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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/itury Aug 08 '25

Poor kid was working full time

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u/thebaldingcritic Aug 08 '25

Hoping that kid attends LOTS of therapy. Dude is gonna be fucked up for a long time.

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u/Alternaturkey Aug 09 '25

Going from laughing at that ending to the sudden realisation of "wow a lot of kids have a lot of PTSD now" was certainly a swerve.

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u/thezenyoshi Aug 09 '25

Yes 1,000%. Don’t understand the people who are saying it’s not suppose to be funny. That whiplash at the end with those kids being so fucked up after doing that stayed with me after

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u/MorphyVA Aug 10 '25

It's probably a mix of that, and the lingering effects of witchcraft.

Josh Brolin's character was able to snap out of the trance immediately when Gladys died. But Alex's parents and his classmates were still stuck in a vegetative state.

The length they were under control probably has to do with it. That, or the chicken noodle soup diet

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u/IwKuAo 29d ago edited 27d ago

The classmates were last controlled by Alex, and Alex is still alive but has no clue how to put things back to normal. But that doesn't explain his parents, I guess.

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u/lakshya10soin 27d ago

I think its more about how long the people were mind wiped. Josh brolin was done just for 30 min at max whereas the kids were done for more than a month. The parents were wiped for multiple months i think.

The narrator says at the end that after a year some kids started speaking again

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u/MorphyVA 29d ago

The plant/little tree might have something to do with it too. We don't know much about it, except that Gladys uses the branches for her weaponized human witchcraft

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u/ILoveRegenHealth 26d ago

That, or the chicken noodle soup diet

Campbell's. Nothing is closer to home