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A veiled woman stands in the yard, palms open, blood dripping, and everything feels slightly off—clocks run backward, shadows stretch, and a grieving family can’t trust their senses. We dive into a new psychological horror film that disguises its core as a home-invasion scare, then reveals something far more intimate: how grief can haunt a house from the inside out. We talk through what the movie shows, what it withholds, and why the smartest survival choices fall apart when adrenaline narrows your world to a single, shaky frame.

Eric, Alex, and TJ map the tension between a son’s clear instincts to check the car, find the neighbor and secure the weapon vs the mother’s half-truths that keep him blind at the worst possible moments. We break down the visual grammar that sells panic: Dutch tilts, elastic zooms, and edits that “unhappen” events like waking mid-nightmare. From clothesline jump-scares to the controversial early reveal of the antagonist’s face, we dig into the craft choices and how they serve a deeper read: the woman in the yard might be Ramona herself, a manifestation of complicated grief and depressive ideation that seeps into power outages, mirrors, and memories.

Where does the ending land—hard truth, warning dream, or wish-vision? We debate the single bullet, the backward R’s, and the attic sequence, then explore what real-world resilience looks like when roles vanish and backups don’t exist. Come for the creepy set pieces; stay for the themes that linger after the lights come up. If you’ve seen it, bring your boldest theory. If you haven’t, cue it up, then join us to compare notes.

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Cold Open And Wild Conspiracy Joke

SPEAKER_00

Hello, survivors, and welcome to another episode of Will You Survive the Podcast. Ooh, I came in there with way too much energy. I'm Eric. I'm your host. And I'm joined here by my two co-hosts, Alex. That's me. And TJ. The government upped alligator deaths to sell more crocs shoes. And that's what we're going to be talking about here. We're going to get to the bottom of this conspiracy today. Why does the government hate gators? Now I think it all started. What no? We watched a We watched a movie. Yeah. Three weeks ago. We, we as a unit, we all finally watched this movie. I had already watched it three weeks ago. Ain't that right? We watched this movie twice.

SPEAKER_03

We watched it yesterday. What do you mean? And also three weeks ago, which is me. That's crazy. Welcome back to Zero to 100 part.

SPEAKER_00

No, okay. I'm sorry. I s I suck. I had a very busy three weeks and a very eventful three weeks. Uh and I kept forgetting to watch this movie. But I finally watched this movie, and it was not what I was expecting. Told you.

SPEAKER_03

You know, I I didn't expect it.

SPEAKER_00

So, first things first, and I'm actually really happy that I remember this.

SPEAKER_03

Let's not jump to the ending. I just want to say that. We do that too much.

SPEAKER_00

Shut your face. Hang on. Spoiler alert. This is a brand new movie. Um I think it is, it's yeah, it was a 2025 movie, right? I believe that's right. Let me look at it. It's like a brand new movie, it might even be a 2026 movie, but I think it's 2025.

SPEAKER_04

It's definitely not 2026.

SPEAKER_00

It's a brand new movie.

SPEAKER_04

It's 2025.

SPEAKER_00

So we uh have to give our legally obligated spoiler alert. So if you haven't seen this movie, I do recommend seeing it. I think it's pretty good. I think it's a little trippy, and I felt like I was on acid the whole time.

Spoiler Alert And Basic Premise

SPEAKER_04

Would you like a little storyline?

SPEAKER_00

I would like a release date, actually, and then spoiler alert, still within two years. Okay. Yeah, it's not that new.

SPEAKER_04

Story? Ramona is a single mother who is still grieving the loss of her husband after a fatal car accident that also left her disabled. She now has to care for her two children, Taylor and Annie. However, when a mysterious woman clad in a black veiled dress appears in her front yard, she must do everything she can to protect her family.

SPEAKER_00

Alright. So, I honestly don't even know where to start the conversation on this one. Do we just want to take it from the top?

SPEAKER_03

So movie starts off, Lady the mother is laying in bed uh watching videos of her dead husband.

SPEAKER_00

Watching the same video of her dead husband. Same exact video.

SPEAKER_03

He starts out saying, I have I had a dream. Much like somebody else. No, we just go back in government conspiracy. And then you can see that she's like still reeling from you know the death of her husband. Because the fact that her kid walked in and she was just completely deaf. And then she went, like, he pulled the blinds open, she was like, Just let me wake up. You've been awake, probably for hours. That's get your ass out. Also, the lights are off, the power bill's not paid.

First Impressions And Confusion

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so the way that this movie started, I I can't stress enough, like I'm sure everybody knows this, but when you start off with this movie, you don't know what the fuck is going on. And this movie, when you don't know what's happening, it's just very trippy. And it's a we it's a movie that I kept saying to myself, like, okay, this is all gonna make sense eventually.

SPEAKER_03

And then it never went his way. He's like, Well, I guess it was fucking dumb.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so like most movies you can kind of guess where things are going.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

I made, I'm pretty sure, not a single correct guess. I'm pretty sure every single time I was like, oh, this is what's happening, it would immediately prove me wrong. And I was like, Well, I'm just gonna go fuck myself because like holy crap, I could not have been more wrong about literally everything in this movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Which I gotta say is kind of interesting because I told you after I watched it three weeks ago that Okay, you guys keep throwing that in there.

SPEAKER_00

It feels not that important to keep mentioning that. What? What's that? Nothing. I just, you know, I feel like you're talking about I feel like you know. Mention what? Like how we both watched this three weeks ago? I just don't see how it's really that relevant.

SPEAKER_04

It just seems like it's really, you know, like it's it's just a point like leaving rent-free in your guys' head instead of just.

SPEAKER_03

So why would you one not have a backup for like how you're gonna like if your car goes dead, you're not gonna have a battery in your car, especially it's a jeep. Those are for off-roading and stuff, right? And then also you're not gonna have an alternate source of power, like uh you get some solar panels or something, it's a wide open ass field.

