Warning: This post contains spoilers for Weapons .

When all but one of 18 children from the same elementary school class inexplicably get out of bed, leave their homes, and vanish into the dark at exactly 2:17 a.m. one night, the small town of Maybrook is plunged into a swirling vortex of chaos, grief , paranoia, and anger.

This premise is what drives the dread-inducing action of writer-director Zach Cregger's buzzy new horror Weapons , the follow-up to his breakout 2022 solo screenwriting and directorial debut Barbarian . Told from the perspectives of six different Maybrook residents—including struggling teacher Justine Gandy ( Julia Garner ), tormented father Archer Graff ( Josh Brolin ), and troubled beat cop Paul Morgan ( Alden Ehrenreich )— Weapons slowly pieces to

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