Jordan Peele's new movie 'Nope' ends with a wild confrontation between humans and aliens. Here's how it all went down.

• Jordan Peele's new horror movie "Nope" stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun.
• The film follows a horse trainer and his charismatic sister who notice something strange on their ranch.

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for the ending of "Nope."

At once an emotional family drama, a gruesome commentary on our constant need for entertainment and spectacle, and a bonkers alien story, Jordan Peele's new film "Nope" is his most ambitious — and most out-there — yet.

The movie follows grief-stricken horse trainer OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya), whose father ran a successful business training and providing horses to Hollywood productions. After OJ's father (Keith David) dies in a mysterious, gory accident, OJ tries to keep the now-failing business and accompanying horse ranch afloat, with the help of his charismatic estranged sister, Emerald (Keke Palmer).

But things get even more complicated for the Haywoods when they notice a mysterious cloud on the horizon of their ranch. Enlisting the help of a tech-store employee named Angel (Brandon Perea), and gruff, highly-respected cinematographer Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott), OJ and Emerald decide to investigate the otherworldly cloud and make it big with their findings.

The cloud, however, turns out to be — spoiler alert — an alien creature, and the last part of the film features a wild goose-chase between the humans and the alien.

Here's exactly what happened during the ending of "Nope."

OJ, Emerald, Angel, and Antlers come up with a plan to catch the creature on film

The group discovers that the creature, which appears to be a large, flying disc, sucks up unsuspecting humans or creatures who look directly at it. It then consumes them, spitting out metal objects (like spare change and keys) and blood from the people it just ate. The creature also short-circuits any power source directly underneath it, meaning that phones, digital cameras, electric lights, motorized vehicles, etc., are all rendered useless when it's near.

Both OJ and Emerald are desperate to capture footage of the creature on film, and hope to get rich from clear video evidence — which they dub the "Oprah shot" — of the alien.

Together with Angel and Antlers, they devise a scheme to lure the creature out into the open desert surrounding the Haywood ranch. Using a warning system of inflatable, multicolored balloon men, OJ plans to ride into the desert on a horse to attract the creature, leaving Angel, Antlers, and Emerald to get the shot with a handheld film camera.

The group's scheme soon veers wildly off-course

Unfortunately for the group, a rogue motorcyclist with a camera (who Emerald hilariously suspects is a TMZ journalist) threatens to ruin their shot after he unexpectedly rides onto the property. He's subsequently eaten by the alien, but the distraction puts everyone on edge.

OJ's superb riding allows Antlers to get the footage, and it seems that the group has successfully tricked the alien into showing itself without eating OJ. As the sun sets over the hills behind the creature, however, the lure of the perfect shot becomes too much for Antlers. The cinematographer defies the group to stare up directly at the alien during "magic hour," and manages to film the creature in golden light before being eaten, camera included.

Its appetite whetted, the alien then turns its attention to Angel, who barely escapes after nearly being sucked up and consumed, and then Emerald.

OJ distracts the alien in order to save Emerald

The creature lingers over Emerald, and while she refuses to look up at it, OJ begins to back his horse away from her, in an effort to draw the alien's attention elsewhere. Emerald escapes on the motorcycle from earlier, and OJ continues to distract the creature that's beginning to unfurl into a terrifyingly beautiful mass of tendrils.

Emerald soon arrives at a nearby abandoned Wild West theme park (whose guests were previously among the victims of the alien life form). In a last-ditch effort to save OJ, she releases a large balloon of a smiling cowboy into the sky, in the hopes that it will distract the creature.

Luckily for the Haywoods, the alien takes the bait, and drifts over to the balloon, which it begins to consume. The helium inside the balloon proves too much for its digestive tract, however, and the creature then explodes over the desert.

OJ rides up to the theme park on his horse, and he and Emerald embrace. It's revealed that Emerald was able to capture footage of the creature after all, using a photo booth in the theme park to finally get the "Oprah shot."

"Nope" premieres in theaters on Friday. You can watch the trailer below.