The subject matter of Zach Cregger’s (Barbarian) new horror movie Weapons may be dark, centered on a group of young children who vanish into the darkness at 2:17am one night, but Cregger promises in a new with Empire Online that his goal wasn’t to bum us out with a bleak horror experience. Rather, he wants to make sure audiences are having fun too.
“[It’s] a fun movie,” Cregger tells the outlet. “It’s funny, it’s scary, it’s inviting. It’s not a grim, morose slog. And yet the story it tells is really fucked up.”
The filmmaker also teases that Weapons is “a lot bigger and weirder than Barbarian,” with the film’s secrets under lock and key until it’s released in theaters on August 8, 2025.
Check out the previously released official trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis: “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.” Dive deeper into the mystery on MaybrookMissing.com.
The cast for Cregger’s new film includes Josh Brolin (Dune 2), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear), Benedict Wong (3 Body Problem), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives).
New Line Cinema Presents a Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/Boulderlight Pictures Production, a Zach Cregger Film, Weapons. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, and released in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, and internationally in August.
