‘The Final of Us’ Followers Shocked to Uncover a 9-12 months-Previous Was Behind Some Nightmarish Physique Horror

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Warning: The next article incorporates spoilers for The Final of Us episode 5, “Endure and Survive.”

Earlier than HBO’s The Final of Us efficiently broke our hearts for a fifth week in a row, we have been first handled to an intense and horrific motion sequence with a reasonably substantial physique depend, the likes of which we haven’t seen for the reason that outbreak prologue means again in episode one.

After a truck careens right into a home and creates a sinkhole from which a horde of contaminated emerge, there was a slice of shock, awe, and horror for just about everybody. Whereas the massive setpiece was undoubtedly the gargantuan bloater, on the opposite finish of the spectrum was a a lot smaller, but equally terrifying menace — the clicker which crawls right into a automotive with Ellie.

Seems, the spider-like contortions weren’t the work of CGI — it was a live-action efficiency by a nine-year-old gymnast, Skye Cowton:

Numerous commenters on a thread over on The Final of Us HBO collection subreddit have been completely dumbfounded by the truth that most, if not all, of the extreme, claustrophobic, and remoted physique horror happened in real-time and wasn’t the work of an animation group.

Whereas Ellie managed to flee Cowton’s clicker’s clutches unscathed, Kathleen wasn’t so fortunate — with the little lady leaping onto Melanie Lynskey’s character like a demonic Spider-Man and ripping her to shreds, permitting for the group’s escape. In fact, that wasn’t the top of the casualties in ‘Endure and Survive,’ however that’s one thing to sob about one other time. 

Whereas we’re on the subject of praising Cowton’s efficiency — is it simply us, or did her teal shirt and blonde hair make her the spitting picture of Sarah as she was portrayed within the unique sport? The t-shirt design is totally different however nonetheless, the resemblance is uncanny, minus the fungus sprouting out of her face.

HBO’s The Final of Us shall be again to terrify and traumatize us yet again, all set to air in its common time slot this Sunday.