47 Meters Down Dark Twist Ending Explained
The movie 47 Meters Down ends with a dark and unforeseen twist — here's an explanation for what really happens at the shocking conclusion. When it comes to horror movies featuring sharks, Jaws is still the one to beat. The combination of Steven Spielberg's direction, John Williams' memorable score, the lead performances, and the editing make it one of the scariest films ever made. The subgenre hasn't had many classics since then, with Jaws 2 being a respectable follow-up, while Deep Blue Sea is considered a delightful guilty pleasure.
However, shark movies did get a bit of a boost in the last decade due to the surprise success of The Shallows and 2018's The Meg, which pit Jasons Statham against a giant prehistoric shark. Following two sisters' survival intertwined with beastly sharks and a diving misadventure where the two women never could've known what to expect, 47 Meters Down finds Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt) stranded in a cage at the bottom of the ocean floor surrounded by hungry sharks. Right until its ending, the film is a taut, suspenseful thriller, and also features a number of great jump scares. The movie was prematurely released straight to DVD under the alternate title In The Deep by the original distributor; while these discs were quickly recalled, copies of the movie under this other title have become collector's items.
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The project was directed by Johannes Roberts and is notable for a surprise twist that reframes the ending. In some of 47 Meters Down's final scenes, Lisa finds herself alone in the cage after Kate is seemingly killed by a shark. Lisa's leg is pinned and she's breathing air from a new oxygen tank that
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