Barbarian director's mysterious new horror movie described as "batsh*t insane" as first plot details are revealed

Georgina Campbell in Barbarian
(Image credit: 20th Century Studios)

A trailer for mysterious new horror movie Weapons from Barbarian director Zach Cregger premiered at this year's CinemaCon, which means the first plot details for the film are now out in the world.

Per Variety, the movie stars Fantastic Four's Julia Garner as an elementary school teacher who arrives at work one morning to find her entire class has gone missing. The movie's cast also includes Dune's Josh Brolin, Doctor Strange's Benedict Wong, and Solo: A Star Wars Story's Alden Ehrenreich.

In the trailer, which was shown behind closed doors, an ominous child's voiceover reportedly tells us that "Mrs. Gandy’s room was totally empty. Because the night before, at 2.17 am, every kid woke up, got out of bed, walked downstairs and into the dark, and they never came back."

Variety writes, "We can’t stress how upsetting some of this footage was – featuring children sleepwalking giddily as if possessed, running into the pitch dark. The final moments of the trailer revealed a terrifying figure hiding deep in the woods, one that looked overwhelmingly like a female clown."

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