Push (2025) Ending Explained - Who Really Was The Killer?

Welcome to Knockout Horror. If you are new here, we review horror movies, explain horror movie endings, and put out horror movie ranking lists. Today, we are explaining the ending to the pregnancy themed horror, thriller movie Push (2025).

The good news with this movie, especially when it comes to writing this article, is that it is fairly straight forward. There’s just a few things to clear up including one very interesting thing that a lot of people might have missed. Unlike the messes that were Descendent and Hallow Road. Thanks allegorical horror movies; they are a nightmare to summarise.

We are going with the standard format here. A quick recap of the movie and then answering a few questions to help explain the ending to Push. Obviously, there will be spoilers so keep that in mind. Our review for this film is coming up in a few days.

Push Ending Explained – A Quick Recap

Push opens up with our protagonist, Nathalie (Alicia Sanz) and her fiancé chatting in bed. He suggests they go back to his home in America. She, initially, refuses but after some convincing says that she will think about it.

Fast forward a little, it’s 1993 and Nathalie’s fiancé has passed away. Wanting a new life, for reasons we will get into shortly, Nathalie has moved to Michigan in America where she has become a rather successful real estate agent judging by her Porsche Carrera and constant need to rub her stomach while she walks. I imagine that is how wealthy people let everyone know that they are heavily pregnant judging by how much she does it in this movie?

Nathalie has tasked herself with making the sale on an enormous 1890s mansion. She’s the only woman at the estate agents so wants to prove she can do it. She also wants to prove to herself and her family that she doesn’t need their help.

The only problem is that this is no ordinary house. The house played host to a double murder of the owners years before. Ever since then, something awful has struck anyone who has lived in the house, leaving it feeling a bit cursed. There’s a good reason for that which we will talk about shortly.

Out of the Open House, Into the Fire

Nathalie is hosting an “open house”. For those that don’t know, which is probably most of us millennials and zoomers because we will never be able to afford to own our own houses, thanks boomers. An open house is, basically, an opportunity for prospective buyers to come and view the house. Open houses usually don’t require an appointment and they offer a bit more freedom when it comes to touring the property.

After opening about a hundred sets of curtains, Nathalie decides she isn’t very busy so eats a mouldy looking muffin and has a pregnancy sick. This is just another way to emphasise that she is heavily pregnant and a bit fragile; as if the massive bump and constant stroking of her stomach isn’t enough.

Just as she is about to wrap up for the day, a person appears. She gives them a tour of the house and the person then, apparently, leaves. As you may have guessed, this is the actual antagonist of the film. Why he didn’t just kill her here I am not sure. I guess he enjoys the thrill of the chase.

Things are about to get real bad for Nathalie. When she gets in her car to leave, it has been sabotaged by the bad guy. She calls a mechanic who comes over surprisingly quickly. RAC will leave you sitting on the side of a motorway for 12 hours in the UK. Money talks, I guess.

Hell House

The mechanic has a couple of really bad situations to deal with when he arrives. One is a maniacal killer who is about to stab him in the head and the other is a stripped bolt. Now, as someone who has spent an awful lot of time working on old cars. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the head rather than have to remove a stripped bolt from a rusty car.

The electric in the house mysteriously cuts out. While looking for the breaker, Nathalie finds a bizarre tunnel. She hits the breaker and leaves feeling a bit freaked out. The car still doesn’t work and now the mechanic is missing. She looks for him, only to find him dead in a chair after about twenty minutes of slowly walking through this cavernous house. Man this film is dull.

The shock of this leads to Nathalie’s waters breaking. This is when the amniotic sack cushioning the baby’s head ruptures and is a strong sign that labour is imminent. This film is about to get even slower as Nathalie is in labour and in a lot of pain. What’s even worse is the stranger who viewed the house is back and he is out for blood.

The Chase Is On

Nathalie runs (re. ambles) away and breaks a roof tile to turn into a makeshift weapon. Trying to escape, she heads to the elevator but the bad guy hits the stairs and beats her to the ground floor. He opens the elevator door and she is forced to stab him with the roof tile. She pushes the elevator to go back up but, apparently, it has decided that now would be a great time to break.

