You'll Never Find Me (2024) - SHUDDER Movie Review

This is a non-spoiler review for the Shudder original movie "You'll Never Find Me, starring Brendan Rock and Jordan Cowan, directed by Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell. Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated trailer park. After a violent storm, a mysterious young woman appears at his door seeking shelter from the elements.

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[andrewrunners]

The girl at the beginning of the movie was his first victim. The serial killer told her of the little voice in his head that differentiates between right and wrong. In the end, the little voice caused this serial killer’s life to collapse on him. That “little voice”, was his conscience and when it bloomed he took his own life. I don’t think the movie was too long or drawn out. It took awhile to give context and texture to the killer and the manifestation of his first victim, to provide the ending with the power it had. I believe the message here is that even in the worst of us, God is always fighting for control and willing to provide us with redemption. The title of the movie is key, “You’ll Never Find Me” refers to society. What ended this killers life was him finding himself.

[jmurr]

First off...new and first time viewer. You are awesome man!

Second, I 100% agree on pacing and repetition. It's always hard to swallow, but sometimes a "back-door twist" makes it worth it, but this one turns out to be pretty straight forward. This makes your point about the repetition valid. Why build up for the obvious.

HOT TAKE: Where I feel this film is underrated is within its symbolism. It's a horror movie more about class and symbolism than it is about story progression. Many horror films use social class as a playground for material. "Scream" within middle class suburbia, babysitters, etc. "Carrie" with social norms and popularity. "Get Out" with racial biases and stereotypes.

This film tapped into the "Trailer Park" theme of suggested trashy individuals living in their bubbles and interacting in bypass. Even the film itself is entirely shot in one trailer. The idea of "these young kids parade around here and no one watches them" is a piece largely associated with this demographic. They suspend you on the belief that these random young folks stumble into this man's realm too drugged up to know where they've been, and are part of this small "no one cares about you anyways" community.

There was NEVER a real storm. The protagonist looks out of the door at one point and sees EXACTLY what the antagonist sees when she had a clear chance to escape. The despair of the environment IS the real storm. She chooses the uncomfortable/creepy solace over the outside option (assuming most or all of his victims did the same).

Horror can often be a wonderful character study, and this is one that tapped into a new realm. Even in its flaws, it was a thoughtful allegory for trailer park culture and how it creates danger/monsters. Looking forward to a second viewing to dig deeper.

[FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete]

I did enjoy the tension with the woman and the guy, how she was getting more and more scared. The lighting really did set the mood well.

[mrxnobody]

so for the people who doesnt understand the ending let me explain, so the man is actually a serial killer and the women we see in the movie was his first victim he imagined to be there, the dead body on the bed is his latest victim that he killed and he is scared and paranoid of getting caught thats why he starts seeing his first victim, he said in the movie that he barely remembers the faces of his victims thats also why he said a few times in the movie that the girl looks familiar but dont know why, in the end he gets forced to drink the bottle with the poisen in it which kills him at the end of the movie, its the same poisen he used to kill his victims

[vinuVA]

I'm pretty sure what the title refers is about the killer's sanity, "you'll never find me" and when the sanity finds him over time it forces him to end his life for the acts he has done.

[FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete]

Hey Dude, I just finshed watching this movie. It started good, but they it kinda lost me at the end. There's a better movie in there, just feel like the execution here was a bit sloppy.

[dannyyboy]

Super atmospheric and tense. I was suspecting that maybe they were both dangerous. I feel like it would’ve been better had they gone down that route cause I was kinda let down by the reveal.

[Dortastic]

I feel this movie was about a serial killer who develops dementia. And his first victim comes rushing back to his memory and never lets go. His death is his regret.

[kena]

I don’t know how this has such a high rotten tomatoes score. This movie was intriguing for the first 30 minutes. But 45 minutes in, I realized nothing had really happened yet. And the last 10-15 minutes you mentioned, I just desperately wanted it to end. Feels like a waste of time

[oliviercote]

I felt the tension was back in forth between the characters like "Which one am I suppose to root for?"

[drhexagonapus]

I really would have liked if the woman turned out to be the real threat, and I thought that was where it was going for a large part of the movie. The end really lost me though, and it seemed very promising for a movie that sticks with you but unfortunately the payoff was very underwhelming.

[zrofuksgvn]

On point review. Yeah I love slow burn thrillers/horrors but this was a slog and the payoff was limp af. Good production and acting though.

[ResidentReveler]

My theory is that he never was a serial killer.
> He takes sleepwalking medication. (The vial).
> He is very lonely and sick of life.
> Door bell dashing punks are making him wake up every night. As he is on the sleepwalking meds, he gets hallucinations when he gets up.
> One day he just decides to kill himself by taking the whole dosage.
> He gets those annoying kids at the door again. He finally finds it funny, before he dies.

