Overview

• Weapons has grossed over $100 million worldwide within its first week, surpassing its reported $38 million production budget.
• It has already outgrossed cult horror classics including Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell.
• Critics have awarded it a mid-90s score on aggregate sites, praising its inventive chaptered structure and practical scares.
• The story unfolds around the simultaneous disappearance of seventeen schoolchildren and the sinister figure of Aunt Gladys.
• Warner Bros. is in early talks with Zach Cregger on a Gladys-focused prequel, and outlets project a roughly one-month window from theaters to Max.