I’m so happy that call led to this friend!!! Sorry to do it to you 😭

casting bill skarsgård as just a normal guy was the most genius distraction ever!!!

When AJ discovers the creepy basement and the movie cuts to him googling if he can profit from it I laughed my ass off.

I feel so sad at the end. She doesn't even know what a gun is. She's 100% a victim of the real monster in the basement, but she's also too dangerous to let live. As a dad, it really rips at me, I wish I could go back in time and take her away from that monster who raised her.

The one detail that always gets me when rewatching is that Mama killed Keith because she thought he was attacking Tess. She didnt have the mental capacity to understand the situation and all she saw was someone like her.

The constant subversion of expectation is amazing. Bill is a nice, awkward man. Aj is a complete bastard. The homeless man is kind and helpful. The cop is not here to help. The pitiful old man is a serial killer. The monster is a scared girl who wants to take care of her babies.

Such a great movie.

The most impressive thing is this movie is how the cinematography shifts along with the perspective of who is the protagonist. The style jumps around so much.

The “Be My Baby” needle drop over the credits had me SHOOK in the theater

The bad vibes you got from Keith were 100% intentionally there, as per the writer/director. There's a book called The Gift of Fear that lists out a number of red flags that often show up in violent men before they act, and Keith exhibited a ton of them. Which is not to say that Keith was actually a threat to Tess in the movie, but that his actions were designed to put Tess, and the audience, on edge

at the end of the day, the moral of the story is the real barbarians are the owners of the house on barbary lane (the kidnapping old man and justin long's character), and everyone else are just victims

BARBARIAN DESERVES EVERY PRAISE NO BEVAUSE EVERY SECOND WAS UNEXPECTED. thank you for upload QUEEN

The casting is one of the things I ADORE about this movie. There's Bill Skarsgard (Keith) who people know as Pennywise so it subconsciously adds another layer of the distrust that you feel towards him at the beginning. And then there's Justin Long (AJ), who's been in a lot of comedy movies and horror movies where he's the victim so you almost give him the benefit of the doubt. The fact that the casting plays on/subverts the audience's expectations (along with EVERY OTHER MOMENT in this movie) is amazing!

The way i was so pleasantly surprised with this movie. I had already made multiple theories in my head in the first 20 minutes only for the movie to take a completely different turn 😭 it's so good.

this movie genuinely fucked me up. the scene of all the cassettes lined up genuinely made me cry. “wont stop crying”, “suicide”, and “blind” being written on them had me bawling.

For some reason the biggest shocker to me was the second basement. I lost my mind when the second basement was revealed. I've seen too many horror movies to be shocked or surprised by monsters, crazy people and random other entities. The last thing that really  surprised me was in Nope. But good architecture hits it home for me every time 😅

I am probably late but a cool detail of this movie is the title: Barbarian, or a resident of barbary (the street name). The two Barbarians (or villians) in this movie are both the owners of the house, AJ/Justin Long and Frank/old man in basement.

My favorite thing about the movie's wonderfully tight little setup is that Tess rightfully cannot trust Keith, in spite of us eventually learning he was (probably) just fine, because there are men out there like AJ.

“She ain’t even the worst thing that’s in there” is such a great line.    Imagine a TV show where each episode gets crazier and crazier and you see more and more horror that are in the basement.

Justin Long actually vouched to have his character be a jerk the whole way through. I can’t remember exactly but I think the writers wanted him to have a redemption arc towards the end but Justin wanted his character to go out as the jerk he was to show the symbolism of, as you mentioned, that he & the other guy were the true barbarians of this film.

This movie does an outstanding job at showing how it feels to be a woman lol like making Keith seem really sketchy so you don’t know if you can actually trust him, even adding the detail of her taking the picture of his drivers license is such a nice touch