Companion
word of advice : Contains major spoilers for Companion
Drew Hancock ’s horror comedyCompanionhas received rave reviews for its twist - fill yet smart plot , entertaining performances and well - thought - out themes , but that does n’t quit it from get a number of truly brutal deaths . star Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher , Companiontakes a crook towards science fable too soon on , and never looks back as it uses robots to deliver a powerful metaphor about abusive kinship . As the narrative unfold , the seemingly idyllic lakeside setting is steadily splattered with blood , yielding some truly memorable horror motion picture killing .
Companion ’s inclusion of automatic characters introduces an interesting menace to the movie ’s proceedings , as their modern ( and programmable , if you have the good mobile gimmick ) strength and lack of empathy lead to sudden , vehement end . Somewhat imposingly , the funniness factor is never lost despite the violence and death . WhileCompanion ’s castisn’t very tumid to commence with , it dwindles fast once the real legal action initiate to stretch out , and bythe end ofCompanion , there is really only one major character entrust stand .
Companion author - director Drew Hancock detail why the purpose of Iris was so unmanageable to retch , and why Sophie Thatcher was the only option .
7Patrick (Lukas Gage)
Fries His Hard-Wiring By Sticking A Taser In His Mouth
One of the major twist reveals inCompanionwas that Sophie Thatcher ’s Iris was not the only automaton in the small group on the face of it vacationing by the lakeshore . Eli ’s boyfriend , Patrick ( Lukas Gage ) , proved himself to be a talented chef , a spontaneous dancer , and an overall fully engaged member of the group , get the reveal that he was an Empathix companion robot like Iris all the more shocking . Like Iris , Patrick ’s personality and ability were control by Eli ’s peregrine twist , and also like Iris , Patrick was used by Josh to further his own goals .
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January 31st , 2025
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Josh and Eli set Patrick on the trail of Iris once she get away the lake house , and eventually Josh increase Patrick ’s aggression curb to ensure that he would altogether take care of Iris when foretell upon . As a result , Patrick essentially becomes a weapon for Josh , and several people snuff it at his hands once his aggression levels are bend up . However , Patrick and Eli proved themselves to be evidence that actual beloved can subsist between a someone and their robot .
Patrick was capable to break devoid of his controls upon return his real love for Eli , and as a result he decide that he ca n’t inhabit without Eli , knowing that he is in fact a golem and has no intent without the person he do it . Patrick sticks the police officeholder ’s taser in his rima oris and fries his hard - wiring , fundamentally kill himself . It is n’t very vehement or savage , which is why it ’s so low on the list .
6Sid From Empathix (Matt McCarthy)
Shot By Patrick In The Driver’s Seat Of The Empathix Van
When Josh ’s programme goes awry and several people finish up dead , he decides to call the companionship he rented Iris from , Empathix . They send off two employees out to the lake house to deal with the " defective " Iris , but once they unwrap to Josh that Iris has been read everything and that they can see it , he go under Patrick ( now under his control ) on the two employee . It ’s further proof of Josh ’s ultimate selfishness , as he has no scruple with killing two more destitute the great unwashed to bear on his own purity and still make away with Sergey ’s money .
The two employee , Sid and Teddy , load Iris up to drag her away , but before they are capable to leave alone the property , they are block up by Patrick . With his aggression level turn up to 100 , Patrick does n’t hesitate to use any substance to accomplish what he ’s been directed to do , and he shoots the driver , Sid , several clock time in the Empathix vanguard while Teddy manage to bunk into the woods . It ’s a sudden and violent decease , but it ’s over quickly and the photographic camera does n’t linger on the gore , so it does n’t come up across as brutal .
5Eli (Harvey Guillén)
Shot In The Chest By Iris In Self-Defense
Harvey Guillén ’s Eli act mostly as amusing ministration inCompanion , but like Josh , he demonstrate that he ’s not much better when it comes to give unthinkable acts against Iris when millions of dollars are on the spur of the moment in play for him . When Iris first get by after killing Sergey , the berth for Josh , Kat , Eli , and Patrick has n’t completely spiral out of ascendancy , so the four of them point into the woods to determine her . Patrick and Eli determine off in one direction while Josh and Kat head off in another .
Eventually , Eli catches up to her and tackles her to the background , leading to them rolling around and struggling for the only gun that the group has , which Eli took from Sergey ’s safe . Eli finally gains the upper hand and winds up on top of Iris , but as he attempts to scud her and stop her once and for all , she manages to release the gun for hire on him and shoot him in the chest , killing him quickly . It ’s an up - close death with the way out lesion and blood evidently visible , get it slimly more brutal than Sid ’s shooting demise .
