What is the iRankMovies score for Weapons?

Name: Weapons
Director: Zach Cregger
Genre: horror, mystery
Released: 2025
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Rating: 7.4

Weapons has an iRankMovies score of 80.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Weapons (2025)

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark ...and they never came back.

Release:2025

Runtime:2h 9m

Country:United States

Director:Zach Cregger

Language:English

Genre

HorrorMystery

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Keywords

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iRank80

Weapons rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.4/10· 349K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic81%

TMDb7.256/10· 3K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.4/10 on IMDb and 81/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Weapons

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Cast of Weapons

Julia Garner
as Justine
Josh Brolin
as Archer
Alden Ehrenreich
as Paul
Austin Abrams
as James
Benedict Wong
as Marcus
Amy Madigan
as Gladys
Cary Christopher
as Alex
Toby Huss
as Captain Ed
Whitmer Thomas
as Alex's Dad
Callie Schuttera
as Alex's Mom
June Diane Raphael
as Donna
Scarlett Sher
as Narrator (voice)

Weapons facts

Budget: $38M
Box office: $270M
Collection: Weapons Collection

Our take on Weapons

Zach Cregger's mystery-horror opens on an unnerving premise: on a single night, at exactly the same moment, every child but one from the same class vanishes without a trace. What follows is a community unraveling as it searches for who, or what, is responsible, with grief and suspicion pressing in from every direction. Built on dread, unanswered questions, and the sense that something deeply wrong sits beneath ordinary life, this 2025 film aims to unsettle rather than reassure. It suits viewers who like slow-tightening horror rooted in mystery and mood over gore. Come for the eerie hook and the mounting unease; expect discomfort more than comfort.

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