Zach Cregger surprised horror fans with his unique and twisted vision in Barbarian. Now Cregger is taking thing to an all-new level with his next directorial effort from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Discovery: Weapons. This is displayed hauntingly with the new trailer for Weapons which teases some of the unexpected horrors to come.
Interestingly, while Weapons has a similar aura of mystery, the plot looks like it will be wildly different from Barbarian. While that particular film revolved around isolation and a few select characters, Weapons appears to involve an entire town when the entirety of a class of children disappear in the middle of the night after leaving their homes at 2:17 AM.
It’s a chilling concept and one that seems to have major consequences for the surrounding characters in the story. Of course, many details are still being kept under wraps, so it’s likely one that moviegoers will have to see in theaters before they’ll understand what’s really going on. As we’ve seen with Barbarian, however, it’s likely something no one can predict.
Here’s the first official trailer for Weapons:
To promote the release of the trailer, Cregger also spoke with EW, where he further teased that the mystery is what starts the movie off but that there’s so much more to it:
“That mystery is going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that is not the movie,” Cregger begins. “The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but that’s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier shit than that.”
He continues:
“I wanted a horror epic, and so I tried to do that. It is more ambitious [than Barbarian] in almost every way. I don’t just mean in terms of the budget, but I just mean creatively. The story is weirder and it’s twistier and it’s bigger. The set pieces are definitely bigger. It’s just a bigger, weirder movie than Barbarian is.”
It definitely sounds like something that horror fans won’t want to miss later this year. Weapons is scheduled to hit theaters on August 8, 2025. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional updates regarding the highly-anticipated horror film as we have them.