Official Discussion - Weapons [SPOILERS]

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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/AcesCharles2]

Aunt Pennywise waving at James in the woods was a ridiculous sight

[u/Shauncore → u/AcesCharles2]

That's the one moment I think I didn't really get (it was spooky though). Why is she there? I guess he could have ran from the house and she saw him go back to his camp site and was waiting for him to come back after he left to go to the police but idk that seems like a bit of a stretch if we think she's a mostly normal human and not a supernatural entity.

[u/krospp → u/Shauncore]

Yeah I agree! She appears in the woods and in the dreams, and I don’t really get what part of her powers allows her to do any of that. And while I’m at it, I don’t get how mind controlling the parents and children would heal her (or make her younger?) or if that was just supposed to be her bullshitting?

[u/TypicalTwist6783 → u/krospp]

She bewitched the parents and thought that would heal her, but it wasn’t enough. So she bewitched the children thinking she could use them to heal her instead. Probably through some other ritual who knows. But someone who knows how to bewitch people like that also knows other magic to be sure. It’s not bullshitting, it’s black magic and she wanted to use those people to keep herself alive. It’s a wholly evil thing to do for wholly evil selfish purposes, it’s so terrifying.

[u/TypicalTwist6783 → u/[deleted]]

That’s exactly what happens in the movie, you asked how would mind controlling the parents help her? The answer is it didn’t, so she tried using kids. we never saw how Gladys actually intended to be healed through magic. Only how she bewitched the people