It climbs to a point where there is only a small gap for her to struggle through. Nathalie’s baby bump being an obstruction is sort of a theme of this movie. Is it a metaphor for how pregnancy can stand in the way of ambition? I doubt it, more just a terrible thriller trope. She climbs out but gets her foot stuck when the elevator drops a little. Rather than turning her foot into a human form of Pâté, it simply stops moving, allowing her to pull it free before it drops.

Nathalie heads to the garden and enters the car that the bad guy arrived in. While looking for keys, she finds an identification card that belongs to a random person. This is to indicate that the bad guy murdered a man and stole his car.

Nathalie is ultra shocked which is kinda stupid given that it isn’t all that surprising that the mad man who is chasing the pregnant woman with murderous intent is “shock horror” a killer already. She’s already come face to face with the dead mechanic. Whatever. She is about to find this dead dude in the boot (trunk my American readers).

The Chase Is Still On

Nathalie runs back into the house after seeing the bad guy. She closes about 20 doors on the way which eats up two minutes of runtime. She then checks the home’s blueprints and finds that there is a passage from the basement to the telephone breaker which she can activate so that she can phone the police. Nathalie heads to the basement and through the creepy tunnel.

The bad guy appears and, once again, her bump gets in the way as she tries to fit through the bars. She manages to fight him off, though, and he, apparently, doesn’t know how to squeeze through gaps so doesn’t follow her. He just flails at the bars like a zombie. Nathalie activates the phone breaker and heads inside where she calls the police.

The bad guy makes it back to the house and wanders around just as slowly as the heavily pregnant Nathalie does. She has set a trap for him, though, with the music. He walks into the room where she attacks him and shoves him through the window, unfortunately throwing herself out in the process.

Nathalie wakes and begins to walk away where she steps on some glass before passing out. Luckily, the police arrive and put her in the back of their car. Oh, wait! These are movie police so they are even more incompetent than their real life counterparts. Despite calling for backup, one heads to the garden to pursue the bad guy where he is quickly dispatched.

Hearing his partner in trouble, the other cop goes to help. You know, rather than waiting for said backup. When he gets into the house, the bad guy attacks him and then rage stomps his head into mush. Luckily, this is a poorly maintained police car so Nathalie manages to reach through the bars, grab the cop’s shotgun, blow the window of the car out, and escape.

It’s All Getting a Bit Silly

Nathalie makes her way to, what looks like, a Mausoleum for the previous owners of the house. There, she decides it’s time to give birth. She looks like she is doing this in a squatting position which kinda made me cringe thinking of the baby doming itself on the solid concrete as it slid out of her grasp.

Nathalie bites through the umbilical cord which seems like a bit of a plot hole because, you know, blood loss and all but I think it ties into something that happens later. I’ll talk about it shortly. She then gives birth to the placenta and there you have one of the most ridiculous scenes in a thriller movie, ever.

The bad guy is still on the hunt and while walking through the graveyard he spits on the headstone for the couple who were murdered there in 1944. Nathalie, somehow, gets the jump on the guy and, rather than putting the baby down, one hands the shotgun and shoots the guy causing her to fall over and knock herself unconscious. Luckily, the backup cops have arrived and Nathalie will wake in the hospital.

It’s Getting Even More Silly

Nathalie wakes in hospital, obviously feeling a bit sore. She briefly dreams that her child hasn’t made it but it turns out the baby survived but is in the ICU (Intensive care unit). In one of a few very unlikely events, the cops want Nathalie to physically identify the man who is currently in a hospital bed. She does but, obviously decides to put the situation to rest once and for all.

Nathalie sets the fire alarm off which causes the hospital to evacuate. She heads up to the bad guy’s hospital room and steals a key off a doctor. When she gets in the room, the bad dude has escaped after killing all of the cops. Another chase ensues, again, quite a slow one, eventually ending up in the ICU.

