The Polygon report added that though Weapons was not a direct metaphor for grief, its chaotic and mysterious tone emerged as a byproduct of emotional upheaval. He said he was exhausted of grief-as-metaphor horror movies, but the energy of the grief is in the film.

The Barbarian director is back with an unexpected meditation on powering through tragedy... that's also bonkers and terrifying

This is a true story,” says a child narrator at the start of the movie, only for that technique to disappear shortly afterward. “A lot of people die in a lot of weird ways.” Indeed: There’s some fork stabbings,