The reveal lands like a firecracker, provoking a baffled “what the hell” reaction more than any other twist in recent memory. But his brain remained inside Madison’s head, and he’s been controlling her body (backwards) to commit the murders. But the film ups itself completely when the actual reveal of what’s going on occurs: Gabriel was Madison’s parasitic twin brother, who was removed from her body at infancy. The initial explanation - that Gabriel was Madison’s childhood imaginary friend - would be wacky enough. For the first act of the following movie, it’s unclear how the scene connects to the meat of the plot, about the desperate attempts of pregnant Madison Mitchell (Annabelle Wallis) to unearth the meaning behind her visions that seem to portend real-world murders. James Wan’s Giallo pastiche opens on a mental hospital rampage of Gabriel (voiced by Ray Chase), a disturbed mental patient who can control electricity. “Malignant” (2021) “ Malignant“ Warner Bros.ĭelightfully and proudly gonzo, “Malignant” commits to the nonsense completely with some of the most outlandish, unbelievable, and totally awesome plot turns in recent memory. A good twist doesn’t need to make you rethink everything you saw before: it can just be the introduction of something totally and completely new. Instead, the film’s conflict turns out to crib a little from “Parasite,” when Tess discovers a hidden bunker in the rental’s basement, unearthing a hidden tragic history of the house’s former (and current subterranean) residents that has nothing to do with either her or Keith. But Zach Cregger’s horror film delights in fake outs, and it turns out that Keith is just some dude: a nerdy and awkward but harmless jazz dork. When Tess (Georgina Campbell), a young woman in Detroit for a job interview, finds out that her Airbnb has been double-booked, it’s easy to assume that Keith (Bill Skarsgård) - the man she ends up spending the night in the house with - has sinister intentions. Probably the biggest surprise of “Barbarian” is that everyone in the film is more or less exactly who they say they are. “Barbarian” (2022) “ Barbarian” ©20th Century Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection Samantha Bergeson, Christian Blauvelt, Jude Dry, William Earl, David Ehrlich, Ryan Lattanzio, Jenna Marotta, Noel Murray, Chris O’Falt, Jamie Righetti, Christian Zilko, and Zack Sharf also contributed to this list.
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