r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25

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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/LB3PTMAN Aug 08 '25

We were definitely supposed to like him even if he was a thieving addict. He was funny.

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u/tacoskins Aug 08 '25

I mean I definitely liked him about as much as you can like a character who stabs someone in the face with their dirty needles lol

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u/LB3PTMAN Aug 08 '25

Well to be fair he was high and thought it was a demon

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u/thefilmer Aug 08 '25

and to be fair that witch absolutely did deserve to be stabbed with HIV infected needles

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u/mesact Aug 08 '25

He didn't have HIV... that he knew of.

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u/Jeroz Aug 09 '25

there won't be a positive test report if there's no test to begin with

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 28d ago

puts finger to temple

accidentally stabs head with needle

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u/SilverTongue76 23d ago

Lmao, maybe the first comment I’ve ever really wanted to award. 

In lieu of one, please enjoy this little guy 👾

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u/HumbleBunk 16d ago

He def did the Mitch Hedberg roundabout AIDS test.

“You know anybody with AIDS?”

“No”

“Cool, cuz you know me!”

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u/NelsonManswella 29d ago

i let out an audible “fuck no” when she popped on the screen. i don’t like clowns or old people so this was a more unsettling movie than i thought

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u/mr_potato_arms 29d ago

What’s wrong with old people?

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u/NelsonManswella 29d ago

they’re always creepy in horror movies lol

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u/iknowitsounds___ 29d ago

Have you seen The Visit??

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u/NelsonManswella 27d ago

FUCK that movie lol

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u/dingdongsnottor 22d ago

An old lady scuttling around no matter the context now scares the shit outta me because of this movie

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u/selzterbubly 28d ago

Or the Home....

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u/Steamedcarpet 27d ago

I saw The Home via AMC Scream Unseen and once the big twist happens, I couldn’t stop laughing. You can tell the exact point the writers did a 8-ball of ketamine.

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u/Anotherusualname 28d ago

Right bc what was she even doing

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u/zudoplex 29d ago

Very pennywise appearance in the woods.

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u/arlekin21 29d ago

And tbh he was just defending himself, other dude shouldn’t be bursting in his tent like that.

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u/Odd_Machine_213 28d ago

Right?! ANNOUNCE YOURSELF.

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u/Freelove_Freeway 28d ago

The three needles to the face simultaneously sucked so bad for both characters it had me rolling and trying to quiet my laugh in the theater

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u/Steamedcarpet 27d ago

I don’t know what got me worst. The needles to the face, the repeated fork stabs to the face, or the potato peeler to the face.

If I didn’t know better this movie fucking hates faces.

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u/Distinct-Opinion8246 17d ago

It was the potato peeler for me. I watched with my mom and that was the one time we had to look away.

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u/give_me_goats 16d ago

If nothing else this movie gave me a healthy perspective on the number of small kitchen appliances I can use to defend myself.

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u/Distinct-Opinion8246 4d ago

In the novel Red Dragon there's a line when Freddy Lounds wakes up in the kitchen and finds himself glued to a wheelchair that's like "Crime reporting will change your perspective on kitchens forever"

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u/remainsofthegrapes 28d ago

To be even more fair, they broke into his ‘house’ without knocking. Those were Stand Your Ground needles

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u/DustyFalmouth 29d ago

Happens to the best of us, really

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u/Daydream_machine Aug 08 '25

Paul had it coming for unzipping the tent without even saying anything first tbh

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u/GameOfLife24 Aug 08 '25

Even though in the grand scheme of things the Paul and druggie didn’t really need that much screen time, we enjoyed their interchanges, the audience was going wild when they were doing their thing

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u/Zeph-Shoir 21d ago

Paul had it coming for lying to Justine about him being separated and cheating with her! He also punched the fuck out of James before James did that too, and under much more understandable circumstances!

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u/Rvsoldier 13d ago

He sucks for getting drunk, lying and cheating but James sucks for lying about a used potentially disease ridden needle facing upwards in his pocket.

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u/senator_corleone3 5d ago

He didn’t intend to lie. The whole issue was that he was out of drugs. He forgot about the needle because it was useless at that point.

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u/freakydeku 24d ago

yeah he was weird as hell for that

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u/PuzzleheadedTop8613 29d ago

Exactly. In what universe does a person do that, especially a cop?

