Weapons’ new trailer makes PTA meetings look like a nightmare

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. The first teaser for New Line Cinema’s upcoming horror Weapons was already unsettling enough, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it seem like writer / director Zach Cregger is about to leave us all terrified once again. Though Weapons’ new trailer doesn’t explain why an entire classroom of young children suddenly go missing one night, it does give us a clue about where they wind up and why the entire situation makes their teacher, Justine Gandy (Julia Garner), feel like she’s losing her mind. Justine doesn’t seem to know why her students are the only kids to have vanished, but Archer Graff (Josh Brolin) and all of the school’s other parents are certain she has something to do with the disappearances. It’s clear from the trailer’s shots of the missing students sprinting through the streets at night that they might not act ... Read full article.