Zach Cregger's WEAPONS
Where's Robert Stack with his Unsolved Mysteries when you need him? Or as Ricky Jay would say, there is no way that this is just some *thing* happened... Take it as a metaphor for school shootings and the nightmares that are left in their wake for the victims families and teachers and cops and others in a fractured community (that one dream scene is not subtle with its imagery), or for how sinister a cult leader work to pull people out of their homes and stay under their proverbial (and here literal) spell who will just suck their lifeforce out eventually (or take it to be Occult, close enough wording), and it can work as either of those or I am sure other readings. Whatever the case, this is one of the most ambitious pieces of genre exploitation that works as phenomenal storytelling first and foremost. Creger said in an interview I happened upon that he started with the premise very simply and one thing flowed after another, and you can feel that kind of creative impulse here in s...
