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 ...

There's something eerie about the suburbs at night. Countless movies (especially from the 1970s) have told us that big cities are scary when the sun goes down, but anyone who lives in a suburban ...

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 ...

‘Weapons’ explores why a group of children secretly ran out of their houses in the middle of the night, but the answer is far from comforting. A scene from ...

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 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 ...

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 ...