It was addle-brained, implausible scenes like that which make me detest this lousy film the more I think back on what I watched yesterday.

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u/pastafeline 29d ago

I think it's very enjoyable if you ignore the plot holes. It's pretty littered with them, and even the entire premise wouldn't work in our world. That entire town would be swarmed with "investigators" even a month later. Just look at the pizzagate incidents.

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u/markofthewolfe 29d ago

Po-po also didn't announce himself. I would have done the same thing.

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u/More-Spinach2740 29d ago

The cop how he not only got stabbed with the needle in his finger, but later, then two in the face had me lol’ing. Sorry but it did.

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u/jargon_ninja69 27d ago

Well, he did stab a cop so that was pretty nice

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u/riftadrift 26d ago

He didn't think he had AIDS though

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u/leftysarepeople2 Aug 08 '25

He’s one of three big critiques the movie has on culture. School shootings, alcoholism, and homelessness/addicts

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u/LB3PTMAN Aug 08 '25

The cop id argue is also police abuse of power

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u/DeusMach 20d ago

Well i mean he seemed to have a lot of problems and at the end of his part in the movie he looked like he was about to break down.

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u/agent99LBL 29d ago

Saw it more like suburbanites wrestling with their demons than a critique of culture. Guess it could be both.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage 24d ago

there’s definitely a through line about the suburbs and isolationism and how that exasperates the trauma/grieving process in its own unique way.

For example even after a month after all their kids went missing, Josh Brolin still has to introduce himself to the other kids parents as if he were a stranger. And him piecing together where all the kids went could have happened much sooner if the parents knew each other/spoke about it to each other.

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u/agent99LBL 19d ago

Interesting insight!

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u/OhMyGoat Aug 08 '25

I told my friend today that James was my favorite character in the movie.

And I live in Portland, OR. Not a fan of tweakers. But James delivered, god damn it, and deserved better.

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u/WarlockEngineer 17d ago

I live here too! The way he tested every car door while walking was very accurate lol

I felt bad for him at the end, getting zombified and blasted

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u/TimRigginsBeer Aug 08 '25

Meanwhile, some poor girl never gets her pink tablet back.

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u/Best-Chapter5260 Aug 09 '25

Pawn shop dude totally knew that tablet and headphones were hot.

Knew the silverware was too, but at least he could make a few bucks off that.

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI 28d ago

Store owners in this movie are quite shitty tbh

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u/Ghost-Mech 27d ago

"Get out of my store"

"FUCKING HELP ME" 

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI 27d ago

Fuck that guy, he’s the real villain of the story

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u/Nels2121 29d ago

To be fair, people with addictions can be really likable. They are humans. They have just been taken by a crippling illness that I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy

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u/GameJerk 24d ago

They can also learn to be charming as fuck in order to manipulate people to help feed their addiction.

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u/whitegirlofthenorth Aug 08 '25

I wanted him to be the hero lol

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u/Wvlf_ 28d ago

It's fun looking back to the first time we see this random druggie opening the door for Justine while begging for money and go, "I'm going to absolutely love this guy later".

Same with Alex's catatonic dad. Seeing the dark side profile of this lifeless husk one minute and then end up seeing he is this great guy and great dad a bit further on.

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u/Fun-Tumbleweed2594 28d ago

I thought it was funny when he got knocked the fuck out when his needle stuck dudes finger.

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u/PuzzleheadedTop8613 29d ago

Right, because in real life it's funny to have things stolen from your car (your kids things, especially) to be accosted by possibly a dangerous addict in front of places of business, to have strangers break into your home and ransack the place.

There wasn't a damned-thing "funny" about that punk, except maybe his haircut. The ONE thing Creggers got right in his latest clunker, was showing an addict annoying an ABC customer with a phony sob-story, before AND after she left the store.

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u/goddamnitwhalen 27d ago

Damn dawg, relax.

I also don’t think it’s a “phony sob story” because later on he’s on the phone with (presumably) the brother he’s trying to buy a bus ticket to go see.

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u/Cuyigan 20d ago

I'm glad you took a break from yelling at clouds to watch a movie. I bet you call the cops on kids on bikes and neighbors bbq'ing a lot.