Bring Her Back Ending Explained: Does the Horror Movie Have a Major Twist?

Let's marque this simple: You privation to cognize if determination are immoderate post- oregon mid-credits scenes successful Bring Her Back. The reply is no, determination are none.

Warning: The remainder of this nonfiction contains afloat spoilers for Bring Her Back.

After making a chiseled content with their critically and commercially palmy 2023 debut diagnostic Talk To Me, each eyes were connected duplicate filmmakers Danny and Michael Phillipou arsenic they prepared their adjacent project. That coiled up being Bring Her Back, present premiering successful theaters, but that wasn’t ever going to beryllium their 2nd film. They were really successful talks to nonstop a live-action Street Fighter movie, but that fell done due to the fact that of scheduling issues, starring the twins to refocus their efforts connected their comfortableness zone: discomforting, low-budget fearfulness films. Reviews for Bring Her Back, including IGN’s, person skewed positive, though with possibly not rather arsenic unanimous praise arsenic Talk To Me received.

Starring Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt and newcomer Sora Wong, Bring Her Back is precocious connected gore and unsettling implications, but it besides leaves a fewer excessively galore things unexplained. Let’s dive successful and research each the details and questions we person astir Bring Her Back.

Bring Her Back Ending Explained

If you’ve ever had concerns astir the foster location system, Bring Her Back isn’t going to allay them. The movie stars Sora Wong arsenic Piper and Billy Barratt arsenic Andy, an Australian younger stepsister and older stepbrother duo who are placed successful foster attraction aft the decease of their father. Despite primitively intending to spot them successful abstracted homes, Andy succeeds successful convincing their caseworker Wendy (Sally-Anne Upton) to support the brace unneurotic by emphasizing Piper’s blindness. With lone 3 months until helium turns 18, Andy plans to use for guardianship of Piper erstwhile helium comes of property truthful the brace tin unrecorded connected their own. Seems casual enough, until Sally Hawkins’ Laura comes into the representation arsenic their caller foster mother.

Initially presenting herself arsenic a kind, impermanent solution to Andy and Piper’s problems, Laura has respective reddish flags flying implicit her head. She’s taking attraction of different child, Oliver, who doesn’t talk and seems to person unresolved convulsive tendencies. She is perpetually dismissive of Andy portion doting connected Piper. She lets the kids get drunk aft their father’s ceremonial conscionable due to the fact that it volition beryllium fun. And it rapidly becomes wide she’s trying to messiness with Andy’s caput by pouring her ain urine onto his sleeping assemblage truthful helium thinks he’s wetting the bed. Anyone who’s seen a movie earlier volition beryllium capable to archer Laura is atrocious quality wrong her archetypal fewer minutes of screentime, and if you were waiting for a twist connected that… well, no, determination isn’t one.
The large uncover present is that Laura is performing immoderate benignant of Satanic ritual she got disconnected a VHS portion (do they conscionable merchantability those astatine the country store down successful Australia?) that volition let her to resurrect the psyche of her deceased biologic girl Cathy. Apparently you request 3 bodies to bash it: the assemblage of the idiosyncratic you’re trying to resurrect (Cathy, being kept successful a freezer successful Laura’s shed), the idiosyncratic you’re going to enactment the psyche into (Piper, who is unsighted conscionable similar Cathy), and an intermediary successful which to store the psyche until the transportation is acceptable (Oliver, which is wherefore he’s mute and besides voraciously hungry). The movie is fuzzy connected the details, but it appears that the intended vas to instrumentality successful the psyche needs to beryllium akin to the deceased and besides needs to dice successful the aforesaid way, here, meaning drowning successful Laura’s pool. But Laura archetypal needs to get escaped of Andy, truthful she frames him for attacking Piper successful her sleep.
Despite having a troubled past, Andy insists to Wendy that Laura is up to nary good. Wendy and Andy spell backmost to Laura’s place, wherever Oliver has gone disconnected the rails with hunger. He’s eaten each the nutrient successful the house, chowed down connected the woody countertop, and adjacent taken bites retired of Laura’s limb (and his own, for bully measure). Wendy notices that Laura is bleeding erstwhile she arrives, starring Laura to freak retired and request that Wendy fto her decorativeness what she’s doing truthful Cathy tin beryllium resurrected. When it becomes wide that Wendy and Andy volition exposure her, Laura runs some of them implicit with her car, sidesplitting Wendy instantly, and past drowns an incapacitated Andy successful a puddle successful her driveway.

Laura goes to execute the ritual, which involves Oliver eating pieces of Cathy’s corpse that look to incorporate her psyche (?). Laura past takes Piper and tries to drown her successful the pool. But she stops astatine the past 2nd due to the fact that a struggling Piper calls retired “Mom!”, seemingly awakening immoderate level of remorse successful her. Piper escapes, moving retired to the roadworthy wherever immoderate passersby find her. Oliver, who is simply a missing kid that Laura kidnapped, vomits up immoderate brownish fluid (the soul, we guess) and returns to mean arsenic constabulary find him. Laura past takes what remains of Cathy’s assemblage and cradles it successful the excavation arsenic the authorities raid her house. The end.

Does Bring Her Back Have a Post-Credits Scene?

As mentioned above, Bring Her Back has nary mid- oregon post-credits scenes. You're escaped to permission the theatre erstwhile the credits commencement rolling. Those expecting immoderate benignant of last twist oregon adjacent a tease for the Phillipous' adjacent task (similar to what Osgood Perkins did successful The Monkey), whitethorn travel distant disappointed. That's each determination is.

Wait, Is That It?

The biggest astonishment of Bring Her Back is that determination isn’t overmuch of a astonishment astatine all. Just going by the premise and title, the nonstop movie you’re apt expecting is what takes place. A acheronian maternal fig is driven to unthinkable unit by her grief implicit a mislaid child, intending to resurrect them adjacent if it means sidesplitting different children. The movie doesn’t elaborate connected Laura overmuch extracurricular of her past arsenic a counselor, which is simply a item that’s seemingly lone determination truthful we tin person a country wherever Andy lowers his defender and tells much of his backstory to her. Andy and Piper’s begetter being abusive and Andy hitting Piper erstwhile once she was younger are besides conscionable thrown successful but not afloat dealt with wrong the narrative.

We’re besides funny astir what this ritual entails and however it each works. We tin broadly conjecture astatine the mechanics based connected grounds successful the film, similar Oliver not being allowed to permission an country designated by a achromatic painted ellipse astir Laura’s property. But wherefore is Oliver truthful hungry, to the constituent of chomping down connected wood and a steak knife? Doesn’t helium conscionable request to devour portion of Cathy to get the soul? Speaking of which, wherefore does helium lone devour a tiny portion of Cathy and not the full corpse? And if he’s truthful violently bare to the constituent of attacking Laura and adjacent eating portion of his ain arm, however has Laura kept him nether power each this time? And if he’s truthful important to Laura’s plans, wherefore did she ever permission Oliver location unsocial with Andy? That past 1 was seemingly lone done truthful that Andy (and the audience) tin larn however messed up Oliver is by trying to devour the steak knife, but it makes nary consciousness fixed Laura’s motivations.

Perhaps these questions were answered successful deleted scenes, oregon possibly we’re reasoning excessively hard astir it. After all, it seems that Bring Her Back is much funny successful freaking its assemblage retired than making definite each of its logic is consistent. Either way, the movie is creepy and gory capable that we’re funny to spot what comes adjacent from these up-and-coming fearfulness filmmakers.

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Carlos Morales writes novels, articles and Mass Effect essays. You tin travel his fixations connected Twitter.