How to Beat the CURSED HAND in TALK TO ME

[@NerdExplains]

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[@D34THT4MB0]

😐 you mentioned Event Horizon and now I desperately want you to do Event Horizon!

[@ninclow5421]

Can you do a "How To Beat the DEMON BOY in WHISPER from 2007?

[@justinholtman]

Ridge wallets are nice af, damn almost want to get another just for a chance. Those new raptors look sick

[@wesleywardrip6366]

They didn't beat it though

[@darrelsam419]

I watched a few videos on the movie, but I think you're the first person who mentions how Mia had horrible friends and no support system, which is partially why she makes such irrational choices. She isn't smart, but having a support system or getting therapy after her mother's passing would have helped her. It's really nice that you mentioned it. People who don't have a good support system tend to turn to harmful substances, but can eventually recover with proper help.

[@praevidens]

her desperation for real connection drives her to make such horrible decisions that she ends up being one of the ghosts people commune with... i love this movie

[@darrelsam419]

@@praevidens "Be careful what you wish for" in a way. She got to communicate with people in the worse way possible.

[@Hi-Hi1990]

Except she did have a support system. Sue and Riley. She had no right to let Riley participate when jade, his sister, said no. She was already playing with his health even before she heard her mother's voice. She was a dumb teenager, too scared of saying no out of fear of being ostracized. Her actions are understandable, not excusable. Truly, the only person in the whole movie who deserves any hate is her father.

[@antoniohagopian213]

Blablabla therapy blablabla. She's dumb, doesn't matter what she has.

[@maskedman5657]

This movie is filled with dumb characters

[@bre-ezy9693]

I'm watched 2 different people make a how to beat for this. The 1st basically belittled Mia while this one is a lot more empathetic and blames the people around her more than just her. Really showed me two differing mindsets.

[@nightowlowo149]

Its weird cuz Mia's situation is SO BAD for what she has done. Like- that shit escalated EXPONENTIALLY. It's that bad that I have to pity her for screwing things up. But at the same time I cant forgive her, she shouldve known that its dangerous to continue past the time limit... but she convinced him anyways... prolonged the thing... and basically was selfish. Feelings are complicated, its hard to pick a side qwq

[@Seraphim13518]

I was so pissed at her too.,

[@leovice6505]

@@nightowlowo149 She is horrible no matter how you slice it, even with all the empathy

[@aldon560]

I think she was blinded by grief & despair… not dumb per say

[@maskedman5657]

​@@aldon560No. I'm tired of people defending Mia. She is a DUMB character

[@rafiyumahmood2446]

I don’t get really fazed by deaths or gore in movies, but man, what happened to that kid had me standing up and pacing, every possessed scene with him was egregious.

[@Leoprincess3038]

Yeah that one caught me off gaurd too 😮

[@realspoony]

the eye gouge 🙁

[@Leoprincess3038]

Lol the video said he "looked more sad than scared...." bullllllllsh!t lmao he was absolutely petrified at what he saw 😶😂🤣 he literally mouths "woah....wtf"

[@lewiel3289]

All he did was bang his head… you clearly get fazed by deaths and gore in movies.

[@realspoony]

@@lewiel3289 shiver me timbers 🥶

[@iitstre_4550]

What’s funny is I watched this with my family and not one person caught the “it’s okay, I don’t feel alone anymore” line. I knew IMMEDIATELY what was happening, but they all just went “awwwe”, like it was a sweet moment haha

[@pratham3537]

Who said this line at what point of the movie ?

[@iitstre_4550]

@@pratham3537 The main girl… when shes about to goto sleep next to her friends little brother. It’s… a pretty damn important scene

[@TaserT0t]

How to beat it: Don't play around with the hand. Alternatively, don't get too close to the 90-second limit. If the limit is 90 seconds, stop the ritual at around 60 seconds to ensure you have enough time to break contact in case the spirits try to keep you attached to the hand.

[@XclusiveChiq]

Right

[@bayazwow]

They literally asked the kid how to beat it and he said to just not use the hand and the spirits will lose their grasp on you after some time. Then they immediately went and used the hand again. Mia is seriously the dumbest character I’ve seen in a long time

[@41052]

Mia thought it would have helped and thought that the kid didn’t have enough time for the spirt to go away. Mia was going through it.

[@danwilliams2551]

Jade was the one who responded "It's not weakening. They're killing him." and the guy didn't respond to that. She was in a panic and felt responsible and that she couldn't just stand idly, because she felt Riley was going to die, and that he might be incorrect. She's also a goddamned kid who's traumatized. Everyone watching with no stakes on their mind always thinks from their current mindset and can't picture people making bad decisions. There's a reason so many horror movies involve incorrect decision making

[@stephonmanny7555]

That what addiction does to people. They know it’s killing them but they can’t stop.

