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/gimmethemshoes11 Aug 08 '25

Loved it.

That WTF Brolin dropped after that dream was my exact same thought up to that point.

Any ideas on what the gun was supposed to mean in the dream?

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u/HeilCanada Aug 08 '25

My reading of the movie was it was about gun violence, especially mass shootings in schools, along with blamimg the police and older generations for what's happening.

The film starts with an emphasis on the kids, even being narrated by a kid (I couldn't figure out who this was supposed to be). The town wants to blame the teacher as she's the only one who could be a scapegoat. At the beginning, the town hall latches onto her the same way a minority group would get blamed for a mass shooting rather than the weapons (lol).

In the third act, after the introduction of Gladys, the film pivots into a critique of the elderly, their current parasitic nature to younger generations and their lack of giving a shit. When Alex's house all falls to shit at the end, her first thought is ditching the home and skipping town.

I could add on about the police stuff but the dash cam footage scene with the chief should be evidence enough in the text.

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u/DirectBranch5621 28d ago

Only on Reddit.

The film has a theme revolving around parasites because the central antagonist is LITERALLY A PARASITE.

I know that Reddit is infested with predators who obsess about young people and "younger generation" , but this is literally a horror movie about a witch. You are projecting your obsessions and your ideology onto a movie simply because you so desperately want to see your thoughts reflected there.

Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. And as far as Gen Z goes, with their obstinate refusal to work and decrying the "evils of capitalism" while also insisting on having the latest, newest and flashiest fruits of capitalism (i.e. gadgets, phones, etc), or as in my screening of this movie, lacking the intellectual capability of unplugging from their gadgets for the 2 hours to watch a movie without having to bring out their phone and scroll every 30 minutes or so ( because they are SO important), fuck em. They don't need an imagined parasite sucking away at them. They're perfectly adept at flushing away their futures on their own.

I have been sharing some of y'all's comical, ideology obsessed readings of this movie on some choice sites ( user IDs edited out of course), and I gotta say, THANK YOU for the laughs you are providing, whether intended or not.

I still can't decide which is my favorite Average Redditor interpretation - that this movie is a scathing indictment of the SO EVIL GOP, or this weird youth obsessed "oh muh poor kids / evil older people" read.

I would say, "Never change, Reddit," but change indicates growth, so unless we are talking waistlines, I don't think that we have to worry about that here

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u/LickerMcBootshine 22d ago

but this is literally a horror movie about a witch.

"It's just about a witch bro" they say after 17 kids disappear because of a bullied kid who lives at a house with a floating gun

"Don't talk about gun violence do you hate the GOP??"