Trap(2023)

Submitted by Jeremy

Cooper Adams (Josh Hartnett) is taking his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert for her favorite artist, Lady Raven (Saleka Shyamalan). The arena is surrounded by a heavy police presence, since they were tipped off that a serial killer known as “The Butcher” will be in attendance. Cooper himself is The Butcher, and he is currently keeping an arena employee, Spencer, hostage in one of the houses he uses for his crimes. Cooper does what he can to try and find a safe exit, since the police are working with FBI profiler Dr. Josephine Grant (Hayley Mills) to catch him.

Cooper gets Lady Raven to select Riley to join her onstage during a song. When he learns that every male visitor will be checked before leaving, Cooper reveals himself to Raven and forces her to escort them home in her limo, or he will kill Spencer by releasing carbon monoxide into the room he is held in. Raven joins Cooper and Riley at their house with wife/mom Rachel (Alison Pill) and son/brother Logan. She manages to take Cooper’s phone and find out Spencer’s whereabouts after talking to him and then using a livestream to get her fans to locate him. Cooper tries to get away with Raven, but the police go after him. She is recovered and also meets with Spencer after he is safe.

The “twist” is that Rachel already knew her husband was up to something since he was showing unusual behavior that she mistook for an affair. She found one of the houses, which were buildings condemned for fire hazards (Cooper is a firefighter), and planted a ticket receipt for the concert there before tipping off the police. Cooper prepares to kill her, but Rachel convinces him to eat a slice of pie that she had laced with drugs. Cooper starts to lose consciousness before police taze and capture him.

Riley tearfully hugs her father goodbye as he is arrested. However, Cooper has taken a spoke off Riley’s old bike, and he uses it to pick the locks on his cuffs to escape once again.