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Zach Cregger’s latest horror film, Weapons, started streaming on HBO Max on October 24th, bringing one of 2025’s most talked-about releases to a major streaming platform for the first time. The film hit theaters back in August and centers around a mysterious case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously vanish on the same night at 2:17 a.m. Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan star in the film, which is scheduled to make its linear premiere on the HBO network on October 25th.
Weapons Cements Zach Cregger as a Modern Master of Horror
Cregger had a successful debut in the horror genre with Barbarian, a twisted and original tale that established him as a promising filmmaker in the genre, and Weapons cemented that status. The film borrows many of the best elements of its predecessor, including a nonlinear narrative told from multiple perspectives and a claustrophobic and tense atmosphere, to craft a film that constantly subverts expectations and leaves viewers trying to piece together the puzzle up until the very end. What resulted was a movie that is not just a great horror movie but also one of the best big screen releases of 2025.
