There is something eerie for the suburbs at night. Countless movies (especially since the 1970s) have told us that big cities are terrible when the sun has sung, but anyone living in a suburban neighborhood can tell you that once the darkness enters the traction, everything feels a little off. Going down the empty suburban street, there are no sounds except your feet and insects, occasionally blue shine on a trembling in someone's bedroom window - it is enough to give them creep.

Zack Kreger's "weapons" understands this, causing his moments of opening - in which we see that several children leave their houses at 2:17am and run quietly through the dark streets to an unknown destination - they are so damn. Cutting a grainy shot from the door to the door only improves the threat. Something is a lot Wrong Here.

With "weapons", Creeger, who used the excellent, Infinitely surprising "barbarian", He has collected a film that enters many modern fears without uploading it too thick. The American landscape is a place where no confidence and fear are currently ruled, and the fear of confused parents seems to be ruled by the supreme. Parents go to the city meetings and call for fictional things they saw at Fox News, angry because they are angry. It's enough to drive all the crazy. Paranoia is everywhere. The "weapon" finds smart ways to arm it.

After the initial set of the film, in which all, except one student of the same class of elementary school, disappear into the night in the city of Maybruk, Creeger crafts film due to significant debt for ensemble stories like Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia And Quentin Tarantino's "Pulpa Fiction". Like those films, the "weapon" tells a large, widespread story from several different views, and as the narrative unfolds, we become aware of a much larger picture. It is ambitious things, and the fact that Creger pulls him in a way that looks almost effortless is a testimony to his stories telling skills.

When children disappear, everyone wants answers, especially parents. Since all the children were part of the same classroom, suspicion falls to teacher Justin Gandhi (Iaululia Garner), a Kindube, but awkward young woman who may or may not have a drinking problem. Ms Gandhi is just as confused as everyone else and begins to fall asleep in the mystery. She's not alone. Archer Graf (Oshos Brolin), the father of one of the missing children, is convinced that Mrs Gandhi knows more than he speaks and he takes on himself to begin studying the indications. Then there is the local fights policeman Paul (Alden Ehrenreich), who has to do with Ms Gandhi and some of his secrets. Among this congestion of characters, Kreger also throws at the principal of the sympathetic school (Benedict Wong), a drug addict not to steal to correct his repair (Austin Abrams) and young Alex Lily (Carrie Christopher), no Go missing.

To say more, I would make the film bad, because like "Barbarian", "Weapons" is a film where the surprise element is crucial. Kreger's script slowly pulls the curtain, eventually giving us definitive answers about what is happening, but by the time we come to the truth, the "weapon" went into dark, distorted and surprising funny places. Creger has a comedy background and has a unique understanding of the mixing of horror and humor. The "weapon" is often scary, but there are times (like the Grand Final of the Grand) that made me quarrel with GLA. The horror and comedy are subjective genres, and you successfully mix them together is not an easy feat.

Creger only increased as a director, and his control over the mood and atmosphere here is fantastic. He wisely avoids going hard on jumps and instead relies on the mystery of all this - the fear of the unknown is something that we are all very familiar with and the "weapons" use it. Also, a picture of an accurate portrait of suburban life, where alcohol shops and diving rods share space with finely maniced home premises. Where there is always a house that looks unusual dark, unusual quiet, unusual secret. The suburbs are a lie that America tells; A place where security is an illusion and dangerous things lurking right behind someone's front door.

The "weapon" also makes an interesting decision to make its characters inherent in shortcomings. Garner's Justin Gandi is cozy and cute, but it is also prone to making a series of unreason. To be clear, these are not standard stupid Elections do so much horror heroines, but more you choose and I would do if we were in a similar situation. Then there is the understandingly anxious father of Brolin, who refuses to simply sit down and hope that the local authorities will understand things. It is unusual and rough, and even a little amazing, but we can understand where it comes from.

Indeed, all the characters that inhabit "weapons" feel original in a way that can be found as disarmament. This has an attractive effect to make us invest in their stories and take care of the potentially terrible fates awaiting them. Praise must also be given to Amy Madigan, who is perfect in an awkward role that I will not dare to spoil it.

Part of what the "barbarian" did so special is the way viewers constantly assume where the story is going. The "weapon" has a similar approach, though I think it is important to say that Creger's script is not cheating or is shocking because it is shocking. There is a method for this madness, and the film actually loses a little of its power, as the last act fills the gaps and gives us answers about what is happening. At the same time, the "weapon" also leaves certain things deliberately unexplained simply because in the world of horror films, some things are out of the explanation.

Beautiful blend of bad vibrations and macaber fun, "Weapon" is one of the best horror films of the year and further confirmation that Writer-director Zack Kreger is one of the most exciting voices in the genre right now.

/Movie rating: 9 out of 10

The "Weapons" opens in theaters on August 8, 2025.