SPEAKER_04

So the other thing that I I had about that was I was complaining about the fact that they wouldn't have something like a backup generator for this particular type of situation. But then she did answer that question that there was still a lot of work needing to be done on the house.

SPEAKER_00

Well, so that's kind of what I thought was that like if the dad was there, he would take care of it. Yeah. But because he's so suddenly and and we're assuming that this happened very recently. Yeah. Because uh she just seems very thrown off by everything. Like every problem that's happening now is like I have no idea what to do. It's very clear that they had very defined roles, and him being gone kind of left them with no way to fix everything that was wrong. Yep.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and he did not have a backup plan for if he did die, which I do. I have all my passwords and stuff on my phone, and Maddie knows my password to my phone, so she needs like how to you know pay something or whatever.

SPEAKER_04

Hey, let me let me borrow your phone real quick.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I have to send a text.

SPEAKER_00

I just sent a work text really quick. I have to do something real quick. Yeah. They're gonna be like, what the fuck is a 253? I don't want them to know it's me.

SPEAKER_03

Hey guys, we got eight walks today.

SPEAKER_00

Like, who the hell?

SPEAKER_03

All one person.

SPEAKER_00

Anyways, all one person. You're gonna be working a long shift.

SPEAKER_03

And her name starts with R.

SPEAKER_00

Ramona on her crutches.

SPEAKER_03

She could not walk, dude. She was slow. And yeah, nah. Oh, that's one thing I pointed out while we were watching it. Um not it was not even that far into the movie. When he goes out to the Jeep to uh like try to start it, and then he almost swings on his mom. Like, bro, just didn't hear the can like the crutches.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that was the whole point. What it was supposed to be like the the woman in the yard was it was like an illusion. She made him believe that she was on the other side of that, and he was so focused on that that it it it was basically like his mom wasn't there.

Adrenaline, Perception, And Camera Work

SPEAKER_03

But like Pickwin, you either got shadow manipulation or fucking sound manipulation. Which one is it, woman in the yard?

SPEAKER_00

Well, it was kind of both because she looked like she would like the shadow looked like it was her. He saw like the the veil and everything in the shadow. He thought it was her. That's why he swung and then it was his mom. That's what threw him off.

SPEAKER_04

So, one of the things I will say, and being in high stress situations, I've been in a few. And one of the things that I will give credit to is when you're hopped up on adrenaline, your senses go to shit. You're not able to hear, you're not able to see, you're not that's why that's why eyewitnesses in high stress situations are such shit. Because you become tunnel-visioned, deaf, you know, you're you're deaf, blind, and stupid. Adrenaline really messes you up. That's why, in order to keep yourself safe in a in a traumatic situation, one of the movies that we haven't covered yet that I think we've mentioned, uh, the one where um I think it's the guy who got cancelled, Franco. Uh James Franco, uh, where he falls down the the cliff. Oh, 137. 137. Uh so 27. 27, whatever. And in that one, uh, he has to keep all of his wits about him the entire time. And you can see how quickly everything can can uh escalate for him and does in many situations, but if you let your adrenaline get the better of you, you're not going to be able to think clearly, to be able to process your situation, and to be able to effectively evaluate an escape plan. And I think we saw that with this kid. He was already hopped up and scared. I think it was intentional for us to see his age, his youth, and that he isn't very well in control of himself at this point. So I forgave the the movie for that. I thought he was just, they were trying to show us how scared he was, how hopped up on adrenaline he was. He's not paying attention to his environment, he's not paying attention to his surroundings. That's why, in a zombie situation, in an apocalypse situation, you have to be all on guard. Now, we've we've come to this agreement, and I think uh you made the point, TJ, that actually uh satisfied my my brain. Why is it that every single zombie show shows uh zombies sneaking up on people when they're all shambling and groaning and moaning, but then I never thought about the fact that you're firing off blasts with no ear protection. Yeah. You're most likely gonna be deaf.

SPEAKER_03

Which they also they show that in um The Last of Us TV show, which is something they added just like because it wasn't in the game, but Joel was deaf in one of his ears because of the.

SPEAKER_04

So they straight stole your they stole your idea.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Horror Tropes And Clothesline Gags

SPEAKER_04

Fucking jerks. But that, you know, that would explain that, but not this. This was, I think, I forgave him for that exact situation, uh, because he was all hopped up on adrenaline, not because this thing had to manipulate sound as much as it manipulated the shadows and and the uh the visuals. She was causing, I believe she was causing direct hallucinations.

SPEAKER_00

See, I I I agree with that, and I think that um a lot of the like a lot of the camera work kind of lends into that where it it annoyed me a little bit, but I I like I understood what the purpose of it was. When it would get kind of like low to the ground at an angle or like a like a kind of diagonal angle, Dutch tilt is what that's called. Yeah, and it would start like zooming in really hard, or like zooming out in a in a weird way that it makes the world kind of stretch. Yep. Like that's what it was trying to simulate was that he was like kind of in like a different headspace. Right. It was that like stress, uh, kind of similar to like what Call of Duty and whatnot will do when like a bomb goes off next to you or something. So I think the camera work was impressive on this on this movie. Uh one random moment that I'll just bring up in passing that TJ and I both uh noted was uh when the blanket that was hanging up in the yard covered her. When I think it was that same scene actually where he was where he was running to the car and it covered her. We're like, nope, I'm sorry. I'm this is why we don't hang things.

SPEAKER_03

This is why we don't have clothes lines. Yeah, it's not a good thing. It's either it's something's gonna pop up behind it or a prisoner's gonna use your clothes to escape.

SPEAKER_04

Buy a fucking dryer, dude.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, every every frickin' movie, that's what happens.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, seriously, they they clearly had the money. Yeah, fresh farm air on your clothes. You're telling me he didn't have a life insurance policy?

