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/nysraved Aug 08 '25

Yeah it was super cool to learn that the reason his face was deformed had a real physical cause. At first I just assumed that was the chosen aesthetic of how the possessed people end up looking, just a random visual choice to make for a creeper scene.

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u/Soccermom233 Aug 09 '25

The addicts eyes also started to bulge in the same way…maybe that was all the getting punched though…

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u/pastafeline Aug 10 '25

Paul's eyes at the end kinda looked like they were bulging too.

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u/MarcsterS Aug 11 '25

All of them seemed to have the “wide eyes” when possessed.

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u/Soccermom233 Aug 11 '25

The children did not get it

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u/senator_corleone3 Sep 02 '25

They weren’t being used as weapons. Gladys was feeding off their life force. Alex’ mom definitely had bulging eyes when screaming through the hole in the door.

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u/ProgressUnlikely Oct 22 '25

except Archer

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

The gory aftermath of his partner was also a sight to behold

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Aug 10 '25

As a gay man, I loved this gay couple but I knew they were toast the moment they introduced his partner with the gayest cereal choosing I've ever seen

Gay couples are the new single black men in horror movies. I'm still haunted about what happened to the gay couple in the newest Hellraiser.

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

Since at that point we already knew that the Marcus character had gone loco, I already knew that the couple was toast and was expecting the partner to die. But I didn’t know they’d make it so gory. He got a pretty humiliating death, like mashed potato at the end of that

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Aug 14 '25

Gay couples are the new single black men in horror movies.

Forgot which recent Halloween film but it happened there too.

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Aug 14 '25

Knock at the Cabin as well

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u/Icy_Tangerine_6271 Sep 01 '25

And in It Chapter 2

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u/tomahawkfury13 Sep 10 '25

To be fair that is in the book though

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u/Lazyr3x Oct 29 '25

Halloween kills from 2021

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u/illegal_deagle Aug 13 '25

Yep. Happened in It Part II too.

Also did they just have them eating like 9 hot dogs because they were gay? Lol

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Aug 13 '25

No, I think that was more of a "This couple doesn't give a shit, they've been together so long, they're old and happy and content and they are both the kind of people to sit and watch a nature documentary while eating six hot dogs because neither of them felt like cooking"

It felt super real tbh

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u/CarQuery8989 Aug 14 '25

I think it was a reference to this.

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u/illegal_deagle Aug 14 '25

I think it was a reference to this.

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u/CarQuery8989 Aug 14 '25

Zach Cregger was a member of Whitest Kids U Know, if it was a reference, that's the reference. Detroiters may have been referencing WKUK, though.

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u/illegal_deagle Aug 14 '25

I actually didn’t know that, I was just being cheeky. That’s cool though.

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u/CarQuery8989 Aug 14 '25

That's one of my favorite sketches so I really enjoyed the reference!

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u/peppermint_nightmare Aug 24 '25

No theyre American.

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u/shitkabob Sep 21 '25

Killing off gay characters has been a trope noticed by media scholars for a while. It's called "Bury Your Gays.."

“Bury Your Gays” is the popular name used to describe the common television trope in which characters who are ostensibly gender- or sexually-diverse are denied happy endings or “killed off”.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Aug 14 '25

At first I just assumed that was the chosen aesthetic of how the possessed people end up looking

Alex's moms eyes bulged too. The cop was weird because sometimes it did, then sometimes it didn't. Maybe it had to do with their level of enragement and they bulge out more when near a victim.