PLOT SUMMARY: When Finn discovers an unknown organism in his prescribed capsules, he learns a dark secret that threatens to drive him insane.
When faced with danger from something powerful and unknown, how would you react? Would you live in fear, anxiety, cry all the time or do something that you wouldn't have the courage to when you had the time?
For Finn, Lena and Samira, it takes a dangerous event for them to realize they need to get closer to each other and what makes more sense than having a threesome?
THE PRIVILEGE Movie Plot
A young boy is playing videogames when he hears growling sounds from upstairs. He heads upstairs to his sister's room and is shocked to find Anna bleeding from the mouth and holding a knife. She keeps telling him there's something after her and they must run.
Finn thinks she's crazy but goes along with her anyway. They run outside to the car and Finn thinks he sees a shadowy figure after them. They drive to a bridge where Anna tells Finn that the only way to escape the assailant is to jump. Finn still can't see anyone and as much as he admires his elder sister, he isn't about to jump. So when she tugs his leg, he gives her one swift kick to her face. Bye!
Anna falls down to her death while Finn gets so traumatised by his kicking that he needs to see a therapist that just happens to be his crush, Samira's mom. She prescribes him some special capsules that Finn doesn't bother to look at. He goes downstairs to tell his sister about the new capsules and that she can go in now and get her own ration.
At school, Finn is making his crush on Samira obvious. Samira too is showing her interest by smiling and flicking her hair. Lena, Finn's pink haired friend, warns him that if he doesn't ask her out, she will. It doesn't matter what Samira is into. In high school, anything goes.
In biology class, the teacher is droning about insects but the students only develop an interest after she tells them about a fungus that can zombify an insect. That holds some interest but not for Finn who keeps looking at Samira. Lena takes his phone and texts Samira about going to the party Leander is throwing. How is it that in high school movies, every student has each other's number?
Samira turns around and grins. She has pretty much written on her face that she wants Finn to ask her out but he's still too shy.
At the party, Leander doesn't think Finn is having enough fun and gives him a toy milk bottle filled with drugs. He considers taking it when Lena decides to make a move on Samira to get Finn moving. Watching Lena and Samira twerk and push against each other is enough motivation for Finn to chug down the drugs. The drug takes immediate effect and he sees Samira and Lena making out. Everyone else is suddenly covered in blood. He freaks out and goes home, annoyed with his friend.
The next morning, he's given green goo to drink and told to visit his grandfather. His grandfather calls his grandson handsome and Finn then asks him about supernatural things. His grandfather remarks about a young boy that was healed via an exorcism.
Later on, Finn wakes up in the middle of the night to find his family in ceremonial Green robes and an elderly woman with them.
He creeps around the house and goes outside to see the elderly woman stripping naked and approaching Finn's twin sister, Sophie. She remarks about her and Sophie's youth, echoing Get Out's premise. Eventually Sophie is told to pull down her robes and the elderly woman touches her.
Finn is about to approach them with an axe when he is knocked out. When he comes to, his family has surrounded him.
He goes straight to Sophie and expresses his concern for him. She disparages him while his parents too remark about his mental health and that he was sleepwalking.
He talks to Lena who assures him she didn't make out with Samira and that he has been hallucinating.
The next morning, Finn wakes up to see his sister behind a frosted glass, trying to call for help while blood smears everywhere.
He opens the door and Sophie is there, changing her clothes. She gets pissed off at Finn and tells him to leave.
At school, Sophie breaks up with her boyfriend and then at gym class, suffers a nosebleed and collapses.
At home Finn witnesses Sophie use her telekinetic powers to pull a cup towards her. He wonders if it is real or he's hallucinating.
Sophie's boyfriend shows up and he is turned away. He later texts Finn saying he and his sister is in danger and that he needs to meet him at the diner.
Finn is of course late enough for a malicious woman to come first and lure the boyfriend to the carwash and kill him. The incident is labelled a suicide and when Finn presses on the police tell him they know about the drugs in the party at the empty pool. Finn shuts up.
He wonders about the new medication he's taking and just when he's about to pop one in his mouth, he notices something inside. He uses a switchblade to cut it open. It's okay. He's a high school student and can have weapons. All kids have to have them.
He fishes out what looks like a worm in it. He decides to take it to his biology teacher who inspects it under the microscope and identifies it as a rare fungus that grows on dead bodies. She gives him a card of for someone called Eliska who can help him further.
Lena gets Finn to ask Samira to help him study and she agrees to come over to his house.
They head over to the place and a man will only let them see his mother for a price. Eliska comes over and the first thing she does is hold Finn's hand so she can have a vision of Anna falling to her death. She inspects the fungus and tells him that upon consuming it, a gateway opens to let the demons in. When he tells her that his sister consumed it to, Eliska suspects her symptoms are more serious and asks if she has cuts on her arms. Finn starts to get freaked out the minute the word Exorcism is used. He races out.
Finn is told to go see his grandfather who is having surgery. During the operation, Finn notices a swarm of black insects coming out of the incision. Finn freaks out and bangs the glass to get the doctors' attention. In the process the glass shatters and he cuts his hand.
A nurse comes in to reprimand him and he realizes that all of it was a hallucination.
He calls his parents and reaches home to find Samira there. Finn has already called Eliska for help and doesn't want his crush to be there. He tries to get her to leave when Lena comes in. Finn asks how she got in through the security gates and she shrugs and tells him she jumped the gate.
Later Eliska and her son also arrive and again they surpassed the security somehow. Finn wonders how rich and privileged he and his family really are if just about anyone can enter their home.
Samira is pulled into taking part in the ritual. The seance begins and the demon appears but as per Eliska's instructions they don't look at it. Just then the demon attacks Eliska by going for her face.
