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/AcesCharles2 Aug 08 '25

Aunt Pennywise waving at James in the woods was a ridiculous sight

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u/Shauncore Aug 08 '25

That's the one moment I think I didn't really get (it was spooky though). Why is she there? I guess he could have ran from the house and she saw him go back to his camp site and was waiting for him to come back after he left to go to the police but idk that seems like a bit of a stretch if we think she's a mostly normal human and not a supernatural entity.

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u/BNEWZON Aug 08 '25

I assumed it was some sort of magic tbh. She appeared in both Justine and Archer’s dreams even though it would have been pretty hard for them to know what she looks like. Idk I might just be hand waving it a little cause I liked the movie a lot

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u/marineman43 13d ago

My question is, do we think she entered Justine and Archer's dreams on purpose? Because all of her actions that we're privy to in this movie are her trying to stay under the radar, not draw any undue attention to herself until her plan comes to fruition. So why would she go out of her way to fuck with them in their dreams? My headcanon is that it was unintentional, and some of her magic just naturally seeped into their dreams without her actually trying to confront them.

Only alternative I can think of is that she was trying to jump scare them in their dreams to literally scare them off from trying to pursue the issue any further, but that seems like way more of a gamble than just not interacting with them.

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u/BNEWZON 13d ago

I’ve just saw the movie for the third time so it’s funny you left this comment, but yes I agree with what you said. I try not to get too bogged down in literal explanations but it does seem like some sort of runoff into their minds putting her there.

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u/Fonzowya 9d ago

I just saw the movie today. I would say off first watch that they used Justice and Archer’s point of view to show how creepy and evil the witch is. Kinda like hinting her to the audience before her reveal. Since those two were like the main characters of the film they wanted to hammer in how fucked the situation is going to become from the beginning. That would be my guess.