Two years after it left theaters, Trap is having a moment nobody quite predicted.

M. Night Shyamalan's father-daughter serial killer thriller, starring Josh Hartnett, is currently sitting in the VOD top 10 across several countries. It also keeps cycling back into HBO Max's top 10 well into 2026, according to Collider, and this year it found a second streaming home on Prime Video, giving it two platforms to chart on at once.

That's an unusual kind of staying power for a film that made $83 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. Shyamalan, who has built a career on keeping his budgets tight and his hooks sharp, needed something close to $60 million to clear before Trap turned a profit. It got there comfortably before its theatrical run even wrapped.

For anyone who missed it in 2024, the setup is simple and nasty. A father takes his teenage daughter to a pop concert and slowly figures out the whole arena has been rigged as a trap for a serial killer, and he's the one it's meant to catch. Ariel Donoghue plays the daughter. Alison Pill rounds out the cast. Critics weren't wowed, 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, though audiences responded better, sitting at 64%. None of that seems to have slowed its second life on streaming.

Part of it is timing. Hartnett has spent the last three years rebuilding a career that had gone cold for a stretch, and Trap landed right in the middle of that run. He turned up in Oppenheimer in 2023, then in The Bear's final seasons as Frank, then in Fight or Flight last year, an action thriller that leaned into John Wick and Bullet Train territory. Next month he's in Below, a new Netflix series. Viewers catching up on his recent work look to be circling back to Trap along the way.

Shyamalan isn't in a hurry to follow it up. His next theatrical release, Remain, doesn't arrive until February 5, 2027. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and is based on a novel Shyamalan co-wrote with Nicholas Sparks, a pairing odd enough on paper that it's already got people wondering what the tone lands on.

Until then, Trap has the field to itself, still finding new viewers on two services at once, still charting nearly two and a half years after it opened. What its streaming afterlife does to the marketing push for Remain next year is the thing worth watching now.