Third-grade teacher Justine Gandy (Julia Garner) gets help from parent Archer Graff (Josh Brolin) when she tries to figure out what happened to her students who disappeared in the night in “Weapons.” Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

LOS ANGELES — If there’s one thing Zach Cregger learned while writing and directing his upcoming horror movie “Weapons,” it’s that the best laughs won’t come from the jokes he writes.

The film follows Cregger’s 2022 solo directorial debut “Barbarians,” the widely celebrated genre-bending horror . This time, the young director bends even more, spinning a town into chaos when all children but one from the same classroom mysteriously vanish, leaving a trail of questions in their place.

The Warner Bros. release is as creepy as it is hilarious — a delic

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