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Netflix’s New Body-Swapping Horror Movie Didn’t Need a Twist Ending
It’s What’s Inside is a blast from beginning to end, but its final act would be even freakier if it let viewers in on the joke.
Netflix’s coked-up, neon-tinted new horror movie, which first premiered in Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight selection this January, is an instant-classic entry into the “ party games from hell ” subgenre. It turns out, it’s his sister, Beatrice (Madison Davenport), who stole his body to get her revenge after that awful night in college, and the lies the group told afterward, got her sent to a mental hospital. Putting aside the stickiness of using the age-old “mental hospital” trope — a beloved, if dated hallmark of the horror genre — the real issue with this twist is that it robs us of even more potential drama.
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