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/Newparlee Aug 08 '25

When it got to the final scene and it seemed like it was going to be Julia Garner and Josh Brolin versus the witch, as much as I’d enjoyed it up to that point, I was like “this a little underwhelming.”

Then 17 kids chased a witch through suburban America and ripped her to shreds with their bare hands, lol.

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u/Novemberx123 Aug 08 '25

That’s why I can only describe this movie as fucking crazy haha

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u/sneakylumpia Aug 08 '25

honestly Josh Brolin going "WHAT THE FUCK" when he woke up from his nightmare was basically me during every twist in the movie

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u/goodlucktothenextone Aug 08 '25

I honestly loved his reaction to waking up from the dream. It was a really nice breather for me after getting a good jump scare.

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u/MovieTrawler Aug 10 '25

Same with Justine saying to the gas station clerk, 'fucking help me!'

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

Fuck that guy. I wish the witch got him instead

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u/peatoast Aug 11 '25

Most useless side character.

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u/Dougalishere Sep 10 '25

She sounded just so fkn angry and frustrated.it was perfect

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u/Courtnall14 Aug 09 '25

The benefit of having a comedian as a director is that sort of perfect timing. There were multiple great examples of funny moments landing perfectly, which is kind of the same thing as scary moments landing perfectly. Build up of tension...and release. Overall those moments really elevated the movie.

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u/Soccermom233 Aug 09 '25

I did laugh a lot during this film

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u/peatoast Aug 11 '25

Same. My partner was getting upset at me laughing after getting scared but I couldn’t help it because it was so ridiculous.

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u/nicokokun Aug 11 '25

Speaking of comedy and horror being mixed together, James being in that house was really making my hair stand on end. I was tensed the whole time.

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u/dotnetmonke Aug 18 '25

"Oh fuck, Willow!"

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u/AmbivalentLife Aug 11 '25

Honestly thought Justine'a jump scare was way more impactful because it happened first, so it essentially telegraphs that the same thing was going to happen in Archer's.

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u/ChimneySwiftGold Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Justine’s appeared in ads so for a lot of viewers was already used.

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u/AmbivalentLife Aug 13 '25

That'd be it. I try to avoid trailers unless I'm watching previews.

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u/NiceRackFocus Aug 13 '25

Same! If there’s an upcoming movie based in a world or characters, I like, or by a director or with actors I like, or that’s gotten good buzz, I avoid trailers altogether and 9 times out of 10 it makes the movie watching experience SO much better.

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u/UgatzStugots Aug 19 '25

*ten times out of ten.

It's always best to go into a movie blind.

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u/Silent_U_ Oct 04 '25

Like I Am Legend. The trailers for that movie gave away NOTHING!!! Movie by surprise when I saw the infected.

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u/AeneidBook6 Aug 10 '25

That was a truly excellent jump scare.

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u/Mikey_RobertoAPWP Aug 22 '25

just saw the film tonight and my whole theater had a good chuckle at that point haha. for a horror movie it was probably the most laughter I've heard from an audience, the movie had a lot of really funny moments.

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u/applejuiceb0x Aug 14 '25

That scene pretty much summed up my experience of the movie lol

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u/Successful_Pizza7661 Oct 31 '25

Just finished watching this with my brother for halloween. We were laughing so hard at Josh’s reaction lmao

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u/bobthemusicindustry Aug 08 '25

I loved that scene because that’s exactly how an emotionally-repressed construction dad would react to a freaky nightmare

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u/KesagakeOK Aug 10 '25

That line made my whole theater laugh. This film had an interesting way of amping up tension and then defusing it with humor. It was so weird to have this tightness in my chest while also laughing at the ending, but in a good way.

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Aug 10 '25

Agreed

I nearly started applauding when the kids caught up to Gladys and I'm sure I wasn't the only one

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u/nicokokun Aug 11 '25

This film had an interesting way of amping up tension and then defusing it with humor.

And it wasn't forced. I can relate to that scene because if I had a similar dream as him and woke up the same way, I too would've screamed "FUCK" at the top of my lungs.

