Seven years ago, Split by M. Night Shyamalan was released, in which James McAvoy plays a main character with multiple personality disorders. When the horror thriller started back then, hardly anyone knew that it was a Link to an older film by the director would turn out.
Split, which runs on ZDF from Saturday to Sunday, shines with the star’s frightening performance and turns Unbreakable into a trilogy with Bruce Willis.
That’s what Split is all about
In the story of Shyamalan’s horror thriller, McAvoy (X-Men Days of Future Past) plays the protagonist Kevin, who believes he has 23 different identities in total. At the beginning of the film, he kidnaps several teenage girls (including Anya Taylor-Joy from The Queen’s Gambit) to sacrifice them to his most dangerous personality, which he only describes as a beast.
Split not only captivates as Horror thriller with a haunting conceptbut above all scores with the acting performance of the main actor, who frighteningly switches back and forth between the different personalities in his head.
The ending of Split starts a trilogy
Shyamalan saves his film’s biggest surprise until just before the credits roll. Here’s a Philadelphia diner where a newscast is reporting on the actions of the Split protagonist. In the diner sits surprisingly Bruce Willis as David Dunn aka Mr. Glass, whom fans will recognize immediately from 2000’s Unbreakable. Split turns out to be a movie from the same universe.
Shortly after Split, the director then announced that both films would be combined into a trilogy in a grand finale. The flick, titled Glass, eventually hit theaters in 2019.
Split will from August 25 to August 26 at 01:00 broadcast at night on ZDF. If that’s too late for you, you can currently stream the horror thriller with a Netflix subscription, for example.
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