This Underrated Horror Movie Has One Of The Most Bizarre Plot Twists Ever
© Courtesy of GameRantCo-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and creator of The Conjuring universe, James Wan is a master of modern horror. His films have entertained millions with their spectacular dance moves and impressive stories and have even broken several records. Both Saw and The Conjuring are among the top ten highest-grossing horror films of all time (the latter taking the top spot), and Insidious is famous for distracting viewers from Tiny Tim for life. But we dare say that his best films are not on the list above, bombed at the box office and have up to five one-star reviews. The film is bad , but it turns out to be funnier.
Scheduled to be released in 2021, the film follows a young woman named Madison (Annabelle Wallis) who has a disturbing vision of being murdered by a stranger. When he regains consciousness, this vision becomes a reality and he is left to put the pieces together. Because what? Because they? And what is happening? An interesting premise with an even more interesting plot twist. Savagery makes no sense. But don't take our word for it, read on to discover the madness for yourself.
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The film opens with Madison pregnant and living in Seattle with her abusive husband Derek (Jake Abel). An argument ensues in which Derek blames Madison for aborting his other children and then bangs his head against a wall. That night, Madison witnesses Derek's death in his home at the hands of a sad creature with long hair. When he wakes up, still bleeding from his head wound, he finds Derek dead just as he imagined. After fighting the killer, Madison ends up in the hospital and becomes a suspect in the police investigation into Derek's murder. At home, supernatural things happen around him, street lights flicker and doors open by themselves, and he has more visions. One afternoon he was doing laundry at home when a woman's face appeared on the glass door of the washing machine. A woman named Dr. Weaver (Jacqueline McKenzie) yells at her to leave the house, but she is an intruder. Or? In a spectacular feat of cinematography, Madison's body has disintegrated and she is now in Dr. Tkachev, witnessed his murder.
Another day and another vision. This time he was a colleague of Dr. Weaver is called Dr. Fields (Christian Clementson). This time, Madison led the police to her body, proving that her vision was real. Although neither he nor the public knew why he accepted it, the public at least knew what connected the victims. At the beginning of the film Dr. Weaver and Dr. Fields worked at Simeon Research Hospital. It was 1993 and they were treating a patient named Gabriel who could control electricity and communicate via radio waves. In any case, it is inhumane and dangerous. After killing a group of hospital workers, Dr. Weaver stopped him by saying the secret words, "It's time to stop cancer." That day, those words were repeated to him on the phone before he was killed in Madison's vision.
Gabriel (played by Marina Mazzepa and voiced by Ray Chase) is an assassin, and he kills people who can't kill him. But what does all this have to do with Madison? Well, if you can believe it, Gabriel is Madison's twin; extreme variant of teratoma. At the beginning of the movie, it grows on the back of Madison's neck. While Dr. Weaver and his colleagues managed to remove most of his body, he still shares a spinal cord and brain with Madison, which explains his vision. Madison's vision was very clear because she was present at the murder. Gabrielle brainwashed them to get them out and also imprisoned her mother, Serena May (Jean Louise Kelly). Oh, and that's another plot twist; Madison was adopted. Viewers learn this in the film when Madison tells her sister Sydney (Maddie Hassan) that her parents took her away when she was eight years old. He did not remember his previous life and did not know who his real family was.
During the police investigation, Madison receives a call from Gabriel, who calls her Emily (her birth name). This triggers something in Madison, and she reaches out to her adoptive mother, Jeanne (Suzanne Thompson). Jeanne tells Madison that Gabriel was her imaginary friend as a child and that he often got her into trouble. But, of course, this is not true. Gabriel didn't imagine it, but he told her to do something bad, which was to kill Sidney in her mother's womb. Madison didn't, and after Sydney was born, Gabriel went silent, never being seen or heard from again until the day Derek was killed. When Madison hit her head against the wall, Gabriel woke up again. Then the cues are everywhere, from the flickering street lights (Gabriel can control electricity) to the killer's strange movements. The killer stepped back and put on a cloak that we now know covered Madison's face. She also has the same hair and body as Madison, which should be a major clue that the two are closely related.
And while Madison's injury might have awakened Gabriel, he was still a problem until then. Madison's miscarriage was the result of Gabriel feeding her unborn children to make them stronger. Sydney makes this discovery in the second best scene of the film, the epilogue, where Madison uses all her hatred for Gabriel to twist his mind and imprison him forever. The best scene comes a little earlier and shows Madison transforming into Gabriel for the first time. Madison is imprisoned for the crime. Gabrielle locks her mother in the attic when her classmates begin attacking her, forcing Gabrielle to rear her ugly head for all to see. Flesh is torn, bones are broken, and it's ugly and funny at the same time. James Wan is the best.
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