Weapons
2025's WEAPONS really sneaked up on me. I settled in for a heavy, possibly preachy social, "elevated" horror effort devoid of humor. That is not this movie. I call it "good trash" as it enthusiastically embraces the sort of horror scenes eaten up by the peanut gallery. The kind that make audiences scream and laugh, maybe even lose their breath now and again. A thrill ride calculated to gross you out and trigger a jump out of your seat. My kinda jam for this genre, in other words. Not that writer/director Zach Cregger created a stupid movie. There is plenty of commentary on addiction, abuse, mental health, toxic familial relations. The prevalence of violence in society, even within the so-called safe spaces. Underpinning every scene, no matter how wild and over-the-top. All but one of the children in Ms. Justine Grady's (Julia Garner) third grade class have disappeared. At 2:17 A.M. one morning, they ran from their houses in a f...
