Tess Marshall

Tess Marshall is the main protagonist from the 2022 horror film The Barbarian.
She is portrayed by .
== Short Summary ==
Tess is a young woman who is traveling to Detroit and staying for for a job interview.
== Story ==
Tess Marshall arrives at an Airbnb that she booked at 467 Barbary Street, but as she tries to check in, she cannot find the house key or get in touch with whoever booked her. Before she leaves, she sees a light turn on in the house, and she rings the bell. A man named Keith Toshko answers, and he says he booked the house as well. Since they cannot reach the bookers, Keith invites Tess to stay while they try to get things sorted.
Tess is unable to book a hotel anywhere else, so she takes a shower and is invited by Keith to share a bottle of wine. She explains that she is meeting with a filmmaker named Bonnie Zane (Sophie Sorensen) for a job interview. Keith says he has seen her last film, despite Tess thinking nobody else would have seen it. They bond for a bit before going to bed.
During the night, Tess wakes up to overhear Keith gasping in his sleep, likely due to night terrors. She tries to wake him up but ends up startling both of them. Keith denies anything is wrong.
The next day, Tess goes for her interview. As she steps outside, she is surprised to see that all the other houses surrounding the AirBnB seem abandoned and dilapidated. Tess then goes to meet Bonnie at the restaurant. Everything goes well until Tess mentions where she is staying, and Bonnie warns her to get out of there quickly.
When Tess returns to the house, a man named Andre runs after her and tells her to get out of the house. Although a bit spooked, Tess goes about her business and ends up going down toward the basement. The door locks behind her, and she has left her phone on the kitchen table. She then finds a rope attached to the wall and finds a secret entrance to a tunnel. Despite some initial hesitance, Tess goes into the tunnel for a little bit. She comes across a room with a bed, a camera, and a bloody handprint on the wall, as well as a staircase going further down, causing her to freak out. She runs back to the basement and sees Keith outside, so she gets him to help get her out.
Tess explains to Keith what she saw and says they need to get out of there. Keith tries to reassure her that there is nothing serious down there, so he goes to check it out. After a while, Tess goes looking for Keith, and she walks down the staircase. She hears Keith screaming and calling for help. Tess finds him in the tunnel, and he says something bit him. Before they can run, a horrifying naked humanoid monstrosity, “The Mother”, appears and smashes Keith’s head until he is dead before she roars at Tess.
Tess tells AJ to be quiet and calm down. The Mother then lowers a baby bottle down into the pit, which Tess drinks from, but AJ is less willing. The Mother enters the pit and treats Tess like her child, but she growls and screeches toward AJ. Tess and AJ manage to climb out of the pit and begin to make their way out, but AJ is left behind and trapped in a room where The Mother forces him to breastfeed off her. Tess manages to break the window to the basement and is pulled out by Andre before The Mother can reach her. Andre tries to take Tess to safety, but she insists on going back to free AJ.
Tess calls the cops, but when they arrive, they believe that she is a strung-out addict due to her disheveled appearance. She brings them to the house, but since she has no proof that there is any evidence of a crime, the cops leave. She waits until it gets dark to break into the house and get her keys. When she gets into her car, The Mother emerges and tries to break into Tess’s car, but she drives into the side of the house to try and kill The Mother, but it just briefly knocks her out.
Tess brings AJ down by the water where Andre told her to go for safety. He explains to them that Frank owned the house and was most likely the source that booked the victims. He would kidnap women and rape them, producing children that he would also rape, and The Mother is a product of incestuous rape that has been in the house for over 40 years. Although confident that she cannot find them, Andre is quickly proven wrong when The Mother emerges and rips his arm off, then beats him to death with it.
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