Weapons Review: Missing Kids Shocker with Julia Garner and Josh Brolin Is an Old-Fashioned Bedtime Scare
The film uses a vintage Tarantino style to explore a psychological thriller about 17 children vanishing simultaneously from a small Illinois town, creating a gripping mystery.
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Weapons review: Missing kids shocker with Julia Garner and Josh Brolin is an old-fashioned bedtime scare
“This,” an anonymous off-screen narrator informs us, “is a true story.” One night at 2.17am in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, 17 children woke up, got out of bed, walked downstairs, opened the front door and disappeared into the darkness. They never came back.
On a terror-dominated weekend, The Time of Disappearance (Weapons).
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"Weapons" is "a top-notch psychological thriller", said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail, but be warned: this follow-up to director Zach Cregger's "electrifyingly tense" debut, the Airbnb-set horror "Barbarian" (2022), is as terrifying as it is "gripping".Set in a small town in Illinois, the film opens with the disappearance of 17 children from a single elementary class, who all ran happily out of their homes at exactly 2.17am one morning, then van…
Those who left the cinema after seeing the story of The Time of the Disappearance, the announcement of a second part would probably make them run out into the darkness at 2:17 a.m., attracted by the irresistible curiosity of knowing more about that strange universe of horror, psychological tension and a touch of black humor. Known in English as Weapons, the plot conquered both criticism (with 95% in Rotten Tomatoes) and the box office: on its op…
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Weapons: Julia Garner stars in ‘hyper-eerie’ psychological thriller
“Weapons” is “a top-notch psychological thriller”, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail, but be warned: this follow-up to director Zach Cregger’s “electrifyingly tense” debut, the Airbnb-set horror “Barbarian” (2022), is as terrifying as it is “gripping”. Set in a small town in Illinois, the film opens with the disappearance of 17 children from a single elementary class, who all ran happily out of their homes at exactly 2.17am one morning, then va…
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