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Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Year
2024
Country
USA
Runtime
106 min

Also released as

  • Good Grades
  • Trap - No Way Out
  • Terperangkap
  • Armadilha
  • La trampa
  • 圈套
  • 陷阱

Trap

Trap is a 2024 American psychological horror film directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Shyamalan's high-concept swing: a serial killer takes his daughter to a pop concert that is a police trap for him.

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A devoted father brings his teenage daughter to a stadium show by a pop star. He gradually realises the entire event is an operation to catch a killer called The Butcher, and that he is The Butcher.

Shyamalan flips the structure: the audience knows within twenty minutes, and the film becomes a suspense piece about whether he can get out of a sealed arena with thousands of police, played almost entirely from the killer's point of view.

Josh Hartnett is the whole film and is truly charismatic as a monster maintaining a dad's smile.

The concert is real enough that Shyamalan cast his own daughter as the pop star and had her perform a full set.

The second half, once it leaves the arena, is weaker than the first, which is the common Shyamalan problem. The first hour is one of his best ideas.

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