Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Quantrell Colbert (L-r) JULIA GARNER as Justine and JOSH BROLIN as Archer in New Line Cinema's "Weapons," a Warner ...

After more than a decade of impassioned — and often maddeningly semantic — debate over the concept of "elevated horror," it doesn't feel like a coincidence that the most exciting new voice in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. While it seemed likely that Zach Cregger, post-Barbarians ...

The Barbarian director's follow up mixes a missing children mystery with fractured storytelling, and it left a lasting impression on me.

So the poster for the new horror film Weapons shows a bunch of kids running down a suburban street with the ad line saying: “Last night at 2:17 am every child from Mrs. Gandy’s class woke up, got out ...

In Weapons, Julia Garner plays an elementary school teacher named Justine whose entire class disappears one night save for one child, Alex (Cary Christopher). These children have been caught on camera ...

Two years after making his unforgettable entrance as one of the next great genre filmmakers with Barbarian, former Whitest Kid U’Know Zach Cregger has returned with the similarly ominously titled new ...

Zach Cregger’s Weapons has received rave reviews from critics and scored highly on Rotten Tomatoes as a result. Releasing on Friday, August 8, 2025, the horror film is being described as one of the ...

Weapons is hip entertainment, from a child narrator’s conspiratorial insistence that it’s all true to scoring the night flight with George Harrison’s ominously rocking “Beware of Darkness”. Teacher ...

What drives a classroom of seventeen children to vanish into the night without a trace? That’s the unnerving mystery at the heart of Weapons, the latest horror outing from Barbarian filmmaker Zach ...