20 Recent Movie Plot Twists NOBODY Saw Coming

12. The Kids Rip Gladys Apart - Weapons

Zach Cregger's Weapons is one hell of a wild ride alright, and even once it's revealed that the seventeen vanished children were enchanted by a witch, Gladys (Amy Madigan), few could've possibly anticipated how it would all come to a head.

In the film's bonkers finale, Gladys' "nephew" Alex (Cary Christopher) takes a strand of Gladys' hair from her wig and re-enacts the strange spell she's used throughout the film to enchant people to do her bidding.

Doing so prompts the seventeen enchanted children to start heading towards Gladys herself, hilariously chasing her through the neighbourhood like Gladys-seeking missiles, before they finally tackle her to the ground.

At this point the kids then rip Gladys apart with a feral abandon, leaving behind nothing but chunks of crimson meat, her death freeing her victims from her control, even if some of the kids are still left catatonic at film's end.

This was as surprising as it was outrageously satisfying, to see one of the year's most vile cinematic villains destroyed in such brutal and uproariously funny fashion. You love to see it.