"Those kids walked out of those homes, no one pulled them out. No one forced them."
— Archer Graff

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Weapons

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Directed by	Zach Cregger
Screenplay by	Zach Cregger
Produced by	Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz, Rafael Margules, Adam F. Goldberg
Starring	Josh Brolin Julia Garner Alden Ehrenreich Austin Abrams Brett Gelman Orlando Bloom
Cinematography	Andrew Droz Palermo
Edited by	Andrew Droz Palermo, Zach Cregger
Music by	Ben Lovett
Production companies	New Line Cinema Roy Lee Productions BoulderLight Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	September 12, 2025 (United States)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million

At 2:17 AM, seventeen children from Mrs. Gandy’s third-grade class walked out of their homes and into the dark. Only one—Alex—was left behind. This mass vanishing is the unsettling heart of Weapons, the latest horror film from Zach Cregger, director of Barbarian. Set in the fictional town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania, the story is fractured into six perspectives that gradually assemble a chilling mosaic. We begin with Justine Gandy (Julia Garner), a teacher reeling from the loss of nearly her entire class and vilified by desperate parents. From there, the film passes through a grieving father (Josh Brolin), a volatile cop (Alden Ehrenreich), a strung-out addict (Austin Abrams), and a school principal under siege (Benedict Wong), before arriving at Alex, the lone survivor. Cregger’s structure is deliberately disorienting, pulling us deeper into the community’s grief and paranoia with each shift in perspective. Taking inspiration from a list of films including [], Cregger