Prompt 18 is Least Favourite Franchise and I’m not doing that to myself. Then Favourite Franchise which wouldn’t give me something new, then four days about different social groups. I could do these but, eh, time for things that don’t fit just because I want to watch them.
18.
Weapons (2025)
Trailer
Content warning for kids in danger
The second film by Zack Cregger opens with seventeen children leaving their houses at the same time in the dead of night and disappearing into the dark.
That trailer and the accompanying media campaign made the children disappearing look like the most ominous mystery, I was sort of expecting something like aliens. The title (and one image in a dream) suggests the subtext of school shootings as well.
But the film itself plays it as the start of an odd little fairytale, accompanied by a sweetly soothing George Harrison song.
The first bit of proper horror comes after, with the kids parents and the rest of the town demanding answers from their home room teacher.
Then it shifts perspective to one of the parents, and again to someone else, and again every twenty minutes or so, with chapter labels so it’s faster and more clearly noted than the forty-five-minute swing in Barbarian.
And due to stylistic choices and humour throughout, when we find out what’s going on it’s chilling for one sympathetic character but overall darkly funny.
The medium: HBO Max
Gameability: When we get to the unlikely teamup to investigate it swings that way.
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