WEAPONS

Weapons (2025) directed by Zach Cregger. O.M.G. This psychological/mystery horror film is a slow burn until it isn't. Then it goes a bit batshit crazy. I went in knowing absolutely NOTHING about the film except for the fifteen-second teaser trailer from which the above image comes. I liked this film a lot.

There are nods to, and echoes of, plenty of other horror films, intentional or not. The People Under the Stairs. A Nightmare on Elm Street. It. Lost Highway. It Follows. The Exorcist. There are even some Stranger Things and The Scarlet Letter vibes. But it is definitely its own beast and work of art. And it may be trying to say something about school shootings. (Or at least I thought so until about halfway through.)

Chapters of the film show pieces of the story through the POV of one character or another. However scenes may or may not exactly line up the same way when in one chapter versus another. I think this is intentional, and it works well.

Seen at Regal Cinemas. (It had been a long time since I watched a movie in a "big box" theater.)