Barbarian

Confused by Barbarian on HBO Max? Read Decider's breakdown of the Barbarian plot summary and Barbarian ending explained.

When The Mother leaves the house to hunt Tess down, Tess runs The Mother over with her car. AJ assumes Frank is a victim of The Mother and promises to get him out. AJ refuses to drink from the bottle, so the woman—referred to in the script as The Mother—drags AJ away and forces him to breastfeed. Then he goes back to his house—the same house where Tess and AJ will one day be trapped. And with that, the movie ends! Back in the house, AJ finds Frank in a deteriorating state in bed. The movie flashes back to the 1980s. [Barbarian](https://decider.com/movie/barbarian-2022/), one of the buzziest horror films of 2022, is now streaming on [HBO Max](https://play.hbomax.com/player/urn:hbo:feature:GY0Wn0wkehKOCiwEAAABG), free to anyone with a subscription. The movie abruptly cuts away to Los Angeles, where we are introduced to a new character: sitcom actor AJ Gilbride (played by Justin Long). She goes in and finds a frantic Keith, who tells her that something bit him. But in a twist, it’s not Pennywise that Tess needs to worry about. Barbarian is a wild ride from start to finish, and it’s not one for the faint of heart.