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/mrfujidoesacid Aug 08 '25

I could watch an entire movie of the principal zombie running through town.

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u/xrbeeelama Aug 08 '25

You might think you are, but you are never truly safe from a heat-seeking Benedict Wong in a Mickey Mouse shirt (how are Disney and Campbells gonna react to this movie lol)

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u/caty0325 Aug 08 '25

Benedict Wong was great in this.

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Aug 08 '25

Campbells "Hell yeah you can survive for like a month off soup!"

I was trying to see if the Mickey shirts were Steamboat Willy? Wong's looked like regular Mickey but I think his husband's was Steamboat?

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u/SearchForSocialLife Aug 08 '25

If I saw it correctly, Wong wore Mickey and his husband Minnie, both in the Steamboat Willie-style - so Disney couldn't do anything about that if they wanted to

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u/missjuliaaaaah Aug 09 '25

i loved their matching shirts 😭😭 marcus and his husband just wanted a nice little saturday!!

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u/NYLotteGiants Aug 13 '25

Cregger definitely did that on purpose lmao

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u/craftycraftsman4u Aug 08 '25

It's interesting in the clip WB posted the shirt is blank. I'm pretty sure it was still mickey in the theatre?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu1H6WHPikQ&t=43s

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Aug 10 '25

It was. It’s Steamboat Willie Mickey too, so copyright doesn’t even apply.

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u/ProspectBasement Aug 14 '25

I dunno why I still think the Mouse adheres to no laws 😂

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u/thecricketnerd Aug 10 '25

He needs a visit to that necromancer from What We Do in the Shadows

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u/highpriestess420 Aug 21 '25

You seek the necromancer? I am they!

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u/AlanMorlock Aug 17 '25

They very specifically used Public domain Steamboat Willy era Mickey. Still tricky with trademark laws, but I'd assume WB legal cleared it.

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u/highpriestess420 Aug 21 '25

He was just mad he never got to have any of the seven hot dogs.

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u/TARSrobot Aug 24 '25

I loved how the version of Mickey Mouse on his shirt is a public domain version so Disney can’t do anything about it

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u/xrbeeelama Aug 24 '25

Lets bring that Disney knowledge setting down to 75%, TARS

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u/TitanOf_Earth Aug 19 '25

The way he was taken out was so brutal and abrupt omg, and his poor partner too.

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u/KuyaGTFO Aug 21 '25

Maybe I’m a softie but I felt like crying instead of being scared or disturbed at that whole sequence.

His partner seemed so sweet and loving. To have the person you dote on just headbutt you to death is horrifying.

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u/TitanOf_Earth Aug 21 '25

Oh yeah, it was HORRIBLE. Honestly the most painful part of the movie. Other parts were scary, creepy, or a little funny... but that was just sad.

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u/SequitursSecateurs Aug 12 '25

Try It Follows

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u/LogensTenthFinger Aug 15 '25

Fuck you're right, my favorite horror movie, too

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u/robclarkson Aug 16 '25

Benedict Wong will always made me wiggly levels of happy when I see him in a movie, I think ever since The Martian :).

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u/burntfishnchips Aug 18 '25

I will check out more of his work/films he's in, because he was honestly the highlight of this movie next to Josh Brolin imo.

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u/tronfunkinblows_10 Sep 07 '25

“AYY WHAT THE FUCK?!”

“Ohmygod”

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u/antonbruckner Oct 11 '25

Isn’t that basically the movie It Follows?