[@marcusmiro7481]

It would be a pretty lame movie if they took his advice and the movie had a happy ending lol.

[@Zay-cool]

Hmmmnh hhhmmmhh Jamie Lee Curtis's daughter from Halloween kills has entered the chat... 😂

[@rachelmoore3418]

I appreciate how sympathetic you are to Mia's situation. I feel like a lot of how to beaters presume a superhuman degree of logic and will. Most people die to illogical and fairly benign stuff every day - no one can be a high-functioning robot all the time. It's nice to hear from someone who is both willing to engage with the allegory and empathizes with the characters. S-tier video dude 💖

[@Brian80s]

I understand the situation Mia was in but there's a point. Initially she wants to believe she can fix things, I get that. Then you have her thinking she's connecting with someone important to her. I'm still with her to that extent. It was when she was given the solution to it all to just stop that my sympathy runs dry. She knows if she just leaves it well enough alone that's it, it's done. After her previous failures with the ghost hand, she should have known there was no quick fix with it. In fact, it continually kept making things worse.

[@41052]

⁠@@Brian80sI mean she did believe it could have helped. You’re acting like she did it just to do it.

[@blame7121]

​@@41052it's called being stupid.

[@cardescomedioses3674]

Indeed, it is specially important in cases like this to feel heard in order to hear someone else's suggestions or solutions

[@danwilliams2551]

It's a great analogy to drug addiction. You keep coming up with reasons to use.

[@BeautyNTheFreak]

Mia felt lonely and desperate. I'm glad you talked about how jade and her family turned their back on her.... but also still can understand because that's her little brother and Mia was selfish.

[@vergilsdisciple3057]

But he literally emotionally manipulated her before and Nerd Explains explicitly states and shows the scene. Easy for you to ignore and absolve that dick and his sister of any involvement tho

[@superjadedacool6552]

Who wouldn’t turn there back she literally was the one who let him do that and when it was 60 sec she left him in it she’s messed up but I guess she did just lose her mom

[@BeautyNTheFreak]

@@superjadedacool6552 right. There is no excuse for her to encourage Riley to do it. As the movie makes the spirits also be a reference to drugs, it's wrong. However, the saying goes, misery loves company.

[@wonderlandsexxx]

@@superjadedacool6552 it had been 2 years since her mom died so it's crazy that she's still struggling and no one is actually helping her heal properly. I was very frustrated watching this movie because her selfish action was the cause of so much shit. She acted so desperately when the "mom" ghost appeared but she never even tried to reach out to her dad or friend and ask for some help.

[@superjadedacool6552]

@@wonderlandsexxx yeah

[@sacta]

Weird how.... compassionate Nerd was with this one. Every other horror MC gets the "The HELL you doing, dumbass?!" treatment, there was a weird level of "look, I get it, but you need to get a handle on this" to this video for poor Mia, lol

[@Wulfen73]

A lot of them do profoundly irrational things

[@maskedman5657]

Yeah that's why I don't like this video that much. Nobody wants to mention the elephant in the room with this movie. Which is that it has dumb characters

[@MartinFinnerup]

It's possible he has personal experience with addiction, either himself or someone he cares about. Like he said, it's an analogue for drug abuse, so it's less that they're dumb, and more that their decision making is warped by its influence.

[@j_mushroom2358]

The ending reminds me of that one movie where a family thinks their house is haunted, only to find out they’re the ghosts haunting their house. I think it’s always interesting to see the other side of the story

[@WeaponXSigma]

I remember the movie you're talking about but I forgot the title of it.

[@cameron9644]

The others

[@OccupiedMuffins]

The others, it’s such a good movie. It’s like one of my top horror movies simply because of the premise

[@honeyroyale6742]

The amount of people who think they can logic themselves out of pain, grief, and mourning is astounding. The need to numb often overrides self-preservation. How to survive? A decent social support system and a good therapist

[@ecoblitz3655]

Or just don’t be a brain dead idiot…

[@moo1675]

Some people simply become useless in these situations, so this type of stuff is mainly just IF you turn out to not be useless. Also the mc in this was just really stupid regardless

[@Dk-he6ez]

I understand the need to cope and such, but after I seen a man get booty bumped by a ghost I'm burning that hand, the trauma and shi can wait till later. 😅

[@conradmcbee611]

Nah. Everyone experiences all of that. But 99% of people would know it’s fucked after seeing it was real.

