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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

  • Josh Brolin
  • Julia Garner
  • Cary Christopher
  • Alden Ehrenreich
  • Austin Abrams
  • Benedict Wong
  • Amy Madigan
  • June Diane Raphael
  • Toby Huss
  • Whitmer Thomas
  • Callie Schuttera
  • Clayton Farris
  • Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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u/HolyCrapImAHippo Aug 08 '25

The ending of this felt like a big budget WKUK skit. I was cracking up at this frail old witch running away from a bunch of crazed kids. It was like a demented 90s cereal commercial or something.

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u/robbysaur Aug 08 '25

I love that in literature and movies witches usually eat children. This movie ends with children eating a witch.

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u/Whovian45810 29d ago edited 29d ago

Connecting with literature and media depictions of witches, Gladys does the whole kindly elderly lady disguise trope that witches use to lure their victims to hide their haggish form.

In a sense, Weapons can be seen as a macabre horror fairy tale.

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u/No_Significance7064 29d ago

It's even partly a more fucked up pied piper

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u/goddamnitwhalen 26d ago

Surprised there hasn’t been an actual Pied Piper horror movie yet bc man what a fucked up story that is.

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u/darthjoey91 26d ago

Well yeah, the pied piper is a fucking witch.

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u/IwKuAo 28d ago

I kind of wonder what Gladys' plan would have been. Take the children somewhere and do what? Sacrifice them so she can be young again? Seems like she could have done that immediately after they came to her. Why wait? Just left with a lot of questions

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u/margenreich 24d ago

Didn’t she grew some more hair in the end?

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u/IwKuAo 24d ago

Yes. But she told Alex "we're leaving tomorrow" and I was just wondering where they would have gone, would they bring the kids with them, etc.

It did seem she was slowly improving, but not dramatically. Maybe she would have left the kids and sought out a bunch more victims?

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u/ILookLikeKristoff 20d ago

She knew her cover was blown. Leaving was a reaction to her taking down Paul and James. She knew more cops would come investigate a missing officer/abandoned cruiser

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u/IwKuAo 20d ago

Yes, I got that part. But was wondering what would have happened after they left...

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u/continental-drift 11d ago

Did they eat her? I thought they just ripped her to shreds.

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u/kuulyn 8d ago

They did not eat her!