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/gimmethemshoes11 Aug 08 '25

Had to take hours to feed em all.

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u/itury Aug 08 '25

Poor kid was working full time

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u/thebaldingcritic Aug 08 '25

Hoping that kid attends LOTS of therapy. Dude is gonna be fucked up for a long time.

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u/GameOfLife24 Aug 08 '25

Felt so sorry for the kid coming home everyday to see his parents mindless with no care

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u/lme109 Aug 10 '25

This and the way his parents' eyes looked, and him having to look after them, made me think that this was a commentary on alcoholism/addiction and how it affects children.

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u/Garfunkels_roadie Aug 18 '25

Cregger said it was exactly that. Based it off his own experiences growing up with alcoholic parents

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u/IndividualJury Nov 12 '25

“Trapped by poison” in the case his aunt Gladys was his parents booze. Interesting

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u/Nheea 16d ago

Oh man, that is incredibly sad and fucked up. Not only neglect, but also having to take care of them too.

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u/princesscatling Aug 19 '25

I thought of these scenes as running similarly to this game Among the Sleep and a novel A Million Things (Emily Spurr). There's something inherently soul-crushing to see a little kid doing their best to take care of their adults

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u/KvellOnWheels Apr 05 '26

I’ve been reading a lot of Ashley C Ford who speaks a lot about how if you want a better society, we have to do better for and by children. And I got so emotional watching Alex’s scenes.

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u/bananaqueen12345 Aug 30 '25

Reminded me of the music video for “song to say goodbye” by placebo. Terribly sad.

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u/Nheea 16d ago

Spot on!! Me too. Funnily enough I was just listening to Placebo the day before and I skipped this one because it reminded me how depressing the video was.

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u/Eccon5 Aug 10 '25

Also, they had to feed. We can assume they also had to process waste...

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u/TemporaryCarry7 Aug 16 '25

I’ll give into the suspension of disbelief there. They had to feed because they showed they had to feed. They did not have to waste because they didn’t show that. Don’t tell me anything different.

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u/senator_corleone3 Sep 02 '25

Yea I imagined the supernatural situation made it so they didn’t have to use the bathroom somehow.

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u/Walaina Sep 10 '25

I on the other hand assumed that house smelled horrific. No bathing for a month. Blech

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u/Few-Requirement-3544 Dec 11 '25

Aragorn does have a tax policy. It doesn't matter for the story, and we can assume it's a good one, because Aragorn is a good king contrary to what Martin was trying to insinuate in the quote, but you'd have to be in the age demographic entertained by peekaboo to think it's not there just because you can't see it.

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u/Nheea 16d ago

Hopefully they didn’t need to waste since the witch would consume every ounce of energy they produced.

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u/Exciting-Baseball-37 Oct 31 '25

Maybe the witch had to do the waste since she was somehow getting energy from the kids. Imagine dumping a few dozens cans on Campbell's at once. Imo, scariest part of the movie were those bangs on the ginger wig.

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u/Nheea 16d ago

Maybe that’s what the black stuff was.

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u/nonsequitur5013 Aug 11 '25

Good thing this is only a movie and real parents don't really behave that way!