The New ‘Weapons’ Trailer Promises ‘a Lot of People Die in a Lot of Really Weird Ways’

So far the marketing for Weapons is looking like 2025’s slightly more accessible answer to last year’s Longlegs: freaky and distressing, and promising exponentially more of the same from the feature itself. A first trailer gave a little more insight into the movie’s plot, and a retro-styled website plays up its true-crime angle. Now Weapons is back with a second clip to set the dread-filled mood even more.

We see a bewildered teacher (Julia Garner) being blamed for a class of missing kids, with Josh Brolin as an angry guy shouting in a meeting—as well doing what looks like some obsessive detective work as he tries to figure out the mystery. We have a small child narrating that “a lot of people die in a lot of really weird ways” in this story, set in what appears to be the quintessential small town with a secret, and we see quite evidently that it’s not just an empty school room where terrible truths are going to be revealed.

Here’s the official synopsis, a single sentence that implies a lot without saying very much at all: “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.”

Along with Brolin and Garner, Weapons stars Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. It’s written and directed by Barbarian breakout Zach Cregger.

Weapons arrives in theaters August 8.

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