Zach Cregger’s Weapons Gets an Unsettling Teaser

In 2022, comedian Zach Cregger made his diagnostic movie debut with Barbarian, and we’ve been waiting for his adjacent archetypal movie earlier helium jumps implicit to Resident Evil. That would beryllium Weapons—which precocious got a archetypal glimpse astatine CinemaCon and present has a grand, ARG-involved uncover up of its summertime release. A teaser released up of Sinners over the weekend, and present WB’s posted it online.

The fearfulness thriller stars Julia Garner arsenic Justine, a schoolteacher who shows up to enactment and finds astir each of her students are gone. Children successful the tiny municipality of Maybrook seemingly woke up overnight astatine 2:17 am, past disappeared into the woods. Security footage shows them moving successful a weird way, but wherever did they spell and why?

That’s the question, but it’s not the lone enigma successful the film, which seems to span corrupt cops and unusual supernatural worldly of the spiritual and witchcraft variety. Intriguingly, according to the film’s “Maybrook Missing” tie-in site, Weapons is besides seemingly connected to Barbarian in immoderate capacity—but it’s unclear if there’s thing much beyond 1 referencing the events of the other.

Weapons releases connected August 8, and besides stars Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, June Diane Raphael, Benedict Wong, and Alden Ehrenreich.

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