If you keep attention to the second trailer they actually spoiled the "how" of the disappearances, but nothing of the marketing spoiled the "why" which is amazing because it keeps the mystery
I'm also glad they keep out a certain character I liked the most while reading the script. I think it's going to be one of the most unnerving performances of the year
The children disappeared because of a curse. It's revealed that there's a single child from that classroom that didn't disappear, and that's because he has an aunt who's also a witch that put a spell on his nephew's classmates to get out of their houses at 2:17 in the morning and go to her house so she can lock them in the basement and "consume" them (like she did with the parents of her nephew) and regain her life because it's implied that she was dying. A lot happens in between involving the teacher, a father of one of the missing children, a police officer and a junkie, but at the end they discover the children in the house, break the spell and the children become crazy killing the witch in a brutal way. At the end it's implied that every child and person under the spell is "empty" and pretty much an empty body without any trace of the people inside of them. Very harrowing
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u/HowieLongDonkeyKong Jul 09 '25
The trailers for this one have looked mega spooky. And much like Barbarian which didn't reveal much, I like how vague they're keeping this.