This YouTube Red original still has fans scratching their heads nearly a decade later.
Audiences are aghast at the shocking cliffhanger ending of Logan Paul’sThe Thinningmovie.
TheYouTube Redoriginal film was released in October 2016.
It stars YouTube creator Logan Paul along withCobra Kaiactress Peyton List and fellow internet superstar Lia Marie Johnson.
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Ending Explained
Nearly a decade since its release, the ending ofThe Thinningis still confounding audiences.
Redding is the son of Texas Governor Dean Redding.
Governor Dean Redding does not relent, though, as he is committed to the depopulation effort.
Instead, Blake awakens to find himself in a new environment.
Looking around the room, he sees Ellie working away in what seems to be a forced labor camp.
And that is where the film ends, finally pulling back the curtain on the Thinning test.
Death was never the end for these these teens.
A sequel to the YouTube Red original,The Thinning: New World Order, was released in 2018.
This ends up happening, but things do not go as planned.
As they escape from the camp, Blake’s father takes the president’s seat.
They pull back the curtain on the truth about the camps, but it is for naught.
Instead, they are arrested by President Redding’s chief of security, Georgina Preston.
The Thinningis available forpurchaseon YouTube.
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