A full class of kids go missing in Zach Cregger’s next movie and we have a trailer to prove it. More on Weapons below.
Ever since Barbarian premiered, all eyes have been on Zach Cregger and what the director might do next. He was linked to a new Clue film for a while, but has seemingly now swapped that out Resident Evil.
But before Cregger heads to the world of video game adaptations, he’s treating us to another original horror film, titled Weapons. With the film release date only a couple months away, Warner Bros. has just released a new trailer to tie us over.
Take a look below:
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Weapons looks absolutely terrifying. Cregger isn’t the first to utilise creepy kids in his film to elicit terror, but if Barbarian is anything to go by, audiences are in for another wholly unique horror trip.
Here’s an official synopsis: 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.
“That mystery is going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that is not the movie,” Cregger told Entertainment Weekly about the plot of Weapons. “The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but that’s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier s— than that.”
There’s also the matter of a viral website that hints at a potential connection between Weapons and Barbarian. Whether Cregger is building a whole cinematic universe remains to be seen, but we’re very eager to find out what scares the filmmaker has cooked up this time.
Cregger has gathered an impressive ensemble cast for Weapons, including Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong and Alden Ehrenreich. The expanded production seems to find the director spreading his wings a little after the contained horror of Barbarian.
You can get your socks scared off by Weapons on the 8th August, when the film arrives in UK cinemas.
