the camera. I got a ad for fortnite😂😂😂
i LOVE the ritual. it’s one of my favorite horro movies because i love the characterization of the main character and the atmosphere is amazing and creepy. i also love the monster because it’s genuinely terrifying to me how unidentifiable everything is on it.