[@tameriz1280]

I mean, there are plenty traumatized people who don't hurt *other* people due to their grief. It's understandable *why* Mia was behaving that, but it doesn't mean she should be absolved of everything

[@dreamsicle3113]

You were so compassionate and this video helped me see that Mia really had no true connections even with her so called bestie. She didn't even show up to her mom's memorial or answer any of her calls, and then she didn't even apologize or explain what she had been doing (it didn't even look like she was doing anything). Really the only person who saw and cared about Mia was Riley. She was really selfish for using him as a medium for what she thought was her mom, but that tragedy really showed where she stood with people. Even Sue immediately dropped her from the "family."

[@samuraisharkie]

I mean, she was the reason her kid almost died horrifically. And she walked back on it after she had some space. I think we can give the mom the same chance to be irrational that Mia has.

[@MrsJingleJangle78]

I think if Mia had gone to therapy in the first place this whole situation could have been beaten. When her mother had unalived herself, especially if her caring father had brought the note, she could have processed that trama with a trained professional and there would have been no open “doors” for the ghost/demon to latch on to. I’m not exactly sure why no one in her life, no counselors at school, no one thought this girl would need some therapy? A lot of times this is why addiction take hold in the first place. She should have gotten help from the get go.

[@alidge5716]

Actually, jade pushed mia to the traffic, you have to watch frame by frame to see it, mia could not kill riley for the same reason she didn't kill the kangaroo, so she let him go and at that moment jade comes by and pushes her

[@notjocelyn]

oh shit, I'm going to rewatch for this. although i don't know if this movie can literally hold more tragic betrayal by her "friends".

[@danwilliams2551]

I made a Tiktok showing the slo-mo of the shot of Jade pushing her and people were like "Duh, everyone knew" and I'm like no, it's easy to miss and so many vids covering the movie (this one, Dead Meat, etc.) think it was suicide.

[@jonholla6463]

"Akshually" 🤓 you're making that up to fill your head cannon

[@tacomn]

@@danwilliams2551 Link? I thought she jumped. Because it is very clear Mia realizes her "Mom" is the evil spirits when she says, "We will have him forever". Mia looks up surprised by this revelation and the camera points to Mia's hands letting go of the wheel chair's handles. Thus given we now know Mia does not plan to push the kid anymore into traffic, narratively it makes sense she jumps when the next scene shows her crashing into the windshield.

[@WynneL]

@@jonholla6463Headcanon. No one's head is a cannon. Cannon blows things up, canon is internal story logic.

[@makeda6530]

See, this is why you just don’t mess with people who mess with weird witchcraft artifacts for “fun”.

[@brookeleake9640]

This video made me realize there were two ghost Mia saw. First the old man and then the drowning woman. I wonder if she didn’t let go the first time and let the old man possess her, maybe he wasn’t a malicious spirit and it would’ve been a normal possession like everyone else at those parties. Just made me think

[@Robbiefleggers]

That's what I wondered too! Like if she let in the kid that helped her things could've been very different

[@kopawhite1399]

Honestly, I blame all of the teens at the party. For messing with a actual haunted item and decides to treat it like a game

[@manuelcorrea2365]

Just a small correction, the party at the end is not _"a party of French people,"_ they are actually Greek. What the guy sitting next to the one that is grabbing the hand with Mia says is *_"ελα ρε πες το"_*_ (ela re, pes to)_ which translates into _"come on, say it!"_

[@stephaniehoyland4901]

Heres how to survive DON'T GET INVOLVED WITH THE SURPERNAUTAL

[@kaynhuros2050]

AND GET FATHER GARCIA

[@nunyabisness1979]

that's the reason I bail whenever a ouji board gets pulled out

[@kaynhuros2050]

@nunyabisness1979 if i see one, im gonna pull out the crucifix and holy water and go in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti cuz im not spending time with those asshats Btw i dont believe in god, but desperate times call for desperate measures

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Most of these movies would never exist in real life. The moment someone saw a dead person, they'd be out of that house

[@Tomy_Yon]

The boy/dog scene was sooooo disturbing... This movie had aime solid effects. ❤

[@supersaiyanbino]

Are you talking about the scene with the boy/dog with the old man sitting on the side of the bed? That's from the movie "The shining"

[@RandomMackem0069_Official]

@@supersaiyanbinohe’s talking about the guy French kissing a dog

[@supersaiyanbino]

@@RandomMackem0069_Official ahhh damn, I forgot about that scene, lol....I think I mentally blocked it, lol. OK my bad!!

