By Dolores Quintana

You might be asking yourself what the film Weapons is about. Not to worry, writer and director Zach Cregger, whose debut feature Barbarian was a hit that hit the audiences in 2022 like a bolt of lightning, with its surprising twists that did not call attention to themselves as twists, and its upsetting horror plot, has something horrifying in mind.

It signaled that Zach Cregger was a director who would take commonplace situations and quickly devolve them into pits of horror. He made people do such mundane tasks as checking into an Airbnb nervous, since we had accepted a situation as safe, and his film showed that perhaps we were a bit too trusting. I’ll bet there’s not a film critic in the US who didn’t check their lodging much more carefully after watching Barbarian

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