10 Horror Movies You MUST Watch On The Big Screen
3. Weapons (2025)
Barbarian left most of us looking for more from director Zach Cregger, and Weapons has given us precisely what we wanted while upping the ante considerably. From the get-go, the film - about a town suffering from the sudden and mysterious disappearance of an entire classroom of their children - is nail-bitingly tense and often super quiet to boot.
Cregger makes great use of distance, staging his scenes so that horrors often come from afar and end up uncomfortably close, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the cinema. This is something backed up to the hilt by the sound design, with eerie space created and then closed, and small seemingly innocuous details (a car door opening, anyone?) proving to be gasp-inducing at this scale - something more easily missed when watching at home.
The smattering of shocks, jump scares, and horrifying visuals - especially where witchy sleeper antagonist Gladys (Amy Madigan) is concerned - truly are all the more effective when you can't escape them, and this is one horror sure to become a stalwart of horror movie nights at theatres in the years to come.