[@RandomMackem0069_Official]

@@supersaiyanbino that scene made me forget this was a horror

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Very unnecessary scene tbh. Nothing scary about it and just gross.

[@dakid40777]

for the introverts and people who dislike other humans this is a easily beating situation because they would never be at a party

[@Frostknight231]

You don't even need to be a introvert just don't touch a crusty hand or a board

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Even an extrovert with an IQ above 20 would be able to see the ghost once when touching the hand, and instantly GTFO of that house and never come back.

[@maskedman5657]

​@@thelegacyofgaming2928It should be a running joke that everyone is stupid in this movie

[@J4nT3mpl4r]

How to beat the cursed hand: "so you need these things called friends."

[@antonioarreola3097]

"The truth is, game was rigged from the start."

[@RandomMackem0069_Official]

And work on your depression before hand

[@kaynhuros2050]

And a priest called garcia

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Have an IQ above 20 (As a depressed person, I'm not stupid enough to want to see the dead, even if it were a family member)

[@tecnobrenda]

such a good advice for overall life. "be careful what doors you open"

[@geekboy2140]

I know we can be pissed at Mia, but to be honest her “friends” didn’t do anything remotely helpful other than bash her around mentally when she’s already a wreck BEFORE the situation kicked off. Had they done what ANY good friend would do when the hand was first introduced(Take her away from the party, checked in her daily afterwards) this movie would have been over. Even still, they should have at least tried to stop her from using the hand all together.

[@Leoprincess3038]

They did; Daniel told her in the car, at her house. The guys older brother told her leave it alone and they all suggested she get rid of it 🤨😂 she didn't listen but to say they never tried to help her is a lie

[@Kassadin8088]

​​@@Leoprincess3038words aren't good enough "help" they should've taken the hand from her, put it in a chest, and let that chest sink to the bottom of the ocean. They failed her and themselves. They could've ended this quick.

[@remigal899]

Agreed. Freak all of them. All of them were selfish pricks.

[@Art_museum28]

And Jade shares some fault for Riley getting injured. He was her responsibility and she left him to do the dumb thing she knew he was gonna do. It’s like she expected him to magically change his mind about using the hand the second she left. She could’ve at least stuck around. If she did, she could’ve override Mia and gotten Riley off the hand in time

[@Leoprincess3038]

@@Kassadin8088 ok and she was also an adult who ultimately is responsible for her own behavior....if talking isn't enough then 🤷🏽‍♀️....you're friends aren't obligated to let you drag them down with you when youre on some bs. If I tell you don't touch that stove, its hot and will burn you; and you disregard and touch it anyways now its MY FAULT you got burned?! 😂😂

[@googuygaming3635]

Proverbs 25:28 "A man without self control is like a city broken into and left without walls" I think that applies pretty well to the idea of not touching the hand in the first place

[@Quaked4639]

Exodus 21 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges.[a] He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. 7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[b] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.

[@sophiaisabelle027]

The cursed hand is unbeatable. You'd have to go through hell and back to get that desired victory.

[@smoothjazz_gg]

Beating something supernatural is hard but I think if Mia followed the rules of the hand like closing the gate or not going on for more than 90 seconds probably could of saved her

[@ArionNoble]

Riley is possibly the best actor in that flick

[@funkyweapon1981]

"The only winning move is not to play." - Joshua, WarGames

[@SlepnKatt]

just dont shake it

[@Shemagh4]

*doom music starts*

[@andrebechara8649]

Watched this over the weekend. Solid movie

[@manuelcorrea2365]

22:48 Nope, Mia did not throw herself off, it was Jade who pushed her. You need to re-watch the scene of the people driving the car again but in slow motion. Actually, if you pay attention to that scene, you can see that at some moment they pass next to where Mia is standing with Riley in the wheelchair and you will see that Jade (the green figure) comes running from behind, reaches Mia and grabs her by the arms, then the car passes them and the next thing we see is Mia's body falling onto the windshield.

[@elliotcarter2242]

The one major problem I had with this movie was I just found all the characters except Riley completely unlikeable. Mia I could relate too until the midway point of the movie where she went off the rails and lost all her brain cells but the sister was just a bitch from the beginning Mia’s dad was underdeveloped, and Riley’s mom became a background character that contradicted all of her previously established character traits

[@remigal899]

Same. It’s amazing and maybe intentional how Riley, the most innocent of them all, got the worst treatment.