4Kat (Megan Suri)
Stabbed In The Back By Patrick
Kat is Josh ’s surprisal accomplice in the planned robbery of Sergey ’s lake house . As Sergey ’s lady friend , she set Josh upon him take Sergey is a " bad guy " , even though he was n’t actually involve in anything illicit . Her lies are what prompt Josh to scheme Iris ' murder of the Russian businessman in the first spot , but Kat sure enough does not escape the incident at the lake house unscathed .
When things go wholly off the rail and Patrick kill Deputy Hendrix during his pursuit of Iris , Kat resolve she can no longer stomach Josh ’s callous attitude towards violence and willingness to keep killing innocent people just for the money . Unfortunately for her , when she attempts to go away , Josh tells Patrick to stop her instead of doing it himself . Patrick , with his adjusted aggression levels , chooses to knife her in the back with a kitchen knife . Kat is able-bodied to make her way to the couch where she slowly bleeds out , making this more brutal than a gun death .
3Sergey (Rupert Friend)
Stabbed In The Neck By Iris
Iris spend most of the movie with her face and clothing covered in stock , and it all comes back to the execution that kick - started the narrative . While Iris is enjoying the lake , she is approached by Sergey , who creepily attempts to assault her , purportedly with Josh ’s approval . Iris , still unaware she is a robot , resists him , and the two struggle to the compass point of rolling around on the sand .
Sergey ’s dying is a second of utmost violence in what had , up to that point , been an idyllic setting , and it sets the tone for the rest of the moving-picture show .
As Sergey forces himself on her , Iris pull a pouch knife out of her scoop ( which Josh engraft on her for the very role ) and stabs Sergey in the cervix with it . There was no real malevolence on Iris ' part , as she was defending herself . Nevertheless , Sergey ’s neck begins to spurt parentage , report Iris ’s face and body , and leaving Sergery dead in short order . It ’s a minute of extreme violence in what had , up to that point , been an idyllic setting , and it arrange the tone for the balance of the movie .
2Deputy Hendrix (Marc Menchaca)
Beaten To Death With His Own Gun By Patrick
When Iris first manages to escape in Josh ’s car , she think she has made a real getaway , until the ego - ride car shut itself down once Josh reports it stolen . As she attempts to break out of the cable car by kicking the window out , she is passed by a police force deputy , who stops and confronts Iris . Iris clevely changes her own spoken communication stage setting to German , as she knows it ’s unlikely that he speaks the language , and it will allow her to tell him the truth of anything he asks her about without him understanding the answer and becoming suspicious .
Unfortunately for Deputy Hendrix , the words gap gives Patrick enough prison term to catch up with him and Iris . With his directive not to harm anyone turned off , and his hostility set to 100 , Patrick brutally beats the deputy to death with his own gas pedal , blast his cheek multiple clip until it ’s little more than a mess of gore and bone . He then stuffs both Deputy Hendrix and Iris in the trunk of the car and return to the lake house . It ’s maybe the single most extreme enactment of violence inCompanion , and easily one of the most fell kills .
1Josh (Jack Quaid)
Brains Scrambled By An Automatic Wine Bottle Opener
There is sure an argument to be made for Deputy Hendrix ’s death being the most unrelenting , but Josh ’s death take on the top spot here due to the creativity and destruction upshot of his death . Once Patrick fry his own circuitry for the sake of his own desperate love , Iris determine Teddy , the surviving Empathix employee in the woods , and has him grant her the ability to amply control herself without the utilization of any form of gadget . She then returns to the lake house to face Josh one final sentence as he set about to make off with the money .
Iris is held down by men three time in the movie ( Sergey , Eli , and Josh ) and kills all three , dish as a potent metaphor for the horror comedy ’s exam of abusive relationships .
Josh still attempts to utilize the influencehe believes he has over Iris against her , and for most of their final interaction , it seems to play in hold on her from kill him . However , they eventually come to blow and twine up on the flat coat , where Josh gain the upper hand . Just as he ’s about to down Iris , she jams an electric corkscrew into his tabernacle , which drives its point deep into Josh ’s skull and brain , and distastefully pulls osseous tissue and mastermind topic into the phellem reservoir . It ’s an inventive and brute death that act as the exclaiming period forCompanion .
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