Warner Bros. has high expectations for Zach Cregger’s new horror, Weapons, giving it a prime slot during blockbuster season. There’s good reason for optimism. Cregger’s breakout horror film Barbarian was both a critical darling and a box office hit on a small budget. This is a much larger movie with bigger stars, but based on the footage we’ve seen it’s going to be just as creepy.
Weapons is an ever-evolving story that kicks off with a terrifying event. At exactly 2:17am on a seemingly normal Wednesday, 17 schoolkids in the fictional town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania, get up from their beds and flee into the night, never to be seen again. The story then follows the various plots springing from the traumatic disappearances. Julia Garner plays the schoolteacher whose students have all vanished, save one. Josh Brolin plays a parent to a missing child, and has suspicions about Garner.
Others in the cast include Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, June Diane Raphael, and Cary Christopher as the only student from Gandy’s class who didn’t disappear.
SYNOPSIS: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Weapons opens in theaters on August 8th via Warner Bros.
