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‘Weapons’ Is the Scariest Movie of the Year
SMALL TOWN, AUG 8 – The film examines social hostility and community distrust following the mysterious disappearance of an entire third grade classroom, blending horror with social commentary, critics say.
- Releasing today, Weapons arrives under Warner Bros., from writer-director Zach Cregger, amid the fallout of a mass disappearance of a third-grade class.
- Via a halting, tremulous voice-over, the film frames its premise, claiming that 17 third-graders vanished in Marybrook two years ago, and nobody knows why.
- Amid mounting tension, a twilight hallucination shows a massive AR-15 looming over the town, while Justine Gandy faces threats and her car is vandalized with “Witch” at a Marybrook town hall meeting.
- In the aftermath, Marybrook faces community outrage as Archer Graff singles out Justine Gandy as the perfect patsy for the crisis.
- Beyond practical scares, Weapons uses the motif of weaponized children under a monster’s sway to tap into parental anxieties about gun violence and daily fears for kids.
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‘Weapons’ Ending Explained: The Maybrook Mystery Concludes (Or Does It?)
“Weapons,” out now, is one of the very best movies you’ll see this year and an instant horror classic, combining elements of Paul Thomas Anderson (a sprawling, multi-pronged story told from multiple characters’ perspectives) and John Carpenter (creeping dread, sly social commentary). And honestly, the less you know the better, since the power of “Weapons” comes from the movie’s slow reveal of the truth behind the disappearance of an entire class…
Directed by Zach Cregger (’Barbarian’), the film narrates through several characters the disappearance in strange circumstances of the children of a class
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khbrknews'Weapons' Breaks New Ground When It Comes to Kids in Horror
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Weapons. It’s 2:17 a.m. in Maybrook, Penn., and the parents of Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) first grade class do not know where their children are. Neither do the police, nor the Ring cameras affixed to the facades on several neighborhood homes, though at least the latter capture footage of kids bounding through their front doors, arms splayed like wings, into early morning’s opaque embrace. No other e…
Zach Cregger's new film "Weapons" begins with a mystery so wild that in any other film it would be the plot itself. But that's only the beginning of a brutal and insightful journey through grief, paranoia, and the dark side of society.
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