Apostle’s Ending Explained
In Gareth Evans’ new Netflix horror film, Dan Stevens plays a man seeking to rescue his sister from a religious cult on a remote island.
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Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Apostle
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Apostle’s ending is not for the faint of heart – and it’s even darker after we’ve explained it. In Gareth Evans’ new Netflix horror film, Dan Stevens plays Thomas Richardson, a tormented man who goes to rescue his sister from a religious cult located on a remote island. Led by a self-proclaimed prophet called Malcolm (Michael Sheen), the cult worships a mysterious deity who lives on the island, but failing harvests and stillborn livestock have pushed their resources to breaking point.
In Apostle, Thomas begins covertly searching the island and learning about its dark secrets. Meanwhile, devoted young couple Jeremy (Bill Milner) and Ffion (Kristine Froseth) try to find a way to be together underneath the strict tenets of the cult – an effort that ends in tragedy and sparks discord between the settlement’s founders.
Related: Watch The Trailer For Apostle
As Thomas searches for a way to free his sister, chaos escalates and we careen towards Apostle’s ending. Let’s breakdown the movie’s weird mythology, the god at the heart of Erisden, and how the movie ends.
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The God Of Erisden In Apostle Explained
Referred to only as “Her” in Apostle’s end credits, the god appears as a pale-skinned woman with a hunger for flesh and blood. When the founders of the cult – Malcolm, Frank (Paul Higgins), and Quinn (Mark Lewis Jones) – arrived on the island after fleeing persecution for their beliefs, Quinn discovered cave paintings on the island that revealed the nature of the god and how she “works.” The paintings are marked with the word “Exodus” – a reference to the book of the Bible in which Moses leads his people out of slavery to the promised land. It’s unclear who made these paintings, but the implication is that the people of Erisden are not the first to come to the island and worship this god.
Throughout Apostle, paintings show the god being worshipped atop a fire and given sacrificial offerings in exchange for bountiful harvests, but the three men perverted this ritual by keeping the god a prisoner and force-feeding her with a funnel, essentially treating her like a “machine.” As a result, the island’s harvests have become poisoned and their animals cannot have live births, pushing the community to the brink of starvation. Believing that the problem is the nature of the sacrifices (rather than how they are offered), Malcolm has begun offering her human blood instead of animal blood, but Quinn believes that they need to start sacrificing people in order to satiate her.
The god appears to have two forms: one which is held prisoner in a barn and force-fed blood and entrails, and another that wanders the island in search of food, but has been rendered weak by captivity. Early in the film we see that the cult has a ritual practice of bloodletting, with each of the devotees filling a jar with their blood and placing it outside their bedroom doors at night as an offering to the god. When Thomas accidentally cuts his finger and spills a few drops of blood, the god appears beneath the floorboards, desperately trying to lap up a few drops of blood. The god in the barn is administered to by a creature called the Grinder, whose face is covered by a wicker helmet.
Thomas first encounters the god in her second form as she pursues him through a sewer filled with gore that leads out into the cave with the paintings, and is understandably terrified by her. However, by the end of the film the two of them have entered into a strange alliance.
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