‘Barbarian’: explained end of the most surprising horror movie this Halloween

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The month of October, the month of Halloween, is preferred by horror movies. It is the season in which we all want to see that movie that reminds us why we love horror movies. But in recent times the responsibility is not only in theaters, but also on streaming platforms. It seems that everyone is competing to see who is going to have the defining title this Halloween. Well, this year it’s on Disney + and it’s called ‘Barbarian’ (to the surprise of those who still didn’t know that there are many very good scary movies on Disney +). It is, without a doubt, one of the best recent horror movies.

The film mainly focuses on Tess (Georgina Campbell) and on his arrival at a rental house in a very seedy neighborhood of Detroit. The problem is that there is already another tenant in it, his name is Keith and he plays bill skarsgard. After much hesitation, Tess agrees to spend the night with Keith at the house to clean up the mess the next day. You never know where the film is going to go, and thanks to the script of its also director, Zach Cregger, the horror elements are thrown from one side to another with each revelation of the film.

But we are here to analyze what happened, and since it is not a plan to make spoilers if you have not yet seen this box of terrifying surprises, it is time to warn you. Next, spoilers for ‘Barbarian’.

‘Barbarian’: Ending explained

As we said, Tess decides to stay the night and, despite her insistence on offering her drinks, Keith turns out to be a good guy. The problem is that, the next day, Tess decides to go down to the basement. Yes, the number 1 rule of any scary movie. Tess not only discovers a dark corridor in it, but also a cell-like room with a camera.

When Keith comes to help her, the innocent young man decides to go even deeper, down into a series of secret tunnels, complete with cages. Of course, things don’t end well, and when Tess follows Keith’s voice for help, we see how a being in the shape of a deformed woman bursts out of the darkness and brutally kills Keith.

Here the tape makes a brutal cut and sends us to meet AJ (Justin Long), an egocentric actor who is headed for ruin due to an accusation of rape that, as we get to know him, seems very true. AJ is the owner of the house and there he goes to sell it in order to obtain liquidity to pay his lawyers.

The problem is that you also discover those spaces in your basement. Of course, AJ only thinks about selling the house and that secret construction does not seem like a threat, but rather a business opportunity. He excitedly sets out to measure the newly discovered square meters of his property until, shortly after passing through a room where we see a clip of how to breastfeed a baby, he bumps into the woman. A woman that, for her intentions, we will call “The Mother”. As he tries to run away from her, he ends up in a pit cell with Tess. Apparently the trick to surviving is to go along with it, and allow it to, well, give you milk and nurse you. Tess does it, but AJ can’t stand it and, while the monster takes him to force him to suck tit, Tess escapes from her.

He does so with the help of a local drifter who seems to know the secret. Meanwhile, AJ goes deeper into the tunnels until he comes across a man named Frank (Richard Brake). We also meet him, but in the 1980s in a brief sequence in which her shady relationship with women is insinuated. It doesn’t take long for both AJ and us to discover that this old man is the real monster and that he kidnapped and raped dozens of women over the years. Not only that, he had offspring with them, and offspring with her offspring. Raised and tortured in the dark, it seems that the only survivor of it all is that Mother, a killing machine obsessed with taking care of a baby, one that Frank probably took from her.

Frank, discovered and ill, opts for the fast track and shoots himself. AJ picks up the gun and prepares to flee. Tess, who has been ignored by the police after mistaking her for an undocumented junkie from the neighborhood who talks crazy, returns to the tunnels to help AJ after running over the Mother, but she only receives a shot in exchange for her. AJ apologizes and together with Tess they flee to the homeless man. The mother is not on the hood of the car so she has survived the accident.

As expected, the “woman” of superhuman strength arrives at the scene without problems, tears off his arm and destroys the poor tramp and sets out to chase the protagonists. AJ and an injured Tess go up to the water tower. In case the viewer had any doubts about whether AJ was a little bad or all, he decides to throw Tess out of the warehouse to distract the Mother and run away. This, displaying her maternal instinct, launches after her baby. Both seem to lie dead when AJ goes down. Tess, however, wakes up, seeing how the Mother has protected him from her fall. As AJ makes excuses for the attempted murder on her, the mother wakes up and blows AJ’s head off. Right now the truth is that we support her much more than him.

In fact, the confirmation comes next. The mother has become a monster as the fruit of another. She has only known that darkness and that violence, in a body and mind already corrupted by incest and torture. However, something inside her kept calling her to protect. That is why Tess lets her mother hug her, after all, she has saved her life in her fall. But obviously he’s a killer monster too, so she picks up AJ’s gun and shoots him in her face.

Frank and AJ were the true barbarians of the film, and the Mother of it. Also those cops who ignored Tess’s call for help. We hope that both of them lose their hair, because the last thing we see of Tess, after finishing all threat, is getting up with her huge fall behind her and that shot her in the stomach, and walking.

Walk, hopefully to a hospital and then to a police station. It has a lot to tell but, yes, few to stop. All those involved except her, guilty and victims, are dead. Let’s hope that at least the housing managers who were still renting the house or those two policemen who ignored her, lose their hair.

‘Barbarian’ is now available on Disney + Spain.

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