Thus far the advertising and marketing for Weapons is wanting like 2025’s barely extra accessible reply to final 12 months’s Longlegs: freaky and distressing, and promising exponentially extra of the identical from the characteristic itself. A primary trailer gave a bit extra perception into the film’s plot, and a retro-styled web site performs up its true-crime angle. Now Weapons is again with a second clip to set the dread-filled temper much more.
We see a bewildered trainer (Julia Garner) being blamed for a category of lacking youngsters, with Josh Brolin as an indignant man shouting in a gathering—as properly doing what appears like some obsessive detective work as he tries to determine the thriller. Now we have a small little one narrating that “lots of people die in a variety of actually bizarre methods” on this story, set in what seems to be the quintessential small city with a secret, and we see fairly evidently that it’s not simply an empty lecture room the place horrible truths are going to be revealed.
Right here’s the official synopsis, a single sentence that means rather a lot with out saying very a lot in any respect: “When all however one little one from the identical class mysteriously vanish on the identical evening at precisely the identical time, a group is left questioning who or what’s behind their disappearance.”
Together with Brolin and Garner, Weapons stars Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. It’s written and directed by Barbarian breakout Zach Cregger.
Weapons arrives in theaters August 8.
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