WEAPONS and the Horror of Being an American Child (SPOILERS)
Zach Cregger's sophomore feature delves into the current anxieties of American families and crafts a new horror classic. (!!!MASSIVE SPOILERS BELOW!!!) By: Josh McCormack For all of the narrative twists and grisly violence that make up Zach Cregger’s latest film “Weapons”, there’s one particular sequence that has already stirred some debate amongst filmgoers. The sequence in question comes less than an hour into the film, when Josh Brolin’s character Archer is dreaming about his son; one of the 17 school children whose sudden disappearance is the impetus for the film’s core narrative. In the dream, Archer chases his son into the darkness of night before stopping at an abandoned house and looking into the sky to see a massive assault rifle ominously floating. The numbers “217” are inscribed on its muzzle, a reference to the time in the evening in which all the kids strangely disappeared. Archer takes his gaze away from it and continues to look for his son in the fog-l...