SPEAKER_04

Well, we may we may be um we may be jumping the gun with saying something as extreme as every movie, but every movie that has a clothesline in it and clothes hang drying on it, you're gonna have a jump scare behind.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. Okay, so there's actually three. It's either prisoner stealing your clothes, scary thing, or you're falling from a building and it's what's breaking your fall.

SPEAKER_04

Uh.

SPEAKER_03

That's all clotheslines are used for.

SPEAKER_04

Where in actuality you should be decapitated by it.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, four things. Decapitated by it because this is a final destination movie, scary thing, falling from a building, or whatever the fuck I said. Prisoner taking clothes.

SPEAKER_00

All right, but Prisoner Taking Clothes, where are you getting that one from? What is that?

SPEAKER_03

Dude, that's like you'll you know, like there's always like in the movie, bro, like, I don't know, fucking alien crashes. Oh, he looks like a human. He needs clothes, clothesline, puts it on.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I get it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You know?

SPEAKER_04

Yep. I can't.

Wick vs Bourne Tangent

SPEAKER_00

Breaks out of prison, runs through people's yards, grabs clothes, puts it on. I'm not saying it's not a trope. I'm just saying I've never seen a movie that has that trope. Run it from the cops, you know? Secret agent, Jason Bourne. I was gonna make a bad joke.

SPEAKER_04

You guys, you did you guys see that TikTok I sent you of Matt Damon?

SPEAKER_03

Which one?

SPEAKER_04

No. So Matt Damon started a movie.

SPEAKER_03

So many Matt Damon TikToks. I just kidnapped. The Bourne Ultimatum?

SPEAKER_04

Well, he's he started a movie in the 90s called Dogma.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And he played Loki.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah. He's it's me, Loki from Dogma.

SPEAKER_04

Where back when I played Loki, it was uh he goes, that was long before uh they did it over here, and I did it without the stupid British accent. I thought you guys would like that part. And um, or I think he said fake British accent. Yeah, he said fake. Which I thought you guys would like because he called it a fake British accent.

SPEAKER_03

I mean it is, so they're all fake.

SPEAKER_04

They're all fake. And so uh he explains how he goes, people have been asking me what happened. Well, at the at the end of that movie, because he's the angel Loki who's trying to overthrow heaven, God banishes him to live the rest of his life on earth, but he was dumped in the Middle East, woken up without knowing who he is. He goes, So I was I was reborn, if you will. Oh my god, did I just do that? And so it's all all of these, uh, all of these different Jesus Christ, it's chasing porn. Exactly. It was all these these funny different uh tropes that he did, or um, what do you call them? I guess they're innuendo, it's just not sexual.

SPEAKER_00

Someone's probably seen the first born identity movie. They're okay, they're they're pretty good. All at some point, but I could not tell you what happens in any of them.

SPEAKER_04

The same exact thing.

SPEAKER_00

It's the same thing. So I was actually listening to Conan and Conan O'Brien just did an episode of his podcast with Matt Damon, and they were they briefly talked about the Born Ultimatum and uh or the Born Identity, and they were basically saying like uh Jason Bourne would be so useless nowadays, like, because like everything they were talking about they've traveled recently and it's all scanning your eye or scanning your fingerprint or something like that. And he's like, you know, Jason Jason Bourne's entire thing was like carrying like seven different passports. I could be any of these people at any time. It's like, no, you can't. Your eye tells you exactly who you are. Then you have uh until people start making fake eyes for that stuff, or like uh or you know, just getting really good at hacking on the fly, then well, since we're already way off topic.

SPEAKER_04

Since we're already way off topic.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sure like I'm sure like putting on a fake contact that'll like dupe it in some way is like even if they do your DNA, you could like, you know, or like a fingerprint, steal somebody's fingerprint so I can put that much on the Loki just ripped somebody's eye out when he needed their retina scan. Yeah, see, I don't think that's gonna work in TSA real quick. If you if they go to scan your eye and you just go, oh actually hang on, scan this one instead. I don't think that's gonna work that well.

SPEAKER_03

I just have you guys seen the movie Monkey Man? No. No. Okay. Do you like the John Wick saw it?

SPEAKER_04

Which one?

SPEAKER_03

John Wick?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You like those? Okay, yeah. So Indian John Wick, but like way more deep, you know?

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

Interpreting The Ending And Themes

SPEAKER_03

Takes place in India. Um basically he's trying to get revenge for his like mom's murder. And he's like, at the the final battle is like he's fighting up this freaking skyscraper, just if he starts in the kitchen, he's fucking murkin' people, whatever. Anyways, at one point he just chops some motherfucker's stum off, puts it in his pocket, doesn't use it for like 10 minutes, and then he just all of a sudden pulls it out. I'm like, what is he pulling out? It just goes and he puts it on the fingerprint scanner. It's a movie though.

SPEAKER_04

I wanna I wanted to ask you guys, since you brought up John Wick now. This is way off topic of the woman in the yard, but that's what we do. Both of you have seen both of these movies. John Wick and Jason Bourne. Who wins?

SPEAKER_00

John Wick. I think John Wick. Because Jason Bourne, like, yes, he was a killer, but he was a lot of just like stealth and like I don't know, like deception, that kind of stuff. John Wick was just like, I just shoot and I kill. And then he shoot and he killed.

SPEAKER_03

The Bourne universe is more realistic than the Wick universe. Like there'll be like straight up gunfights in the middle of like populated areas and nobody is batting an eye, you know?

SPEAKER_00

In Wick? In Wick, yeah. Yeah, like in the that that one scene with the two silencers in the uh in the train station. We're like shooting. Where they're just like Yeah, and I like how nobody is noticing all these holes and and uh they're like, dude, why did the wall just explode? Like that would make a noise. A bullet hitting a wall, it doesn't matter if it comes from a silencer, that's gonna make some noise.

