Weapons review — 'A hugely accomplished horror achievement'

Weapons fires its starting shot almost immediately. An opening prologue, told by an unseen child narrator, explains what it claims is a “true story” in which “a lot of people die in a lot of really weird ways”. Then we witness the inciting incident: one night, at 2.17am, 17 school kids from the fictional town of Maybrook wake up, walk out of their homes and run off into the night, arms eerily outstretched, destination unknown — soundtracked, ominously and strangely sweetly, to George Harrison’s ‘Beware Of Darkness’.

So begins Zach Cregger’s second feature film as a solo director (not counting his co-directing credit on the much-maligned 2009 Playboy mansion sex-comedy Miss March ). This is a story on a much grander canvas than 2022’s superb Barbarian , and even more narratively playf