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I cant really blame the family for being mad at Mia since she used Riley like a human sacrifice to speak to her dead mom

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 💖

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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.

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!"_

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

Just watched this last night , great movie & honestly can say this structured plot has to be the best layout and presentation of a film in a longtime , not much movies actually making compelling characters with good plot & great execution and also pretty nice cinematography

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

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

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

The movie that gives whole new meaning to the phrase "Talk to the Hand"~

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

Watched this over the weekend. Solid movie

5:00 I'm so glad you interpreted it that way! Because another "how to beat" video said that she was peer pressured into it and did it only to be cool and fit in. I made a comment disagreeing with that statement. Basically saying that Mia and Jade were at Jade's house and Mia begs Jade to go to one of thesr parties. She wants to know if the hand is real or if it's all fake. It's the anniversary of her mom and she's obviously going through a lot and needs a friend. But jade's too busy on her phone and not even paying attention to her. Or seeing the signs that her friend is struggling and needs someone there to really talk to. Which all have to do with why she wants to go to this party and try this hand out. Yeah some of the people at the party don't like Mia, but Mia doesn't seem fazed. She's still smiling and laughing with the people that do like her. Therefore why I don't agree she did it to be "cool" or to get these kids to like her. But someone of course commented on my comment and said something along the lines of, "She did it to fit in. Not up for interpretation." A couple people liked the comment, but I don't care what they say lol I just don't agree with that assessment. & I'm glad you took it the way I did haha I feel validated having someone back me up.😅

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Great work, thanks!

i feel so bad for the dad

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

Love when an Australian movie gets recognition man

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

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

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

Just watched this a few days ago. Perfect timing.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

Literally watched this list night lol perfect!

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

I was WAITING for this ❤❤❤❤

I loved the ending of this movie!!!!

Thanks NE. This was a great video

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

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

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!

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.

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

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 😢

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

This was a crazy movie. The spirits were cowards.

The seagull French fry line got me 😂

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.

the best Horror i've seen in a WHILE

love your vids man

pretty cool ending tbh

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

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.

You should do the hand in Idle Hands

First How To Beat, Now Nerd Explains.

Lord Nerd is the greatest

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

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

Gotta say that ending was pretty darn sicc ngl.

good on rackaracka, first good movie made by youtubers

Awesome wallet and KeyCase 🔥

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.

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

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

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

rule 1 to surviving: GO TO THAT DAMN PARTY

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?

I love nerd Explains

To be fair she caused Riley to lose an eye at the very least lol.

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

Why hasn't the SCP Foundation secured the hand yet?