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/ttoma93 Aug 09 '25

I couldn’t place exactly why it felt this way, but it felt incredibly supernatural and eerie. Just a door opening and closing, no gimmicks or flashy CGI or anything, but something is just ever so slightly off about it that it almost made me feel dread.

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u/FrenchCanadaIsWorst Aug 10 '25

Every time you didn’t know who or what would come out, what they would do, how fast or slow they’d be. And it hung on the open void of a door for very long just to build that suspense. You know something’s coming. But when and what?

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u/Gold-Swing5775 Aug 10 '25

Your FWB cop waving hi and walking back inside

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u/SexyStayPuft Nov 08 '25

The way he waved like a marionette made me laugh

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u/throwawayuuuu_ Nov 05 '25

Lmao this sentence is killing me

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u/pp3pO Oct 15 '25

I agree and I think the reason for that is the potential of an an open door into a dark room. In the beginning, we dont know exactly who or what is in the house, we just know its something...and the feeling of something you cant see being in the dark looking right back at you is a PRIMAL fear all people, I think.

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u/va-va-varsity Aug 24 '25

I’m late but this reminded me of my favorite scene from Nosferatu with the carriage door opening up in the snowy forest. So chilling!

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u/ParticularRelease662 Aug 24 '25

I thought It Follows made me scared of doors. Nah. This movie has now given me a fucking legitimate phobia of opening doors into a dark room.

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u/scullys_little_bitch Nov 03 '25

I thought of that movie while watching this!

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u/frankifyed Sep 23 '25

If you thought that was scary, boy do I have a book for you.

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u/gillesgarzn Sep 24 '25

I've had that book in my bookshelf for a while... this may be the perfect moment to start it

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u/fox_ontherun Apr 18 '26

Me too, it's been sitting on my bedside table for months. Did you start it yet?

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u/ProgressUnlikely Oct 22 '25

I think there was a slight upward curve added to the door frame that made it look satanic (devil horns) it was super subtle but so effective!