Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian got a nifty little teaser a week ago, and the official trailer today amps up the creep factor. The film revolves around a bunch of kids from the fictional town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania, who flee their homes in the dead of night, and who run down the street with their arms outstretched in ways that remind me of how my boyfriend would torment me during lockdown when we were trying to keep each other sane.
Julia Garner, firmly in her horror era following her roles in Apartment 7A and Wolf Man, stars as a Maybrook school teacher. A mystery is afoot in the film, and given that Barbarian was both a horror film and some kind of weirdo treatise on gentrification, it’s easy to imagine Cregger weaving another hot-button issue into the story. The logline reads: “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.”
There’s something wrong in Maybrook. #WeaponsMovie – only in theaters August 8. pic.twitter.com/Jb8xd5xkfq
— New Line Cinema (@newlinecinema) April 29, 2025
Weapons opens on August 8.
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