Weapons, Kids, and Horror

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Weapons .

It’s 2:17 a.m. in Maybrook, Penn., and the parents of Justine Gandy’s ( Julia Garner ) first grade class do not know where their children are. Neither do the police, nor the Ring cameras affixed to the facades on several neighborhood homes, though at least the latter capture footage of kids bounding through their front doors, arms splayed like wings, into early morning’s opaque embrace. No other evidence, nary a clue or a hint, of the little ones’ whereabouts or motives is left in their wake. One moment, they’re sound asleep in their beds; the next, gone without a trace or a reason.

Weapons , the sophomore film from Barbarian director Zach Cregger, opens amid the fallout of this awful mass disappearance. The community’s res