Weapons is nearly an hour longer than the average creepy movie, but Cregger’s mosaic approach justifies extra running time as he asks us to put pieces together for ourselves while delivering jolts with sudden crossed wires.

Zach Cregger's frightfest is a movie with pain at its core that uses the supernatural to examine the very real reasons why humans turn against each other. The actors are tops, especially an award-caliber Amy Madigan who makes scary weirdly wonderful.

Cregger scatters breadcrumbs generously along his darkly wooded, nettled narrative path, but even as we gradually latch on to what Weapons is doing, there’s nothing to prepare us for how wickedly it does it.

Is Weapons a reinvention of the genre, a clever cobble of other concepts, or uniquely situated in the horror realm?