‘Weapons’ (2025)

A strange and horrific suburban nightmare

Weapons (2025) (Wikimedia Commons)

“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

I love a good horror movie, and after seeing the trailer for Weapons a few months ago, I was intrigued by this strange story from Zach Cregger about the disappearance of a whole class of school children, except for one lone survivor. Although I am not so sure he feels like a lucky survivor.

In the film, 17 children got out of bed at 2:17 a.m. and ran into the night, their arms slightly outstretched, like toddlers playing “Airplane,” and disappeared into the darkness. An investigation is launched, and nothing is found.

The loss of the children is, as you can imagine, traumatic to all in the town and is slowly destroying the relationships of the parents. In this case, there are no bodies to mourn, no one to bury, and no answers to a myriad of questions. Closure is impossible. But even worse than that is the not knowing. What…