Yesterday, the Zach Cregger movie, did $5.2M which is the most a horror film has ever done on a Monday in August, besting Sixth Sense ‘s $4.35M and New Line’s Annabelle: Creation ‘s $3.6M. Weapons is also arguably the best opening for a horror movie in August with $43.5M (Sorry, The Meg is a shark movie, whole different type of genre).

Writer and director Zach Cregger is making moviegoers sit on the edge of their seats with "Weapons." See what critics are saying about the thriller.

There's been some pushback on social media over Weapons, The Substance, X, and other recent horror movies that portray older woman as scary monsters.

Longtime horror author Stephen King shared his thoughts on the new horror movie, Weapons, which has been impressing both critics and audiences ever since its release on Aug. 8.

Zach Cregger’s Weapons and Ari Aster’s Hereditary hit with the same brutal truth: trauma doesn’t just sit quietly in the background, it becomes the villain that shapes the entire story. These films take grief, guilt, and denial and twist them until they’re as terrifying as any ghost or curse.

From the giant floating gun to the metaphors for the political left and right, we look at what Weapons' school-shootings metaphor adds to the story

Barbarian and Weapons director Zack Cregger has become a big name in the horror genre. Here's what he thinks of modern horror movies.

You know what movie I loved back in 1999? The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser. Traditionally a Universal horror movie, The Mummy was brought back as an action franchise in the late 90s, and it spawned two sequels…and a less-than-stellar reboot starring Tom Cruise, but that’s neither here nor there.

13NewsNow reported that TikTok videos erroneously claimed that there was a "mass kidnapping" in Virginia. The TikTok frenzy has drawn comparisons to the 2025 horror movie Weapons, in which children go missing, sparking widespread panic and violent chaos.

Scoring high on the originality scale, this horror movie taps into our fears about missing children and small-town retribution. At its heart is the disappearance of 17 primary sch

“Freakier Friday,” which lost the battle for first place to “Weapons” during its double premiere, also maintained its second spot, bringing in $14.5 million domestically. The films' staying power comes during a slower box office weekend, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore.