Julia Garner plays teacher whose class vanishes in 'Weapons'
- Julia Garner stars as a teacher whose entire class vanishes mysteriously overnight in the film Weapons, directed by Zach Cregger, set to release August 8, 2025.
- The story unfolds in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, when 17 children awake at 2:17 a.m. One Wednesday before disappearing, prompting suspicion toward Garner's character and a townwide conspiracy theory.
- Weapons combines supernatural horror elements including a malevolent presence in the town and features Josh Brolin as a parent searching for his missing child amid unexplained events in the trailer.
- The trailer shows inexplicable bloodshed and spontaneous combustion, while Cregger describes the film as "an incredibly personal story" and more ambitious and twistier than his prior hit Barbarian.
- The film's release through Warner Bros. Aims to build on Cregger's rising genre success and suggests a complex narrative that reinvents horror tropes with autobiographical depth and sustained audience mystery.
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Julia Garner, Josh Brolin Face Off In Truly Chilling Trailer for Weapons
In the film, all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish in the middle of the night -- with parents, including Josh Brolin, wondering what happened and whether their teacher, Julia Garner, had something to do with it. The movie comes from Barbarian director Zach Cregger and hits theaters August 8.
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