[@maskedman5657]

They Are all unlikable because they make stupid choices the entire movie

[@Mustachioed_Mollusk]

If she went in for a handshake then pulled back and said, “TOO SLOW!” She would have activated hard mode. That’ll have to wait for the sequel

[@TheHaniverse]

This is the second video I've watched on this movie and I really want to commend you on pointing out the underlying message of addiction and how you handle it throughout the video! That aside, another great entertaining video as always, keep up the great work!

[@zelic9107]

Love when an Australian movie gets recognition man

[@JusReese]

I just watched a summary of this last night and I couldve sworn it was you so I was really confused when I saw this had JUST got uploaded, I'll sit through this miserable film again just to hear you speak about it

[@thesaltking7355]

This movie was amazing. And done by 1st time movie makers which are youtubers..i enjoyed it. Anyone brings out thia hand at any event im at...id be in my car before it hits the table.

[@PolarioBear]

This movie proves that all types of relationships can be one-sided.

[@NadaNada-uv2kp]

This is one of the newer horror movies i actually thoroughly enjoyed

[@dannyappel2090]

The moment you invite the spirits in you are as good as dead. When you invite them in you invite them into your soul.

[@Wulfen73]

Considering every religion in the world warns against communicating with the dead, one could presume it really is a horrendously bad idea to try

[@GabrielAKAFinn]

Not even remotely true. Ancestor worship is THE most common aspect among all religions.

[@zer0games877]

@@GabrielAKAFinnancestor worship and straight up dialing up random dead people are two entirely different things. Mia thought her mom was speaking to her for most of the movie yet it wasn’t. Ritualistic honoring of one’s ancestors is literally not the same as talking to random dead folks

[@xavierstidwell7882]

I don’t go to the movies, I go to Nerd Explains

[@livver2289]

Literally the easiest way to solve it, don't be dumb. Mia let Riley go past the 60 second limit to talk to her "mom". Like first of all, Riley is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, she should know that since she was the one who let him do it. I wouldn't blame her family for turning on her, I would too if my brother got messed that badly like that.

[@cptjockitch]

Im too realistic and pragmatic for these types of movies. I never got why people stayed living in a house with ghosts and i dont get why someone would play a game with a hand when you clearly saw something crazy. It would be like a zoo keeper jumping into a tiger cage for a second shorty after the Tiger bit you. makes no sense.

[@RandomMackem0069_Official]

The ghosts would follow u wherever unless they a trapped in the house

[@toddriehle7675]

Yeah tbf it’s typically not the house itself that’s haunted, it’s the residents

[@danwilliams2551]

It's a drug analogy. "I don't know why people would use a drug that's been known to kill so many people". Well, it still happens. Why do people text and drive and speed when it's been known to kill people? Why do we drink alcohol when it's poison for the body? People do things they shouldn't. If they didn't, we wouldn't make these kind of movies.

[@tacomn]

Sounds like you did not actually watch the movie

[@cptjockitch]

@@tacomn someone brings a dead hand to your house you going to play this game with it?

[@QQyoko]

Thank you again for the SFW captions on a movie with repeated depictions of the undead and (demon-possessed) self-harm.

[@anithamwakabanje1775]

Great work, thanks!

[@iitstre_4550]

This whole think just being a massive allegory to addiction and being unable to get help makes this movie a little extra good. It's not the greatest thing I've seen.. but it is very good and looking at it from the standpoint of addiction does make this a well told story. I appreciate it. I don't think it deserves all the high praise it's gotten, but it's definitely not a bad movie by any means.

[@mask938]

I just watched this movie for the first time last night and I was very confused about the events that happened towards the end and something felt off to me about Mia’s relationship with Jade and Sue, but I wasn’t sure if that was just me being paranoid. Your video has helped me understand this movie a lot better. Thank you so very much.

[@zawwin1846]

The answer is simple. Be so messed up even the ghost are like wtf man.

[@Layer-v5h]

They don’t care, they have no home but the limbo where it’s eternal nothingness, whether you’re a murderer or a rapist, they just want a body to be in

[@notdeus3834]

GHOST PUNCHER

[@offsetproductions5830]

Omggg!! I literally commented u should do this last video!! 🙌🏼 haven’t watched yet and I know ima love it

[@philipwilliams6307]

I remember yelling at the dude for not helping her rip the hand off, especially since they had a moment prior where it was difficult to, this of course led to the guy smashing his head in the first place, this whole thing could've been prevented if they stuck to their own rules.

[@RandomMackem0069_Official]

Imagine a ghost trying to make u do what they want but instead u show them the worst parts of u to make them realise this is your house they are just living in it

[@skubaRu7]

Just watched this a few days ago. Perfect timing.

