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Weapons (2025) — "This is a true story. It happened right here in my town two years ago."

Addiction, mental health, grief: all things that can lead to an inescapable amount of trauma, heartbreak and instability in one's life. More often than not, those things aren't caused by a red-headed immortal witch, but then again, those things aren't Weapons (2025), Zach Cregger's follow-up to Barbarian. When every child but one in a single classroom vanishes at the same moment one night, teacher Julia Garner and grieving father Josh Brolin are left with the questions. It's another fairy tale in a horror-movie wrapping, with some comedic bits to boot.

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