It’s safe to say no one saw Barbarian coming. The horror debut from writer-director Zach Cregger—co-founder of sketch group The Whitest Kids U’ Know—took the world by surprise with its bizarre, ...

If you’ve been sleepwalking through the horror releases of 2025, Weapons is your wake-up slap. Directed by Zach Cregger (the same guy who blindsided everyone with Barbarian), Weapons isn’t just the ...

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Cregger's follow-up to "Barbarian" offers an even more ambitious cross between domestic horror and sketch comedy. After more than a decade of impassioned — and often maddeningly semantic — debate over ...

Zach Cregger has struck gold again with Weapons, a twisted fairytale that bests the director’s horror debut, Barbarian. Hiding a positively terrifying villain, the movie’s stellar ensemble cast and a ...

This successful audacity has helped pave the path for Cregger’s second genre venture, which is not only even more audacious, but more successful – in that it’s not just “good” or even “great,” but ...

It’s difficult to discuss a work of art when you’re not allowed to talk about the parts that don’t work. In the interest of giving audiences an opportunity to see “Weapons” for themselves, without ...

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Weapons opens in theaters Friday, August 8. Zach Cregger made a splashy foray into horror with 2022’s Barbarian, a shape-shifting slow-burn full of satisfying twists and well-pitched dark humor that ...