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can’t believe the signature guy made a horror movie

The end bit is extra funny when you remember Bobby is ALSO Mildred's lawyer!

"Why wouldn't you just make it a mouse?" Because mice don't live in the ground. The mole was found in a graveyard. It LIVES with DEATH, and gets taken away from there in a little box sort of like a coffin... Which it later *dies* in. I think the mole is being used to say something about Jessica's predicament, but I haven't quite sussed it out yet. I think there's something there about how she keeps trying to *keep* things-- she's the one who wanted to stop to take rubbings of the graves, who wanted to keep the portrait, who decided to tell her husband they should let Emily stay. There's a lot that's trying to keep Jessica too, but giving in to that means certain death for her. This movie is just. SO rich with stuff to dig into. Big thanks for talking at us about it.

I want to watch this if only to experience a horror film that doesn't treat the mentally ill person as the villain, rather than the "victim" which is usually how it goes with real life mental illness.

I actually only knew about this movie because of an achievement from the game "Until Dawn", which actually flipped the concept a bit and you had to specifically save a character named "Jessica" and have them survive until the end of the game. She's the only human character with a specific achievement like this and it's simply called "(Don't) scare Jessica to death". Clever on the dev's part.

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only chicken weirdo examining your take on the chicken scene far too closely. That’s just how they sound, and when they lay an egg they’re even more obnoxious. And apparently not because it hurts, but because they are just so danged proud of their work. Tiny velociraptors that are so fun to have around.

There's no need to crush Bobby's dreams of being a murder solver like that.

I love how the phone call with Bobby is on a phone still showing the autocue

Bobby Duke will remember that That was a cute touch, Mildred. I feel the interpersonal relationships in the first Telltale Walking Dead would be a fun addition to the horror channel as well.

This is the world we're in. Where literally the only time I've ever been given a countdown to an ad so I know where to skip to, it's over an ad I'm immediately interested in.

Speaking of the Death being portrayed as seductive, I once came across a Greek myth that the Sirens (the bird-women who lure sailors to leap into the sea and drown) were originally handmaidens to Demeter, who sent them on a search for Persephone after she disappeared. When the maidens couldn't find her, they were so overcome by grief that they lost their humanity (or the divine equivalent), and were transformed into the sirens. Grief and death aren't exactly the same. But they're adjacent.

Wow, John Hancock, the ghoul mayor of Anarchy Town, Boston, made a movie? Good for him.

This film seems to have taken heavy influence from Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the short story that really made me dislike folks who gaslight people. Not to mention the stark illustration of female bondage. So you see? Derivative works have their place.

Bobby Duke called you “Matildred”, which I think sounds like a character from Bugsnax. That is all.

The Sponsored Content Countdown is a game-changer.

As much as I love What We Do in the Shadows, I think Bobby Duke is funnier and better executed than the Bada-Buke.

the more I think about it the more I realize that Mildred is actually a sick-ass name

One of the most entertaining sponsorship ads I have witnessed. These bits just keep getting better and better. I love it!

This film is truly an overlooked gem of 70's horror! The fact that it actually handles the subject of mental illness with compassion is just fab! Along with stuff like Tobe Hooper's Eggshells and the oddity known as Messiah of Evil, this film presented a darkside to the whole 'summer of love' era which tends to be romanticised these days. Especially in the challenges presented by changing attitudes in regards to relationships and the family. Jessica's partner and their friend are kind of typical male hippies who mean well but not as radical as they claim in regards to how they treat women. In the end a male dominated New Age is shown to ironically become easy prey for an ancient seductive evil.

Why does this remind me of Midsommar in a lot of ways? The way the men in Midsommar, her boyfriend and his friends in particular, treat Dani and her grief over her family's death, and the way she longs for normalcy and to belong to a family again, but everything going on around her is not what it seems...

"I don't want to spoil the ending" Why do you think I'm here, my man?

The ringtone being the Dream Warriors theme made me so happy

Imagine being so rude to Bobby Duke

To be fair to Bobby, he may be a silly joke you thought up on marijuana edibles, but at least he contains multitudes!

This movie is so underrated, it's almost criminal. There are some serious Texas Chain Saw Massacre vibes going on in this, but without the shockingly terrifying parts. You're just waiting for something bad to happen, which is almost worse than watching something bad happen. Such a great psychological horror flick, the kind no one makes anymore.

The dream warriors ringtone followed by "moshi moshi" killed me

I haven't even watched this vid but I'm trying to boost engagement like a good drone because Let's Scare Jessica to Death is amazing and I want more people to at least see the title of this vid and think, "dude that movie title is cool maybe I should watch it".

"Bobby Duke will remember that." Ominous.

When the push notification for this video came onto my phone, I was terrified.

Loved the Bobby Duke sponsored content. Best use of sponsored content I've ever seen on KZfaq. You should check out the way the game Hell Blade: Senua's Sacrifice handles mental illness in the an audiovisual way I've only seen in that game. It is very very good.

I saw Let's Scare Jessica to Death for the first time when Criterion had a big playlist of 70s Horror and I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's so good

Absolutely LOVE 70's era weirdness like this. Heat of a thousand suns love.

