Get Away

The Smiths stop at a coastal restaurant to buy ferry tickets for the island. The restaurateur warns that the island is forbidden during Karantan, and the ferry conductor and passengers give them eerie looks. The family remains determined to continue, seeing the trip as a fresh adventure.

They take the ferry to Karantan and disembark to a shore crowded with islanders who seem to watch them with dead eyes. Klara, the Svaltan elder, warns outsiders to leave. The tension hints at deeper mysteries beneath the island's surface.

Mats greets the Smiths at the duplex cottage with a cheerful but off-kilter veneer. The interior is cozy, yet his behavior suggests something perverse beneath the surface. A chilling backstory about his mother’s beheading is implied, adding to the dread.

Jessie takes a bath and notices voices behind the full-length mirror in her room. She begins to sense that she is being watched, a clue to the island’s invasive rituals. The eerie discovery foreshadows the town’s sinister secrets.

That night, Richard and Susan are awakened by torches outside their courtyard. The islanders gather and leave a beheaded raccoon at the doorstep, signaling a hostile welcome. The family realizes their situation on the island is far from hospitable.

During a stroll, Richard and Susan see the islanders keeping watch on them. They also observe boats from the mainland delivering coffins to the island, deepening the sense of ritual surrounding death. The atmosphere grows increasingly ominous.

Both Jessie and Sam are confronted by unwelcome islanders at breakfast and are forced to leave. They glimpse masked figures and a coffin labeled 'English sailors' as the villagers mock their disbelief. The encounter cements the island's hostility toward outsiders.

Karantan proper begins and Mats hatches a plan to indulge his perverse impulses by baking biscuits laced with drugs. He carries them to the Smiths as a surprise, hoping to enable his control over the guests. The moment frames the community’s complicity in the festival’s grisly ethics.

The Smiths pretend to eat the biscuits and momentarily appear unconscious to Mats’s surprise. They reveal they are a family of serial killers on a 'slaycation' and gruesomely kill Mats, dismembering him. The shocking act confirms their dangerous, hidden identity.

With Karantan in full swing, the Smiths turn their violence on the islanders, attacking at random and decimating the community. Even the earlier threats and warnings seem trivial against the family’s cold-blooded efficiency. The island's resistance quickly crumbles.

In a cruel escalation, Richard stabs Sam, breaking the façade to reveal that Sam is a hired killer. The revelation complicates the family dynamic and raises the stakes for their escape plan. The carnage intensifies as loyalties blur.

Klara and her son force their way into Mats's house and find Jessie dying from a gunshot wound. Richard confronts them in a brutal confrontation, and a violent clash ensues, ending with Richard losing his hand in a gun blast. The family’s ruse begins to crumble under pressure.

A mainland detective arrives and misinterprets the carnage as islanders attacking tourists, then shoots Klara in a misguided act of justice. The misunderstanding frays the local loyalties further and pushes the situation toward a rapid close. The Smiths brace for the consequences of the misjudged raid.

The Smiths are taken away on a speedboat back to the mainland, battered, bloodied, and exhilarated by their violent vacation. They return to normal life with the memory of their spree fueling a toxic sense of triumph. The film closes on a disturbing note about a family that finds joy in murder.