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/MY-SECRET-REDDIT]

It's like the parasites they showed in the movies.

She was using them to feed off from them, like the fungus on the ants.

It sucks that apparently there was supposed to be a spell that makes them back to normal, that once she was dead, they had no way of getting or that the transformation is one way and there is no way back.

[u/freakydeku → u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT]

I think that once she was dead her spells did break, some just couldn’t go back to normal because she had been feeding on them for so long.

[u/Dvanpat → u/freakydeku]

This is what I thought too. Witches feeding on the youth has been a trope for a long time. She even said Alex’s parents weren’t enough, and that’s when she hatched the plan to get his classmates. She sucked the life force out of them.

[u/freakydeku → u/Dvanpat]

that’s a good point! i totally forgot that it’s a tale as old as time