"Weapons begins with something that seems impossible: One night, in the suburb of Maybrook, every student (save one) from Justine Gandy's third-grade classroom gets up at 2:17 a.m., goes downstairs, walks out of the house, and silently runs off into the night. They are gone, 17 of them. They are caught on doorbell cameras or security cameras, disappearing into the woods or just into the darkness."
"No harm befalls the deeply sympathetic canine protagonist of Good Boy, a low-budget horror film based on those eerie moments when pets seem to have a heightened sense of a presence humans can't detect. The dog in question, named Indy, is the director's dog in real life, and we experience the events of the film through his soulful eyes. The film features indie horror auteur Larry Fessenden in a surprise supporting role, and in some ways, it belongs to his lineage of scary movies that explore humanity's rapacious relationship with nature."
2025 produced a ghoulish year of horror spanning supernatural, vampiric, zombified, and nuclear-tinged thrillers now available to stream or rent. Weapons opens in Maybrook when, one night at 2:17 a.m., every student except one in Justine Gandy's third-grade class walks out of their homes and vanishes; 17 children disappear, captured on doorbell and security cameras running into darkness or the woods. Suspicion centers on Justine (Julia Garner) because nothing explains the disappearances unless something occurred in her classroom. Weapons depicts a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma and also contains another mysterious, wonderfully scary element. Good Boy follows Indy, the director's real-life dog, and renders events through his soulful eyes as the film explores moments when pets sense presences humans cannot detect. The film includes a surprise supporting turn from Larry Fessenden and aligns with films that examine humanity's rapacious relationship with nature. Some horror fans expressed disappointment over the film's deliberate pacing.
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