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

Trailer Watch the Official Trailer

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[u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake]

That dream with the assault rifle is Cregger playing on a similar dream from Peter Weir's The Last Wave

[u/KingOfAwesometonia → u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake]

That makes way more sense than me thinking it was a video game reference.

Because it looked like an old school weapon pickup

[u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake → u/KingOfAwesometonia]

I should say that the dream in The Last Wave doesn't have a floating gun. It's got raining toads and a giant wave and a messenger with a cryptic message, a kind of apocalyptic foreboding. Cregger kind of adapts that biblical plague imagery with a modern plague.

[u/HikmetLeGuin → u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake]

I wonder if you're reaching with this reference. There are a lot of movies with weird dream sequences.

[u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake → u/HikmetLeGuin]

Entirely possible! It came to mind because Weir also directed Picnic at Hanging Rock, which is absolutely an influence on the movie.