Netflix's In the Tall Grass Ending Explained
Vincenzo Natali's new horror film In the Tall Grass has a substantially different ending from the novella it's based on; here's In the Tall Grass' ending explained. Written by Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill, In the Tall Grass was originally published in two parts inEsquire magazine. The novel version of In the Tall Grass tells the story of a brother and sister who are lured into a field of tall grass by a boy's cries for help. Once inside, they become separated and discover that the tall grass is twisting space and moving them around, making it impossible for them to either find each other or escape.
Released on Netflix, In the Tall Grass stars Laysla de Oliveira and Avery Whitted as Becky and Cal DeMuth, siblings who are on a road trip to San Diego. Unlike the original Stephen King In the Tall Grass short story, the movie also introduces Travis (Harrison Gilbertson), the father of Becky's baby, who wasn't interested in being a father but goes looking for Becky after she goes missing. Also lost in the tall grass are Ross (Patrick Wilson), Nathalie (Rachel Wilson), and Tobin Humboldt (Will Buie Jr.), a family who were lured into the grass by Travis' voice, and who in turn lured Becky and Cal in.
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In the Tall Grass' ending left viewers wondering what it all means. In the Stephen King movie adaptation, the grass manipulates not only space but time as well: The three parties who enter the tall grass are trapped in a time loop wherein they keep following each other's voices (or, in Travis' case, Becky's lost copy of Jane Eyre) into the field. Inside this time loop, they die over and over again, killed by Ross Humboldt, and their only hope of redemption in In The
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