Julia Garner is caught in Zach Cregger‘s twisted trap of a horror film, “Weapons.” The
“Fantastic Four: First Steps” actress plays an elementary school teacher whose entire class, sans one student, is missing under eerie circumstances. While the kids appear to have run away on their own volition, there might be a possessed force at play…
Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan co-star in “Barbarian” director Cregger’s latest horror/thriller. The logline reads: “’Weapons’ is a horror film that follows an entire classroom of children who get out of their beds and disappear one night without a trace. 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.”
New Line Cinema chief Richard Brenner has described the film as being “batshit insane.” Cregger echoed to Entertainment Weekly that “Weapons” is “weirder, twistier, and bigger” than his directorial debut “Barbarian.”
“I have way more actors to fit into this thing,” he said, citing that ensemble film “Magnolia” was an inspiration. “The set pieces are definitely bigger. It’s just a bigger, weirder movie than ‘Barbarian’ is. I promise you, when you watch it, you will agree with me. It is.”
Cregger’s feature debut “Barbarian” was an indie hit grossing $45 million worldwide. He later landed a deal with studio New Line Cinema, and will be rebooting the “Resident Evil” franchise. Cregger previously revealed that A24 and Neon both passed on “Barbarian” before he connected with BoulderLight to produce; New Regency, Vertigo, and Disney later boarded the horror thriller. “Weapons” is said to exist within the same universe as “Barbarian.”
Cregger told Entertainment Weekly that “Weapons” is “an incredibly personal story” as well, saying, “There’s certain chapters of this that are legitimately autobiographical that I feel like I lived.”
“Weapons” premieres August 8 in theaters. Check out the trailer below.
