Suburban Horror ‘Weapons’ Hits Cinemas Today

Josh Brolin is out for answers and blood in Weapons, the new horror mystery landing in cinemas today. Directed by Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, the film promises a wild descent into fear, trauma, and something even darker lurking under the surface of suburbia.

Set in the fictional town of Maybrook, the story begins with an unsettling vanishing act: an entire class of schoolchildren disappears in the night, save for one. No signs, no witnesses, no explanation. From there, Weapons peels back layers of secrecy and dread, dragging both characters and viewers into a chilling mystery that refuses to play by the rules.

Brolin plays a father whose child is among the missing. His search leads him deep into a spiraling community on the edge of collapse. Julia Garner stars as a teacher grappling with the impossible reality of losing her entire class overnight. Alongside them, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, and Austin Abrams flesh out an ensemble cast caught in a town where nothing feels real, but everything is dangerous.

Cregger’s sophomore horror feature isn’t content to sit in one box. It swings from paranoia to absurdity, from eerie calm to all-out chaos. “It’s funny, it’s scary, it’s inviting. It’s not a grim, morose slog. And yet the story it tells is really fucked up,” Cregger told Empire Online. That tonal tightrope walk looks to be the movie’s secret weapon: keeping audiences guessing not just what happens next, but how they’re supposed to feel about it.

Visually, Weapons trades in the ordinary, neighborhood streets, schools, home kitchens only to twist them into backdrops for surreal horror. With Larkin Seiple on cinematography and production design from Tom Hammock, the film leans into a style that’s both grounded and nightmarish. The original score, co-composed by Cregger himself with Ryan and Hays Holladay, adds to the disorientation.

Whether Weapons lands as a cult hit or mainstream breakout, it’s clearly not pulling any punches. Unsettling, strange, and unapologetically ambitious, it marks another left turn from one of horror’s most unpredictable new voices. You can check out the trailer below.

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