It’s safe to say no one saw Barbarian coming. The horror debut from writer-director Zach Cregger—co-founder of sketch group The Whitest Kids U’ Know—took the world by surprise with its bizarre, ...

What drives a classroom of seventeen children to vanish into the night without a trace? That’s the unnerving mystery at the heart of Weapons, the latest horror outing from Barbarian filmmaker Zach ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. While it seemed likely that Zach Cregger, post-Barbarians ...

Zach Cregger‘s Barbarian shook the film world with its clever twists and propensity to disgust in its third act. Now, with Weapons (2025), the filmmaker is showing that he’s not a one-hit wonder but ...

SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers. At 2:17 a.m. on a school night, 17 children go missing all at once. They get up out of bed, open their front doors and run out into the ...

In Weapons, Julia Garner plays an elementary school teacher named Justine whose entire class disappears one night save for one child, Alex (Cary Christopher). These children have been caught on camera ...

Horror’s in a tricky spot right now. It’s one of the last surviving genres where original material can still thrive, yet only when there’s a sense that what we’re being sold isn’t just a film, but a ...

In Zach Cregger's electrifying "Weapons," the summer's most rewarding, inventive and thoroughly unconventional thrill ride, 17 children go missing in the middle of the night, and that's only the ...

Two years after making his unforgettable entrance as one of the next great genre filmmakers with Barbarian, former Whitest Kid U’Know Zach Cregger has returned with the similarly ominously titled new ...

Weapons is hip entertainment, from a child narrator’s conspiratorial insistence that it’s all true to scoring the night flight with George Harrison’s ominously rocking “Beware of Darkness”. Teacher ...