This didn’t eliminate his presence, as he would still silently communicate with the young girl, but over time he faded to the background.Īfter many years, what changed to allows Gabriel’s return were two things, both tied to Madison’s relationship with her abusive husband, Derek. What existed of Gabriel’s head was also cut away, and whatever remained was stitched up inside Madison’s skull. When Madison/Gabriel was born, the latter was born with his own arms (which stuck out of the former’s back), and those were surgically removed. Florence Weaver eventually made the call to excise the malignancy from the innocent young girl – or as she specifically puts it, “cuts out the cancer.”

Gabriel isn’t actually another person, but instead a parasitic twin attached to Madison’s back who has developed supernatural abilities and has lain dormant for years regaining strength and waiting for a proper moment to return.ĭoctors spent years working with Madison and Gabriel at the research hospital trying to forge a healthy relationship between them, but that proved impossible as Gabriel’s inherent malevolence ostensibly poisoned Madison’s mind, and he would manipulate her so that she would do terrible things. Throughout Malignant it seems like Madison is being haunted by a malcontent and murderous monster from her past, and that turns out to be true – but what isn’t revealed until the third act of the film is that the killer is sharing the protagonist’s body (and it’s not just a cliché case of dissociative identity disorder). Given the complexity of the way things play out in the Malignant ending, we figured we would put together this guide to help explain all of the details, so (assuming you’ve already seen it) let’s do a quick recap of what actually happens in the final scenes of the feature: The secrets and twists in the new release have been kept well-hidden for months, with enigmatic marketing working to hide key details of the plot – but now the film is playing in theaters and on HBO Max, and movie-goers/streamers are experiencing one hell of a cinematic punch. It’s become a part of what we expect from Wan’s work – though even that expectation wasn’t enough to totally prepare us for what unfolds in the third act of his latest movie, Malignant. It all began when Tobin Bell’s presumed-dead John Kramer got up off the bathroom floor at the end of Saw, and since then the director has impressed us with big shocks at the end of films like Dead Silence, Insidious, and The Conjuring 2. James Wan has been consistently scaring and surprising audiences ever since the start of his career.

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