Weapons

Weapons

Watched on August 12, 2025

Rating:

I wasn’t a fan of Zach Cregger’s previous horror film Barbarian, which I thought was a weak piece of social commentary and a tonal disaster. I’m happy to say that Weapons was much more my cup of tea. It’s tighter and its themes are more cohesive (bonus points for releasing a horror movie in the 2020s where the theme is not just “trauma”). It takes some cojones to start a script from a place of “but what if the Blair Witch was an actual character in the film?” and I’m not saying he nailed it, but he got impressively close.

There was just one brief moment where I thought we were heading into Longlegs territory and, I swear, I sighed so hard, I deflated a little in the cinema. But fortunately it turns out to be more Ruth Gordon in Rosemary’s Baby than Longlegs. Phew.