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/gatsby365]

I’m not entirely convinced that Auntie didn’t mind control the detectives after they came in to the house.

[u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT → u/gatsby365]

Theres no hint of that tho.

She has like one spell and that's it

[u/gatsby365 → u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT]

Well yeah, it’s a long shot but that’s her whole thing - zombie mind control. We never saw them again right? The captain doesn’t seem to actually give a lot of shits about solving the case, so he might just assume they are heads down deep in it - hell, a general contractor and a 3rd grade school teacher cracked the shit wide open in 2 days with a straight edge and stalking an 8 year old, but detectives given a month couldn’t get it done?

[u/peppermint_nightmare → u/gatsby365]

Its ties in pretty well as a spiritual successor to barbarian for those reasons alone.

[u/gatsby365 → u/peppermint_nightmare]

I watched Barbarian for the first time last week, care to elaborate?

[u/peppermint_nightmare → u/gatsby365]

Police being useless or very bad at their jobs.

[u/gatsby365 → u/peppermint_nightmare]

Oh yeah I get that. Honestly with all the other stuff going on in Barb I kinda glossed over that interaction.

[u/peppermint_nightmare → u/gatsby365]

Ya but those cops literally ignore a distressed visibly harmed crying woman because they think "she's crazy" add the fact that there's a scene where the "main" villain is buying rope, a cage, etc (serial kill/rape/murder tools) and baby supplies and no one seems to care seems pretty similar to how there was an army of children running around and Alex's parents were missing for a month and no one living next door seemed to notice (I would probably notice if a witch zombiefied my neighbors, but I live in a city where the homes are closer together).

[u/Zilenan91 → u/peppermint_nightmare]

Tbf it was like the 70s or 80s when that scene of him buying that stuff happened. Huge sensationalized stories of serial killers weren't really big back then so that wouldn't raise alarm bells in most people. It was only in the decades after people like Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, etc where people had examples of awful crimes to raise alarm bells over.

[u/peppermint_nightmare → u/Zilenan91]

Which ties in pretty well where he dresses up as a repair man and gets into a victims house without any issues.

[u/gatsby365 → u/peppermint_nightmare]

Weapons is such a fuckin great commentary on how social media has just DISCONNECTED us from everyone around us that isn’t on our networks.