Director: Zach Cregger
Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher
Weapons is a 2025 American horror-thriller directed by Zach Cregger, running 128 minutes. Set across a single weekend in a quiet small town, it weaves together multiple storylines of brutal violence among young people, slowly exposing the hidden threads connecting every tragedy.
What is Weapons about?
Over one chaotic weekend, a quiet American town becomes the stage for a series of shocking, apparently unconnected acts of violence involving teenagers and young adults. Cregger structures the film as an anthology of perspectives — different households, different streets — each chapter revealing fresh horror until the audience begins to sense a pattern no character can yet see. The film resists easy explanations, letting dread accumulate across its two-hour-plus runtime. By the final act the connections click into place, but the revelation offers no comfort, only a deeper unease about how ordinary environments can harbor extraordinary darkness.
Cast & crew
Director Zach Cregger — previously known for the cult horror hit Barbarian — returns with a larger canvas and an ensemble that includes Josh Brolin as a steady, weathered presence; Julia Garner bringing sharp emotional precision; Alden Ehrenreich in an unsettling supporting turn; Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan rounding out a cast that grounds the film's escalating dread in recognizable human faces.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Weapons arrives as exactly the kind of slow-burn American horror that travels well across cultures — no in-jokes, no cultural shorthand required. The film's central anxiety, that violence can erupt invisibly within ordinary community life, resonates with anyone who has felt the distance between outward normalcy and private turbulence. The film carries full Persian dubbing, so viewers who prefer to follow dialogue in Farsi can engage completely without missing a beat of the carefully constructed tension.
Where & how to watch
Weapons is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Stream it on your browser, smart TV, or Android device — no extra download needed, no VPN required. Cancel your subscription anytime.