[@bread5050]

Talk to me has got the best music I have heard in a while

[@tailablu3585]

Honestly, I feel like this movie is a litmus test for the type of people you want to be around when dealing with heavily stigmatized issues. You either get someone who’s more than willing to sympathize with you and help you... or get someone who wants to be as far away from you as possible. I’m not saying which is better - my dad got strung out and began threatening my mother. I thought I was the type of person who’d stick around to help, but... You have to put your safety first. I haven’t spoken to him in person in two years, but I do sometimes text him. It’s a matter of seeking help from the right people, I think.

[@Kyumaro]

I had problem to sympathise with the MC, from the moment her dad show her the letter i completly cut all empathy i had, when everyone told her the ghost could imitate she refuse the truth and hell they let the ghost in their body so they have access to everything that just logic, she never listened anything, freaking pissed me off. That the case for all the character, when Mia got possessed the first time the ghost was clearly hostile toward the kid for some reason and constantly told him to run, yeah such a great idea to make the kid who was threaten by the ghost do this shit, such genius move.

[@MeANDmyPETgoat]

gen Z ahh MC

[@marioluigi911]

You clearly have never lost someone to suicide so don’t talk

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

@@marioluigi911 I actually have lost someone to suicide, and I am nowhere near as stupid as Mia. She's easily fooled and put someones life at risk to talk to her 'dead mother' (even if it WAS her mother, why would you destroy someone elses life over it???) Mia is a terrible person, through and through.

[@maskedman5657]

​@@thelegacyofgaming2928It astounds the level of bs reasoning people use to justify the crappy writing in this movie. EVERYONE WAS STUPID

[@dontbe3greedy608]

bro please add your into song back, why do all how to beat channels stop using their iconic into song. its litterally the best part. du-du du du du dudu

[@mahamajones2994]

Calling Australia the upside down is a bit of an understatement😂…mehn this guy is good!

[@samuraisharkie]

I’m pretty familiar with grief from loss, and while I definitely want to feel sympathetic for Mia, my sympathy stops when she actively puts an innocent kid in danger for her own reasons, and then exhibits mostly an attitude of “why does everyone hate me” when she endangered someone else’s family. For the same reasons she acted irrationally, so could Riley’s family when they discover that Mia pressured him into putting himself in danger. I’d feel pretty pissed and betrayed by that, especially if it resulted in something so horrific. Mia gets tunnel vision for her mom, instead of even remotely caring about the very alive people all around her except Riley, who she kind of wants to save for her own reasons and kind of wants to save because it’s the right thing to do. She also doesn’t even question the idea of killing Riley, and takes advantage of the forgiveness shown to her to traumatize the family even further. Mia needed help. But Mia wasn’t letting people in for there to BE help. I think her support systems could have been better (by god she needed therapy) but a lot of her mentality is this sort of passive thought that things need to come to her instead of trying for them herself. By the time Riley is put in harm’s way, her biggest support system is feeling hurt, scared, and betrayed, and acting quite irrational out of grief themselves. At most, Mia’s father needed to be WAY more involved. But he was dealing with grief too, and he most certainly cared about his family. I don’t think vilifying the other characters is the right method to being sympathetic to Mia. Mia was in an awful situation, but she certainly had her own agency in the matter.

[@jinx724]

No one has really been talking about how garbage Mias friends are. This video is the first I've heard actually call it out

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Because they're not the ones who got the little brother fked up, Mia did. Everyone else was smart enough to follow the rules and did not put their selfish desires over someones life.

[@dreibf3156]

I really imagined this vid just being 1 minute of actual video with him saying don't touch it, and then the rest of the video just a black screen

[@IAmHavok]

This is by far my favorite breakdown of this film. Mia was first and foremost a victim, she was already a ghost inside her own body craving any chance she could find to feel something other than the pain she was growing accustomed to and saw the hand as that outlet. It immediately became addictive once she saw it as the only outlet she'd have and that wouldn't have been the case had anyone actually paid her any attention.

[@Elijah_Elias]

9:27 That’s not being family of convenience, that’s protecting family from other family. If you had a family member who was a druggie and then had a little brother living with you guys and the little brother ODed would you not kick the druggie out of the house for the safety of the little brother?

[@alexd9134]

I recommend this movie 👍 I had a blast and even though it seems like a movie that shouldn't work, it somehow totally did

[@LexifromZargon]

i feel so bad for the dad

[@sketchycat6223]

Mia was just so isolated, to the point where she was trying to find connection with Jade and her family. Mia was at her own mother’s funeral and was sitting excluded from everyone else. And as well intentioned as Mia’s dad was to hide the truth of her mothers death, it just lessened her trust in him. She was a vulnerable kid who was going through a lot, it’s no wonder she was susceptible to the hand spirits.

