Official Trailer:

 All but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time. They all run away from their home stretching their hands like an airplane. The community is bewildered and left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. There are home CCTV footages that shows the children running out of the homes but no clues on where they ran to. Alex is the only boy who didn’t leave his house that night. What is special about him? Investigators couldn’t get much information from Alex. People and parents from the community suspect the new class teacher has something to do with the disappearance. She must know something, right? They label her a witch. Someone paints witch on her car. After a month the school reopens, and the story starts from there. The premise pulls you in with the prelude. We also want to know what happened to those children.

Zach Cregger as the director and writer of Weapons takes a fresh approach to horror genre and goes full throttle with it. He divides the story into character driven chapters. We jump back and forth in time. With non-linear approach we get a pulp-fiction feel. We move from Justine, the teacher, to Archer, a disappeared child’s father, to cop Paul, then to James, a junkie, to Marcus, the school principal, and finally to Alex that leads to the outrageous climax.  Events cut across chapters giving us multiple points of view and additional information. While the image of children running like an airplane is bone-chilling, Paul and James chapters have good amount of humor. Visual language and background score amplify the thrill and excitement. Airplane image, running sequence of Marcus and the follow-on chase, the fight between Archer and James, and the pulsating climax are all a must repeat watch. The movie is equally chilling and hilarious, an exciting ride 👏