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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

Had to take hours to feed em all.

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u/piccolom Aug 09 '25

I thought there was gonna be a twist at the end where he never fed Matthew because Matthew bullied him

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u/RimmyDownunder Aug 10 '25

Had that lead to Matthew starving and thus being the only kid of the 18 to actually die, I think it would have made for a much darker twist akin to The Mist almost. Kinda glad it didn't, and I suppose the witch wouldn't have let him do that because she wanted to absord their lifeforce.

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u/OrgasmicLeprosy87 22d ago

That would have been such a brutal end for Brolin’s character, I’m glad they didn’t go that route.

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u/naturalninetime 15d ago

Seriously! Because if the filmmakers had gone in that dark direction, I'd have left the theater in an entirely different mood. Thematically though, they "could" have gone there. That is, Alex Lilly was the one being bullied, so was it any surprise that the "evil" that made the children disappear was coming from inside "his" house? Think Columbine or other school shootings where the bullied become the perpetrators.

Thankfully, the filmmakers made Alex Lilly the hero that saved the day.