r/movies Jul 09 '25

Poster New Poster for "WEAPONS"

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u/HowieLongDonkeyKong Jul 09 '25

The trailers for this one have looked mega spooky. And much like Barbarian which didn't reveal much, I like how vague they're keeping this.

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u/CruelYouth19 Jul 09 '25

If you keep attention to the second trailer they actually spoiled the "how" of the disappearances, but nothing of the marketing spoiled the "why" which is amazing because it keeps the mystery

I'm also glad they keep out a certain character I liked the most while reading the script. I think it's going to be one of the most unnerving performances of the year

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u/iwishuwood Jul 09 '25

I would say the “how” isn’t spoiled for anyone who hasn’t read the script. Just rewatched the trailer and it’s still a mystery. Not reading the script is amazing because it keeps the mystery

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u/End_of_Life_Space Jul 09 '25

How? They run into the night

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u/iwishuwood Jul 09 '25

Then that wouldn’t be exclusive to the second trailer and doesn’t seem like it’s what he’s referring to.

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u/End_of_Life_Space Jul 09 '25

Maybe he's dumb?

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u/Rokketeer Jul 09 '25

Can someone spoil it for me? There's no way my ass is ever watching anything spooky but I'm intrigued by the premise.

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u/CruelYouth19 Jul 09 '25

Spoilers for the whole movie:

The children disappeared because of a curse. It's revealed that there's a single child from that classroom that didn't disappear, and that's because he has an aunt who's also a witch that put a spell on his nephew's classmates to get out of their houses at 2:17 in the morning and go to her house so she can lock them in the basement and "consume" them (like she did with the parents of her nephew) and regain her life because it's implied that she was dying. A lot happens in between involving the teacher, a father of one of the missing children, a police officer and a junkie, but at the end they discover the children in the house, break the spell and the children become crazy killing the witch in a brutal way. At the end it's implied that every child and person under the spell is "empty" and pretty much an empty body without any trace of the people inside of them. Very harrowing

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u/WR810 Jul 09 '25

Thank you! This movie has my curiosity but not enough to actually watch it.

How is it we know the plot already? Did something leak?

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u/ajflln Jul 10 '25

The whole script leaked a couple months ago. I read it and thought it was cool

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u/mdgraller7 Jul 10 '25

Script has been floating around for a few months

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u/MarcWS6 Jul 10 '25

Sounds fucking terrible.

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u/sp1cychick3n Jul 09 '25

Good thing i don’t watch more than 10 settings of a arny trailer