Danny's Horror Report: You'll Never Find Me (2023)

 Written By: Danny Albers 

You’ll Never Find Me is an Australian film that was shot in Adelaide. It was directed, written and produced by Indianna Bell, starring Brendan Rock and Jordan Cowan. The movie is a Shudder Original, which has heightened the cult love for the film because the only people viewing it are horror lovers. The movie keeps a creepy aura, taking place in a run down trailer park home during a large storm. Let’s look back at what happened in this film, and discuss the reveal at the end of the film. 

Synopsis 

An older man sits alone in his home on a dark and stormy night in his trailer, listening to the radio that reminds him of a distant memory of a woman approaching his car window in the rain. All of sudden, he’s startled by a knock on his door. Suspicious as it’s past midnight during a violent storm, he opens the door to find a girl that looks familiar, but he can’t remember where or when he’s met her before. He invites her inside and she tells him that she passed out by the beach, she’s barefoot, and wearing little clothes. However, this man is suspicious as the beach is very far away from his location, and there is a gated entrance to his trailer park. She asks if she can use his phone, which he says he doesn’t have, but can give her some coins and drive her over to the pay phone in the morning if she’d like. Both the girl and the man are suspicious of each other. The girl finds women’s clothing and different items like a necklace that looked like they belonged to younger girls. But when she finds her earring, she begins to panic. The power goes out, and the girl sees a phone at the end of the trailer ringing. The phone is accompanied by a dead young girl. She tries to escape, but is caught by the man who makes her drink GHB. The man begins to tell a story about the first girl he ever killed, and remembers a tattoo she had that was the exact same as the one the girl has. Convinced this is his first victim, a nightmare sequence begins where he’s confronted by all the women he’s killed. Hearing the cops knocking at his door, the woman makes him drink the entire GHB vial in his whiskey, and the female victims taunt him as he overdoses on GHB. But instead of dying he wakes up, revealing that it was all a dream and there was no storm. He hears knocking at the door but it’s the children from across the street, not the cops. He goes into his pocket to find the empty vial of GHB. Laughing, he realizes in his dream he drank the entire vial of the drug. The film cuts to outside his trailer and all you hear is him collapse, presumably dying. 

Thoughts 

I appreciate the cult following of this movie and the waves it’s made in the Shudder community. It’s a refreshing break from some of the typical horror tropes we’ve seen on the streaming service and in the industry in general. But besides being a unique movie experience, they didn’t do a good job hiding the big reveal. It was pretty obvious that she was the ghost of a recent murder victim, especially as she found all the different tributes he had to other victims in the home. Because of how obvious what’s going on is, it causes some really slow parts of the film, and it isn’t until the lights go off that some suspense builds in the movie. But even then, when we finally get the reveal, and the killer falls into a delirious imaginative state, what is going on isn't quite clear and it’s confusing why and how they’re making him drink the GHB. And why not show him die, why pan out and show a look at the motorhome and make the viewer guess based on the sounds? The concept was good, but I felt like they were probably limited to what they could do with the budget, and between giving up the reveal so early, and filling in the main body of the movie with small talk that didn’t have much to do with revealing who either character was made for a slow and boring experience. Maybe someone might pick this up one day and remake it into what the movie's potential could be, but for now, this isn’t one of Shudder’s best films on the service like some are saying. 

Danny’s Star Rating (1-10): ★★★★★ 5