Weapons

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

The trouble with watching films labeled "elevated horror" is that you are often so busy reading the tea leaves that you risk missing the visceral pleasure of the ride. Zach Cregger's Weapons may not be a bona fide elevated horror in the vein of Get Out (racism) or Talk To Me (trauma), but there is an ever-present sense that it wants you to peek behind the curtain and ask what it is really about. As often happens with films like this, the payoff is not immediate. You leave the theatre, turn it over in your mind, and only later begin to reconcile with it.

That sensation begins in ....