SPEAKER_03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

But you know, John Wick rules. Alright. So the woman in the yard. The woman in the yard or John Wick. Or John Wick. Woman in the yard versus Jason Bourne. What do we think?

SPEAKER_03

I think Bourne takes it, Ike. Yeah, I I might have to agree. Um, one thing in this movie that I kind of didn't like was they showed her face a little too soon. I think I could agree with that. And then she you're just like, oh, it's just a normal ass bitch.

SPEAKER_00

Like, you know. But it's not still. You say what? Like that but it's not still, you know? Like she she's not just a normal chick. She's got that shadow magic. That's crazy. True, but she's like, which I like I like that touch.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Um she is creepy. I will say, if I ever f seen a woman in the yard just chilling, and then she just opens her hands and there's blood. I don't think I'm staying in my house. I think I'll leave. Like you can have it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I guess now we're 15 minutes, 20 minutes in. Maybe now we can uh we can jump to the end. Because I feel like to really talk about this movie, it's really just the ending. Like everything as a whole, how do you interpret this? So Alex and I kind of briefly talked about this. Mm-hmm. My thought, I believe that this was one big metaphor for suicide or suicide awareness. Um what do you think?

SPEAKER_02

Trigger warning. Trigger warning.

Grief, Hallucinations, And Self-Haunting

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah, shoot, can we even say that? I mean, you just did. Yeah, I said twice. Hey, it's important TikTok. Don't ban us for talking about important stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Algorithm Japanese. Sapuku. Does that work? I don't know. Anyways algorithm Japanese. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

People are icing themselves. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

There you go.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. No, don't ice yourself. You're so pretty. Ahahaha. She tried to deport herself from life. She did. Um so I think this was one big metaphor. I think that evil spirit was like a spirit of wanting to ice yourself.

SPEAKER_03

I think that you're somewhat what you think. Um I think that's her kind of manifestation of like grief and like her mental illness because she d does need to take pills. At one point, the son You know she's on crazy pills, which is wild. I would have slapped the shit out of him.

SPEAKER_00

I yeah, I mean, I know what you mean, but at the same time, I also feel like she went so off her rocker that he really did have to give her that reality check of like absolutely not. What like at one point he said like yeah, at one point he said something like, Why should we even listen to you? Uh-huh. And damn good point. She was not making good decisions.

SPEAKER_03

She was very just wild this whole movie. But I think manifestation of grief and her mental illness, and I think that she a these are my two theories, she killed her family and then went crazy. Like when she stabbed the pillow, I'm pretty sure her brain blocked it out and she stabbed her daughter. That's my thought. Um or this all happened and she ended up murking herself, and in the end is just like not real. Why is my camera being weird? Hold on.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, your camera did freeze. Why do you do? Okay, Alex. Why don't you read the why what is your interpretation of this?

SPEAKER_04

So I don't think the I don't think the premise is so much about someone icing themselves. I think it's more so a bigger picture of the complications of dealing with grief. One of the outcomes is people icing themselves. So I'm not throwing that out entirely, but I think it's a much bigger conversation that they were having.

SPEAKER_03

True. I think the woman in the yard is well, yeah. Uh ending in the movie, Woman in the Yard is her.

Mirrors, Backwards Clocks, And Meaning

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So that got kind of trippy. Where like that's uh everything that the woman in the yard was doing to haunt them, it like flipped where she woke up as the woman in the yard, and she saw herself approaching her and asking her, like the same conversation that happened beforehand. And then uh, and then she kind of went through, like kind of flashing forward through all the moments where they were being haunted by the woman in the yard, except it was Ramona. So that's where I kind of started to to understand. I was like, oh, so the woman in the yard is a manifestation of Ramona, it's yeah, of something of her. I took it as an evil spirit of wanting to ice yourself, and it was something that was like looming and it kept getting closer and closer until it was enveloping her. It infected uh it affected her kids, like it affected her life. It it even affected the power, like so and I that that's all stuff that I I feel like was just a manifestation of like this thing that was taking over her life, and that was why she was so hesitant for uh I forget the son's name. Uh I forget his name, but why she was so hesitant for him to get the gun out.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, which is the reason there was only one bullet, she threw away all the other ones and left one.

SPEAKER_00

I also wanted to bring Oh, I didn't even gather that.

SPEAKER_03

That's the ending is very haunting of Hill House Betneck Lady. Yes, Nell haunting herself, and that brings me back to one of the things I said in that episode, which is the things that are haunting you are pieces of yourself. I said that um I love the haunting of Hill House. And I think that that it kinda fits here also that you know this is just all her, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I think it's uh it's really interesting because like I said, when you start the movie, you obviously don't know what's happening. Um and it really is one of those movies that you kind of somewhat feel like you know what's happening, and then the more it goes on, the more you're like, oh, I have no idea what's going on. But in like a pretty interesting and good way, it's just very interesting.

Crash Night And Mental Health Read

SPEAKER_04

When when I first saw it, the first thing I came and told you was I didn't know what the fuck happened. It was I like how you said it was like an acid trip, right? There was there was nothing, and I hate to say uh logical, but it it didn't feel like the movie was clearly making a point. It was letting you decide what point you wanted it to make. And it kind of drives me nuts when movies do that, but at the same time, I get it, I understand why they're doing that. But you bring up a point, TJ, that makes me wonder if this was uh going down the line of a different alternate reality, a different dimension, if you will. Uh she does ice herself, and this is the spirit coming to to tell her, like, what the fuck's wrong with you? Right? Like this is what you want, this is this is the future you want, and now that like kind of changes my whole perspective.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I th I think the ending was just a little too much of a happy ending for it to be actually true. I think that she definitely pulled the the trigger.

