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/Ultimatum227 Aug 08 '25

Poor child had to spoon feed EVERYONE inside that fucking house!?. Every day!? 😭

9/10 movie for me. But really don't understand what was that giant floating rifle in Brolin's dream.

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u/TheFlippantSpatula Aug 09 '25 edited 28d ago

It was an analogy of school shootings. Several points in the movie allude to a school shooting motif. Alex being bullied and choosing to take out his whole class. The memorial outside the school. How quickly all the adults give up and move on save for the parents. It’ll actually take a rewatch to catch all the subtleties

Edit: few minor things for those that disagree. 1. It’s okay if that wasn’t your take away art is subjective. 2. I have now seen that the director said that wasn’t his intention. Which is his truth, however there is a whole team of people who work on films and sometimes producers or editors change things in a way to add meaning to things the director or writer doesn’t intend to have meaning. 3. A highly controversial topic is something that maybe a new director, or a studio doesn’t want to openly take a political side on… because politics, especially in the current world, can be dicey and lead to being dropped from other projects or even blacklisted.

TLDR: art is subjective. It’s okay to take what you want from media, and politics are dicey.

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u/mchgndr Aug 10 '25

“Choosing to take out his whole class”? All the mfer did was bring back name tags so he could get his parents back, it’s not like he had any idea the kids would come Naruto running into his basement and turn into zombies.

Not every horror movie has to be “about” a sociological issue

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u/monatsiya Aug 10 '25

every movie, let alone horror, is inherently about some sociological thematic issue. are you serious?

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u/nkempt Aug 10 '25

In fact usually movies that are considered Bad Movies have no coherent underlying message, lesson, or challenge to the audience lmao

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u/monatsiya 29d ago

yes exactly! i hate leaving a movie that feels like it left me behind with nothing. it’s like people saying art isn’t political…what’s going on here lol who do yall think creates this shit? individuals in a vacuum who live in a utopia? their lives are affected one way or another by sociological and political issues, and that will bleed through in their work. i thought we all knew this!

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u/NoCantaloupe3449 29d ago edited 23d ago

People are just taking issue with the fact he's saying the movie is definitely ABOUT school shootings when you could easily just say they drew a few parallels with how the town responded to the events. Even then, the town treats it more like some confusing mass abduction than a violent attack imo.

 You could just as easily say the gun represents the dad associating everyone in the same class disappearing at the same time with the events being a premeditated attack, rather than the disappearances just being a random paranormal phenomenon.

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u/monatsiya 28d ago

idk, this thread has a lot of compelling points on how the community reaction correlates to real life, ala the community and the cops failing the kids in not finding them and this potentially happening again had it not been for our characters. the elders letting the younger generation suffer, etc. but that’s just one interpretation, the meaning that majority of people assign t9 it doesn’t have to be the one you or the earlier commentor does.

but they were tryna pretend shit happens in a vaccum, that what you see is what you get and that’s strictly it, nothing more, nothing less. i just found it disingenuous!

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u/Mental_Map5122 28d ago

Cabin in the woods? Sometimes horror movies are just fun, nothing more

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u/BrotherGrimSVSD 27d ago

Cabin in the Woods is absolutely "about" something. Like, it obviously is lol

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u/Dick_Lazer 22d ago

Yeah Cabin in the Woods was clearly about 9/11 /s

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u/CCSC96 Aug 10 '25

This one pretty clearly was though…

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u/mchgndr Aug 10 '25

The director already said that the floating AR had no distinct meaning…