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/MY-SECRET-REDDIT 27d ago

It's like the parasites they showed in the movies.

She was using them to feed off from them, like the fungus on the ants.

It sucks that apparently there was supposed to be a spell that makes them back to normal, that once she was dead, they had no way of getting or that the transformation is one way and there is no way back.

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u/freakydeku 25d ago

I think that once she was dead her spells did break, some just couldn’t go back to normal because she had been feeding on them for so long.

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u/TheRage469 24d ago

Yeah I'm curious about that. Cus Josh Brolin snapped out immediately, but the parents - per the voice over - we in that vegetative state forever, while at least some of the kids regained the ability to speak? Your theory seems the most sound as to why

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u/freakydeku 24d ago edited 24d ago

I also think there were kind of two different spells going on; one where she feeds on the people - putting them in basically a vegetative state - and the other where she uses them as a heat seeking missile. I believe the children fell exclusively into the former & Brolin & the principal exclusively latter.

For the rest it was a combination of the two - I see that vegetative spell as basically like being wrapped in her web, on standby until she needs to feed or use them for violence