Malignant follows protagonist Madison as she unravels a telepathic connection to a twisted killer named Gabriel and discovers secrets from her past. Gabriel is revealed to be a parasitic twin living off of Madison, and the film's bonkers third act showcases his killing spree and Madison's ultimate triumph over him.
Time to cut out the cancer. Gabriel's most famous quote. Gabriel is the main antagonist of the supernatural slasher film Malignant, and the parasitic twin of the films main protagonist, Maddison Mitchell. He was portrayed by Marina Mazepa and voiced by Ray Chase.
Undeveloping/Parasitic Nature: Because of being an underdeveloped parasitic twin, Gabriel is powerless in his state of being as he exists only as what remains from his face and brain connected to his sister, forcing him to use her body for his own purposes.
The kidnapped woman, revealed to be Madison's biological mother Serena, is taken to a nearby hospital. Sydney goes to the now-abandoned Simion Research Hospital and learns that Gabriel is Madison's parasitic twin brother who appeared as a half-formed child facing out of her back.
Because Gabriel can't use Madison's eyes (again, she's in that trance) and his are located on the back of her head, the walking-talking-murdering teratoma twists his body to see and strike simultaneously.
GABRIEL (The Supernatural Parasite) MALIGNANT EXPLAINED
What is the plot twist in Malignant?
Now, we all know the insane twist that comes in the final act of this film, which is that Gabriel is a parasitic twin of Madison and that the tumor has been taking over Madison's body to commit his heinous and bloody deeds, which are the visions Madison has been seeing.
While Wan takes wild liberties with medical facts for his film, the director reveals that real-life teratoma cases did inspire the movie, whose story is credited to Wan; his wife, Ingrid Bisu; and Malignant screenwriter Akela Cooper.
Malignant follows protagonist Madison as she unravels a telepathic connection to a twisted killer named Gabriel and discovers secrets from her past. Gabriel is revealed to be a parasitic twin living off of Madison, and the film's bonkers third act showcases his killing spree and Madison's ultimate triumph over him.
How Does Malignant End? Malignant ends with Gabriel trying to murder Madison's sister Sydney (Maddie Hasson) because she is Madison's sibling who is out there in the real world. Madison realizes what is going on and becomes one with her body and mind once again. What people consider scary is, of course, subjective.
In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, James Wan and Malignant screenwriter Akela Cooper about their movie M3GAN, and they brought up the Malignant sequel. They mentioned that there are a lot of movies coming down the line, and while Malignant 2 is one of them, it is not one that will be coming anytime soon.
The police arrest Madison when the kidnapped woman falls from the attic in her home, revealing that Gabriel was living inside her house. It is later revealed that the woman is Serena May, Madison's birth mother.
He has a lust for power and tries to gain control over Earth with the aid of renegade angel Gabriel (Gabriel seeking to make humanity worthy of God's love by forcing them to endure Hell on Earth). He is defeated when Constantine manages to summon Lucifer to collect him by attempting suicide.
literally — Gabriel and Maddie were twins who shared a brain. Maddie came out fully developed, but Gabriel came out underdeveloped and grafted onto his sister's back. The hospital studying them eventually decided to “cut out the cancer,” (aka Gabriel).
Weaver delivered a detailed explanation of what Gabriel actually is. She said that Gabriel, the lifeform attached to Madison's back in the video, is made up of hair, teeth, bones, tissues and muscles. Weaver explained a parasitic twin like Gabriel forms when two developing embryos don't separate correctly in the womb.
What to Know. Although Malignant isn't particularly scary, director James Wan's return to horror contains plenty of gory thrills -- and a memorably bonkers twist.
No. Even though Malignant stars Annabelle Wallis—who is the star of the Conjuring spin-off film, Annabelle, and the subsequent Annabelle sequels—Malignant is a new original film separate from The Conjuring. Wallis's character in Malignant is named Madison.
Yes, she does, because the killer turns out to be part of her — what a doctor in the film describes in an authoritative accent as “an extreme version of a teratoma: A tumor consisting of hair, teeth, muscles, bones. And more specifically in this case, it's a parasitic twin.
: evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious. a powerful and malignant influence. b. : passionately and relentlessly malevolent : aggressively malicious.
This movie really isn't scary either which was surprising. The camerawork is big highlight and the over-the-top 80s music was pretty fun. You can tell Wan was trying to make a throwback here, but he forgot the self-awareness that's necessary for movies like this.
While the underlying premise of Malignant does take some cues from human biology — complex teratomas do exist and are sometimes located around the nervous system — the results diverge pretty far from reality. In most cases, teratomas are ill-developed collections of tissues with limited organization.
His delusional and misanthropic nature made Gabriel strongly believe to the point of fanaticism that people were unworthy of God's love. He believed by bringing Hell on Earth would purify humanity of their sins and make them worthy of Heaven.
At the end of the film, Gabriel falls from grace to become a human where he will now stay in purgatory. During his final speech he says “You threw me far from Grace and now I fall unto it.” In the Australian theatrical version of the film, there was an extended ending that showed him returning to Jade in the loft.
The mysteriously powerful Gabriel is a sentient tumor in the back of Madison's head who has been dormant since the events of the opening scene, but was “awakened” when Madison's husband smashed her head against the wall (this explains why she wakes up from her “visions” of the killer with her head bleeding). Gabriel is ...