Audience Comments And Engagement

SPEAKER_00

I think that's I think that's honestly fair because the the movie had been showing countless times where you believed one thing was happening, and then it would cut, and then all of a sudden it was like, oh, everything that just happened in like the last minute and a half didn't actually happen. It was all this illusion, it was all this dream, like this bad dream. Like every time that she hurt her kids, it always ended up not being what actually happened. It was like she started hallucinating and and like believed she was doing it. It was like a really lucid dream, and that happened multiple times. Uh is that lucid's not right. Vivid? Like an extremely vivid dream. A hallucination. Well, lucid means that you're in control, like you know you're in a dream.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I guess that's true, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So this is more of like a in a yeah, like a really vivid dream that she believed was happening. Like when she when she uh poked her daughter really hard in the back. Um that uh that didn't actually end up happening. I mean, as far as the movie portrays, it didn't actually happen. Um so that's kinda I see what you're saying at the end, and I think what also supports that is that uh it kind of started to feel like like an allergy med ad. Like afterwards, where it's like, I took this and now I can breathe clearly, and it was like it was like that at the end of the movie.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, uh I'm I'm not gonna argue that. I now I don't fully uh subscribe to the idea that it was too happy at the end. Um, one of the things I thought of when I watched this movie, the very first thing I thought of was this was her getting her life back and getting her family back when she was allowing the grief to absorb her. And she was given a vision of what grief looks like. And so it was like a warning, you keep going this route. This is this is where you're gonna wind up, right? You are the woman in the yard, you are haunting yourself, you're haunting your family, you are the one that's causing all of this. And at the end, it was like uh what I told Eric when I first watched it. I I didn't tell him, I didn't give him any spoilers, but I said the first thing I thought of when I watched it and it got to the end was uh do you remember that movie Evan Almighty? You ever see that one, TJ?

SPEAKER_03

Uh that's the second one.

Off-Topic River Talk And Humor

SPEAKER_04

That's the second one. Yeah. In that scene where um the lady who was in the Gilmore Girls was sitting in the cafe and she asks for more food, you know, refill on chicken and french fries, and the waiter comes up and it's Morgan Freeman, of course, and she's like, I feel like I'm losing my family. And you know, he gives her this analogy and says, Do you want when people pray to God and they ask for patience, do you think God just gives them patience or does he give them opportunities to be patient? And one of the things I thought of with this movie is she wanted to be a whole person again, but yeah, but without her husband, she didn't have the strength to carry on. And I kind of thought this was a very brutal way of saying what it was gonna take for her to get back up and and keep moving with her family. And I I I tell the only thing I could say when I when I saw this, I walk in, I told Eric, I don't know what the fuck I just watched. This movie was crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's so it's one of those movies that I almost wonder if everybody gets that gets this from it, or if some people will just watch this and be like, oh, it's about a creepy woman in a yard who haunted them, and then that was it. Like, I I almost wonder how much of this is like looking like kind of like looking kind of too deep into it.

SPEAKER_03

Lots of the time p that's how people that you know, because like you can have movies that are like deep and like you gotta think about it, but that's not what everybody wants to watch. So you gotta like intermingle it for those dumb motherfuckers who don't know and think it's just a movie about a scary lady in the art, you know?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, I I almost wonder like how much I guess I just I I mean I'm sure the answers are out there. Like, I'm sure I could look it up and see what the director said about it and all that. But I almost wonder like what was the intention with making this movie. I'm sure there's like interviews out there and whatnot, but what happened? Yeah, Matt Damon was talking about that in Netflix movies that like the new meta, for lack of a better term, is basically just to repeat the plot over and over throughout the movie so that when people are multitasking like we do, we'll understand what's happening, which means they're just catering to the fact that we have the attention span of a goldfish.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I'm pretty decent at like multitasking and like watching something in the background. Like I watch anime that is in Japanese whilst I'm playing a game, you know? Yeah. And I'm gonna do that. I wish I was better.

SPEAKER_00

I think you both are way better at multitasking than I am.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I almost beat Minecraft while recording the podcast. We're gonna need a part two of that. I need to I need to redeem myself. You got pretty far. I'm pretty impressed. Why? Because you're gonna go for actually beating it. And then, dude, I all I had to do is get to the bastion and then boom, get to the portal and dip. So the woman in the yard.

SPEAKER_04

So the woman in the yard.

SPEAKER_03

The name of the movie um is very funny to me. Uh that's just how moo like scary movies are these days. Yeah. It's like the man in the something. You know? So I'm waiting for part two. It's gonna be the brother in the driveway.

SPEAKER_04

What else? What else did you have on on this movie? There was there What was the most um controversial point for you?

SPEAKER_00

Um, I think before we knew what was really going on, when we still believed it was like maybe some demon or spirit or something in the yard, um, I felt like the boy was making some good decisions, and I felt like he was ready to take over the role of being the man of the house, and the mom was not trusting of him. If this wasn't a manifestation of her grief, if this was actually just a being or a person in their yard, he had all the correct instincts, and she was trying to stop him at every turn.

SPEAKER_03

But then she's like, Oh, watch your sister. Oh, you gotta watch her. So, like, you know, you're trying to push all this responsibility onto him, and then he's trying to make responsibility for things.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, she she does that, and then she keeps so this is the part that frustrated me the most because people do this all the time. She kept giving him half the story, and so he's trying to make these decisions and these and these uh like these really quick decisions based off of the information that he has, which is a lie, because she's giving him half the story or not the truth at all, and he's making these decisions based on that.

SPEAKER_03

He's old enough to know, like the whole reason he went to the car has blood on her hands, don't go out there.

