Here’s How To Survive ‘The Privilege,’ Netflix’s New Horror Movie

Netflix’s new German horror movie, The Privilege, gives you everything you’re needing right now. It has the gritty feeling of Dark with all the high drama you’d find at a prestigious prep school. It’s like The Faculty meets Get Out, and it’s a must-watch. But what if you were in Finn and his friends’ shoes? Could you survive The Privilege? Time to arm yourself with the skills to get through it. Obviously, major spoilers lie ahead. If you haven’t seen it yet, go watch and then come back.

Be careful what you put in your body.

Finn’s doctor is supposed to be helping him through the trauma he went through as a kid after witnessing his sister’s death. She doesn’t seem to do anything other than make him run on a treadmill and hand him packets of experimental medication. Where’s the talk therapy? There’s a lot more to trauma work then just gulping down suspicious-looking pills. Maybe if Finn had done a little research he would have had some pause. He certainly would have found out a lot sooner that his dad is the one who owns that pharmaceutical company that makes the mystery pill. Pretty weird that Finn had no idea. Arm yourself with knowledge, people!

Trust your gut when it comes to your past.

It’s true, memories of traumatic events aren’t exactly reliable. Still, your fear comes from somewhere, right? Finn watched a dark entity chase him and his sister before she fell to her death from the town dam. Even years later, he still has fear responses and sometimes feels the dark entity. Trust your gut, my guy. If something doesn’t feel right, that’s because it isn’t.

When there’s a problem, work together.

One of the best things Finn and the gang does is work together. He, his best friend Lena, and his crush Samira, eventually team up to fight back against the demon-filled zombie fungus plaguing his family and their entire prep school. Great! But what if they’d done that earlier? He could have saved his twin sister Sophie. He could’ve even worked with her ex Ramin or the school dudebro Leander. All of them were affected by the bad meds, and more help is always better. So if you can only trust your fellow teens, team up with them!

Don’t trust your parents.

If you’re living through The Privilege, your parents are probably trash. Even Leander’s dad, who just lost his son, still felt great about giving him the medication that ultimately killed him. Even if your parents don’t end up being demons in living human suits, that doesn’t mean you should trust everything they say. Remember: if it doesn’t feel right, it isn’t. So if your weird ass parents say your twin sister is fine when she clearly isn’t, maybe get her out of there.

In fact, don’t trust any adults.

Aside from the woman who’s actually been through this and can give you advice, every adult in The Privilege is trash. You can’t trust your parents, grandparents, doctors, police–or even the weird little old lady in charge at the pharmaceutical convention. Ignore all of them. Get as far away as possible.

Get that shit out of your body, ASAP.

So you’ve found yourself filled with a creepy parasitic fungus that’s making you the perfect host for a demon. We’ve all been there. Luckily Finn finds a lady who’s been through this exact thing and had it ridden from her body. Don’t be a dumbass like Finn and run off without getting her help. By the time he changes his mind, he’s already run out of time. If you find someone with the answers, get them immediately.

Maybe find another way out of town that doesn’t involve the dam.

You watched your sister plunge off the side of this dam. You get a bad feeling every time you drive past. Please stay as far away from it as possible. It looks like The Privilege used Rappbode Dam for these scenes, which is about 100 miles west of Leipzig, Germany. Guess what; there are tons of other roads Finn and the gang could have taken. L96 is nearby and is a much better road. If you’re in Finn’s place, go that way and the spooky shadow demon may not launch your car off the side of a dam. Just a thought.

Find some way to determine if the people in your life are possessed.

Turns out, Finn and the gang took something with them on their way out of town, which calls their survival post-ending into question. The best way to protect yourself moving forward is to figure out how to tell if someone’s filled with the parasitic fungus. If they’re still coughing up yellow chunks, it’s a bad sign. But if you’d used the earlier advice and figured out how to get rid of it from the lady with experience, this’ll increase your odds. Then again Samira might be fully possessed at this point, and no longer filled with the fungus. In this case, I think you’re probably screwed.