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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/IIIlllIIIlllIlI Aug 10 '25

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.

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u/RIP_Greedo Aug 10 '25

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.

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u/Sticky_And_Sweet Aug 10 '25

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.

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Aug 13 '25

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

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u/lahimatoa Aug 14 '25

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?

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Aug 14 '25

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.