As I emerged from a showing of Weapons at my local multiplex on Saturday night, I saw a teenager running around the lobby, his arms extended downward and outward — to the great amusement of his friends. "You're going to see a lot of kids running like that on Halloween," I heard someone say, and I think he was right. Weapons has been in theatres for just two weeks, and it's already given us an unshakably memorable image: of children quietly running through a neighborhood, their arms stretched out in that same unsettling way.

Zach Cregger's ingenious and exultant new horror film is like a Stephen King riff on The Pied Piper of Hamelin , and it has a wonderful campfire-tale spookiness. It begins with an unseen, unidentified young girl, telling us about strange events that happened in

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