Pyewacket, a 2017 horror mystery film with occult rituals and a scary evil spirit, was directed by Adam MacDonald. Teenage Leah Reyes (Nicole Muoz), who is grieving the loss of her father, finds comfort in esoteric literature and depictions of the devil. As her mother grieves, she grows distant and uncaring, dividing herself from her daughter. After a particularly brutal confrontation, Leah becomes resentful and estranged from her mother and looks to the supernatural for help. In order to get rid of her mother, Leah uses dark magic to summon Pyewacket, a formidable demonic creature. She soon understands the seriousness of the horror she has brought into her life, though.
Here is all the information you need to know about “Pyewacket’s” conclusion if you’re interested in learning what Pyewacket’s presence means for Leah and what it means for her mother. Spoilers follow!
Pyewacket Plot Synopsis
Leah Reyes’s home life has gotten progressively worse following her father’s passing. When Leah gets home from school, her mother is gone, and she sobs in the house behind a closed door. As a result, Leah begins to dislike her distant mother and prefers to spend her free time with her friends Rob, Aaron, and Janice. Like Leah, her pals also struggle with their parents, and they connect through their shared love of the paranormal book “Black River, Black Magic,” written by a professional. Leah gets into a fight with her mother one evening after arriving late from a book signing for the same book.
As a result, Leah is very dissatisfied when her mother informs her that they are packing up their old house and moving up north for a fresh start. Leah’s mother tells her how much she despises the fact that Leah reminds her of her father during a later, harsh dispute between the mother and daughter. In haste, Leah conducts a summoning ceremony in the nearby woods after being hurt by her mother’s harsh comments. Leah gathers her mother’s hair and buries it in the woods with a mixture made of her own blood, following the instructions in Black River, Black Magic, and then summons Pyewacket to her world to kill her mother.
When Leah gets home, her mother truly apologises to her for her remarks, but initially nothing occurs. Leah, however, begins to develop a growing paranoia about a visitor’s presence in the home as time goes on. A few days later, Leah mysteriously awakens in the woods with a bleeding hand, and she immediately runs to ask her friends for assistance.
Janice stays over to look into the location in the woods where Leah did the ceremony to call Pyewacket as a result. The two pals go for a nighttime walk through the woods but discover nothing unusual. However, when Leah and her mother awaken the following morning, they discover Janice hiding in their car, distraught at something horrible that occurred to her the previous evening.
Leah resolves to seek aid from a professional after realising how dangerous the circumstance is and gets in touch with Rowan Dove, the author of Black River, Black Magic. Dove concurs with Leah’s assertions and spreads knowledge of Pyewacket’s evil nature and his capacity to assume any appearance.
Dove informs Leah that she must repeat the rite while requesting forgiveness in order to send Pyewacket back to its realm. The following weekend, when her mother has left for work, Leah gathers her provisions and heads back to the woods. When she discovers her mother’s body lying among the trees, she is unable to complete the ceremony.
Leah reports her mother’s death to 911 after being heartbroken at the same scene. Soon, Leah hears her mother calling for her from inside the house, prompting Leah to ask Aaron for assistance. Leah goes home to find her mother waiting for her even though she received a text from Aaron saying he was outside her gate.
Pyewacket Ending: Does Leah’s Mother Die?
Pyewacket is brought into Leah’s domain with the express intent of killing her mother. Leah’s emotions are out of control at the time of the summoning, and she is mourning not just the death of her father but also the identity of her mother before her father passed away. Leah’s only sources of emotional support since her mother’s abandonment are her friends. As a result, when Leah’s mother obliquely removes things from her life, it triggers unpleasant emotions. So when Leah’s mother says she wants to delete everything about her during their disagreement, it makes Leah feel the same way.
Leah performs the ritual in the heat of the moment and instantly begins to regret her actions. Over the coming days, Leah comes to see that her mother is only doing her best and wishes she could undo her terrible deeds. As a result, Leah is devastated when she discovers her mother’s body in the woods, especially since she is so close to changing her original ritual. Leah later recognises the shape-shifting Pyewacket as her mother when she encounters her there again. Even though she makes an effort to act as though everything is fine, the act is quickly exposed, and the Pyewacket starts stalking Leah around the house in its demonic form.
Later, while Leah is hiding in the attic with her knife, her mother comes across her and soothes her. Even though Leah’s mother is no longer possessed, Leah believes that the Pyewacket is still manipulating her through her mother. In order to get a bucket of petrol out of her mother’s car, Leah sneaks out of the house late at night. Leah uses the fuel to set the Pyewacket and the rest of the home on fire.
Leah is rescued from the burning building by Aaron, but she learns a shocking fact at the police station. Where Leah found her mother’s body in the woods, the police were unable to locate anything. Instead, all they discovered inside the house was a charred human corpse.
The spirit makes Leah kill her own mother after Pyewacket is called upon by Leah to do so. Pyewacket reinforces Leah’s belief that her mother has passed away by first showing her the body in the forest and then later appearing as her mother. The same goes for Leah, who thinks she is surrounded by an evil spirit that can take the form of her mother. As a result, in the end, Leah is unable to get past her anxiety and accidentally burns her mother alive by mistaking her for Pyewacket.
Who Is Pyewacket?
A dark spirit from another realm named Pyewacket enters the world of the living with Leah’s assistance. Despite being the title character of the movie, Pyewacket is a mysterious creature, therefore not much is known about it. We only ever see it as Leah’s mother or as a threatening shape in the dark throughout the entire movie. However, near the end, Leah and the viewer catch a glimpse of its true form as a deformed witch of the devil.
After reading Dove’s book about Pyewacket, Leah is able to bring it to life because she has unshakeable faith and a deep belief in its reality. Pyewacket is tethered to Leah until it can carry out its summoned purpose, which is to kill Leah’s mother. Pyewacket will come for Leah and pursue her after completing its purpose.
Dove tells Leah that Pyewacket is a highly cunning witch spirit that can assume the appearance of whomever it chooses. He cautions her that Pyewacket will try to control Leah through its ability to change its shape, and that she must be always on the lookout for this. Given Pyewacket’s immense power, killing Leah’s mother should have been a cinch for it to complete its mission.
However, Pyewacket purposefully drags Leah along and pushes her over the brink due to its chaotic character. It eventually succeeds in getting Leah to accept what it wants her to believe. Ironically, despite Leah bringing Pyewacket to kill her mother, Pyewacket forces her to carry out its orders. Leah kills her mother by burning her alive, which, by chance, must have occurred to it at Pyewacket as it is a witch spirit.
