photo credit: Lexie Riley
When the trailer dropped for the horror movie “Weapons”, people were excited for the movie to become available to watch in theaters. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the movie got an incredible rating of 94 percent on the Tomatometer.
After seeing this, I knew immediately that I had to see the movie. However, I didn’t realize how truly disturbing and unpredictable this movie was going to be.
I went to see this movie Saturday, Aug. at Marcus Theatres. My dad and I had no plans for the night, and we decided to go see a movie. When looking at the movie options, “Weapons” stood out immediately. We got the tickets for 9 p.m., and when we got there we had some popcorn and a soda, then waited eagerly for the movie to start.
The movie begins by explaining that one day, Justine Gandy, the main character and teacher, walked into her class. She realized all of her students were missing, except for one whose name was Alex.
A month later from this incident, she received tremendous amounts of hate toward the parents, whose students disappeared. The only information they had on the students’ disappearance is that they all left their houses at 2:17 a.m., the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep. Many of the houses had cameras on their front doors, and I noticed that the kids all ran the same way out of the house, with their arms to their side.
Justine was tired of the police not finding any answers. She decided to take things into her own hands and follow Alex, the only student who didn’t disappear, home one day.
She noticed that his house was covered with newspaper. Her curiosity got the better of her, and she decided to try to peek through the window and noticed everything was dark and there was no movement in the house. This sparked questions from her, so she spends the rest of the movie figuring out why the house was like this, and if the house had anything to do with the kids’ disappearance.
After grieving over his son’s sudden disappearance, Archer, the father of Mathew, decided to find answers on his own as well. While doing so, he crosses paths with Justine, and they work together to solve the mystery of the missing children.
As the movie continues, strange things start happening in the town, including a ritual which causes the school’s principal to run all over town and try to kill Justine. The principal ultimately falls and gets hit by a car, but then Archer and Justine realize that all the kids’ running patterns led to Alex’s house.
Now, by this point in the movie, it is clear that Alex’s house has something to do with it. When they went into the house, they found out that a witch was there, who performed a ritual to have all the kids run to their house, and all the kids were possessed in Alex’s basement.
After having to fight two people under possession, one was Justin’s boyfriend, they stop the witch, and the kids become unpossessed. They didn’t go back to normal immediately, but all the kids were back with their families.
The best word to describe the scenes of the movie is disturbing. Throughout the movie, I found it very hard to watch some scenes because they were so unsettling and sent shivers down my spine. The loops and turns made it very unpredictable and kept me intrigued as the movie continued.
My favorite component of the movie was how they showed different points of view of the characters in the movie. The different points of view helped show every part of the movie and left no questions by the end. I enjoyed this movie so much that I went to see it a second time with my friend.
I would rate this movie a 5/5, the movie was intriguing, unpredictable, and overall everything you want in a horror movie.
