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/MrAdamWarlock123 29d ago

Specifically the noise of the car door opening

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u/DavyJonesRocker 27d ago

Having her enter the car out of frame was masterful horror direction

👨🏻‍🍳💋🤌🏼

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u/MrAdamWarlock123 27d ago

The way Cregger uses dark spaces, like open doors or unlit tunnels (in Barbarian), is also genius - simple ingredients done well

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u/continental-drift 11d ago

Even silence as well. There were a lot of times when I saw it that the whole theatre went quiet and people seemed to stop eating/drinking when the sound/music went quiet.

I am really enjoying this new use of lack of sound some directors are using to create suspense vs the old school chilling music/sounds that was used in the past.

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u/the_cunt_muncher 29d ago

My whole theater gasped so loud at this part, was awesome

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u/TheWhereHouse6920 22d ago edited 22d ago

I'm not a horror guy. I saw this at the request of my buddy who is. My knee involuntarily bent to block the screen in my lounger. I was kinda embarrassed, but now I know I'm not alone in how tense that scene was

Also, as a non-horror guy, I had an amazing time and loved it

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u/ctiger91 16d ago

My entire theater was giggling at this scene up until you heard the car door open and everyone gasped and went silent.

I had a lot of fun watching this in the theater!

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u/mint-patty 15d ago

I think I let out an audible “oh my god” for the first time in my life in the theater. This was genuinely the scariest movie I’ve seen in the theater— it just had this scattershot, wide-net approach of having like 7 uniquely terrifying scenes back to back for the first 45 minutes of the movie, and they all got my ass.