Loved this movie as a kid of the 70's/80's this movie would come on Saturday TV and I was hooked. Both female actresses are still alive in their 70's and 80's. The house has become famous now as well. So happy this film got the love it deserves all these years later. It's haunting. You never forget it.

Oh my gosh! If I hadn't watched this film several times as a kid I would have doubted that it actually existed -- nobody else I know has even heard of it! Even my horror-movie-loving late husband. Thanks for the awesome and terrifying memories!

Unsettling in the best way possible. This film creeps up on you. Thanks for not spoiling the ending, and for giving one of my favorite films some love.

I saw this movie on TV when I was a kid and it stuck with me. Nice to see it getting some love!

I've been watching Scaredy cats videos all day and only just ran out.... This is very good timing!

me, watching Scaredy Cats to escape my current situation and the accompanying intrusive thoughts vs. Mildred: "yeah so Jessica has intrusive thoughts and we're forced to experience them :D :D :D"

Reasons Mildred is one of the best content creators: they actually give us the easy option to skip their sponsorship sections. As a thanks for that, and because she fucking rocks at writing them in a fun and interesting way, I always watch them.

Thank you for this review. This movie is an underappreciated classic. I watched "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" when TV stations still played late night movies, before the infomercials took over.

they arent roosters, hens have wattles and combs too

Love it when Jessica and Duncan are @ the antique dealers, and the guy shows Jessie the mal fiore lamp. That beautiful piece of artistry would be priceless today!

I watched this movie on TV a longtime ago and yes it sticks with you. It's spooky, atmospheric and really gets under your skin if you allow it's subtle charm to work it's magic. The pacing alone might turn off people, but as Hereditary revealed there is room for all sorts of takes on horror. It reminds me of Carnival of Souls in a way. Thank you for shining a light on this mostly forgotten film.

I almost can’t believe I didn’t see or even know about this movie until this year. It was superb!

"Bobby Duke will remember that." I am SCREAMING

The mouse mole confusion comes from the fact they just inhaled a bunch of poison when that dude was spraying the fields.

"Bobby, what I said was you have a lot of jobs already, maybe you should focus..." TIL that Bobby Duke is the ADHD mascot.

I forgot about the Bababook too. S'okay Scaredy Mildred. Bobby IS better. "Hey, I'm deducin' over here!"

I love Mil-Dread. What a great name

"Ay, I'm deducin over here!"

This is , without question my fave and the most scary movie ever . I saw it as a child, and was completely haunted by it. And , is is very rare , when i tell friends about it, that they know what I'm talking about.

Another well handled ad, Mildread (loving the name pun, btw). I can't tell you how much I appreciate it that content creators like you actually try to make ads at least fun.

I saw this at the drive in with my family when I was 12. I had a feeling there was more to it that I was missing. Now seeing it as an elderly woman I can see why. It is much like the first modern vampire novella Carmilla. The houseguest from Hell, but with it's own slowly unfolding twists.

I saw this a couple of times back in the 70s. I was glued to it and always thought it was a real hidden gem and never got the respect it deserved. The slow burn was intense and the payoff was great. That red-headed woman pulled off the vampire bride so well. This is the reason that I am scared to jump into a lake if I cannot see the bottom.

It's wild to see a movie from this time period that's so sympathetic to mental illness. I'm definitely gonna have to give this a watch

Totally agree, this film is worth a watch.

I'm happy you found a cool sponsor for Scaredy Cats, Mildred

Milly, Baaaybeeey. Even if derivative, the pleasure that Bobby brings to me is wholly original. Never that star of the show fade, Please.

This sounds like it would be scary the same way the yellow wallpaper was scary

It's a great fave of mine. I remember seeing it on television as one of the network's weekly movie features in the early 1970s. Watched it with my grandmother and we both found it delightfully disturbing. Something about the low budget style added to the unsettling quality. I quickly acquired the proper paper and charcoal to try my own hand at gravestone rubbings. Saw it again a few years later but that was it until someone uploaded a grainy VHS copy to KZfaq about ten years ago. Thankfully it's now available for streaming in good quality. Not sure a lot of typical Horror fans will "get it" but people who enjoy the subtlety of traditional ghost stories, exploring spooky old houses and graveyards, and maybe the occasional amateur spookhouse will probably love it. It was indeed filmed in Connecticut, much of it around Chester. The House exterior is The Old Bishop House in Old Saybrook but the interiors are actually a different house in Essex.

Thanks for recommending this!

"Hey Emily, person whomst we have just met, we like your vibe come live with us in our house" aka the beginnings to 76% of all punk houses, probably.

Bobby Duke is NOT derivative, he is one of many noble men named Bobby Duke, in the company of such greats as Bobby Duke Arts with whom you could do a "killer" collab

I love Bobby Duke’s sudden pivot into becoming Columbo and I can’t wait to see more

As a psych-thriller fan who loved the more recent film in the genre, "UnSane," this sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the recommendation; I'm definitely going to check it out.

I’m never gonna not love Bobby Duke, he remains endlessly funny to me for reasons unknown

Paused the video to rent and watch this. Back now. Thank you.

