Review: 'Weapons' Wants To Be Great, And Sometimes It Actually Is

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With his previous film the 2022 horror hit Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger proved he has above all else an excellent way of fusing creepy images with a lot of humor to make for a good time jump-in-your-seat night at the movie; one that blessedly never taxed your emotions too much. Even if everybody agrees we hate the term “Elevated Horror,” by 2022 we were ready to put those soul-blackening odes to despair in the rearview and just us have some good mean fun . And what is Barbarian if not the 2008 misery masterpiece Martyrs turned into a comedy? (As questionable as I found that instinct to be, I could also commiserate with the liberating appeal of it.)

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