The Ending of ‘Who Invited Them’ Explained: Why Did Adam Lose His Mind in the End?

‘Who Invited Them’ is a Shudder original movie directed & written by Duncan Birmingham and starring Ryan Hansen, Melissa Tang, and Timothy Granaderos. The movie is supposed to be a horror comedy, but it fails in both aspects; I honestly cannot recall a single funny moment in the entire movie. What fails worse than the comedy aspect of the movie is its story; the mystery is thinly veiled, which means that you need to struggle hard to keep being invested in the story and its outcome. There are also some forced “scary” scenes that I will attribute to generally bad cinematography rather than them being intentional scares. ‘Who Invited Them’ is not a very good movie, and based on that its ending is rather confusing, this is what we’re here to explain, so, let’s go at it.

Adam and Margo got a new house, and the place is scary

The first character we meet is technically Dylan, Adam and Margo’s son, who has been suffering from night terrors ever since the couple moved into a new place. The kid has a perpetual dream of his parents being killed and him standing in the pool of their blood.

Margo is aware of it, as well as Adam, and they both attribute it to “new house jitters.” Yes, Adam and Margo have bought a new house in the hills. It was an expensive house in a high-class neighborhood. Adam is proud of himself, but Margo is still uncomfortable living in such luxury. She also has new house jitters, and the fact that she is feeling like she is being watched doesn’t help either. At the very beginning, Margo notices a black car parked in front of their house, but as soon as Adam leans through the window to check out the car, the car is gone.

Still, the feeling of the new house will eventually wear off, and they will settle into the routine, or so Adam claims. The pair organizes a housewarming party; it’s mostly Adam’s coworkers, as he intends to use the new house to suck up to his bosses. However, judging by the chatter we can hear at the party, Adam’s friends are really salty about him being able to afford such a house, and we can mostly hear their jealousy. Even Teeny and Frank, the couple’s close friends, are looking for an excuse to leave the party soon.

Adam plays the role of the host while Margo mostly hides in the kitchen; she is not exactly comfortable with having all these people in her house so soon after moving in, but she goes along with it. Adam, at one point, gives a speech he thanks all his friends and coworkers, and he notices one couple that he doesn’t recognize, although they seem quite at home and they are having a blast. We also learn that Dylan, their son, is at a sleepover in Teeny’s and Frank’s house and won’t be back until tomorrow.

Adam and Margo meet the new neighbors

Soon after the house clears up since everyone pretty much left the party early, Adam and Margo discuss the guests, and Margo comments that most of the people at the party she never met due to them being, in one way or another, Adam’s friends. Adam counters that it’s not true since the couple he didn’t recognize has to be Margo’s friends. Margo comments she had no idea who they were but she noticed them as well. Margo goes to the fridge and gets the scare of her life while the couple they were just discussing exists from the bathroom, and they start apologizing for being the only ones left at the party.

Both Adam and Margo start panicking, and Adam asks them to leave; the couple introduces themselves as Tom and Sasha, and they are allegedly their next-door neighbors living in the mid-century house just next to them. After Adam realizes that Tom, due to obviously owning that giant house, is rich, he invites them to stay a while to meet them a bit better. Margo is uncomfortable with it and lets Adam know, but it’s like Tom and Sasha have no shame, and they decide to stick around despite being obviously unwelcome by Margo. Tom and Sasha also implied they hid in the bathroom to have sex, which, in my opinion, makes matters even worse.

At the same time, Teeny and Frank are returning back to their house, and Frank seemingly hits something and goes out of the car to investigate. He returns back to the car and explains that it’s just a branch, but Teeny is convinced that it is an animal. And…that’s it…literally, that’s it, that’s the plot twist.

Back at the new house, Adam and Margo are working on getting to know Sasha and Tom a bit better. Tom is discussing work with Adam and introduces himself as CEO of some company or something, pretty much immediately he promises that he can advance Adam’s career through some connections and Adam bites into it.

At the same time, Sasha reveals that Tom and she did not have sex in the bathroom; they were doing coke. Being a former user, Margo asks Sasha whether she has some more coke left, and she gets high. The party is ready to start.

Tom and Sasha are a weird couple, but it flies under Margo’s and Adam’s radar

Adam and Margo are still hanging out with Tom and Sasha, and this time, it’s Adam who is uncomfortable with them being at the house; the couple almost starts arguing in front of the neighbors. Tom decides to put on some music, but Adam is very protective of his records. Still, he doesn’t want to endanger his prospects of getting even richer and advancing his career, so he lets Tom put on the record. Tom chooses ‘Mad at You’ by The Glass, and both couples seemingly loosen up with enough alcohol, coke, and good music.

