Into the Labyrinth ending explained: Samantha and Mila stay trapped in Bunny’s maze

Donato Carrisi's Into the Labyrinth is a dark and mysterious psychological thriller that plays out like a classic whodunit. It follows a woman trying to find out the person who kidnapped her many years ago, when she was just a child. However, the more you learn, the less you end up knowing about the culprit.

Into the Labyrinth is designed like an elaborate maze. It wants us to keep guessing the real identity of the sadistic mastermind behind the mind games. Toward the end, we learn that Samantha, the abductee, is actually Mila Vasquez, a criminal investigator, who was likely looking for the deceptive kidnapper. She was stuck in the labyrinth while the real Samantha was in a hospital.

Valentina Bellè plays Samantha while Toni Servillo and Dustin Hoffman play two men trying to help her find the culprit. By the end, one of them is revealed to be a part of the sinister plan.

The man posing as Dr. Green is a part of the Bunny's plan

Dustin Hoffman in Into the Labyrinth (Image via YouTube/ONE Media Coverage)

In the beginning, we see Valentina Bellè as Samantha, a woman who went missing 15 years ago. Toni Servillo plays terminally ill investigator Bruno Genko, who was once assigned to her case, while Dustin Hoffman is introduced as psychologist Dr. Green. They both try to solve the case. Genko looks into the criminal's history. Dr. Green speaks with Samantha for profiling.

The film reveals that the kidnapper played mind games on Samantha. So, Hoffman's character asks her questions about her past. It seems like he's trying to help her get over the trauma. However, he only pretends to help. His profiling is only an act.

The film eventually reveals that he is "a" kidnapper, if not "the" kidnapper, behind Samantha's abduction. The woman we meet is not Samantha, but Officer Mila Vasquez. She is, in fact, stuck in an actual labyrinth.

The ending doesn't reveal what happens to Samantha or Mila

Into the Labyrinth ending explained (Image via YouTube/ONE Media Coverage)

We see two parallel storylines. One shows Mila in a labyrinth, who was told a lie. She is not the girl who went missing. Instead, she is also stuck in the kidnapper's prison. The real Samantha is in a hospital. Hoffman's character uses an alias to put Mila in his psychological trap.

By the end of Into the Labyrinth, Mila escapes the labyrinth and walks out in the snow, but she might get trapped again by another kidnapper in the chain. When it comes to Samantha, we see her somehow connected to Samantha's mind. The film implies that she is part of Mila's psychological maze.

Into the Labyrinth hints that there are more kidnappers than the Bunny we meet

Gecko's investigation reveals that Robin Besso kidnapped Samantha. He was also a victim of these sadistic games. That's where he stumbled upon Bunny's deeply disturbing comics. It led him to become Bunny and inflict pain on others. However, he is only a part of a chain. So, there seems to be more than one "Bunny."

What's Bunny? It's just an identity that the kidnapper's victims take on after being influenced by the comics inside his prison. The resulting trauma of their torture leads them to become kidnappers themselves. That seems to be the plan of the mastermind behind this operation. He knew that his victims could be indoctrinated to perpetuate this torturous cycle.

Donato Carrisi's script doesn't directly tell these details. It feels like he wants us to struggle to make sense of his confusing storyline. That confusion keeps us on our toes as he introduces more twists and turns till the final moments. Even the ending doesn't really say that Mila will be better. Her trauma might even turn her into one of these abductors.