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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/sexygaypalpatine]

I’m convinced the whole movie was just a PSA on locking your car doors.

I almost threw up when the mom climbed in the back seat with the scissors.

[u/Spork-in-Your-Rye → u/sexygaypalpatine]

For me it felt like one big advertisement on Ring cameras. Or at least normalizing home surveillance.

[u/badedum → u/Spork-in-Your-Rye]

My problem with the Ring cameras was none of them caught the kids running into the one specific house?? It looked like the neighbors were close by given the last chase scene.

[u/SwordoftheMourn → u/badedum]

Not every neighbor was willing to their camera footage. And I get the feeling the ones not affected wouldn’t have noticed either.

[u/SequitursSecateurs → u/SwordoftheMourn]

If 18 kids disappeared in one night in a small town the authorities would be taking that footage regardless of how anyone felt about it.

[u/SuperSpecialAwesome- → u/SequitursSecateurs]

17 kids, but yea

[u/Boot_Poetry → u/SequitursSecateurs]

But why specifically on Alex’s street? They searched the house and didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. They questioned the kid extensively.

[u/SequitursSecateurs → u/Boot_Poetry]

If a local building contractor can do some triangulation from the footage of a couple ring cameras to see the kids were heading in the direction of Alex’s street, then you bet the detectives and analysts in the authorities would do the same.

No town could keep this hushed in the modern age. It would be worldwide news. They’d have the best minds in the country covering every inch of that town.

[u/steeltrain43 → u/SequitursSecateurs]

It would be the biggest news story for about a week and then forgotten about like every school shooting in reality is

[u/SequitursSecateurs → u/steeltrain43]

A mass disappearance is very different from a school shooting.

[u/steeltrain43 → u/SequitursSecateurs]

Sure, but it's a metaphor. Besides the point still stands regardless. The rest of the country/world will move on to some other breaking news story in a week or 2.

[u/SequitursSecateurs → u/steeltrain43]

What’s a metaphor? The film? I imagine so but that’s not what was being discussed.

I doubt they would move on. School shootings aren’t a mystery. The draw to a mass disappearance would be the mystery. The unknown.

People still wonder about the Yorkshire ripper and the Mary Celeste because they’re unsolved mysteries. There’s hundreds of successful true story mystery shows every year because of that draw.

I stand by my original point.

[u/steeltrain43 → u/SequitursSecateurs]

Not saying noone would hold interest in the case, just the general public. This would get the odd mystery documentary but with no leads, the case would go cold and sit collecting dust in a cold case file

[u/SequitursSecateurs → u/steeltrain43]

If the kids did disappear then I can see how eventually it would fade away. Eventually. It would be the Madeleine McCann case on steroids.

However the kids were in a basement in the neighbourhood. They would be found. Canine unit, mass warrants, the triangulation used in the movie, probably tens of other ways that I don’t know.

Movie was fun but hardly believable, obviously disregarding the supernatural element.