After making his name in the comedy world, writer/director Zach Cregger surprised many by making the highly effective horror comedy Barbarian in 2022. That success made his follow-up film much anticipated, and he’s surprising again with the much darker Weapons , a title that serves to intrigue even as it's only slightly less random than his previous effort.

The film’s inciting event is the disappearance of almost an entire classroom of third graders taught by Justine Gandy (Julia Garner). For an unknown reason, all of them except for Alex Lilly (Cary Christopher) ran out of their houses at 2:17 am one morning and vanished into thin air. Neither Justine nor Alex claims to know anything about the incident, which is viewed with skepticism by many parents, including Archer Graff

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