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When guests arrive at the resort, they are given cocktails made to their specifications. The trade-off is that anyone stuck on that beach ages rapidly until they die and decompose to dust in almost no time. It turns out Warren & Warren have been selecting these “winners” of a luxury resort vacation because they know each of them has some serious illness - from cancer to dementia to multiple sclerosis to epilepsy - and have been using this remote beach’s fantastical properties to conduct secret medical studies on them. Warren & Warren is name-checked a few times earlier in the film when the Capa family arrives at the island so the ending pays off that early nod. And the Resort Manager (Gustaf Hammarsten) is actually an exec from the company. It’s all a cover for Johnson & Johnson - er, Warren & Warren, a giant pharmaceutical company.
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The Driver insists Trent and Maddox are dead and he returns to the resort with all his computer and camera gear.īut this is not a real resort. The voice on the other end of the line wants the driver to be sure - they can’t risk another incident like last time, even though that escapee ultimately drowned. The Driver communicates with headquarters that “Trial 73” is complete and that all participants are now deceased.
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Old Movie Spoilers: Ending ExplainedĪfter it appears that Adult Trent (Emun Elliott) and Adult Maddox Capa (Embeth Davidtz) have drowned while swimming through the coral reef, the man who’s been recording them from the hilltop is revealed to be none other than the Hotel Van Driver (Shyamalan!) who dropped everyone off at the start of their nightmare on this supernaturally-powered, secluded beach. So let’s dig into the ending of Shyamalan’s Old and everything that happened. Still, there are enough head-scratching moments throughout the film that some viewers may still be left confused even after that exposition dump. Night Shyamalan movies are known for their twist endings (The Sixth Sense, etc.), but Old is the rare one that literally has a character explain everything in one pivotal closing moment.