The lights come on and it's Finn's parents outraged with the fact that their son was performing a seance in their house. Finn clearly was under the impression that since his parents could hold rituals as per his dream/hallucination/vision, he could too.
His parents practically throw everyone out of the house even as Eliska screams that the ritual must be completed in order to banish the demon.
Everyone uses the backdoor, leaving the way they came in. The security system does nothing again. Finn goes after Lena and Samira against his parent's wishes.
They go back to the empty pool area where Samira whines about her future now that the demon may come after them. Finn consoles her but Samira has other ideas. She wants to make love to him. She can't send Lena away because there's no other place to go for her so she includes her in the session.
A gratuitous threesome takes place. After that Samira wakes up to utter sweet things to Finn not realizing it isn't him but the very demon they have all been trying to escape. Finn comes up innocently to confirm that Samira has been trying to sweet talk a demon. She turns, shrieks and jumps out of bed. There are marks on her arm.
They decide to seek Eliska's help but she's had enough of being scratched by demons and left the night before as per the landlord who offers teens a greenhouse to rent. Of course they don't have that sort of pocket money yet or think it's lame to own a greenhouse. They leave and come up with an ingenious plan to apologize to their parents and keep a low profile.
It's all Samira's idea as her mother is a psychiatrist and therefore she knows exactly how to manipulate people. The other two agree quickly. Samira has worked her charm and tricks.
At school, Finn is apologising to his parents while at the same time, telling them to not let Sophie take the medicine. His parents don't take too kindly to that. It us then that Finn notices Leander being sick and vomiting something that is identical to the goo he vomited before. Finn suspects the same fungus behind Leander's changed behaviour.
He tries to be nice to him but is practically told to get lost.
Later, Finn is talking to his friends when Samira notices Leander on top of the roof. Leander uses his knife on his mouth, remarks about wanting to get it out of him. Leander has a deja vu moment and remembers Anna.
The next instant, Leander jumps off the building. The ambulance is called which arrives promptly for a change in a horror movie. Finn and Samira get inside while the EMTs remove a fungus from inside Leander's mouth. They reach the hospital and Leander's father arrives.
Leander tells Finn about a folder. Luckily they picked up his bag and rummage through it to find files. They discover files that show that pretty much everyone is either adopted or sold to the families, in the case of Samira.
Leander's father comes over to tell them his son has died. He doesn't seem too broken up about it and confirms that Leander was adopted. He tells Finn that he and his father were adopted too and saved by his grandfather.
Meanwhile Lena is feeling leftout and not being able to join her partners in crime and comes up with a plan to make herself useful by following up on a marketing event for the very capsules that Finn found the fungus in. Lena just has to wear a hat and a coat and is instantly whisked inside and treated as an investor. She finds Finn's parents are the head of the event and is shocked.
She creeps into the basement and sees several corpses with fungus growing out of their mouths, including Eliska who hadn't run away after all but was captured, no doubt by Finn's father.
She leaves when Finn's father notices her and is approached by the same woman who killed Sophie's boyfriend. Fortunately, Lena drives away before she can be the next victim.
THE PRIVILEGE/ DAS PRIVILEG Ending Explained with Spoilers!
At the hospital, Finn and Samira are leaving when Finn passes by his grandfather's room just in time to see him suffer a heart attack and die. Before they can make sense of what is happening, they are kidnapped and the two awaken to find themselves all tied up and Samira's mother being all villain-like.
Finn is in a wheelchair and Samira's mother takes him down the passage into a room where his entire family is waiting in ceremonial robes.
On the side is the grandfather. Finn's parents reveal that he has the privilege of serving his grandfather and letting the old man inhabit his body, an idea they got after watching GET OUT.
Finn obviously tries to revolt but has his head strapped down too. His mouth is held open and a knife jabbed inside.
The next instant his grandfather awakens and climbs on top of Finn. He opens his mouth and a swarm of black insects come out and try to get inside Finn.
But Finn has nothing to worry about. His friend Lena has arrived just in time to untie Samira, and then comes downstairs to find Finn's family looking up with glowing eyes. They are in a trance and Lena finds it to be the perfect opportunity to douse them with gasoline and light them on fire. She frees Finn who is no doubt glad to have a friend like her.
The trio escape in a car only for Sophie to stand in front of them, her face half-burned, muttering about her life that needs to be saved. Finn advises Lena to do what he did with Anna, push her away but with her car. Sophie is run over.
The trio end up at the bridge after the brakes fail and Samira crashes the car at the guardrails. The demon was trying to use the air conditioner vents to infiltrate the trio when Samira was crashing the car.
Finn awakens to find Samira unconscious. He saves himself first while Lena pulls herself out, not waiting for a Knight in shining armor. Samira has to be pulled out just as the car topples over and explodes.
They decide to start a new life elsewhere. Samira likes the idea and she and Finn kiss. Lena stands by awkwardly wondering if the threesome was a one time thing or not. She tells them to stop and to keep moving.
They see a billboard for an advertisement of the same capsules Finn took. Just like him, no one else is going to notices something floating in the capsules?
The three believe they will never be able to trust anyone again.
Samira hangs back just a bit so that she can turn around and show the audience her milky eyes. Finn and Lena can't trust anyone? Maybe they should start by not trusting Samira.
The movie ends with a weird cliffhanger. I mean, Finn saw the demon try to attack them through the vents. What did he think happened to the demon then?
Didn't he wonder for even a second whether one of them breathed the demon in?
The movie was actually a little decent although some of the scenes bordered on ridiculousness, especially the scene where Finn's guests keep getting in past the security gates. Poor Finn was using the security gates like a normal person while literally everyone else was climbing gates and trespassing.
Scare Scale: 3/5
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