Weapons Part 1

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Brace yourselves. Jay made Louisa watch a horror movie! Well, okay, it's not like it was forced, but it did take a bit more convincing than usual. We got through the movie and Louisa doesn't need therapy. 

Weapons is Zach Cregger's sophomore endeavor (the first being Barbarian). Pretty impressive as he took a $38 million dollar budget and transformed it into $268 million, but we will discuss line producing and accounting another day. 

With a cast that was rounded out by Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, and Amy Madigan, Weapons has been suto-marketed as a supernatural/psychological horror, but we think that it fits better in the thriller/psychological mystery section (but if Blockbuster were still in business, it would probably be in the horror section). 

In short, 17 kids get up at 2:17 in the morning and run out of their homes to God knows where. 7 members of the community have converging perspectives on what happened to them. Oh, and a mysterious woman named Gladys who looks like she raided Cesar Romero's wardrobe when he played the Joker, keeps popping up and giving the audience the non-descript "ick." 

This episode has a Part 2.