[@xxiSHTAr9000x]

If I knew that my friends were contemplating ethereal communication via some weird hand. I would have taken that hand, got on a boat, and chucked that fucking hand into the sea!

[@RandomMackem0069_Official]

Better idea, take it to a church so a priest can get rid of it

[@xxiSHTAr9000x]

@@RandomMackem0069_Official while I don’t doubt the church’s expertise when dealing with haunted objects, the odds of finding and recovering that hand are 100x times more slim when it’s at the bottom of Davy Jones’ Locker.

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@RandomMackem0069_Official I don't think a priest would do much. It belonged to a psychic.

[@lynnusuk2092]

How to beat the hand: watch a peer pressure PSA, follow the instructions

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Even if you are too weak to resist peer pressure, your survival instincts will take over once you see the dead person. The movie becomes a complete joke after they see dead people and just laugh it off.

[@sAINTDeVille]

Isn't there a number you can call when you come up on roadkill? I'm with Mia I ain't about to slaughter a kangaroo outta it's misery on the side of a road at ole dark thirty, I got enough to talk to my therapist about!

[@MikeNapoli1989]

This was a crazy movie. The spirits were cowards.

[@teppens71]

Literally watched this list night lol perfect!

[@Echoing_Circus]

I won't lie I was wondering how you'd manage to beat it, I mean Mia was screwed the second she caught wind of the hands special ability. Grief + feel good + isolation = easy target for manipulation. I think the ghosts will target people suffering, I mean the guy in the beginning had lost his dad, and they had made him target the only column of support he had. Same goes for Mia... In a way that is, I think it's main goal was to purposely take care of the kid (I'm really bad with names ngl) so it'd leave Mia practically alone. The game was rigged from the very second she touched that hand, just like a lot of other addicts escaping their trauma with artificial dopamine.

[@FaceFamous]

Nerd Explains and How To Beat had different takes on thia movie. Nerd explains was way more understanding amd relaized Mia had shitry friends while How to Beat blamed Mia and kept saying she was just selfish

[@kaynhuros2050]

When you look at it that way, it's both at the same time. Mia is selfish for getting ghosts inside her ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) but she is doing it because she is desperate and sad with no friends to help her, thus she turns to the only thing that can help her. She is selfish for getting hooked on demons, but she is desperate and sad so its both

[@remigal899]

Lol because she is to blame and is selfish.

[@kaynhuros2050]

@remigal899 what about if a person is suffering through grief and is vulnerable to MANY things, take midsommar, for example, dani was manipulated by the hårga because of her grief and her relationship with Christian straining and dying, is she selfish for letting herself being manipulated, or was she vulnerable to it. Mia is basically the same. She experienced grief, and whilst she didn't get manipulated by a cult, she was vulnerable to demonic possessions and had friends who were like Christian, unreliable, and oblivious to how she feels. I said she was selfish in my argument because she could have reached out to sue or her dad or anyone, but then again, i guess they wouldn't really care Conclusion: You are going to need a better argument besides using "lol shes sElfIsh lol"

[@Layer-v5h]

Both could be right, it was her fault and she has a shitty life

[@tupera1]

I loved the ending of this movie!!!!

[@blackarrow7988]

Also Nerd, your forgot the fact that after we beat monster mash, we take the hand outside, dowse it in gas, and burn it.

[@Musicbrowser01]

You’d think that even after being informed that the spirits can imitate people, that Mia would become suspicious about her dead “mom”. She should’ve picked up that it wasn’t really her when it wouldn’t protect her from her “dad”. There wasn’t even hesitation on who to help. Assuming that the ghost could access her memories, Mia should’ve asked the ghost to confirm information that only her mom’s friends and that her dad would know. This way Mia wouldn’t have the details and the ghost would have to make up information on the spot. Then, after confirming with said people and realizing that the “ghost” didn’t provide the right answers, Mia would’ve know that she can’t trust the ghost of who appears to be her mom. Seeing as to that Mia is hallucinating and needs to spend time away from the hand, I’d suggest she signs up to be in a psych ward where, even if she begins to hallucinate, the staff can help snap her out of the trance. Plus, she would be forced to speak with a series of doctors regarding the hallucinations after they happen and after she’s calmed down. As well as about her dead mom, which would enforce Mia to cope in other manners, as well as the fact that she would be away from the hand.

[@thespacebat]

I don't give a shit about peer pressure soon as that hand comes out I'm leaving.