Final Takes And Winner Announcement

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, the whole reason he went to the car was to see if he could go to the neighbor, and she already knew that the car wasn't gonna work. Literally, and if she would have told him that, he wouldn't have been out there in the first place. He wanted to get the gun. Now I know why she didn't want him to get the gun now, but like I said, early in the movie, when you don't know exactly what's happening, and you think that there's a good point, like at least his information is that uh this could be uh a crazy lady from the mental institution nearby, then yeah, getting the gun makes sense. Yep, yeah. So it it was just frustrating that she was like shutting him down at every turn. I'm like, but the kid is right. Yeah. So what do we think about the whole mirror stuff where the R's were backwards, where she saw like the clock was backwards when she was in the room with her husband?

SPEAKER_04

Well, okay, so I could kind of see that as uh part of what TJ was saying, that I didn't quite pick up on it this early, but what if the whole thing was a um either a dream or she'd already done the deed? Yeah. Like did she already ice herself because everything in dreams is allegedly backwards.

SPEAKER_00

I haven't heard that before.

SPEAKER_04

You haven't heard that dream that you see things inverted in dreams? No. Because your your brain actually everything that you that comes into your eyes is upside down or inverted, and your brain corrects it. Corrects it. So seeing those R's that her daughter was writing, imagine they weren't actually backwards. She was seeing it that way. Just like she saw the clocks backwards.

SPEAKER_03

Also, everything in your peripheral vision is black and white, but you'll never be able to see it.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, your your brain fills in the color for you.

SPEAKER_03

Um I was also gonna say, surprisingly, the R in the freaking title is not backwards.

SPEAKER_00

Oh. Oh man, that feels like a missed opportunity. That is a missed opportunity. I just pulled it up right now.

SPEAKER_03

If you think about it from where, if you look at it on the stream, from where she's sitting, the R would be backwards if you're in the position of the woman in the yard.

SPEAKER_00

Sure, but everything would be backwards then. True.

SPEAKER_03

So like the R's being backwards and the mirrors and stuff, is that just saying that that is just a reflection of her, you know, like we've been saying. That's that's what I thought.

SPEAKER_00

Um it's definitely an interesting movie. Where'd she get the chair? Yeah, it doesn't look that comfy.

Listener Shoutouts And How To Connect

SPEAKER_03

No, sitting in it for a long time. She's on the sun and all black. In black, yeah. In this chair that just kind of appeared, you know?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think the uh the attic scene was probably the creepiest. I and uh that chair leads you there, but I think that whole scene was pretty creepy.

SPEAKER_03

But yeah, I I ooh, I forgot. Uh the woman in black or the woman the woman in black, the woman in the yard uh popped up while she was crashing the car.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, popped up, scared her, then she crashed. So I think the mental illness angle really kind of pops through there. That gives it a little more ground.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, alright. Well, I almost wonder she was already if we're saying that the woman in the yard is a manifestation of grief, I think it's fair to say that she was already feeling grief because she was telling her husband how she wasn't happy, how she didn't feel fulfilled, how she was like grieving this life that she used to have that she no longer has. So I could kind of understand if it was like that's where the grief started, and then it just got substantially worse. Yeah. But I agree, the woman in the yard was there at the at the night of the crash.

SPEAKER_03

I I think we need a better help sponsorship. This would be a perfect episode for it.

SPEAKER_00

This would. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03

And you know, this this is a survival podcast, and that's why we are sponsored by BetterHelp. Help you survive your mental health.

SPEAKER_00

No, we can't actually say that. We legally cannot say that. Yeah, we're not sponsored by them. I wished, because that'd be kind of cool, but I don't think we could legally say that if they were not sponsored by them. No. Everything we say is brought to you by better No We're just like fucking.

SPEAKER_03

That's how we ensure we never get a woman in the yard, more like DJ preceding uh warning, I'm black. Warning, I'm caution, I'm black.

SPEAKER_00

Warning, I'm caution.

SPEAKER_03

Warning, I'm caution, black caution. Warning.

SPEAKER_00

Woo, woo, woo! African detected. Is that your superhero name, Black Caution?

Wrap-Up And Watch Recommendation

SPEAKER_03

Nah, it's Africol. Africol. Okay. No, that's it. It's a thing me and my uh my boss were dying at because we were a fucking sleep deprived and tired. And I there on there's some AC units and they said Americol. And in my vision, I seen Africol, so I turned, I'm like, damn, I thought those said Africol. He's like, that sounds like a fucking product. So I was like, Africol! Africol is your Afro frizzy. Do you ever find yourself craving fucking uh new ports? Yes.

SPEAKER_00

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SPEAKER_03

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SPEAKER_04

You know, I'll tell you, now that smoking is like so so uncool, nobody smokes anymore. I will tell you uh when I used to work in the restaurant industry, the service industry, everybody smoked. Uh you get everybody loosely, but you understand. Yeah, you get to you get to go on smoke breaks when you when you smoke. So a lot of people smoked, I'll say it that way. But there were a lot of uh mooch, too. You know, hey, could I bum a smoke? Hey, could I bum a smoke? I will tell you, I got this from a girl, uh, smoke menthals. Because then people would come up at the bar, at work, whatever. Hey, could I bum a smoke? Uh yeah, sure. It's menthol though. Oh, never mind.

SPEAKER_03

That's how you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00

It's like when you uh it's like when you mix all the drinks in a fountain. I was gonna say wild. It's like when you mix all the drinks in a fountain together. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, my my favorite with it though was uh nobody will take the smoke, but my favorite one to say when people would come up, they always like to say, uh, do you have an extra smoke? No, the pack only came with twenty.

SPEAKER_03

I was gonna say, yeah, but that's also how you attract my people. Yeah, men pause.

SPEAKER_04

No, I I didn't have, I mean, I I was working in Irvine, so to say the least. There weren't many of your people.

SPEAKER_03

There were some of your people though.

SPEAKER_04

Not my people. No, they're mine. A lot of white people. White people and Indian.

SPEAKER_03

I figure that's a weird place for Asians to be. No, you can't be able to do that. Why are there so many like in the weirdest places? Like successful. They're in the rich places.

SPEAKER_00

They're all the lawyers and doctors and dentists.

