If you happen to stream horror movies as an Instagram niche, there is every chance of having seen the movie poster titled Weapons, with kids running towards something with their hands spread out in a spookily similar way. Don't trust the ratings and the reviews that tag Weapons [2025] as a movie about mind control or horror. Yes, you have some gore. There is plenty of violence. Some limbs are shredded. There is plenty of blood and some bodily juices, too. But largely, the movie is about the urban disconnect that is present everywhere, even in suburban America. There is no real witch in the movie if you can spot what the director is trying to convey. The setting represents contemporary families. The vanishing of children screams the sins of ignorance and psychological weaknesses that prevail in our living rooms. The kids in Weapons on Amazon Prime are often violent, and sometimes braver than you might imagine, but they are not to put the story together. They convey the fact that families, despite living together, are disparate entities. Children have a world of their own, where perhaps parents and guardians are not meant to provide them the emotional stability we know we should, and perhaps, the adults are too caught up in the tangle of their own lives to realize the ugliness that prevails around us. As a movie, Weapons shouts at you that these massive suburban homes with 2 to 3 people residing in them do more damage than provide ample space. What was once space to grow has now evolved into a barrier between parents and kids. Would you believe it if I told you that the parents of missing kids have not fallen apart and resumed their everyday lives?

As a narrative, Weapons displays that the worst things could happen around us and in our lives, but we are so addicted to the lust of daily schedules, social behaviors, and carrying on that we make sure to forget the human bond that is supposed to hold societies together. The body morphing shots are perhaps highlighting the striking, out-of-the-ordinary things that happen around us all the time, to real people, the ones whom we continue to interact with at work or in the neighborhood, but never care about. Catch this movie on Amazon Prime India for a rental of 149 without thinking twice. You will not regret paying this amount. You will like the overall portrayal of the crumbling family structures, and until something as drastic as 17 children going missing from one classroom happens, we cannot adequately. The movie does not scare you. It is not intended to make you feel pukish. It should force you to think harder, though...as parents, how much do we really know about the way in which our kids live, including those who have just started school? 

As a much spoken about 2025 horror flick, Weapons ticks the boxes for:

• Piquing curiosity levels in the first 10 minutes
• Using scare tactics without becoming too predictable
• Decent casting where everyone performs well enough
• Good job with the special effects
• Keeping up the spookiness levels
• Storyline that unfolds at the right pace
• Investing your 149 wisely without repenting it even once

Don't expect the Amazon Prime 2025 horror flick, Weapons for:

• Movie of the year credentials
• A plot that you could not have imagined
• Gut-spilling gore sequences
• Fear that seeps in behind the curtains and below the bed
• Movie that doubles up as a great conversation-starter