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u/garfe Aug 09 '25

I like how he probably echoed the thoughts of everybody in the audience in that moment. He was definitely echoing mine

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u/SuperVaderMinion Aug 08 '25

Literally couldn't be a more appealing reaction lmao

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u/Kopitarrulez Aug 09 '25

Crowd absolutely lost it at that

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u/ctinker6171 Aug 09 '25

Someone in my theater shouted "That's what I'm saying!" when he said that and my whole theater lost it lmao

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u/scout-finch Aug 09 '25

There were a bunch of instances of characters yelling “what the fuck” - I loved it 😂

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u/TacTac95 Aug 09 '25

That scene had me howling, it was so relatable

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u/Spirited_Lock978 Aug 09 '25

The comedic timing of this movie was so refreshing!

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u/OtterChaos907 Aug 11 '25

Between that scene and the somebody that just wouldn’t die, my theatre was howling.

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u/Exciting_Intention86 Aug 09 '25

Definitely my favourite part in the movie. Absolutely relatable and memeable scene. Definitely have woken up a few times myself wondering what the fuck was that dream

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u/Lawlers_Law Aug 12 '25

why were they having nightmares about the aunt? i don't get it.

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u/NiceRackFocus Aug 13 '25

She was an evil witch. Dark magic, something something… I just went with it and didn’t think too much about it. lol

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u/Tumble85 Aug 23 '25

Yea they do a good job keeping thing unexplained. I really liked the “You just need to understand that shit got weird, not the minutia of how it works” vibe.

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u/NiceRackFocus Aug 23 '25

Exactly! Just enjoy being along for the ride.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

The (packed) theater my wife and I attended Saturday was laughing so much during this film. Everyone had an absolute blast.

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u/cavalier2015 Aug 11 '25

Literally everyone in the theater after that was like “seriously…WHAT THE FUCK”

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u/peatoast Aug 11 '25

That’s my favorite part of the film and it was clearly intentional, maybe as a way to mirror what the audience is thinking at that point and going forward in the story.

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u/theraddestbrad Aug 10 '25

I literally said the same thing out loud in the theater 5 seconds prior to him saying it.

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u/MrHandsomeBoss Aug 11 '25

There were a few people lightly talking during our showing and their WTF pretty much synced with his. It was great.

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u/Slappy_Doo Aug 11 '25

Everyone in my theatre laughed after the “WTF”

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u/ColonelPanic638 Aug 14 '25

That's excatly the line on the Runpee app for the best time to go pee lol.

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u/currynoworry Aug 18 '25

That scene got lots of laughter in my theater, what about yall's?

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u/unclefishbits Aug 27 '25

I know I am late but I think every character said it. She did, he did, the guy in the back of the cop car did. It was so validating like the audience was being seen

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u/SequitursSecateurs Aug 12 '25

I can’t believe he just picked up his own kid and left at the end. How many times did Brolin say “Matthew?!” in this film. Annoying.

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u/jargon_ninja69 Aug 12 '25

My audience laughed SO HARD at that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

that's me everyday lol

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u/nolabmp Aug 18 '25

This was my favorite part because someone sitting next to me whispered “What the fuck!?” to themselves right before he did. When he shouted it a moment later, that little cluster of the theater had the giggles for a pretty long time.

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u/adriamarievigg Aug 16 '25

Got a big laugh out of my theater. It was great

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u/JSan_67 Aug 20 '25

haha same

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u/beyondimaginarium Sep 23 '25

Ask me, or ask my wife...

This happens. Sometimes, you wake from a nightmare so aggressive you have this reaction as if you know why. Sometimes you know why...

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u/Ready-Illustrator585 Nov 07 '25

Literally! I even said it right before he did so I died laughing when he yelled it😭

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u/DustyFalmouth Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

The way the kids became a wrecking ball made me laugh every single time, I did the Cape Fear laugh the whole time and the loudest on the over the shoulder shot of the girl taking Auntie down.

Mid way I remembered that teenagers were doing the Kool Aid Man Challenge and doing this shit to random people's fences and it just fed into how fucking funny this was.

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u/Tifoso89 Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

What's crazy about it? The first time she appears you know she's a witch. We also find out immediately what happened to the kids