'Creepiest horror trailer in years' leaves fans struggling to sleep
The trailer for Weapons, a new horror from Barbarian writer-director Zack Cregger, has been released – and fans have been left unable to sleep after watching the intense preview.
Starring Julia Garner and Josh Brolin, the trailer for Weapons introduces the audience to a simple premise that focuses on a teacher, Miss Gandy (Garner), walking into her classroom one morning to find all 17 students have disappeared in the night.
A child's creepy narration explains that the plot thickens as the teacher quickly becomes a person of interest in her class's disappearance, and CCTV shows that all of the children ran from their homes at 2.17am.
The intense trailer then shows graphic, increasingly horrifying imagery, including a creepy child sitting up from a desk in a darkened classroom, a view of a man being smacked into by a car, hands covering a man's face furiously holding him down, and black oil being poured onto someone's face.
The movie then ends with the door of a house opening by itself as a child says quietly: 'This is where the story really starts.'
Fans were left shell-shocked after the creepy nature of the film, with many taking to social media to say they were left unable to sleep.
'I don't like scary movies and I watched that WEAPONS trailer late last night and I swear to god it was so scary I couldn't even sleep,' said tiatamiaa on X.
'WEAPONS might be the scariest film of the year. What the f**k is that trailer??? lol,' said JakeRileyHunte.
'Man Weapons just *looks* crazy f****n' good,' said eventualforever.
'I watched the trailer for Weapons last night and thought it was so so scary,' said violetfaced.
'These kids are not alright. #Weapons looks messed up [positive].' added Lulamaybelle.
'I had full body chills the last 30 seconds of that trailer, incredible stuff,' said sillierdeadite.
The film has had some fantastically frightening marketing attached, with Warner Bros releasing a two-hour-long video that showed children running with their arms out into the woods.
The video appeared to be taken from CCTV footage and was left untitled and unexplained on the YouTube channel of the entertainment company.
The creepy footage actually sparked some concern from viewers who stumbled across the video, unaware of what they were seeing, and baffled about what the footage was showing.
Fans have also spotted some hidden Easter eggs in the footage, highlighting that an image of a baseball team can be seen around a minute and a half into the video – but only for a split second – which may be a key clue about the events in the film, or could be a red herring.
Zach Cregger was the mind behind Barbarian, a horror which was met with huge critical acclaim, which he also wrote and directed. More Trending
He was also a producer on the recent popular horror film Companion starring Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher, which was also met with huge accolades.
Given his strong track record, fans are dead-set that Weapons is set to be another blinding success, which will traumatise viewers for years to come – but in a good way, of course.
Weapons is set to be released in cinemas on August 8.
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