New Weapons teaser shows Zach Cregger isn't just doing The Leftovers
The eerie new teaser follows a few equally creepy clips that emerged on social media earlier this month.
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The Leftovers doesn’t necessarily have a monopoly on stories about people vanishing into thin air at the exact same time, but the logline for Zach Cregger’s Weapons really did sound like The Leftovers. “When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance,” it reads.
There’s something very different going on in the town of Maybrook, however, which a newly released trailer illustrates in just about the creepiest way it could have. Those kids didn’t just vanish, but left their houses and sprinted, arms outstretched, across the neighborhood. We don’t know why or to what end, but Cregger—who also helmed the nightmarish 2022 film Barbarian—sends a salient message in this very short clip: if you think one horror movie child is bad, try 17. They’re way scarier in packs.