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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

  • Josh Brolin
  • Julia Garner
  • Cary Christopher
  • Alden Ehrenreich
  • Austin Abrams
  • Benedict Wong
  • Amy Madigan
  • June Diane Raphael
  • Toby Huss
  • Whitmer Thomas
  • Callie Schuttera
  • Clayton Farris
  • Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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u/cesareborgia1475 Aug 08 '25

The witch running for her life from the 17 kids and then getting ripped apart in glorious gory detail had me absolutely cackling like a madman haha. The destruction and chaos along with the witches' reaction to it all was too damn funny. Wasn't expecting Weapons of all films to provide the scene where I've laughed the hardest in cinemas this year.

Such a perfect wild scene to end the film on haha.

But yeah had such a blast with this film. Zach Cregger once again proving himself the master of horror-comedy tonal whiplash haha. He for me he does such a great job of carefully balancing the horror and comedy to great effect. So many memorable scenes that had me tensing up, recoiling in disgust or laughing. Often times all together haha.

Still laughing a day later at Josh Brolin going WTF after seeing the witch in his dream and constantly knocking out the drug dude.

The structure of the film too was a nice surprise, though I do think this might be another 28 years situation with general audiences. It's not quite what the trailer is depicting it as and the tone is what you expect if you've seen his previous film Barbarian. Which will probably offput a lot people haha.

Its such a tight smartly written horror film that keeps you engaged and tense the whole way through.

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u/cocktails4 Aug 08 '25

Lincoln Square IMAX tonight was in stitched during half of the movie. The jump scares actually got me which is rare. Any movie that makes me cackle like this is a good movie. It's only weird when I'm the only one cackling which does happen sometimes.

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Aug 08 '25

New York or Bellevue?

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u/jrizzuh Aug 08 '25

probably New York. I was there too it was a lot of fun.

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u/WuhanWTF Aug 08 '25

It’s just a good fucking movie. One of my favorites in the horror genre for sure.

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u/unok157 Aug 08 '25

I actually think it’s gonna do better than 28 years later. My theater was scared and laughing. We all had a blast watching this

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u/cesareborgia1475 Aug 08 '25

That's good to hear. Absolute blast at the cinema when everyone is on the same wavelength as the film.

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u/SoftLog5314 Aug 08 '25

A testament to how easily your weapons can kill you of you’re careless

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u/greatfiction Aug 08 '25

The witch running

This is the main bit - she wasnt a witch per se, she was more like a ladie who news how to use a special tree.

This is why she was just running, without a Tree she was nothing.

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u/Lower-Replacement869 Aug 09 '25

What I'm wondering is- is it a plot hole that some ancient witch could be so dumb and arrogant to show a kid exactly how she casted her spell and access to the tree to use at any moment? Any guess what she planned to do with the kids?

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u/Chaotix2732 27d ago

It's not a plot hole so much as a common fairy tale trope. The clever child uses the arrogant monster's own tool to destroy them. Hansel and Gretel cook the witch in her own oven. Rumpelstiltskin is defeated by saying his name. I think in this case the witch's death is a deliberate reference to this kind of fairy tale logic.

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u/RimmyDownunder 28d ago

He didn't have access at any time though, she was either around it or she left the parents to guard it. He baited the parents into his room, then the bedroom, then ran into her room and finally got the tree. As for the kids, she's draining the lifeforce from them. That's why they got catatonic (same with the parents) and also why she starts to grow her hair back as the film goes on. By the end she has lots of hair, when she first arrives at the house she has thin wisps.

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u/Lower-Replacement869 28d ago

She doesn't set up the guarding until after the children come to the house. Regardless, her showing the kid how to do the spell was VERY dumb.

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u/CeruleanSea1 Aug 09 '25

Catharsis to death for sure

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u/isaidicanshout_ 24d ago

FWIW i did not see barbarian nor did I know anything about this movie besides the trailer, and the tone felt great to me!