Zach Cregger’s Weapons does not always feel like a horror movie, and for large stretches it isn’t one. The enigmatic genre piece begins and ends with a mystery: Why would 17 elementary schoolers, all from the same class, wake up in their disparate childhood bedrooms at 2:17 in the morning and then vanish into the night? The prologue of the film centers on this seemingly senseless riddle with the plaintive awe of a J.M. Barrie story. We see all the kids running from their beds, their parents, and their lives, each galloping into the dark with arms outstretched as if they’re Peter Pan and his Lost Boys flying off to Neverland.

Yet Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian should never be mistaken for a fairy story. It’s sweet, funny, and occasionally a little elegiac, but this thing is also r

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