Weapons: Loaded With Blanks
I should get this out of the way first: I was rooting for Weapons . As someone on the frontlines of defending Director Zach Cregger's 2022 film, Barbarian , I want to make it excruciatingly clear that nothing makes me more excited than the continued success of a fresh, new director, especially as we leave the decade-long-era of theaters being held up by Disney. Barbarian is not a movie without faults, but for every moment it's lacking; it delivers promise tenfold. Cregger's directorial debut is damn good. I'm done apologizing for thinking that. This brings us to 2025, and Cregger's sophomore solo theatrical release: Weapons . Following a truly astounding and, by all measures, thoroughly captivating marketing campaign, Weapons would be unleashed in theaters on August 8th, 2025. With trailers that seemed to give nothing away and only ever draw audiences in further, a horror premise that, on the surface, could engage American audiences like no other, and a truly m...