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Shyamalan’s movie Trap reveals its big twist in the first trailer, surprising viewers.
Hartnett’s character in Trap may have more to his twist beyond being the villain.
Shyamalan’s movies typically have multiple twists, and Trap may follow suit.
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M. Night Shyamalan’s new psychological thriller is Trap, and the first trailer has already revealed the movie’s twist, but there must be something more. M. Night Shyamalan has become known for the supernatural elements in his movies and his use of plot twists and shocking reveals, though not all of them have had the desired effect. Still, Shyamalan’s projects always create a lot of expectations and attract the audience’s interest, and now all eyes are on his two 2024 horror movies: The Watchers and Trap.
Also written by Shyamalan, Trap takes place at the concert of pop star Lady Raven (Saleka Shyamalan), and it follows Cooper (Josh Hartnett) and his teenage daughter, Riley, as they attend the concert. During a bathroom break, Cooper notices police officers everywhere, security cameras all over the place, and police vans outside the venue. Cooper learns that the whole concert is a trap for a serial killer known as “The Butcher”, as the police knew he was going to be in attendance. Unsurprisingly, Trap has a big twist, but to everyone’s surprise, it has already been revealed in the trailer.
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The twists in Shyamalan’s movies often arrive towards the end of the movie, so
Trap
revealing its big villain twist in the first trailer is surprising and intriguing.
The first trailer for Trap reveals the movie’s twist in the most intriguing way. Once Cooper enters a bathroom stall, he checks a security camera from the basement of his house on his phone, revealing Cooper as the serial killer as he’s holding a man hostage. The trailer adds a quick shot of a man, presumably Cooper, taking a butcher knife from a table before returning to a close-up of Hartnett’s eyes with a disturbing red filter. The rest of the trailer emphasizes Cooper’s odd behavior, with quick shots of chaos happening at the venue.
The twists in Shyamalan’s movies often arrive towards the end of the movie, so Trap revealing its big villain twist in the first trailer is surprising and intriguing. However, the true identity of Hartnett’s character can’t be the only twist in Trap. Cooper (if that’s his real name, of course) could be a killer but not The Butcher, and he could just be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Cooper could also not be a killer at all and could be imagining that he is, which would be a shocking twist but one that should be done with care to avoid disappointment.
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Many of Shyamalan’s movies have twists in their third acts, but some have another, albeit most of the time minor, twist before. The Visit, for example, reveals the grandparents behave quite dangerously, only to be later revealed to not be the kids’ real grandparents. Unbreakable revealed Bruce Willis’ David Dunn is, in fact, a real-life superhero, but also that his “mentor” Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) was the one who caused a series of accidents in search for his counterpart, as he sees himself as a supervillain.
Glass had the twist of Kevin’s (James McAvoy) father dying in the train crash Elijah provoked, and Elijah making sure that the world knows superheroes are real. Other Shyamalan movies had one twist, which, in some cases, was big enough to elevate the entire movie, as was the one in The Sixth Sense. It’s expected, then, that Trap will have another twist, though it could also happen that the other twist is that there’s none.