When students from a single class go missing, the town of Maybrook turns on the class’s teacher, Ms. Gandy (Julia Garner).
As tensions rise, Gandy struggles to work out what happened, and turns her attention to the one student (Cary Christopher) who made it to class that fateful day…
The hook of this movie is so strong it’s possible there is no way for it to live up for the eerie terror of its opening.
Barbarian is one of my favourite movies of the last few years - and I still cannot believe it has not gotten a physical release.
Weapons feels like John Carpenter’s The Fog, in that it is the more ambitious, large-scale follow-up to a more contained thriller (Halloween).
It moves between multiple characters’ perspectives, drawing us closer to unveiling the mystery.
It comes across a little scattered, building suspense in stops and starts.
There are a collection of scenes and moments, but it does not have the cumulative power perhaps intended.
By the end, I am not exactly sure what it is building to.
There is something potent to the idea of the old preying on the younger generation. And the third act freak-out is terrific.
But I left a little underwhelmed. Probably worth a rewatch.
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