Movie Details
| Title: | Weapons | |
| Director: | Zach Cregger | |
| Year: | 2025 | |
| Genre: | Horror | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.12.25 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (1)
- Barbarian
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.12.25 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2025 This turned out to be the last movie of the night. The first day is always tough to set aside distractions and get into the groove so there was no 2AM final picture. Which is ok because this was good and a good movie to end the night with. A classroom full of children disappear one night. Julia Garner is the teacher who's under suspicion, Josh Brolin is a dad of one of the missing kids, with fun supporting roles by Benedict Wong and the guy who played young Han Solo and Amy Madigan in a role similar to Nic Cage in Longlegs. Hopefully that's not a spoiler, pictures of her are all over the Internet now that the movie's been out a while, and from her first appearance on-screen it's pretty obvious she's not playing a normal housemarm. I liked this one quite a bit. Lots to appreciate here, but I think first and foremost I like how the story develops and unfolds and takes you places that also satisfies the original mystery. I feel like it's pretty hard to set up a head-scratcher entry point that still makes sense by the end, so the fact that it makes total sense that the kids in one particular classroom went missing I very much appreciated. I also liked the commitment to gore when called for. Similar to Eddington, this is mostly a creepy movie and not a gore-fest so the few moments where it pops up it's important to go ham. Also good performances and all that, the movie's pretty gloomy in the night scenes but also has a decent amount of daylight footage reminding you that this happened in some normal suburban town. and I really loved how messy the ending is. Yeah there's a resolution but... what now? There's no going back in this kind of situation. No setting things back to how they used to be. And that's the best feeling a good horror movie can deliver. Yes you feel some victory or the tension is released, but the horror you felt lives on with you. Love that. The movie does borrow structurally from Barbarian which I suppose isn't a bad thing. To be honest it helped me remember that this is from the Barbarian guy and not the Longlegs guy because a lot of the tone is pretty similar to Longlegs. Also, Noah Oppenheim and Kathryn Bigelow and everyone else who thought the House of Dynamite script wasn't complete dogshit, this is how you do it! You can totally rewind time and play it back from different points of view, IT JUST HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE! Plus I appreciate how, in a kind of Pulp Fiction move but done with more subtlety, the same events differ according to each POV character's perception. Great little touches that reinforce who you're following at that moment. The only thing Logic-brain me had an issue with is not having a final title card saying "Weapons" when the POV leaves the kid and we start following everyone during the climax of the film. So yeah. I liked it a lot. No surprise, I'd heard it was good and was looking forward to watching it and this was the perfect way to do so! Day one down! |
