The Cleanse (2018) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
A depressed protagonist who joins the purification retreat after losing his job and fiancée. He bonds with a physical manifestation of his purged negativity, helps Maggie escape, and ultimately strang...
A retreat applicant who develops a mutual interest with Paul. She struggles to bond with her creature, refuses Ken's order to kill it, flees the camp, and assists in destroying the merged monster to e...
The program's conductor who manages the retreat, distributes cleanse drinks, convinces Maggie to stay, and confronts Paul and Maggie during their escape attempt.
An applicant selected alongside his girlfriend Laurie. He neglects his creature, drinks Laurie's unfinished cleanse which worsens her condition, and is later found grieving over her death.
The secretive creator of the purification program. He enforces strict rules, orders Maggie to kill her creature with a blade, and aggressively confronts the fleeing pair.
A long-term participant who has attended for several weeks. He warns Paul about his growing creature and is eventually killed by it in his cabin.
Eric's girlfriend and a retreat applicant. Unable to finish her fourth cleanse due to its horrible taste, she becomes bedridden with an illness and later dies.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
The plot identifies Eric and Laurie as girlfriend and boyfriend applicants selected together for the retreat.
Ken created the purification program, while Lily conducts it and later confronts the fleeing participants with him.
When Maggie tries to leave after confronting her creature, Lily convinces her to stay.
Lily conducts the program and distributes four personally formulated cleanse drinks to each new participant, including Paul.
Ken gives Maggie a blade and instructs her to kill her creature to complete the cleanse. Maggie is unable to do it.
At the selection meeting, Paul takes an interest in Maggie. They continue getting to know one another during the retreat.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Paul meets Fredericks at the retreat, and later discovers him battling his increasingly monstrous creature in his cabin.
Ken confronts Paul during the escape and demands that Paul and Maggie turn over their creatures. Paul takes Ken's car keys and continues fleeing.
A desperate retreat turns inner negativity into living creatures, forcing Paul and Maggie to choose survival over emotional attachment.
Directed by Bobby Miller
The Cleanse (2018) · 5/10 · comedy, drama, fantasy, horror
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