Even if I wanna watch the ad, that sponsored content counter gets an instant LIKE!

I've long been a fan of this movie, and there is a small cult that's at least aware of it. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen probably a little over 10 years ago. I hadn't been aware of it beforehand but, for its budget, the sound design is AMAZING

I'm eating potato chips while watching this, and the crunching noise made 0:32 sound like "...who has a moustache that looks like _pants_ " I went back and listened to it again, and I have decided him having a moustache that looks like pants is more fun for me.

I saw this movie when it premiered in 71. It will really stick with you

Hunt a Killer might be the most on brand sponsorship I have ever seen or will ever see in a youtube video.

I'm not so sure those are roosters. Hens also have large combs. A better distinguishing feature is the tail feathers and these birds don't seem to have rooster tail feathers but I can't be sure.

I found this movie when I was around 8 or 9 on accident. It was on TV one day randomly and I watched it, I didn't understand it as a kid but when I watched it again as an adult, it scared the crap out of me. The scene of Emily rising from the water in the white dress is terrifying.

I love that Bobby Duke the Babadook, the character Mildred created while high on marijuana edibles, calls Mildred "Milly"

I have never scrambled to subscribe to a channel so fast as the second i heard thoughtslime’s voice

possibly my favorite horror film. truly gets scarier as you get older.. it gets so unclear.

Duncan: "They probably get back in their cages after dark. What a bunch of weirdos!"

The films house is close by to where I live in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Even as someone who likes What We Do in The Shadows, Bobby Duke is still my preferred New York accented Babadook

This was the first movie I was allowed to stay up and watch when it first aired on TV in the 70s, I pestered my parents for a week as I read about it in a horror book I had an when I saw it was going to be on TV i couldn’t wait. It scared the hell out of me but I couldn’t act scared because I knew that would be the last horror film I’d be allowed to watch. It didn’t play too often on TV and I didn’t see it again until the DVD release a while ago. Despite it being dated, only because the 70s clothes,it is still an unsettling supernatural film. John Hancock was the director that got fired from Jaws 2 after he shot quite a bit of it and the producers recast and reshot his work. It would’ve been a very different film had he been aloud to finish it.

watched this at a sleepover years ago and we all thought it sucked because we weren't paying attention 90% of the time, I'm for sure willing to give it another go now though

One of the first horror movies I ever saw, on TV. I've seen it a few times over the years, and it's still one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

If someone told me a year ago, a person who almost never chooses to watch horror movies, that this channel would quickly become one of my favorites, I wouldn’t have believed them. That is, until I got to see the beautiful, wonderful antics of Mildred and Bobby and how awesome horror movies can be when someone talks about them with care. Not a lot of other people doing trigger warnings and choosing not to hang on the gore and brutality of certain movies. It makes me want to watch these movies because I can handle the scares of horror, I just don’t usually want to watch it! Thank you Mildred (and, of course, Mr. Duke) for having opened this genre to me more and more lately.

4:45. those are definitely not roosters. Theyre brown shaver hens, the most common type of egg laying chicken. I assume you think they're roosters because they have combs? all chickens have combs, roosters generally just have much larger and pointier ones.

"Bobby duke will remember that." was a very funny joke, probably my favorite one in this video just from the line of text in the corner alone. cool video :)

I love the quiet repetitive musical tones underlying the movie. Very creepy effect.

Awesome channel!!! I love movies tv anime cartoons old, new. My brain soaks in entertainment. yt channels like yours give me inspiration, glad I found it! Definitely subbing. I wish one day I can do something I love for a living one day!!

This is one of my favorite horror films. You're so right about the type of scary it is. You have to take your time with it and just follow it. It's a lot of atmosphere and character development - as well as unraveling. It's really moody and unsettling, and that scene at the lake where Jessica seems just frozen with fright until her hand is grabbed is downright creepy as hell. I'm glad you reviewed this film, because it really does deserve more credit than it gets.

Excellent content gunk bud. Ty for sharing your things

I watched this movie on TV when I was really really too young for it. And it's stuck with me for 40 years, and this review really makes me want to see it again. tthx.

Now we need a movie about how the signature John Hancock guy made a movie in the 1970s despite being over 200 years old.

I saw this theatrically, and was blown away by it.

where has this channel been???? I am a horror movie connoisseur so I am always looking for ones I've never seen. Excited for this movie and this channel!

I saw this during its initial run in the seventies, and it has never left me. It is one of the few films I consider scary, genuinely haunting. I also love the time period and the eerie atmosphere. It is a poetic slow burner.

First and foremost, thank you for making a channel about horror movies that even people who can't really _do_ horror movies can still enjoy. Also, I'm insanely pleased that somehow Bobby Dukes has become a legitimate channel mascot and now is getting sponsors for, like, games and breakfast cereal.

I have not watched this movie, but from your description, this movie reminds me of the book version of The Shining.

The original Friday The 13th obviously took some inspiration from this movie, especially the ending scene w/ the boat and men on the shore looking on.

So glad you covered this. I've been shouting into the void about great this film is for years.