When Zach Cregger’s fiendishly twisty horror movie “Barbarian” surprised Hollywood in 2022 by grossing $45.4 million towards a $4.5 million funds, each studio on the town was desperate to make no matter film subsequent sprouted from the writer-director’s creativeness. This wasn’t as a result of studios had been trying to duplicate the low-budget success of “Barbarian.” No, this was all about getting right into a hopefully long-term enterprise with an thrilling new voice in horror who’s doubtless simply barely scratched the floor of his potential.
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In the end, New Line Cinema received a multi-studio bidding warfare for the rights to Cregger’s “Weapons,” the premise of which has been shrouded in secrecy for months. All we knew for some time was that the movie facilities on a weird incident wherein 17 kids in a small Pennsylvania city spontaneously flee their homes at 2:17 AM, sprinting off into the evening and by no means returning.
And so they by no means got here again…
— Warner Bros. (@warnerbros) April 29, 2025
New Line complemented the discharge of the deeply spooky “Weapons” teaser with the launch of a web site that comprises pretend information tales concerning the city and the characters to whom we’ll finally be acquainted. (One of many bits on this website even means that “Weapons” could be set in the identical universe as “Barbarian.”) Every week after that, the studio debuted a number of pictures by way of Leisure Weekly. In an interview with the outlet, Cregger revealed that the movie is about greater than these lacking kids, teasing:
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“That thriller goes to propel you thru at the least half of the film, however that isn’t the film. The film will fork and alter and reinvent and go in new locations. It does not abandon that query, imagine me, however that is not the entire film in any respect. By the midpoint, we have moved on to means crazier s*** than that.”
We all know from “Barbarian” that Cregger loves to drag the rug out from beneath his viewers. How wild can “Weapons” presumably get? Let’s search for clues within the trailer that simply debuted on-line.