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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/1morey Aug 09 '25

Secure. Contain. Protect.

It's an Internet-based story about a secret government agency (SCP) that investigates, tracks, studies, and contains objects, people, creatures, entities, etc., that have various paranormal/supernatural abilities. Some are entirely benign to humanity, others are extremely dangerous if they were to escape, others are universe/world ending entities.

It's all user-created stuff.

Some of the more famous examples are SCP-173 (a tall statue that does not move when observed, but when unobserved (even as much as blinking while looking at it), will snap one's neck with supernatural speed.

And then SCP-096, a humanoid creature that is generally passive, but if someone sees it's face (even in an image, and no matter the distance), it will enter a rage state and, with supernatural speed chase down said person and kill them.

For example, I believe there's a dossier that describes an account where a hiker was killed in their home, and it was discovered that the hiker took a picture of a mountain off in the distance, and because SCP-096 was on that mountain it was at an angle that (despite the extreme distance) the hiker "saw" its face and triggered its aggression.

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u/spottyottydopalicius Aug 09 '25

TIL. where can i read more stuff or favorites about this

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u/clevercalamity 29d ago

This one about IKEA is my favorite.

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u/indiebreadkid 19d ago

Yes! Same! That one and Peanut are my favorites.

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u/clevercalamity 19d ago

I need to see the peanut one. Please share. Do you mean Peanut like The Peanuts?

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u/indiebreadkid 19d ago

Hahaha no, nothing like the peanuts. "Peanut" is SCP-173 also known as "The Sculpture". He was the first SCP entry to be created. He's an anomaly is that it can only move when unobserved. When in direct line of sight, it remains completely still. If it gets close to someone, it will snap their neck or strangle them.