The song starts skipping, however, and Tom promises to buy a new record for Adam. While Adam and Margo are partying with Sasha and Tom, Dylan, back at Teeny’s house, is having another nightmare of his parents getting killed, and he wets the bed. He can’t return to sleep unless he has his stuffed monkey toy. Teeny says that she will return to Adam’s and Margo’s house to pick up the toy since it’s not too late in the night.

The party is still going strong at Adam’s and Margo’s house, but there is also something stage going on. Sasha and Tom are constantly separating the couple, having one-on-one talks with them. Adam and Tom breach the subject of the house, and Adam mentions that he actually got a pretty good deal on it since 20 years ago, there has been a murder at the house, a double homicide. There was this couple with twins that were constantly arguing, and eventually, they snapped and killed each other; the husband shot the wife, and the wife slit his throat.

The weirdest part was that the twins who were left alone at the time never reported the crime and lived with their dead parent’s bodies for weeks before the gardener smelled the stench of rotting corpses. Adam also admits that Margo has no idea about it; if she knew, she would be really pissed.

At the same time, Sasha is talking with Margo about how Adam seems to be a bit controlling and how that thing would’ve never worked in her own marriage. Tom implies that Margo is jealous of Adam’s career and Adam should aim a bit higher and maybe teach Margo a lesson or two regarding ambitions.

Sasha and Tom are doing their best to cause an argument between Margo and Adam

Margo reveals to Sasha that before she was a housewife, she was a guitar player in a band called Feedlot, and by some chance, Sasha once saw them live. Sasha immediately wants the band on her own party that she is about to organize in the future but Margo explains that the band broke apart and she isn’t in contact with the lead singer, Sebastian, who is also her ex for years now.

Sasha orders Margo to call Sebastian right away and dials his number. Margo tries to explain that she lost contact with him because Adam was really jealous and didn’t want her to talk with him, but Sasha urges her to talk with him. Sebastian is glad that Margo called him, and he is totally for the idea of Feedlot coming back together. While Margo is talking to Sebastian, Sasha is in the background making rude sexual gestures.

At the same time, Tom is working on Adam and proposes that he has a threesome with Margo and Sasha out of the blue. Adam is first and foremost shocked but actually starts considering the idea since he finds Sasha hot as hell. At that moment, Margo and Sasha walk into a room, and Margo tells Adam that Dylan’s hamster is missing and that they should look for him, but Adam refuses.

Teeny, on her way to Margo’s and Adam’s house, stops at the place where her husband allegedly hit a branch and finds out that he actually has hit a dog. She goes back to her car to grab a shotgun and euthanizes the animal but can’t bring herself to do it and drives away.

Margo and Adam start seriously arguing

Margo and Adam are still partying with Tom and Sasha, and booze keeps flowing. Sasha tells Tom and Adam that Margo’s band, Feedlot, is about to have a reunion, and it’s clear as day that Adam is shocked that Margo talked to Sebastian after so many years. Margo accuses Adam of not being supportive of her “career,” and Adam retorts that Margo is not supportive of his career, considering that she wasn’t willing to talk to his bosses or any of his friends at a party.

Margo accuses Adam of using the new house to advance his career and says that he is always a spineless people-pleaser and kiss-ass, especially when it comes to his bosses. Tom and Sasha recommend that Adam and Margo start hitting each other as a form of therapy, and Margo strikes Adam pretty hard a couple of times and calls him a dipshit.

Adam warns Margo that she shouldn’t hit him again since he is going to return the hit, but she does and strikes him harder than any other time before. Adam is ready to smack Margo across the face, but she moves out of his way at the last second, and Adam hits a wall instead.

Margo is shocked that Adam was about to hit her in the face, and he explains that he would stop himself. I don’t know why she was so surprised; however, she spent like 5 minutes beating the shit out of him; what happened to equal rights? Margo reaches for her drink, and for some reason, there is a dead hamster in her glass; the thing apparently drowned. Margo is freaking out and pulls Adam into a bathroom to patch his hand since he is bleeding due to hitting a wall. Teeny, who was on the way to their house, gets lost in the hills and can’t seem to locate the house.

Margo and Adam can’t get rid of Sasha and Tom

While in the bathroom, Margo and Adam discuss how freaky Sasha and Tom actually are, and they make peace with each other. They decide to just call it a night and tell Sasha and Tom to go home as well. They tell Tom and Sasha to go home, but the couple is really trying to stay at their house for as long as possible; they suggest ordering a pizza, getting some more to drink, etc. Ultimately, Tom reveals that Adam actually planned and threesome, and Margo is pissed off but not enough to start another argument with Adam over it.

