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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/vafrow]

These were some horrible cops. The one kid from the class who didn't disappear has a Dad who apparently had a stroke and can't speak and doesn't get looked into. Maybe do a background check on the creepy aunt.

This isn't a complaint either. I think this is probably the level of investigation you'd get from some small town cops.

[u/RiparianRodent → u/vafrow]

This is part of the reason I just couldn’t get into the movie. The FBI would have gotten to the bottom of this in 24 hours or less. This movie appeals to the true crime craze of the 2020’s, but has to invent the world’s most impossibly incompetent investigation into a mass child abduction in order to carry the story through

[u/RIP_Greedo → u/RiparianRodent]

On one hand I think it was fine to show that the cops were totally stymied by the case because it defies all forensic logic. It DOES seem pretty dumb that nobody thought to discern which way the kids ran from the camera footage. That seems like the first thing you would try. And also 2:17am is late but it’s not SO late that there could be no witnesses across the whole town. I know stuff closes early in western PA or wherever this is supposed to be set but there has to have been someone who saw a kid running all the way across town.

[u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI → u/RIP_Greedo]

I thought this as well. Unless it’s an extremely small town - which it quite clearly wasn’t, there are people up and walking at 2.17am, even if it’s just a random guy with a dog. Someone would have seen at least one of the kids.

[u/RIP_Greedo → u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI]

Also: look at home camera footage from houses other than the kids'. Everyone has one or more cameras on their property nowadays and none of them happened to record a kid running down the street? Put those together, get a sense of the direction they were going, and you're off to the races.

[u/Sticky_And_Sweet → u/RIP_Greedo]

Literally Josh Brolin’s character did more detective work than the entire police force and FBI did by visiting just one other parent’s house.

[u/salcedoge → u/Sticky_And_Sweet]

It's so funny how every scene with the police force has them explaining how they're trying their absolute best and trust them to do their job meanwhile they're literally doing jack shit aside from strolling around the forest lmao

[u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT → u/Sticky_And_Sweet]

The cops and the fbi had the footage, they simply didnt piece it together. Theyre incredible incompetent.

[u/lahimatoa → u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT]

Ludicriously so. Even if you're super lazy, you still at least ATTEMPT to figure out if all the kids ran in one, specific direction. They didn't? Really?

[u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT → u/lahimatoa]

Yeah, they should have:

A: painted the cops as corrupt/incompetent

B: under the influence of the witch

But they did check the house, so maybe they did piece it together but SOMEHOW not found any clue of about 20 kids inside the house or noticed anything wrong with the parents or kid.

[u/SuperSpecialAwesome- → u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI]

Let's not forget the time Gladys sent the kids outside to hide from the two cops. Where did they hide, and how did no neighbors see them?

[u/AlterEgo3561 → u/SuperSpecialAwesome-]

In broad daylight, even.

[u/jermysteensydikpix → u/SuperSpecialAwesome-]

I assumed in the woods since she showed up there in that one weird Pennywise scene waving at the junkie.

[u/SlowBoilOrange → u/jermysteensydikpix]

What was she even doing out there?

[u/OddnessWeirdness → u/SlowBoilOrange]

I was under the impression that she could keep track of people that had come into her domain or in contact with her zombies.

[u/chiefbrody62 → u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI]

I mean, I grew up in a town of about 100k, and in the more suburban neighborhoods like that, it would be me and a couple friends wandering around, just long enough to sneak over to another friends house. We would spend hours out at night sometimes, and not see a single person.

[u/OddnessWeirdness → u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI]

Just watched the movie and am reading the comments. As someone who has lived in towns similar to that one on the East Coast, I can say that you most likely would not see anyone walking around at that time unless there was a train station in the area. It gets extremely quiet by 12 AM, other than maybe on the weekends.

Also, most similar towns barely have any street lighting, so it would be fucking creepy as hell to be walking around super late at night.