[@mintchocorainbow1121]

I missed it the first time too, but Jade actually pushes Mia into the road. Slow down the beginning of the shot in the car about to hit her and you’ll see 😢

[@alexrusso6503]

Hopefully someone can explain this because i didnt get it when i saw this. Mia went over her time meaning she was possessed. Just like the dead guy from the start of the movie. Riley went over too. But riley is the only one who went instantly crazy. Why? Was Mia's end only supposed to take her out or was the ghost trying to get a 2 for 1 and take Riley too bc it wasnt working through his own means as ppl were intervening? Or was it just to take riley and got mia by accident? Do they get possessed by a ghost thats holding all the dead captive and thats why she sees multiple of them and it pretends to be her mom or do they just get possessed by who they saw across the table if they go over time and all of them are evil and manipulate whoever they are possessing?

[@bremeboi6963]

when he showed Australia at 0:50 the flag is actually the flag of New Zealand

[@battlexman4741]

i look forward to your videos after work, love the content !

[@Snoopymel02]

I wouldnt have been able to beat this movie as a teenager. My brain only went so far, and then having to deal with Grief, yeah I'm done.

[@justnd0257]

This is why you should never get involved with anything dangerous or suspicious.

[@quickfootls498]

How to beat this episode: don't start none, won't be none...

[@Noodliest]

Thanks NE. This was a great video

[@N00000OOOOBY]

good on rackaracka, first good movie made by youtubers

[@lostinthemasses]

You should do the hand in Idle Hands

[@dramamole]

So Jade actually pushed Mia, you can see it if you look in the upper left corner of the screen HOWEVER your interpretation of why Mia jumped actually makes sense and hadn't occurred to me. Most people were saying she jumped because she realized at the last second that she was being lied to, but i never bought that. But her jumping because she wanted to be taken care of makes complete sense!

[@cookiecomments846]

I mean just don’t play the game? And then you’ll be fine

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Well some people are stupid enough to do drugs despite the obvious life altering effects it has. I'd assume the characters in the movie are around the same IQ level...

[@rangerowneg]

pretty cool ending tbh

[@kanyeet5162]

Mia dying would be the only way to save this movie

[@Sharkybugzz]

rule 1 to surviving: GO TO THAT DAMN PARTY

[@Chapy1189]

The seagull French fry line got me 😂

[@montessaurus]

This is one of the best horror experiences I've had in the theater in a long time. Definitely a top 20 horror movie for this guy. Also, for the record, that was bunch of Greeks at the end talking to Mia, not French

[@horizon92lee]

That hell scene , with the “feasting”, still has me fucked up

[@niccalee]

I can't believe that it didn't click that the hand represents drugs

[@wasdwasd609]

Jesus Christ what bad friends. That's one of the best things about escaping school. You can simply exist on your own. You can abandon all these "friends".

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Yea, the friends are the issue... Not the girl who selfishly kept a little boys hand on the demon hand and allowed him to get fully possessed and physically destroyed, despite knowing the risks. Surely it's the friends that are the problem here...

[@GabrielAKAFinn]

@@thelegacyofgaming2928 Did you forget the "friends" brought her along to guinea pig the hand in the first place? She's acting irrational because of the equivalent of giving her the first upper to see if it was laced.

[@OsanvaInstinct]

If you check the angle from the cars dashboard you can see that Mia did not jump, she was pushed.

[@MahoganySheffield]

It pmo that people blame the whole thing on mia, but doesn't look at it from her pov, like how she was trying to cope her mother's death the whole time. Or how none of those people were actually her true friends. As for Jade, why wasn't she downstairs willingly knowing that her brother and her friends are in YOUR house talking to spirits. I swear if she was attentive to her brother the whole time instead of making out with her bf, this whole thing wouldn't have happened. And instead of preventing Rileys torture with a pillow, ignoring mias response to talk to a random spirit and ending the "game" anyways, they all did nothing. I blame the whole thing on Jade though, how do you let this go down in your own home, without hearing any screams till the last moment.

[@Roni2013]

I was WAITING for this ❤❤❤❤

[@whateverwhatever4026]

As a certified addict and addiction specialist, you can't force anyone to do anything. They need to want to do it themselves. That's the key. All the incentives from family/friends are secondary.... And that meth stuff sound like just jokes. Im not as familiar with meth as i am things with more physical addiction, buuut I'm pretty sure she was just high and the separation in her brain told her to drink her own pee...Its literally close to schizophrenia and they do go hand in hand.

[@XonTheOne]

the best Horror i've seen in a WHILE