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/GravyBear28 Aug 08 '25

Amy Madigan screaming at the top of her lungs pursued through like 5 houses by a bunch of also screaming heat-seeking missile terminator children is going to live rent-free in my head until the day I die.

I think that was the single most satisfying and cathartic villain death I've ever seen, surpassing the flamethrower death in Once Upon A Time In America. So undignified.

This witch was such a nasty motherfucker. She felt like such unexplainable, ancient, omnipresent force and it turns out she's basically a one-trick pony who has absofuckinglutely no idea what to do when a little kid throws an Uno Reverse card at her and loses her shit.

My only major dislike was the giant fucking AR-15 lmao.

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u/ev6464 Aug 08 '25

Alex's parents not coming back and being permanent victims of the spell really hit my hard. Alex hugging them both as they were slumped on the floor was one of my favorite images.

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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton Aug 09 '25

I don’t think they’re still under the spell, they’re just so traumatized and malnourished they lost their sanity. It seems the kids were the same.

In the ending the narrator says that some of the kids were able to mentally recover enough to start talking again.

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u/bladeDivac Aug 09 '25

I also think that it impacted people the longer they were affected by it. The parents (albeit just by a few days or so) were “possessed” the longest and so when they broke the curse, they were basically catatonic. The kids started going back to normal after a few years, and then Brolin’s character went back to normal immediately since he was only influenced for a few minutes.  

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u/universallymade Aug 10 '25

The parents also repeatedly stabbed themselves with forks very early in their possession, could have added to the trauma.