Of all the upcoming horror movies landing in theaters and on streaming in 2024, few come fully embedded with expectations in the way that M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap does. The serial killer thriller is the director’s follow-up to 2023’s polarizing Knock at the Cabin , though he did executive produce daughter Ishana Shyamalan’s woodsy thriller The Watchers in the meantime.
The concert-set Trap sounds like a fairly straightforward high-concept premise on the surface, but its first trailer indicated a more complex game of cat and mouse will be on display. Now we have the second full promo, which goes all in on showing audiences that Josh Hartnett ’s seemingly happy daddy Cooper is the film’s illicit killer, a sorta-twist that the first trailer hinted at . So with that plot point made all the more obvious in trailer #2, seen below, one has to wonder what Trap ’s actual twist(s?) will end up being.
So join me below in taking a few possibly hyperbolic shots in the dark at guessing what M. Night Shyamalan has in store for us with his latest big screen “experience.” Both of those details seem like huge reveals for a movie that we didn't know squat about in the months leading up to the first trailer's release.
However, it's easy to imagine that any other non-Shyamalan movie would have made those details clear from the jump, which makes it easier to contextualize those as not-entirely-spoilery reveals. Now from those presumable facts we jump into completely speculative .