On the Screen: ‘Weapons’ a Thoughtful Horror Set to American Tragedy

On the Screen: ‘Weapons’ a thoughtful horror set to American tragedy

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Is Weapons a "hagsploitation" movie, and is it doing the trope wrong?

This is sometimes also referred to as a “psycho-biddy” role, and recent forms of it have appeared in movies like The Substance, Ti West's X, Cregger's Barbarian, and the Eggers brothers' The Front Room. Plenty has been written about whether this new wave of hagsploitation is just misogyny dressed up in the latest and gnarliest practical make-up effects. Some critics and horror fans feel that it’s too easy to turn these kinds of characters into a…

The most inventive new(-ish) horror movies to watch after Weapons

In 2025, the successes of Weapons and Sinners have proven that horror is currently unmatched at the multiplex. But they're not the first genre hits to define the decade so far