Tom really gets desperate to stay at the house and reveals that Adam was hiding the history of the house from Margo in a desperate attempt to start an argument between the two of them. Sasha chips in on how she heard that the bodies of the parents were tampered with, defiled even. Still, Margo and Adam are sick of their shit and try to chase them from the house; still, Tom and Sasha persevere, and they even start mocking the couple.

Adam starts counting to ten and if Sasha and Tom are not out of the door in ten seconds he is calling the police, as Adam is counting he goes to open the door and finds a note on the entrance that chills his bones. Instead of continuing the countdown, he smacks Tom in the head with a glass bottle.

Everyone is shocked, even Margo that Adam reacted in such a way, and Adam explains that Tom and Sasha cannot be their neighbors since the real neighbors left a note on their door about how they are being too loud. Sasha and Tom try to explain how they are neighbors from across the street and that they actually own the cowboy-style house; Sasha describes the entrance to the house in detail, and Margo goes to check it out, confirming her story.

Adam is now freaked out that he attacked Tom seemingly over nothing, but Sasha and Tom are done with it and finally decide to leave. Adam starts apologizing as they are leaving, and the couple watches the house that Sasha and Tom described to see whether they will come inside it.

Sasha and Tom enter their supposed house after a brief struggle with the lock, and Adam and Margo feel that they definitely blew it with the new neighbors.

The plot thickens….but not really

After Sasha and Tom leave, Margo finds one of Sasha’s earrings at the coffee table, and Adam volunteers to drop it off. Margo warns him not to apologize again to them, and Adam promises that he won’t.

Adam crosses the street, and Tom answers the door, but he seems to be distracted and not like his usual talkative self. Adam starts apologizing for hitting him with a bottle, but Tom is in a hurry to get rid of his as soon as possible. At that moment, Adam hears screaming coming from the house. Adam is about to react when Tom hits him and pulls him inside the house.

Adam is bound and gagged, and he can see Sasha and Tom holding the older couple who actually lives inside the house as hostages. Sasha and Tom explain that they are the twins from the story and how they messed with their parents until they killed each other. They were moved from foster parents to foster parents, but they would eventually mess with all of them. They are obviously psychopaths, and they were actively stalking the house and decided to mess with Adam and Margo as well; they, however, decided not to kill them somewhere down the line because they weren’t ” a bad couple.”

As for the older couple, Sasha and Tom kill them. Sasha slits the husband’s throat while Tom chokes the wife with a pillow. The explanation? Apparently, the older couple lived next door to Tom and Sasha while they were kids, and they could hear both their parents arguing and their parents abusing Sasha and Tom but did nothing about it. So, this is a form of revenge.

At the same time, Margo is going through her closet and finds measuring markings on the wall that apparently belong to Sasha and Tom; seeing this, Margo makes her way to the house across the street to warn Adam that he is dealing with the killers and walks into a trap. Teeny finally finds her way to the neighborhood.

So, why was Adam freaking out in the end?

Tom and Sasha decide to leave the crime scene, leaving Adam tied with the deal couple since they “like him.” As soon as they walk onto the street, Teeny accidentally hits Sasha with a car, but after hearing Margo screaming, she gets freaked out and distracted, and Tom stabs her with a kitchen knife in the chest.

Teeny somehow manages to limp out of a car and get the shotgun from her trunk, ready to shoot her would-be-killer. At the same time, Margo and Adam are freaking out as well, running through the street; Teeny confuses Adam, with Tom shoots him in the face. And that’s it….yes, that’s truly it.

After that deadly night, in the next scene, we see Adam driving back home, so he survived the ordeal (so did Teeny). He walks into a house, and Margo is waiting for him in the kitchen. Adam explains that he found a new house for them to live in, but Margo doesn’t want to move. She explains that she made her peace with the house and she is actually happy. Additionally, Dylan’s nightmares seem to have stopped all of a sudden, and she wants to stay in this house.

Adam is confused like hell, but Margo starts playing that record from the party, ‘Mad at You’ by The Glass, and Adam starts freaking out because the record is not skipping; he also notices a glass of drink by the record player, lined with freshly lined oranges just like Tom used to drink.

So what happened here? Why did Adam freak out? Well, remember, at the party, the record started skipping, and Tom promised to replace it. Since this record that was playing was not skipping as well as the drink, it implies that Tom returned to the house at some point to replace the record and make himself a drink while none of them were aware of it.

Adam is freaking out and becomes paranoid because killers who were never located by the authorities are still snooping on them from the shadows. It also serves as “just desserts” for Adam since he was the one who wanted the move, while Margo was uncomfortable with it because Adam was doing it partially to brag about his promotion and how he could afford such a nice house. Now the tables are reversed since Adam wants to move, and Margo is fine with the house. And that’s all folks.

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