The serial killer plot was just one of his many hallucinations.

[agustinsilva]

I guess im the only one who enjoyed the hell out of this movie. It was slow, but i loved the interaction they both had. It was great.

[SM-ceuy]

I was getting paranormal vibes from the trailer and they should have stayed with that, they set the scene perfectly and I was angry when they switched to a serial killer haunted by his victims scenario.

I was expecting one of the following versions which I think would have been the better choices:

1. She finds the earring she dropped, hence it turns out she was dead all along and she finds her body in the bed instead of the gas station victim.

2. There is a paranormal entity which has been following her which is why she lied about where she came from that night.

3. It turns out she is a vampire and she comes back to life and attacks him.

[sevi]

finally an explained that's not AI

[redactedxx]

100 percent agree. I felt she was too fleshed out to be just in his head. At first the mystery of why she couldn't give a straight answer to where she came from and why she was there and how that changed was more intriguing than the reveal which was obvious from the bathroom scene. But it dragged it out far too long. It could have been a hell. Or she was lying and knew what he was up to but nothing was a surprise from the earring discovery. Great performances from both actors, but the set up was better than the resolution.

[simeoncooper]

I think the ending was on point for not using any tropes that we have grown accustomed to. It put us in his shoes and left it there. I don't think he died. Paranoia kicked in from the knocks on his door. Which turned out to be kids playing ding dong ditch. So him laughing at the final scene and the title card completed the movie. Big time Ed Kemper vibes. Guilt and shame of his own actions. Different than anything I've seen 👍🏾👍🏾

[sixmercer]

Thank you for this film! I have been SO SICK of these dumb ghost/paranormal/zombie movies calling themselves horror and people thinking thats so scary. Its juvenile. Just my opinion, I'm not 14 anymore. Even back then I was picky about what I found scary.

This is truly what psychological horror is and it was done so so well!
If you hated it read on, so maybe you'll catch a few things that you didn't rendering it boring or dumb, you can also assume, maybe you don't like the genre. But understand the movie before calling it dumb because it was anything but.

**SPOILER ALERT** (sorry)

This is a movie I can say really got to me and I experience sleep in a very similar way.

I have narcolepsy and sleep paralysis happens to me on a nightly and every morning basis and it cycles over and over and over and feels like it goes on for hours.
With it you can have terrifying hallucinations that seem 100% real and shaking it off afterwards can take hours, eveen all day. (I am 50 now, as of a week ago and have been having major sleep disorders since I was in a crib, but it all got much much worse when I was 6 and again when I was 9 and amped up more to a tune of complete lack of rest and severe insomnia when I was 14.

People who have narcolepsy are often given a medication called Xyrem. It's very powerful, it needs to be very carefully measured and you can ONLY get it in the US from one pharmacy that your sleep specialist must take a special course for to even be allowed to prescribe it. Only those who have narcolepsy can be prescribed it.
It is, however, also the well known "date-r*p*" drug and is a party drug as well in lower doses. Its very easy to OD on as discussed in the movie.
Xyrem is GHB. GHB is Xyrem.

So for all of you who thought this movie was stupid or "boring" it could be because you have no reason to have that depth of sleep disorder knowledge at all.
A lot of people have had sleep paralysis, you probably don't have any type of sleep disorder and people who have sleep disorders don't automatically have sleep paralysis.
Also to ease your panicked mind, you're 100% safe, not having a seizure, nothing bad is happening physically, it'sjust extremely scary and try to remember what you're seeing is not real and you'll wake up fine shortly, it may feel like forever. It can just happen if you're over tired, sick, or for absolutely no reason at all.

If sleep paralysis is something you have had randomly throughout your life,
please think about the movie in the sense of being in that nightmare then in the paralysis and horrifying hallucinations and maybe you'll understand the meaning of the song, the paranoia, the hallucinations, the fear and the It was an extremely well thought out movie and whoever wrote the script has a very clear and thorough understanding of narcolepsy, the nightmares and hallucinations and the knowledge of why and how Xyrem is given/taken and for what, and how intricate the dosing is, how easy it is to forget you took it and take too much, or OD in general.

I am really sorry for the people who truly didnt like this movie. Even if I didnt have this knowledge or the commonality to understand every little detail and what it meant, I still really loved the movie.
I was coming straight to the comments as soon as it was over to go off about how amazing it was. So I hope this helps people think differently about the plot and that literally every detail had significant meaning.

[sixmercer]

Dud you guys, this was about sleep. It was extremely well studied and the writer's understanding of sleep disorders, the MEDICATION used for a certain one they also use as a date r*** drug and a party drug and how intricate the dosing has to be so you dont OD. VERY well executed.

Its nothing about a serial killer or hiim being mentally ill or anything like that. This was a really really great movie about a condition I fight every single night, morning and even throughout the day.