Held is a horror mystery killer movie in which a lot of things are going on and things just get more and more confusing as the movie ends. For instance, how was that Uber driver alive at the end?
This movie follows Emma and Henny as they try to celebrate their anniversary in a luxurious modern villa in the “middle of nowhere”. As always, if you are going to live in a house that is in the “middle of nowhere” then things can take a weird turn.
Emma and Henry get locked up in the house and now will need to follow orders from a mysterious man. So let’s do Held Movie Ending Explained and break down everything that was there to understand this thriller.
Held Movie Explained
Held movie begins with the scene where we see Emma in a car with these two guys and she experiences a sexual assault. Years later, Emma is grown up and she is going to this beautiful house for her anniversary.
We figure out that she is taking care of herself from this cab driver, Joe. And that’s pretty obvious, because of the sexual assault she experienced in the past. The cab driver could be dangerous because he was holding her hand, was asking questions, and was not leaving her hand.
But then he leaves and Emma enters the house and we see that the house is very amazing with amazing security. She gets a call from her husband telling her that he will be arriving there the next day. During this period she gets 2 phone calls but she ignores them and then checks out the entire house.
Emma then receives some flowers at night and figures that they may be from her husband. Immediately after that her husband shows up and Emma doesn’t seem to be excited to see him.
So this is Henry and he tries to get closer but she avoids him giving him the reason that she is cold. Instead, they share a glass of whiskey and it looks like something was in the whiskey and now they have been drugged. A man with a black mask appears, injects something in their necks, and changes Emma’s clothes.
Enma And Henry Are Stuck In The House
In the morning, Emma finds out that her clothes were changed and there was coffee on the table. They figured that someone had come into the house last night, so they tried to leave the place. But Henry and Emma get into their car, Henry sees that he has forgotten his car keys in the house.
They heard some noise from the trees around and noticed someone in there. Henry tells Emma to go inside while he tries to find who is in the trees.
When Henry comes back into the house we see that his hands are covered in blood. Then they hear a voice on the speakers in the house. The TV turns on and live CCTV footage of the house is displayed on it, indicating that someone is watching both of them.
Seconds later the phone rings, Emma picks up the phone and the voice says “Obey”. The voice then further says that they should obey him or else there will be consequences. Then they both find that something was implanted behind their ear. And when it’s activated, it was so painful for them.
So basically there is this person, who is watching them and they need to do all the things that he is saying. If they disobey him, he will activate the device behind their ears which will hurt them so that they can’t leave the house.
Emma Makes A Choice
While Emma is preparing dinner, the voice tells Henry to go and grab a laptop. He tells him to open a particular file and then Henry finds a video of Emma cheating on him with another guy. He finds all the chats and videos of them two as well. Henry gets very upset after learning about Emma’s affair. The voice then tells Henry to make love to his wife. He disobeys and that painful sensation near his ear gets activated.
After some time, Joe, the Uber driver, shows up because Emma forgot something in the cab. Henry and Emma shouted for his help loudly, but Joe wasn’t able to hear them because all of the doors were locked. But still, somehow they get Joe’s attention and he tries to jump over the gate, but the mysterious man gets him.
Then, Emma tells Henry that the man is outside, which means that no one is watching them. Emma finds out about this hidden place in the basement, where she thinks that the mysterious man may be using it to control everything.
But while they are looking into it, the mysterious man comes back and attacks Henry and then drags Emma out of that crawl space that was going to lead her to the secret place. Then he injected her with drugs and she fell down unconscious.
When she regains her consciousness she finds out that Rayn (the guy Emma was having an affair with) was also in the house and was tied to a chair. Then the voice says that either Emma needs to kill her husband or kill Rayn, so she ends up killing Rayn.
Held Movie Ending
Emna goes back to Henry and he was like, “It’s ok, and let me make your drink”. He gives her a drink and tells her to go to bed. Then she realizes that there might be something in the whiskey. She acts like she is drinking it but she doesn’t. She pretends to be passed out and then the mysterious man comes in to check if she was completely passed out or not and then he leaves.
Emma then gets up and finds the secret room, and we along with Emma find out about the truth. She finds a control center with all the security cameras. And then she sees a video where a man is explaining about the Eden Group. Here we found out that Eden Group is a private society that offers services to Men to help them control their wives.
Emma finds that Henry was also involved in this. Here we get to know that Emma was having an affair and that is the truth. But somehow Henry found out about it and he wanted her back. That’s why Henry took the help of this man and this company so that they could create all this drama so she could kill Ryan. After that, she will always be under Henry’s control.
After finding out everything, she takes the car keys and manages to kill the Mysterious man and then her husband. She then leaves in the car and on her way out, she finds Joe. Henry and that mysterious man made it look like a car accident, but Joe was not dead. She took Joe in the car with her as she drove towards her new life.
Held Movie Ending Explained
As far as the villains of this movie go, it seemed pretty obvious to me right from the get-go that whoever was doing this to the couple must have some sort of close relationship with the family. Mainly because the film takes place in this smart house with a pretty slick security system, and it didn’t seem like the people broke in, but more like they waltzed right in. This means they knew easily how to get past the security system.
My initial thought was that Henry was involved because when we see the house being broken into and they start messing around with Emma, we only ever see close-ups of her and not him, and then it immediately cuts to the next morning. We’re led to believe that both of them are being messed with that next day.
So I figured he had to be involved, go on the off chance he wasn’t, at least had to be someone close to the couple. But it turned out my initial suspicion was correct.
We learn a little later in the film that Emma stumbles upon this hidden room, which really isn’t so hidden as all she does is move some clothes out of the way in a closet and she stumbles upon the room. There’s a television in this room where she sees a commercial for this organization known as the Eden.
When I say a commercial, I mean like it’s legitimately presented like a regular TV commercial which had me asking so many questions. Such as how they’re even able to get this message across for something totally off the wall to anyone and get away with it for so long.
Now, I guess it’s implied that this is supposed to be some sort of secret underground organization or something to that degree, which I get, but the film never really properly explains that. Yeah, we do see that Henry did hire them to set this whole thing up and it partially stemmed from their marriage troubles with his fear that she was going to leave him.