SPEAKER_03

What was the state that the president was like, they're the Haitians are in the they're eating the cats, they're eating the Colorado. And I guess there's just a high population of Haitians there? Why the fuck are the Haitians there? Why are there so many Samoans in Washington? I need to know this. How do y'all pick which state y'all are going to? Like, okay, I get it. Mexicans in like Texas and California. It makes sense. It's Arizona makes sense. Yeah. You live out in the middle of fucking the ocean and you're forced to go to Washington.

SPEAKER_04

And how did you go from tropical heat to frozen tundra? Yeah, like go back. This is a good place to be.

SPEAKER_03

Like, why don't you go to freaking Florida? You know? Something closer to your climate, you know? Not even like go go back to the place you live. Like, why, you know? Why?

SPEAKER_04

It's just crazy that that TJ's talking about his own people like this.

SPEAKER_03

Fucking a lot of Asians too. Mostly Vietnamese. Why are you here? That's also tropical.

unknown

What?

SPEAKER_00

I guess people don't like to live in tropical.

SPEAKER_04

You're talking specifically Washington? Yeah. Like, why are there so many Vietnamese people here? Speaking of which, I liked your response to my TikTok where uh everybody in the Midwest and the South are going through a deep freeze. I don't know if you saw it, Eric, but I said uh I really can can uh I can not commiserate, I forget what I word, but I I understand what you're going through because the temperatures here plummeted as well, and I posted the temperature. It was partially sunny or partially cloudy and 66 degrees. Yeah, it's chilly. Everybody, everybody in the Midwest is like dying of freaking freezing cold.

SPEAKER_03

Yours was 44.

SPEAKER_04

You're like, that's a little warm for me.

SPEAKER_03

It was like a high of 40s and then like a low of 30 something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I've been seeing all the reels of uh people in California being in shorts and sunglasses and a t-shirt, just being like, oh wow, like it sounds really bad for you guys. You know, yeah, like I woke up this morning and it was it was pretty chilly. I, you know, I had to put socks on before I went to bed. Like, we're trying to stay, we're trying to stay warm over here. You guys stay warm over there.

SPEAKER_04

I got on a beach. I got a uh funny one that I commented on. The guy was over there, he's like, it's so cold out here that we ran out of firewood. So we've resorted to uh breaking up our cabinets, and he's outside with a cabinet door on his stairs, and he's like kicking it open. Then I realized this fucker's wearing shorts. So I commented that and he was like, I'm really glad that you noticed that. Like that the whole point was that I talked to my sister who's out in the Midwest, she's out in Missouri, and she was like, It's it's just winter. Like, I don't know why they're making such a big deal about it. The danger part was the ice, but you got the warning, right? Ice. This is an ice storm, so be careful.

SPEAKER_03

Be careful, especially the the black ice, it'll sneak up on you. It'll sneak up on you, and it really will tear your family apart. Well, it's not as bad as this oppressive white snow. So tell me black ice didn't want to be here!

SPEAKER_04

Tell me this, TJ. Was it the black ice that took the data away? No, that was the black. Or did he leave to go get the milk and just never come back?

SPEAKER_03

It was the black milk.

SPEAKER_04

It was the black milk?

SPEAKER_03

Black milk. That's a you know what? That's a nude that we're gonna start that. We're gonna make black milk, and I think people would drink it. Goths. That sounds awful. We'll target towards goths.

SPEAKER_00

Did you imagine milk that was black? I all I can imagine is what chemicals. We could use squid ink. You know what? That can't be good to say.

SPEAKER_04

We could make we could make black milk and it would be perfectly harmless. I could do it right this minute.

SPEAKER_00

What's your crazy thought?

SPEAKER_04

You have you have any ideas what I'm thinking, TJ? You're gonna try to milk me. Wow. Wow. I I don't think that would come out black. Wait, what what movie is that from? Uh Meet the Falkers. Yeah. I have nipples, Greg. You can you milk me? But it would be milk with activated charcoal. It would turn it black, but it wouldn't do anything, wouldn't harm you in any way.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, there's black water. There's a company that sells black water.

SPEAKER_04

You know, uh we need a company that's drink water.

SPEAKER_03

It'll give something for Eric's dog to drink. Okay. You bring up one time. He has water.

SPEAKER_00

That's not how he got it.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, but like I'm convinced I know how he got that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you got the stereotypical crusty white dog, my guy.

SPEAKER_04

And he's living.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I'm fairly certain I know how he got Giardia.

SPEAKER_04

I was thinking it was because he had he had drank the sewer water when I was working on the plumbing.

SPEAKER_00

No, that's what he was that's what TJ was. That's what I was thinking. I don't think that's gonna happen. I think Cozy also does put everything in his damn mouth. Yeah, and so he drinks rainwater and shit all the time. So it's not entirely surprising that he got geared up.

SPEAKER_04

Rainwater by itself is not terrible. They say nowadays rainwater in Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, they they say nowadays uh major cities have too much crap in their air that when it rains, it brings down all these, I think they call them forever particles or something like that. They they're just things that are in the atmosphere now that the rain catches on the way down and makes it not entirely safe to drink.

SPEAKER_04

Back in the 80s, they used to call that acid rain.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Um I think I think you know you should take uh Cozy to one of his favorite places, the LA River. Let him drink, let him take a sip.

SPEAKER_00

It literally has signs that says don't go swimming, you'll get a skin infection.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god. I've seen dudes float down the LA River on a big pink and float like floating flamingo.

SPEAKER_00

I would never. It's a sewer, basically.

SPEAKER_03

I would like, dude, we're gonna make it to Long Beach.

