As I emerged from a showing of Weapons at my local multiplex on Saturday night, I saw a teenager running around the lobby, his arms extended downward and outward to the great amusement of his friends. "You're going to see a lot of kids running like that on Halloween," I heard someone say, and I think he was right. Weapons has been in theatres for just two weeks, and it's already given us an unshakably memorable image:
Black Cab focuses on the gendered evergreen of the horror genre: a woman in distress, defined through terror, victimisation, abuse, possession, subjection, infection.