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Weapons movie review: horror mystery by Barbarian director Zach Cregger is oddly hypnotic

4/5 stars Advertisement One of the more powerful horror films to arrive this year, Weapons begins with a child's voice-over explaining that 17 kids have gone missing from the small US town of Maybrook. Creepier still, they all left their homes at exactly the same time – 2.17am – seemingly of their own volition. Oh, and they all attended the same class at the local junior school. Only teacher Justine (Julia Garner) and one pupil, Alex (Cary Christopher), are still accounted for. Among the townspeople outraged that the police have made no progress is construction boss Archer Graff (Josh Brolin), whose son Matthew is among the disappeared. Meanwhile, the boozy Justine is being hounded from all sides – intimidating telephone calls, graffiti on her car that reads 'witch' – as those in the community refuse to believe she has nothing to do with this eerie mystery. Advertisement Written and directed by Zach Cregger, who previously made the sly 2022 horror Barbarian, Weapons is reputedly inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, with its patchwork quilt of characters criss-crossing the San Fernando Valley.