Nightmare of voic, funny and frightening suburbs

There is a strange thing about the suburbs at night. Countless films (especially from the 1970s) told us that big cities are frightening when the sun decreases, but anyone who lives in a neighborhood in a suburb can tell you that once dark comes crawling, everything feels a little bit on. When walking on an empty suburb street, there are no sounds except for your feet and tinnitus, the blue glow sometimes shines in a person’s bedroom window – it is sufficient to give you crawl.

Zac Kurgger’s “weapons” understand, which is why his opening moments – in which we see many children leave their homes at 2:17 am and run silently in the dark streets to an unknown destination – is very disturbing. Cut the shots of the beloved door just enhance the danger. Something very much mistake here.

With “weapons”, Cregger, who led the excellent, Understanding a “barbarian” surprise, He collected a movie that settles in very recent fears without placing it on a very thick. The American landscape is a place currently governed by lack of confidence and fear, and it appears that the fear of confusing parents controls the top. Parents go to the city’s meetings now and scream about the imaginary things they saw on Fox News, angry for anger. It is enough to push everyone to madness. Bone madness everywhere. “Weapons” find smart ways to arm it.

After the initial preparation of the film, where all one student disappears from the same semester of the elementary schools at night in the town of Maybruck, it displays a large debtor film for a group like the stories of the difference Paul Thomas Anderson “Magnolia” And Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fitch”. Such films, “weapons” tell a great sprawling story from several different views, and with the narration revealing, we realize a much larger image. They are ambitious things, and the fact that Cregger pulls them in a way that almost exerted is a testimony of his skills in telling stories.

When children lose, everyone wants answers, especially parents. Since all children were part of the same semester, doubts are on the teacher Justin Gandhi (Julia Garner), a nice but embarrassing young woman who may have a problem with drinking. Mrs. Gandhi is confused like anyone else, and she starts to do her ambiguity. It is not alone. Artcher Graf (Josh Brolin), the father of one of the missing children, is more convinced of Mrs. Gandhi than she says and takes upon him to start studying clues. Then there is a local victory over the Paul police, who is related to Mrs. Gandhi and some of his secrets. Among these characters from the characters, Crater also throws the director of the sympathetic school (Benedict Wong), a drug addict who does not exceed his theft to obtain his repair (Austin Abrams), and the young Alex Lily (Carrie Christopher), the only child from the category of Mrs. Gandhi Not Go to loss.

Saying more to do the movie is harmful, because it is like “Barbarian”, “Weapons” is a film in which the element of surprise is the key. Cregger is slowly withdrawn the curtain, and ultimately gives us final answers about what is going on, but by the time when we reach the truth, “weapons” went to dark, twisted and amazing places. Cregger is a wallpaper in comedy and has a unique understanding of terrorism and humor. “Weapons” are often frightening, but there are moments (like the big glyshi final) that made me wander with bliss. Horror and comedy are self -species, and they successfully rush them together.

Cregger only as a movie director, and his mood control and atmosphere here is great. He wisely avoids being heavy on the cruelty of jumping, and instead tends to the mystery of everything – fear of the unknown is something we are all familiar with, and “weapons” use it. It also draws an accurate image of the suburban life, as wine warehouses and diving bars participate in an area with tangible houses. When there is always one house, it looks unusually dark, unusually quiet, unusually secret. The suburbs are a lie that tells America itself; The place where safety is an illusion and dangerous things that lie in wait for a person’s front door.

“Weapons” also make an interesting decision to make their characters defective in nature. Gustin Gandhi from Garner is loved and sympathetic but also vulnerable to making a series of universal options. To clarify this, this is not the standard foolish The options you choose by many horror heroes, but rather choose for you, and you may choose if we are in a similar position. Then, Brolin’s father is understandablely annoyed, who simply refuses to sit and hopes that the local authorities will discover things. It is a slight screaming and even somewhat undesirable, but we can understand where it came from.

In fact, all the characters that fill “weapons” feel real in a way that they may encounter as disarmament. This has a shrinking effect to make us invest in their stories and anxiety about the terrible destinies awaiting them. Praise should also be given to Amy Madijan, which was installed in a difficult role that will not dare corruption.

Part of what made “Barbarian” very distinctive is the way the viewers constantly kept the place where the story was going. “Weapons” takes a similar approach, although I think it is important to say that Cregger does not deceive or shock to be horrific. There is a way for this madness, and the film actually loses a small part of its strength as the last verb fills the voids and gives us answers about what is going on. At the same time, “weapons” wisely leaves some unjustified things intentionally just because it is in the world of horror movies, some things go beyond the interpretation.

A wonderful mix of bad feelings and fun, “weapons” is one of the best horror movies for this year, and to confirm more Writer and director Zach Craiber It is one of the most exciting sounds in this type now.

/Film classification: 9 out of 10

“Weapons” open in theaters on August 8, 2025.