Weapons review: Missing kids shocker with Julia Garner and Josh Brolin is an old-fashioned bedtime scare

In cinemas; Cert 16

“This,” an anonymous off-screen narrator informs us, “is a true story.” One night at 2.17am in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, 17 children woke up, got out of bed, walked downstairs, opened the front door and disappeared into the darkness. They never came back.

A handful of doorbell cameras recorded images of the children fleeing their homes, arms extended, as if they were all pretending to be aeroplanes.

An unnerving sight, indeed, and it gets weirder. All 17 children were from the same elementary school class – and only one child from Ms Gandy’s third-grade group showed up for school the following morning.

To borrow one of the most repeated lines from Zach Cregger’s r

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