The best arms performance is worth nominating Oscar (we are completely serious)

The main spoilers of “weapons” follow -up.

Zach Craigger’s weapons are critical and financial success, and for a good reason: It is very cool. Craigjar was the frightening and funny of several personalities in a small town raised against mystery, and the superhero had a wonderful marketing campaign that kept most of its transformations and converted secretly. the The trailers were given the basic hypothesis only: At 2:17 am, 17 children left the same semester in the school, stood in the darkness of their neighborhood in the suburbs, and disappeared. It is an interesting collection, devotes a large part of the “weapons” for several characters struggling with the repercussions of such an inaccurate event.

In the end, the film provides an answer to what is going on here. The witch cast a kind of dark talisman to attract all the missing children so that she can maintain their energy mainly in order to survive. Cregger keeps wisely the details shrouded by the unjustified – we really don’t know how Magician magic works, and we do not really need it.

The witch, named Gladys, plays the great role of Amy Madijan, and the presence of Madijan was mostly excluded from marketing (you can pick up quick glimpses here and there in trailers). I understand why they hindered Madijan from promotional materials, but now that “weapons” are in theaters and drawing crowds, I want to put a possible remote idea: you should pay Warner Bruce.

Madigan’s Gladys, or Gladys as it is known to Alex Lily (Carrie Christopher), the only child of the class. Not It disappears, he is the villain in the movie, and the character is completely frightening and self. Sports formula and colored clothing, sticks like a painful thumb and make any stance embarrassing and strange. It also has the ability to fold people to her will. She not only kidnapped these children, but also has the poor Alex fathers under her talisman, and in one of the most annoying scenes in the movie, Alex compels to watch her while making his parents stab in his face, over and over again, with thorns. She tries to prove a point: she can do everything you want for Alex’s parents, and she will do so, unless he is ready to follow its rules and keep their dark secrets.

Madijan’s work in this role is delightedly twisted – and it strikes all the right notes to make Glades a very frightening monster. But perhaps more interesting is the accurate touches of humanity, which brings it to this role. Glades is sick and dies (not clear how She is old, but at one time, she lies and says Alex’s father has “consumption”, which indicates that she is very old and does not realize that people are no longer with this disease anymore). At one point of the movie, Alex Glades is watched on the bed of a bedroom, sick and lost away, removing borrowed hair, and shrinking her body. It looks very tired and very weak, and offers a kind of interpretation Why She does what she is doing: she wants to improve.

This, of course, is a selfish desire – it’s ready to harm and even kill people if that means that it can live for a little longer. But Madijan is so good here so much that she was able to make Glades barely It looks sympathetic at this moment. We cannot overlook what you are doing, but we understand Why She is doing it. I will not call the “invisible” Madijan performance, but it was able to make its villain more layer than you expect. At the same time, we also hate how the wicked of this witch, and we enjoy the violent end of the film in which the missing children rebelled, Chis Glades, and sliding it literally.

I am not really a prizes. I often find an Academy Awards frustrated and even a kind of boring, and I believe that the policy that corresponds to the process is the total and transforms the art of films into a sporting event. At the same time, I would like if the Academy gave Madijan some appreciation. She was nominated for the best one -supporting actress before, in 1986 for “twice a lifetime”, so the case can be made a experienced professional, it has long been late for another gesture.

“I have always been a fans, and I know she can do anything,” Director Zach Craigger told me about Madijan. “You see it in” Field of Dreams “which is these fiery crackers and is really bounced and really funny. Then you see it and” Goed Bady “, and it is only heavy. Then you see it in” Carlivale “, and it is completely frightening it, so you could find everything to find it in Villain, but it was superior to something. It might miss the least performe. But it makes every second. Nicolas Cage’s Gonzo has turned into “Longlegs” To earn a nomination. He didn’t do it in the end, but if Cage could get a boost, then why not amy Madigan?

It is true that the Academy Awards ceremony does not have the best busy record when it comes to terror (last year “Article” nominations They considered a major change in the type of terror). But there is some precedent here: Ruth Gordon has been nominated – and won! – The best Oscar support actress for her unforgettable role as Satani Mini Castif smiles at “Rosemary Child,” Madigan’s performance often seems to direct the very unforgettable character that Gordon has done in this classic horror. So if you are listening, academy, do the right thing: send the aunt Glades to the Academy Awards.