'Don't Move' ends with the victim thanking a serial killer. Here's why.

• Netflix's caller thriller "Don't Move" is apical of nan streamer's charts.
• The movie follows a female who is injected pinch a paralyzing supplier and pursued by a serial killer.
• Here's nan nail-biting ending explained.

Warning: awesome spoilers up for "Don't Move."

Netflix is doubling down connected nerve-racking films astir serial killers pinch its latest thriller, "Don't Move."

Last week, "Woman of nan Hour" was nan most-watched movie connected Netflix movie successful nan US, but it has since been dethroned by "Don't Move," which premiered connected Friday.

Both films are astir serial killers, a taxable that explored successful Hollywood films for decades, and which Netflix has recovered occurrence pinch successful caller years acknowledgment to hits for illustration "You" and "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story."

"Don't Move" does not person nan aforesaid prima powerfulness to pull audiences arsenic "Woman of nan Hour," but nan premise does nan dense lifting.

In nan film, Iris (Kelsey Asbille) grieves nan decease of her kid and plans to dice by termination by jumping disconnected a cliff successful nan mediate of a forest.

But she meets Richard (Finn Wittrock), a handsome, charismatic man who persuades her disconnected nan ledge earlier kidnapping her.

When Iris attempts to escape, Richard reveals that he has injected her pinch a supplier that will paralyze her full assemblage successful an hour. Thus starts a tense pursuit arsenic Iris tries to flight Richard earlier she tin nary longer move her body.

In 'Don't Move' Iris must prevention herself

The paralyzing supplier useful quickly, incapacitating Iris wrong nan film's first hour. Then, Iris is astatine nan mercy of different group who find her paralyzed body.

A hermit finds her, past a mother and a child, and a bull notices Iris while she is stuck successful a motortruck pinch Richard. None of them instantly recognize she's successful danger, and by nan clip they do, it is excessively precocious to prevention her.

The hermit and nan bull besides astir manus Iris complete to Richard, believing his communicative that she is his mentally unstable aliases alcoholic wife. They only recognize Richard is lying aft he makes a dumb slip-up, but he kills some men earlier they tin thief Iris escape.

These scenes echo society-wide conversations astir believing victims brought to nan fore by nan #MeToo movement, and nan domiciled that men tin play successful supporting women and stopping behaviors that alteration abuse.

In "Don't Move," Iris saves herself. In nan film's past scenes, Richard takes Iris to nan reservoir to termination her and hide her successful nan water.

By nan clip Richard rows a vessel to nan center, nan supplier is wearing off, and Iris tin move her assemblage successful short bursts.

She tricks Richard into coming adjacent to her, steals his knife, and stabs him successful nan neck. Iris forces Richard retired of nan vessel and shoots him pinch a weapon that he took from nan cop.

Richard starts swimming to shore, and Iris' vessel starts sinking owed to a leak from nan gunshots. But she someway regains her afloat assemblage activity conscionable successful clip to swim.

Iris saying "thank You" to Richard has 2 meanings

After returning to shore, Iris finds Richard bleeding retired by nan lake. She kneels and says, "Thank you," earlier stepping away.

Some fans whitethorn person missed what that segment is referencing.

While Iris is still paralyzed, Richard tells her of his ex-lover, Chloe, who died successful beforehand of him aft a car crash.

As Chloe dies, Richard realizes that he likes nan emotion of seeing women die. He says it makes him consciousness for illustration God, and thus, he starts luring women to nan woods to termination them and recreate that feeling.

Richard told Iris his past words to Chloe arsenic she died was, "Thank you." So Iris says it backmost to him astatine nan extremity arsenic payback.

Asbille and nan film's directors, Brian Netto and Adam Schindler, told Tudum that Iris besides genuinely thanked Richard for inspiring her to live. Her condolences emotionally paralyzed her, but now she is free and wished to enactment alive.

"It's double-edged, because she's sticking it to him connected 1 end, but location is immoderate genuine realization connected her portion of, 'Whoa, OK, I do beryllium this man my life because I didn't want to conflict for my life earlier I met him,'" Netto said.