She manages to shoot "The Beast" twice before running out of ammo, but he only sustains minor wounds. While Patricia returns control to "The Beast," Casey retrieves the shotgun and a box of cartridges and escapes into a tunnel. She tells Casey that "Kevin" has been made to sleep far away and will not awaken now even if his name is called. This prompts all 24 personalities to fight for control, with Patricia the victor. Upon learning of the situation and realizing that he has not been in control of his own body for two years, the horrified Kevin begs Casey to kill him with a shotgun he has hidden. He savagely feeds upon and kills Claire and Marcia before approaching Casey, but she calls out Kevin's full name, which brings forth his original personality. Fletcher for her help, and crushes her to death. "The Beast," who displays enhanced strength and animalistic tendencies, returns to his lair, thanks Dr. Then he goes to the train station and boards an empty train car, where "The Beast" takes over. Fletcher goes to the zoo to talk to Dennis when he claims to have made contact with "The Beast," in reality a yet-to-manifest 24th personality, but she discovers Claire, so Dennis incapacitates the doctor and locks her up. The girls try to escape by going through the vents, manipulating Kevin's alters, and communicating with another individual via a walkie-talkie, but all of their attempts end in failure.ĭr. He imprisons the girls in a secret underground lair beneath the Philadelphia Zoo, where they meet Patricia, who protects the girls from Dennis to save them for "The Beast," and a 9-year-old boy alter named "Hedwig," revealed to be the true dominant alter, whom Patricia and Dennis are manipulating to shut out the other alters. Just outside Philadelphia, Dennis kidnaps three girls - Claire, Casey and Marcia - when they are waiting in the car of Claire's father to get driven home from a birthday party. Fletcher is concerned when she realizes that "Dennis" has been impersonating "Barry" during their sessions after questioning him about an incident wherein Dennis had been left disturbed when two teenage girls had placed his hands on their breasts while drunk. The most dominant of the desirable alters, "Barry," has been in control of deciding which personalities get to control Kevin's body, and lately he has not allowed "Dennis" or "Patricia" to have a turn due to the former's tendency to harass young girls and the latter's belief in a mysterious entity called "The Beast" who plans to rid the world of the "impure," that is, those who have not suffered. Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man struggling with dissociative identity disorder (DID) rooted in his history of childhood abuse and abandonment, has been managing living with his 23 distinct personalities well for several years with help from his therapist, Dr. The 2019 film Glass, which combined the casts and characters of both previous films, concluded Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy. Commentators dubbed Split the first-ever "stealth sequel", and the first solo supervillain origin film. Split is a standalone sequel to Shyamalan's 2000 film Unbreakable although not marketed as such, instead saving the revelation for a scene featuring Bruce Willis reprising his Unbreakable role in an uncredited cameo. Split was a commercial success, grossing $278 million worldwide on a budget of $9 million. Some mental health advocates criticized the film for its stigmatization of mental illness. It received generally positive reviews critics highly praised McAvoy's performance, and welcomed Shyamalan's direction. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 26, 2016, and was released in the United States on January 20, 2017, by Universal Pictures. Principal photography began on November 11, 2015, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film follows a man with dissociative identity disorder who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. Night Shyamalan, and starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Betty Buckley. Split is a 2016 American psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by M.
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