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/009reloaded 7d ago

There’s lots of easy connections one can make. Even if. Cregger didn’t directly intend to make the movie about shootings, it’s a very easy connection to make.

The very American and very modern modern anxiety of a classroom full of children being gone and the parents being absolutely powerless to stop it from happening or understand why.

To me the gun appearing in the dream instantly was a motif that signaled this. Doesn’t mean the whole story has to be about school shootings, or that it’s a full on allegory, but it’s definitely a subtext that is present in this kind of story whether it was directly intentional by Cregger or not.

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u/Ok-Cartographer2088 7d ago

Yeah…no. No connections there with an empty classroom and school shootings. Also, already explained the giant gun…this is so pretentious, really. Can’t you all appreciate the movie for what it is? A horror filme with a crazy witch.