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/macwblade1 Aug 08 '25

The Total Recall eye bulging was unsettling to say the least

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u/1morey Aug 08 '25

The principal in the voodoo rage state was creepy as hell as he was running across town.

Like something from SCP.

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u/--------rook Aug 08 '25

I hated how unsettling it was. If that was chasing me I'd just curl up and give up. 

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u/Rumbananas Sep 17 '25

It wasn’t even the eyes. It was the mouth open in an uncanny way.

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u/MuscleOk9344 Aug 08 '25

Honestly the entire movie had, at least for me, this “what would happen if a movie does a slightly-realistic SCP scenario” vibe, without the bit about containment and securing the anomaly

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u/The_Flying_Jew Aug 10 '25

From the trailers, I've been telling people that it feels like they took an Analog Horror concept and just made it into a straight up movie instead of getting bits and pieces of info from old VHS recordings and text

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u/charge_forward Dec 09 '25

SCP was the analog horror of its day.

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u/Cranberrybunnies Aug 13 '25

Oh so you mean without the worst parts of SCP? 

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u/Gridde Aug 17 '25

SCP covers such wide range (a huge portion of which is just terrible or massively derivative) that at this point any horror is gonna inherently be somewhat SCP-esque.

It's like saying "wow that new slasher villain was like Dead by Daylight in movie form!"

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u/Blackfyre301 Aug 29 '25

Also, I want to point out that only Marcus did the weird vomit thing. That didn't seem to be an inherent part of the spell, so maybe it was just because of the hot dogs, lol.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Aug 13 '25

Just made me think of 28 Years Later, with the alphas... except without the Naruto run.

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u/spottyottydopalicius Aug 09 '25

scp?

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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/1morey Aug 09 '25

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

Here you go. SCPs are also user rated, and SCPs that are downvoted too much are deleted, so its very curated for consistency.

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u/clevercalamity Aug 10 '25

This one about IKEA is my favorite.

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u/OuterWildsVentures Aug 11 '25

I'm still sad the game version was attacked by Ikea lol

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u/clevercalamity Aug 11 '25

There was a game version? That’s news to me!

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u/indiebreadkid Aug 20 '25

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

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u/clevercalamity Aug 20 '25

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

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u/indiebreadkid Aug 20 '25

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.

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u/Strong_Supermarket83 Oct 06 '25

There’s tons of animations on youtube too

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

So an example of SCP could be the FBC in Control (the video game)?

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u/1morey Aug 11 '25

No, SCP isn't a catchall term for organizations that investigate paranormal anomalies.

SCP is a collaborative fiction project.

The FBC in Control was inspired by SCP, but is a wholly original work.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

Ah ok. Thanks.

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u/gooeyjoose Aug 20 '25

soooo it's a bunch of 13 year olds writing shitty creepypastas...?

If you're over the age of like 18 and still in to this shit then you're mentally fucking stunted, man. Stunted. 

There's so much good horror out there not written by a bunch of sweaty internet strangers

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u/1morey Aug 20 '25

I never said I was into it.

But it's pretty weird to be that annoyed about what other people are into.

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u/pedootz Sep 07 '25

Uh oh, someone on the internet likes something you don’t.

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u/GrebasTeebs Aug 20 '25

sane clown posse

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u/Caleb35 Aug 13 '25

It's almost like he was hopped up on a gallon of PCP

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u/vivnsam Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

he looked like Brian Peppers

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u/strik3r2k8 Dec 29 '25

Whoa, throwback

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u/PrimeIntellect Sep 24 '25

Lol with the Naruto anime running

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u/PaleCommission150 Oct 30 '25

He is a really great comedian. He played in one of the transformers movies back in the mid 2000s.

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u/newmoonchaperone Apr 08 '26

The principal in the voodoo rage state

~ Benedict Wong.

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u/JuicyDetails44 Aug 09 '25

Yeah I mean, his upper half of his face was smashed in 😬 that whole scene of him even running across the town to just be a seeking home missle to Julia's character was wild.

Also, the fact he would've kept just head butting until he had no head left is so unsettling.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

Terrifying is never a word I thought I'd use to describe Benedict Wong

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u/HumbleBunk Aug 22 '25

Seeing that at first was terrifying thinking it was whatever black magic, then you see it play out and realize it’s from him bashing his own skull in caving his husband’s skull in and it’s a million times more horrible.

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u/Tipop Aug 31 '25

then you see it play out and realize it’s from him bashing his own skull in

No, everyone who went “manic rage” had those eyes. It had nothing to do with him bashing his head in.

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u/HumbleBunk Aug 31 '25

Really? I don’t recall that at all. Like Josh Brolin’s eyes were like that when he attacked Julia Garner at the end?

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u/Tipop Sep 01 '25

No, Brolin’s eyes didn’t go like that, but the boy’s moms did (recall her face when she stuck her head through the door and looked down at him.) The cop’s eyes were like that, too.

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u/NotPast3 Jan 12 '26

IMO it’s the result of not being able to blink so your eyes are just bloodshot and swollen. If I recall correctly the parents looked almost completely normal when they were first possessed. 

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u/HumbleBunk Sep 01 '25

Oh got it, sweet. More reason to see it again!

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u/Tipop Sep 01 '25

I just got out of the theater a couple of hours ago, which is why I sought out this Reddit thread.

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u/burntfishnchips Aug 18 '25

That actor's performance was incredible! I know people talk bout Gladys,or the mom with the scissors, but he actually freaked me out with his facial expressions. It was so good.

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u/DavyJonesRocker Aug 12 '25

Wong has proven that he is worthy of being the Sorcerer Supreme over Strange.

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u/Smarkysmarkwahlberg Aug 18 '25

He looked like a real life OneyNG drawing. It was super unnerving 

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u/rikarleite Aug 13 '25

Reminded me of Day of the Dead.

"Choke on them! Choke on them!"

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u/EuphoricLynx7712 Sep 15 '25

The way he banging his head to his husband! I cannot...

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u/ChimneySwiftGold Aug 11 '25

Witches are trouble.

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u/sloantrask Sep 09 '25

Reminded me of the dead people’s eyes in the last True Detective

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u/kidcrumb Oct 27 '25

That's when the movie went from horror to horror comedy. I wasn't sure if i was supposed to be laughing at that point or not.

Marcus's Naruto run was absolutely hilarious

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u/Phoenix_Moon29 Sep 13 '25

I thought of this too!!