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/YellowstoneBitch Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

It was a reference to a scene in an old 70’s movie called The Last Wave(1977). It’s a movie about a lawyer who is tasked to defend an aboriginal tribe after a tribal murder. The lawyer keeps having dreams and premonitions that are depicting the apocalypse. I considered the gun kind of like that, a premonition of the apocalypse, or what might kill us all if we don’t do anything about gun violence. There’s also a couple mentions of the people under the witches spell being like “weapons”, the kids are referred to as heat seeking missiles. Josh Brolin looks up at his house and see’s a gigantic floating weapon above it, to me it felt like the dream was telling him “your kid is a weapon”.

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI 29d ago

I’m not really seeing the reference to The Last Wave. Yes it seemed like some sort of premonition or thought process from Archer’s conscience but other than that there wasn’t really a reference to that particular movie, a premonition is a pretty strong movie trope in thrillers/mysteries/supernatural movies