Push ending explained: The truth behind the house, the killer, and the final scene

Push is a sharp, claustrophobic thriller about a woman trapped in a luxury home that morphs into something far weirder and way more terrifying. The latest addition to Shudder's collection of disturbing horror films is scary, creepy and will definitely leave you with questions.

There’s blood, birth, a psychotic intruder with a twisted backstory, and just when you think Natalie has made it out alive, Push throws one last punch. The final moments are less about closure and more about opening a new door, one you definitely didn’t ask to be opened. So what happens at the end of Push? Here's everything you need to know.

What is the plot of Push?

Push begins in 1993, in Barcelona, where Natalie Flores is still haunted by one of her final memories with her husband, the moment he asked her to move to America with him. Not long after, she watched him die in a sudden car crash. Left reeling, she also had to face her cold and critical family, who never believed she could survive without their help. But Natalie decides to prove them wrong. She leaves Spain behind, determined to build a new life for herself in the States.

Eight months later, now visibly pregnant, she’s working as a realtor and heading to Northern Michigan to sell a remote, historic estate on Craven Road. The house in question is old and massive, built in 1890. Surrounded by forests and hills it's a great space but something about it always seems off. Although the house gives off an unsettling atmosphere, Natalie wishes that she would make the sale so she can get more stable financially. With a child on the way and her own loneliness she's almost desperate to sell it off.

While she is getting the property ready, she is visited by a man- who is called The Client. He claims that he saw the open house and wanted a tour. Despite it being late, Natalie shows him around, giving him details about the house and it's history. She mentions that the previous owners were murdered in the house and surprisingly, it doesn't disturb the client at all. Instead he says that he can still feel the dead owners' presence.

Later, when Natalie tries to leave, her car won’t start. She heads back inside, only to discover the Client never left. He’s watching her. A mechanic arrives to help but ends up dead. Now truly trapped, Natalie realizes the Client wants her and her baby gone. What follows is a tense, brutal night of survival as Natalie tries to outwit a man who sees her, and her unborn child, as part of something much darker.

What happens to Natalie at the end of Push?

The back half of Push takes a much darker, more surreal turn as Natalie fights for her life, and her unborn child’s life, against the mysterious man known only as The Client. After a brutal showdown near the house, Natalie shoots him with a shotgun to defend herself. He survives, surprisingly, and is taken to the county hospital. That’s where we learn his name: Gabriel Marquez. Things start getting strange when he claims to have been born in the house back in 1929, despite looking like he’s in his 30s.

Between all of this, Natalie gives birth to her son in the most brutal, chaotic way possible, alone, in hiding, with blood on her legs and a killer hunting her down. She gives birth crouched behind a stone wall, no nurses, no pain meds, just raw instinct.

In one of Push's most intense moments, she bites through the umbilical cord, cradles her baby, and keeps running. There’s no time to process, no time to even breathe. She does what she must, grabs a shotgun, shields her newborn, and fires at Gabriel with a mother’s kind of rage. But the nightmare doesn’t end there. At the hospital, her baby is in the ICU, unresponsive and hooked up to the machines. Natalie stares at him through glass, heart breaking.

Before the police can process what to do with him, Gabriel escapes by killing the officers guarding him. He then confronts Natalie at the hospital's ICU, where her baby is recovering. In a desperate act of survival, Natalie stabs him violently, believing it’s over, and walks out, bloody, barefoot, and unstoppable with her baby finally safe in her arms.

But it’s not. A post-credits scene reveals Gabriel waking up in a hospital morgue, very much alive. The flickering hospital lights, and matching flickers back at the Craven Road house, hint at a supernatural connection between him and the property, that is preventing it's sale and keeping Gabriel alive.

Who was Gabriel?

Throughout Push, Gabriel exhibits strange, otherworldly behavior. He seems almost immune to injury, surviving both a shotgun blast and repeated stab wounds. Lights flicker around him. A music box responds to his presence. And then there’s his knowledge of the house, its layout, its secrets, its lies. At one point, he even threatens to cut her baby out of her belly. It's also implied that Gabriel attacks Natalie solely because she is trying to sell the house.

It’s implied he may be the son of Victor and Camila Marquez, the house’s previous owners. He’s seen spitting on their grave, which dates back to 1944, when Gabriel would’ve been about 15. This moment, private and intense, suggests deep-seated rage or trauma.

Could he have killed them? Possibly. Push never confirms it, but it heavily implies that Gabriel might have murdered his parents and anyone else who tried to claim the house. His twisted logic may come from a savior complex, believing he's protecting others from pain by killing them first.

Whether Gabriel was an immortal man, a spirit possessing a human form, or something entirely in between is left unclear. Push wants us to question what’s real, what’s supernatural, and whether the horrors Natalie faces are bound to a place, or to something far more unexplainable.

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