u/Big_Tex1305

I checked out the new The Housemaid and while researching it afterward, I realized it’s completely unrelated to the Korean film The Housemaid from 1960 — which also got a remake in 2010. That sent me down a rabbit hole and honestly, both Korean versions are fascinating psychological thrillers that deserve way more attention.

IMO, the original is the best. The remake was more in the "pretty good" category until the completely insane ending elevated it. One of the more bonker endings I've ever seen. But the original is fantastic from beginning to end.

Maybe more thriller than horror but I figured those on this subreddit could still appreciate them.

Last years was a fun thriller. And i probably will never complain about a movie with both Seyfried and Sweeney in it. But the Korean originals were so much better.

The original i was able to stream on YT and the remake was available on Prime. I see a lot of Korean films get love on here and these deserve the same. If you haven't, check them out!

I hope it's not breaking site rules to discuss this. A couple years i decided to try shrooms after my BIL had done it and convinced me to try it.

The third time I tried it, I took my biggest dose, about 7 grams, as i recall. Anyway, for a good portion of the trip, I'm sure influenced by the choice of music i was listening to, I felt like I was looking back at myself as a young college student, laying on the bed in the off campus student housing I was living in, listening to Pink Floyd.

It felt like i floated back into that body and I was convinced if i opened my eyes I'd be right back in that room.

For a while i couldn't be sure if I was still that college student and everything i now knew my life to be, a man in good early 50's, with a wife and four grown kids, was just something I had imagined or dreamed.

In my shroom induced state, I tried to reason with myself that my family was real and I was just having a very unique and vivid memory. But another part of me was convinced that when I opened my eyes I would be back in that college room, circa mid 90's, and this bizarre dream about that family would quickly fade, like all dreams.

There was something very alluring about being back in that time where things were a lot simpler and i had my life still ahead of me. Ignorance is bliss, kind of thing. But it was also very sad thinking this family i had potentially dreamt up would vanish on me.

Anyway, afterwards, when I was talking about it with my BIL, he mentioned some people experience time slippage during trips, which i had never heard about before that time. But that kind of really felt like what I had experienced.

Besides remembering it as a cool experience, i hadn't thought about it too much since then.

Tonight watching that final scene with Maddie holding the sphere and looking back at the opening scene of the series and wanting to go back to that simpler time, it kind of hit me like a bolt of lightening. That reminded me so much of my experience. It almost felt that I was holding that sphere, a couple years back, breaking through from one reality to another.

Now I lay here, trying to get to sleep, wondering if I'm living in a simulation.

What a trippy and awesome show!