We Need to Talk About One of the Scariest Movies Ever Made Since Now Streaming For Free
We need to talk. If you take my recommendation and check out the movie I’m about to suggest here, you’re going to have a really hard week. It’s going to haunt you. Stick with you in a way few films do. You’re liable to feel sick to your stomach. Honestly, you’re probably going to look at the world in an entirely different way, and it may not be a change that’s for the better. In my own words on the film’s anniversary, the film is “terrifying, thoroughly disturbing, and ten years later, unmatched in its austere psychological honesty.”
Horror means a lot of things, and while this film isn’t necessarily a horror movie, it is among the most upsetting, disturbing, distressing, and just exhausting cinematic experiences you’re ever going to experience. I was haunted and scared in a way few explicit horror films manage, and more than a decade later, I still haven’t quite been able to shake the film. We need to talk… about Kevin. Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin is now streaming free on Tubi. Check out more about the film below:
Per Tubi: In this suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, a mother contends for years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin.
Based on Lionel Shriver’s epistolary novel of the same name, We Need to Talk About Kevin was a critical success. Star Tilda Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance, and Time Out ranked the film on its list of the century’s 100 best movies so far. We Need to Talk About Kevin isn’t an easy watch, and it’s probably not a movie you’ll ever want to revisit again, but it’s worth checking out just the once, if only to see a monster even scarier than anything you’d see in most horror movies.
In that same anniversary piece, I wrote, “There are few horror movie monsters scarier than Kevin Khatchadourian because Kevin Khatchadourian is real. Horror movies don’t need to be reassuring or hopeful, and We Need to Talk About Kevin is the farthest thing from comfortable. It’s an honest interrogation of real-life monsters and the overarching truth that sometimes, much as people might wish otherwise, there isn’t a clear explanation for why.” Don’t go in expecting answers or a clarifying, comforting psychological probe. We Need to Talk About Kevin is nebulous, deliberately so. There’s nothing to explain because there’s no explanation sufficient for the horror at the heart of the story. But it’s worth talking about, so if you can brave it, catch it streaming free on Tubi.
What do you think? Any plans to check out We Need to Talk About Kevin on Tubi? If you do, let me know your thoughts on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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