[2] It stars Makenzie Moss, Sadie Stanley, Mackenzie Ziegler, O'Neill Monahan, Siena Agudong, and Tobin Bell.

A young teen couple is surrounded in a forest at night by teenagers in black hoodies and all-black eyes asking to be "let in".

Emily's only friend Christopher, a believer in extraterrestrials, invites her to his house to make contact with aliens.

She calls 911 and hides in an upstairs bathroom, but the hooded people smash the skylight above the tub and chase her outside as the police arrive.

On the night of the party, Christopher's kind, older sister, Jessie, invites Emily to attend.

That night, Harold Lutz, a journalist with the Times, comes knocking at the door to report on the missing people.

Emily experiences a flashback nightmare that reveals her making a "besties" pact with someone before jumping off the roof into a pool.

At Christopher's house, they attempt to make contact with aliens through their homemade communication device before it's cut off abruptly.

Excited, Emily attempts to make contact and speak to the mystery extraterrestrials as they repeat the kids' names and the word Jungspar.

Harold has done some research and has come across only one other account of the "black-eyed kids" from 50 years ago, where there were over 25 disappearances with only one survivor: the elderly man, Frederick Munch.

Munch claims he has been too scared to talk about the black-eyed kids for the last 50 years until the recent kidnappings started up again.

Christopher tries to make contact with the extraterrestrials through his homemade device, but suffers a couple setbacks when the power goes out.

They hear some noise and figures appear: Scarlett, Tobey, and others who have lost people to the Jungspar, all ready and willing to help get everyone back.

Her nana helps her escape by providing a distraction and Emily heads towards the location of Christopher's phone.

They arrive at the spot where Christopher's phone pinged, but find nothing until a lone Jungspar jumps into a hole nearby.

Emily and Harold jump in to explore the cave and find the alien typing in a code in a tablet to trap the kidnapped kids in a blue-laser jail cell.

Emily finds all the missing kids from the entire week and tries to put the code in, which doesn't work.

One week later, Emily's family and Christopher are packing their stuff to leave for Cape Canaveral as Jessie and Tobey come to see them off.

[8] While Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave the film one of only two positive reviews, stating that it had "a guileless warmth that drew my good will",[9] Daniel Goodwin of Starburst reflected the majority, noting it was "a bland and weary hotchpotch of derivative ideas and cheap VFX.