After the horror film Barbarian turned a significant shock hit in 2022, followers have been impatiently ready to see what author/director Zach Cregger will do subsequent. This week Cregger revealed the primary take a look at his subsequent undertaking, Weapons, at CinemaCon. The response from attendees is overwhelmingly constructive with Variety raving “We will’t stress how upsetting a few of this footage was.”
Weapons stars Josh Brolin and Julia Garner as two members of a small Florida group the place all the youngsters have immediately gone lacking. The trailer’s voiceover lays the scene: “Mrs. Gandy’s room was completely empty…As a result of the evening earlier than, at 2:17 a.m., each child wakened, obtained away from bed, walked downstairs and into the darkish they usually by no means got here again.” The lacking kids then return to hang-out the townspeople as disturbing little kid ghosts. The intertwining plots in Weapons focus on themes of police corruption, generational trauma, blood rituals and non secular abuse.
CinemaCon attendees describe the Weapons trailer as “completely terrifying” and “on the identical degree” as Barbarian.
When you like horror films, this factor is a whole nightmare… There are photographs in there that I can nonetheless see in my mind which can be simply terrifying. I’m going to have nightmares due to this trailer.
GeekTyrant, ‘Weapons’ trailer reaction
Intriguing and unpredictable, with a pleasant serving to of batshit insane.
New Line Cinema chief Richard Brener, describing Zach Cregger’s ‘Weapons’
That is all promising information for horror followers hopeful Cregger can recapture the magic of Barbarian. The trailer will seemingly be launched quickly on YouTube, however it isn’t but out there to the general public. The early response has been so favorable that the movie’s launch was moved up from January 2026 to August 8, 2025.