SPEAKER_04

You guys know what an estuary is, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

The the estuary is where the river meets the ocean.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

There is a very, very, very large estuary in Long Beach where the LA River meets the Long Beach Harbor. And it's inside of the harbor, meaning that it's all blocked off by jetties and and uh man-made docks, if you will. And you could take these like sunset cruises, which are really nice. There's a lot of sea life out there. You see seals, you see uh whales, you see all kinds of cool animals out there. But when you go far west, you get close to the estuary, and you can see where the LA River water meets the ocean water, and it's just this like brown mass of water.

SPEAKER_03

I'll show you what. This is why where I'm from, we have a thing called the Tacoma Aroma. Um there was a some sort of factory that was dumping into the river. And I show you what it looks like right now. Pull this bitch out. We're so off topic, but that's just how we roll, baby.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean I think we've really talked about all there really is to talk about the movie. I was just planning to end the episode, to be honest, but we're we've just been talking about everything else. Okay, so estuaries and whatnot.

SPEAKER_03

Yep. Okay, that's what water looks like, right? Yep. So we come up here, there's Tacoma. Right? Uh-huh. Do you see that? Hold on. Yep. I'm like, Ew. Yep. It's like backwards on the camera. I'm trying to like line it up for you.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we see it though. That's so gross. It like so like you see the river, it comes up from like here, and then it just dumps into this beautiful sound that we're so proud of up here.

SPEAKER_04

And it's to me, it looks it looks gray. I would call it gray water.

SPEAKER_03

That's brown, green. That's awful. That's from the Puallop River.

SPEAKER_04

That's awful.

SPEAKER_03

Um, and what's crazy is that's a we got a bunch of different colored rivers over here. We got the White River. Hold on, where the fuck is that? It's like over here somewhere. No? I think this is the White River. Lovely color. Anyways. Wow. I seen that on maps one day, and I was just like, uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

So I've got a I've got a weird uh little pop quiz for you guys. You guys happen to remember how long ago we recorded uh Maze Runner?

SPEAKER_03

I wasn't here for that one.

SPEAKER_04

So it was that long ago, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And yet we had just recently got a comment from Maze Runner fan that said, I love this. Thanks. I'm a big Maze Runner fan. I was on Spotify. So speaking of which, those of you who are listening to us on Spotify, you can leave your comments and we do see them. And so when we uh start bringing up these controversial topics, please feel free to jump in and tell us your opinion. And then I don't remember what episode this is from, guys, but here's a question from uh Blackfire. Why why are they so savage about the name Mallory? I have a friend named Mallory, she's actually a very nice girl. I don't remember what we were talking about.

SPEAKER_00

When did we clown we clearly didn't mean it? I don't remember clowning Mallory. Uh the only thing. But now that you mention it, what a stupid name. No, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_03

The only thing I think can think that that's from is the uh uh what's it the one where we were like news reporters. Oh, maybe. Where we were shouting out a bunch of names.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_03

That could have been. That could have been. That's what I think it might be, but all right.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I feel like we have discussed all there was to discuss about this movie. Um, I think it was really good. I definitely think it's worth a watch. I think the the trippiness of it is very intentional with the movie, and the open interpretation at the end is kind of fun if you're into that kind of thing. Uh, but I also think just as a horror slash psychological thriller, it was very interesting and and fun. Um yeah, I think it's kind of mild on the horror side. Uh spooky in all the good ways. Um any final thoughts from you guys?

SPEAKER_04

Um I thought it was a pretty interesting movie. Gave different perspective. I thought uh I kind of thought it was tied to a different movie, but I was completely wrong. It doesn't seem to be tied to anything. And uh fun movie though. Interesting. I like that you you called it like dropping tabs. I said it was a fever dream. But you know, we're getting to the same core concept.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I think it was a good movie. I think that uh Yeah, I liked it. It was very trippy. Um I'm waiting for the sequel, the uh Twink in the Sink.

SPEAKER_00

Um just gonna start coming up with a bunch of those.

SPEAKER_03

The black in the back.

SPEAKER_00

Um for those comments alone, and not because this was already predetermined, our winner will be drum roll Alex.

SPEAKER_04

Hey! I already gave my winner speech. There's really nothing interesting to say other than please leave your comments on any of our social media so we can read them out. Like this one. Big Mac. Hey guys, just came across your podcast. I love all things zombies, and so far your podcast is to die for. I love the pun.

SPEAKER_03

That's why we should get a lot of things.

SPEAKER_04

You probably already know you probably already know about a lot of Easter eggs, behind the scenes info, etc. I want to bring up about the dead franchise. This is Eric's favorite for those of you who follow along with the podcast. He loves the dead series, you know, Dawn of the Dead. Uh well, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead. But you said you you just make fun of the titling.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Uh well, I just I confuse them all. It's another of the dead movie.

SPEAKER_04

So here's a little uh fun fact that uh Big Mac brings out. Tucker actually plays a zombie in Land of the Dead. That's the one with Big Daddy. He's the butcher zombie with the cleaver. Now, this one I actually did know, and uh also this one. Tom Savini was in the original George Romero. Uh he said Day of the Dead, but he meant means Dawn of the Dead, and he played one of the bikers that attacks them all. And he's also Sex Machine in uh From Dust Till Dawn. Hmm. You guys are too young for those movies, aren't you? I think so. Anyway, thank you for the comments, guys. You can leave your comments in Spotify. It lets you uh chat with us in their comments. Please uh let us know what you think, what's your favorite episode, and you can also hit us up on any of our social medias TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. Just search Will You Survive the Podcast, and you will find us there. Please interact with us, share this with your family and friends so that when the zombie apocalypse begins, you will survive. Also, you can email us, send your emails to the boys at Will You SurviveThePodcast.com. That's T-H-E-B-O-Y-S at Will You SurviveThePodcast.com. And we will see you there.

SPEAKER_00

Did you wrap it up? Are we done? Oh, I have to say something. There's still something, yeah. Um, Alex won, great movie. Go watch it. He said everything, uh, ditto. And uh stay alive.