One of the Most Highly-Anticipated Horror Movies of 2025 Is Now in Theaters
“At 2:17 a.m., every kid woke up, got out of bed, walked downstairs and into the dark and they never came back.”
2025 has produced some excellent horror movies and there are even more yet to come. Last week, one of the most highly-anticipated genre films of the year released. In fact, this movie was so highly-anticipated that its release date was bumped up from January 2026 to August 8 after the trailer was so well-received.
Weapons is the new horror movie from Zach Cregger, the writer/director behind 2022’s Barbarian.
Weapons stars Josh Brolin and Julia Garner as two members of a small Florida community where all the children have suddenly gone missing. The trailer’s voiceover describes the story: “Mrs. Gandy’s room was totally empty…Because the night before, at 2:17 a.m., every kid woke up, got out of bed, walked downstairs and into the dark and they never came back.” The missing children return in disturbing forms to haunt Mrs. Gandy and other townspeople.
Early praise includes New Line Cinema chief Richard Brener who called it “Intriguing and unpredictable, with a nice helping of batshit insane.” Variety also raved about the Weapons trailer, saying “We can’t stress how upsetting some of this footage was.”
We’ve also ranked Weapons as the 4th best horror movie of the year on our ranking of over 100 horror movies released in 2025.
Further reading:
- 12 Highly-Anticipated Horror Movies Releasing in the Second Half of 2025
- The 100+ Best and Worst Horror Movies of 2025 So Far, Ranked
