Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Allison Pill
OUR RATING: ★★★½
Story: Thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Trap (2024) centers on a father, Cooper (Josh Hartnett) and teen daughter, Riley (Ariel Donoghue) who attend a pop concert, but soon realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.
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Best Chilling Trap Quotes
Cooper: We’re not going to break any laws, Riley. We’ll get there when you wanted to get there. I promise. Trust me.
Cooper: Don’t let people fool you.
Riley: This is literally the best day of my life!
Jamie: [to Cooper] You guys are good family. Good values and stuff. Trust me, you don’t see that.
Jamie: [to Cooper] You know the Butcher? That fricking nutjob that goes around just chopping people up? Well, the feds or whatever heard that he’s going to be here today. So they set up a trap for him. This whole concert, it’s a trap. They’re watching all the exits. They’re checking everyone that leaves. There’s no way to get out of here. except backstage, I guess. But no one can get backstage. Yeah. See? It’s kind of dope, right?
Cooper: This concert is crispy.
Jamie: [to Cooper, referring to the Butcher] You know, I’m kind of obsessed with him.
Jamie: [to Cooper, referring to the Butcher] This dude is next-level insane.
Jody’s Mom: Don’t mess with me, Cooper. I’m not someone to be provoked. I have a dark side. You don’t want to see it.
Dr. Josephine Grant: Our person won’t panic. He’s here and he’s trying to figure out a way out.
Dr. Josephine Grant: He’s realized he can’t get out. He’s going to try to cause a panic. He’s going to use the chaos of twenty thousand people to get by us.
Riley: Dad! What are you doing? You’re acting weird. Is something wrong?
Cooper: [referring to Lady Raven] Every teenager in here is devoted to her. She could start a cult. And they’re hanging on her every word. Must be something to be that loved, right?
Tour Manager: [to Cooper] Your daughter’s never going to forget this day.
Dr. Josephine Grant: One of you is going to be talking to the Butcher in the next twenty minutes. You may count on it.
Dr. Josephine Grant: He’s playing his hand very well. But this is an inevitability.
Dr. Josephine Grant: We will catch him. He’s out of moves.
Cooper: [to Lady Raven] The reason I wanted to talk to you is, I think you’re looking for me. I mean, all of you.
Cooper: You caught me. I admit it. But you can save him. I’ll let him go if you do one thing.
Cooper: Save him. Catch me.
Cooper: I’m in control.
Lady Raven: [referring to the Butcher] He’s what’s called an organized offender. Probably OCD.
Lady Raven: [referring to the Butcher] He was a man who had a scarring relationship with his mother. She was probably the first person to sense he was different.
Lady Raven: Rachel, listen to me. Your husband is the Butcher. Cooper is the Butcher!
Lady Raven: There’s a way to be a good boy, Cooper. There’s a way to turn yourself good.
Cooper: Well, that’s just not true.
Lady Raven: You can choose to be good, Cooper, and make everyone proud. The way you did when you were little. You sometimes did good things.
Cooper: I’ll just do this one last one. And then I’ll kill myself. It’s the only way to stop the monster.
Lady Raven: Monsters aren’t real.
Cooper: [sarcastically] Yes, they are. Mom.
Cooper: Never looked at this place through that lens. Never let the two lives touch.
Cooper: When I saw you waiting behind the curtain on stage, I got the urge. It’s strange when I get the urge. I think it’s when I see someone who thinks they’re whole. That could never be true. Everyone’s in pieces.
Dr. Josephine Grant: This individual is not a projection of our fears. He is real, comfortable and thriving. He doesn’t set off warning signals in our nervous system, but he is profoundly different. A parent might have sensed this at the beginning, but no one else after could.
Cooper: [to Rachel] You always stand with your left hand on your hip like it’s holding you up. It’s funny how we knew each other so well. I guess we know things without knowing them.
Cooper: I’m not great at a lot of things Rachel, but keeping my two lives separate is not one of them.
Cooper: Maybe the trap wasn’t set there at the concert. Maybe it was set here.
Rachel: [to Cooper] I saw you make up a lie once. To our neighbor. About why we couldn’t come to his party. He sort of surprised us at our car. You lied so convincingly, so honestly off the top of your head right in front of me. No one would ever know you were lying. It gave me chills. I thought, “Where did he learn to do that?”
Rachel: You’re not okay, Cooper.
Cooper: I know that. We could have managed.
Cooper: I feel such rage toward you, Rachel. I’ve never felt this before. That’s different. That’s about being seen by them. At the end, the way they look at me, it strangely gives me peace. There’s almost no darkness in it at all.
Cooper: [to Rachel] This is pure anger. It’s so unfamiliar. It’s like it’s eating me from the inside. I feel out of control.
Cooper: [to Rachel] But it’s why I’m angry that’s amazing. It’s because I won’t see Riley and Logan again. Because of you, I won’t get to see them grow up. And that’s overwhelming me. Because it’s going to end in the average way. A headline of murder-suicide.
Cooper’s Mother: [hallucinating his mother] Not all of you is a monster.
Cooper: Not all.
Cooper’s Mother: You’re my son. And this is who you are. End of story. It’s good it’s over. It’s good you’re stopping the monster. Let see me you one last time. I accept you.
Jamie: [mid-credit lines, after seeing Cooper is the Butcher on the news] That’s Cooper! Oh! I helped him! I helped him! I ain’t talking to nobody at work no more! I ain’t talking to nobody! Nobody!