Who doesn’t love jumping down a creepy online rabbit hole? Weapons, the latest horror feature from director Zach Cregger (Companion, Barbarian), has just dropped its first trailer, along with an eerie companion website that expands on the dark, missing-children lore of the movie.
Starring Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), Julia Garner (Inventing Anna), and Alden Ehrenreich (Beautiful Creatures), Weapons centers on a Floridian community in turmoil after all but one child from a class mysteriously vanish on the same night.
The trailer doesn’t give too much away, other than disturbing sequences of tiny children, arms spread out and running out of their houses late at night. Brolin also looks like a distressed parent (I mean duh, his child’s missing) and Garner sees some ghost children.
What’s more compelling, though, is the creepy website that Warner Bros. dropped to lure fans into piecing together the film’s hidden backstory. Typing in the URL “MaybrookMissing.com” leads you to a 90s-esque homepage titled “Maybrook News,” which details the disappearances of 17 children. Each child was reported to have left home at the same time — 2:17 a.m. — without any signs of force. The website also includes several grainy security cam clips capturing the children’s tiny figures as they vanish into the night. Further snooping around the website reveals a news report on Tess Marshall, a young woman who seemingly escaped a horror house with a basement full of secret tunnels.
Even the most casual amateur detective can appreciate how much the site pulls you in. With enough disturbing details to spark your curiosity, it’s the perfect way to dive deeper into the lore surrounding Weapons.
Weapons is set to premiere in U.S. on August 6. Its exact release date in the Philippines has yet to be released.
