Get Away's Nick Frost & Aisling Bea Dissect The Horror-Comedy's Terrifying Twist Ending

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Get Away!Stephen Haars and Nick Frost's Get Away landed in theaters earlier this month, and in typical Frost fashion, the comedic thriller features a shocking twist in the third act. The Smith family's vacation had always been coated in layers of eeriness, and that tension reached a crescendo when Richard (Frost), Susan (Aisling Bea), Jessie (Maisie Ayres), and Sam (Sebastian Croft) instigate a slaughtering of the island's native population.

While the entire film had been building up to a battle between the Smiths and the natives, Get Away reveals that it's actually the outsiders that are on the offensive. The Smiths lead a bloodbath attack on their hosts with a joyful reaction. As it turns out, the Smiths are not a real family at all, but rather a group of psychopath serial killers assembled in an effort to act out their bloodlust.

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With Get Away now in theaters, ScreenRant spoke with Nick Frost and Aisling Bea about how the film's twist was conceived, the original app-based plan for how the Smiths came together, and how the group will proceed after Richard impulsively killed Sebastian Croft's Sam moments before they left the island.

Get Away's Twist Was Scripted From Day One

"That was the first thing I wrote..."

ScreenRant: When the twist happens, I feel like, 'Oh, here we go. The family's going to get their due and they're going to save the day,' and all that. At some point, though, I feel like y'all turn into antagonists. When was that switch flip?

Nick Frost: Well, that was the first thing I wrote. That was the first idea I had in terms of, 'What if a family came on this island and the people on the island didn't want them there?' And so we paint them as being antagonists and villains. But in fact, the islanders, who we've painted as being kind of a nice family, turn out to be an unrelated family of psychopaths. Aisling Bea: Who's trapped who I suppose is the big twist, isn't it? Nick Frost: Yeah, yes. Who's chasing who? And then it just became about hiding it and having a nice story and a film that people knew what they were going to get and they could enjoy that. But then there is this twist and it's like, 'Oh s--t.' I mean a lot of people will see it coming, but a lot of people won't see it coming. Aisling Bea: I think the trailer makes it look like we have to go and defend ourselves on this island. Or the trailer doesn't make it look like is Oh, they have to defend themselves because these guys are like, 'And now we eat.' Nick Frost: So yeah, the twist was really the first thing and then it came about hiding it.

Get Away's Original App-Based Origins

Frost Once Scripted An Airbnb For Serial Killers

I pick up on symbolism a lot and the bug on the leaf being disguised, I'm like, 'Oh, something's not right here.' And then also too, when Sam is like, 'Oh, I'm gay by the way,' and Jesse's like, 'Oh, I didn't know that.' I feel like that's something that siblings would know at that point. Watching this movie a second time as well, you pick up on nuances that go over your head the first time. Nick, I want to continue down this rabbit hole with you. I talked with Sebastian earlier and he mentioned that at one point when assembling the script you had an idea of a dating app for serial killers. What was the concept behind that?

Nick Frost: It wasn't a dating app, but more like Airbnb. The app was called Slaycation and it, it's an app that puts together like-minded psychopaths so they could go and vacation in places. We do mention lots of places in the film, and they're small, usually Arctic communities that could be easily cut off and then slaughtered. And so I think me and Aisling had been on these holidays before. Mommy and Daddy had been on these holidays a lot. Then we've got Jesse, who, I don't think she's our daughter at all, but she lives with us. And then Sam, who's probably been on holiday with us two or three times, and we haven't enjoyed him. I love that in the third act where the gang is kind of working out what worked and what didn't work, and we didn't like what Sam did, and he's not very good, I love the fact they judge him that he can't portray a regular human. I think it says a lot about psychopaths. Aisling Bea: I think the biggest joke, Nick was talking about it earlier on, about it being the joke of the family being like Brits abroad on a holiday where they're kind of a bit culturally insensitive, and us roleplaying that almost like we're in a game of a harmless murder mystery. Us playing the most average family is the sort of joke and serves as a surprise as well. It's also really fun to play uninteresting people. It's actually kind of really interesting to try and play total norms. Both myself and Nick are quite Christmas trees of people who like wearing lots of jewelry. Normally when you wrap a job, you take all your character clothes off and put on boring clothes, but it's like we would take off our norm core and then put on our jingle jangles.

What's Next For Susan?

"I can imagine she'll check the list a bit more..."

Nick said something that I want to circle back to you, Aisling, which was breaking down the character, breaking down the facade, if you will. Susan is pretty upset that she's got to call these people and everything and figure out how they're going to go on the next adventure. What's next for Susan? Is she going to have a role in choosing the next fourth member of this family, so to speak?

Aisling Bea: Yes, I can imagine. Well, I can imagine she'll just check the list a bit more and there'll be a lot more, 'Do you know what we didn't pack last time was shorts for you. I felt like that was a thing we were missing all long trousers all in the woods, took me ages, try and wash them.' It's that sort of quality. I think Daddy does the casting and he charms me into letting me, whoever he wants, I let him.

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The Smith family’s much-needed vacation to the remote Swedish island of Svalta takes a dark turn when they arrive during preparations for a mysterious local festival that celebrates a dark history. Unsettled by the unfriendly locals and strange rituals, they try to make the best of their trip, stubbornly enjoying the island’s isolation and natural beauty. However, as the festival looms closer, the family realizes something far more sinister is unfolding—especially when they discover that a serial killer is on the loose.

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