Weapons - Reviews

A twisted fairytale that bests Barbarian.

It’s intimate while also being epic, it’s scary while expertly utilizing humor as punctuation, and even the most dedicated cinephiles will be rocked by its surprises.

...a righteous, fully actualized genre-bender in which writer-director Zach Cregger hones Barbarian’s blend of unbearable tension and dark humor to a new level of razor-sharpness.

Brace for impact. It’s a weapons-grade movie; deadly, viciously precise, an assault on the emotional psyche for the ages and easily one of the year’s best films.

An unnerving and thunderously entertaining horror triumph.

For every moment of electrifying horror, the film cleanses the palette with comic relief.

A wonderful mixture of bad vibes and macabre fun, "Weapons" is one of the best horror movies of the year...

Cregger remains a remarkably confident and alluringly immersive director, constructing some wonderfully rattling shocks and moments of seat-clenching unsureness.

Can a film about missing children and grief be called a crowd-pleaser? In Zach Cregger’s hands, it feels almost effortless.

The fiendish enjoyment of Zach Cregger's Weapons is in how slowly and sadistically it reveals the answers to its American Gothic mystery.

...an engrossing, brutal piece of work...

...a wildly satisfying antidote to the last 10 years of horror movies about grief and trauma.

...bold, crowd-pleasing, gleefully R-rated horror.