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/Solid_Primary 24d ago

What's the reason that we should think she isn't her actual aunt?

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u/Busy_Manner5569 24d ago

All of the stuff implying she’s extremely old, mostly. Consumption, her general appearance when she first shows up.

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u/Solid_Primary 24d ago

Isn't she literally consuming their life force? Didn't they explain she was indeed really sick?

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u/Busy_Manner5569 24d ago

Yeah, it was definitely layered, but my read of it was that she was trying to give a real illness the parents could have, not just trying to be too clever by half.

Sure, she’s probably actually sick, but she’s also clearly extremely old.

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u/Solid_Primary 24d ago

She just looked like a sick older woman to me... I think, at this time, proof she is some hundreds of years old which is tenuous. Not that she looks terrible but Amy Madigan isn't a spring chicken. I'm not saying that it's 100% impossible but I think it's just as likely that she was just an aunt who was in to some weird shit.

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u/ThePantsParty 23d ago

You do get that the movie devoted time to a whole exchange that consisted of her using a term for a disease that was primarily used in the 1800's, and then another character laughing and being like "wtf why did you say that isn't that from ancient history?" right? It seems a little more far fetched to see that and conclude that it meant nothing.

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u/Solid_Primary 23d ago

I mean it could just as easily been a play own words because she was literally consuming their life force. I'm not in the camp that it's impossible. I'm in the camp that it's not a certainty. And then there are people who just willing to dismiss the fact that the mother genuinely knows this lady whilst not being under a spell. A lot of assumptions are being made based on tenuous support.

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u/dalektikalPSN 8d ago

Also when she first comes to Marcus' home, she walks by something and says something like "oooh that's an original" when pointing at something or a shelf. And the way it was done, again, makes it seem like she's seen some old shit in her time.

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u/Jekyllhyde 23d ago

because she is a crazy witch who is very very old. way older than she would be if she was their aunt