Nathalie finally gets the upper-hand on this, frankly, rather incompetent mad man and rage kills him with a scalpel that probably would have broken after one of two strikes. She leaves the hospital carrying her baby who was in ICU for a reason and would probably be better off staying in there and the movie ends. Okay, let’s do a little explaining.

Why Is The Baby Sick and Does The Baby Survive?

This is the obvious thing to start with because both of these things are a little ambiguous. The baby is placed into Intensive Care and they relate that they are doing everything they can for the child but what happened? Well, remember when Nathalie chomped down on the umbilical cord?

There’s a distinct possibility that the baby suffered some significant blood loss due to her not tying off the cord. The umbilical cord is, also, one of the areas most responsible for infections in babies, some of which can be extremely dangerous. Mouths are a notorious source of bacteria so it is probably likely that the baby was suffering from blood loss and an umbilical infection which would require intensive care in the form of blood transfusions and antibiotics.

She did also fall on the baby when she decided to wield the shotgun with one arm. The baby does survive, though. We see it briefly at the end and it looks fine. She is just walking out of the hospital carrying the baby to symbolise that she is strong and can protect both herself and her child against any possible threat. Even that of a marauding killer.

What Happened to Nathalie’s Fiancé?

Nathalie’s fiancé died in a car crash. This would have happened shortly after they conceived their child and shortly after he had talked to Nathalie about moving to America. Nathalie was reluctant to do this as, obviously, she had a strong attachment to her family in Barcelona.

That plays into another point that we will talk about. Nathalie’s connection to her family wasn’t a positive one. In fact, it was holding her back in life and she likely felt that her reluctance to leave them contributed, in some way, to her fiancé’s death as he died while still in Barcelona despite wanting to go back to America.

Why Did Nathalie Move to America and Why Did She Want to Sell The House?

This directly relates to the problems Nathalie has with her family. Her family are condescending, disapproving, and don’t believe in her ability to cope on her own. Nathalie hears them talking about her late fiancé and wondering why she ever began a relationship with him. She also hears them talking about how useless she is.

These things, along with the car crash, prompt her to prove to both herself and her family that she can cope on her own. Nathalie moves to America for a new start. She wants to sell the house to prove to everyone around her that she is capable. She also wants to prove to herself that she is capable. Her surviving this situation accomplishes that.

Who Was The Killer?

This is, actually, a cool little part of a fairly average movie that I think a lot of people are going to miss. If you didn’t stick through to the end, you missed a little Easter egg. The killer is called Gabriel Marquez and he is the son of Victor and Camila Marquez. He was born in 1929 and he is the person responsible for murdering his parents in 1944.

Ever since then, Gabriel has been haunting the home and brutally killing anyone who has taken up residence there. Every now and then, he is committed to a mental asylum due to psychosis but frequently escapes. He is obsessed with the house and believes that he has to protect it or he will die. Gabriel was on his way back to the house after escaping the mental hospital. It was just coincidence that Nathalie was there when he arrived.

But, this film is set in 1993, how can that be? That time line doesn’t make sense. Well, it doesn’t, but here is the cool part. Push is, actually, a supernatural horror movie. Gabriel is unkillable like Michael Myers or Jason Vorhees. He’s a supernatural being with a connection to the house and as long as the house is standing, he will still be alive and butchering anyone who lives there.

In the very final scene of the movie, Gabriel is shown on a slab in the morgue. The lights in the room begin to flicker, we then see the house where the lights are also flickering and the music box is playing. Moments later, Gabriel wakes up, proving that he is, actually, immortal. Is this setting up a sequel? I’m not sure but it really explains the whole “surviving a shotgun blast” thing, doesn’t it?

In Short

So to summarise, Nathalie is pregnant, hosts an open house, is attacked by a supernatural, immortal, person called Gabriel that was the child of the original owners and murdered them in 1944. He has come back to the house that keeps him alive to protect it. Nathalie fights back, has her child in a mausoleum, escapes, the child survives, she stabs Gabriel again in the hospital and leaves but Gabriel is immortal so comes back to life later on. Thanks for reading and spending your time at Knockout Horror.

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