Just watched Weapons with Josh Brolin. It was a wild movie. I actually liked the different POVs from main & side characters.
Spoilers ahead
What was really terrifying was Alex POV. Imagine creepy dying Aunt moves in with parents arguing over the decision. Dad no shows for car rider & he walks home to find his parents in a zombie state. Aunt is no longer on hospice & sits you down to show her powers. Alex is threatened into silence. Days go by, isolated & forced to feed parents soup. Aunt decides the parents life force isn't strong enough. She demands Alex bring belongings from all classmates. She does her spells at 2:17am & all the kids run to her basement. A creepy run too. Alex is forced to stay quiet as police interrogate him with Aunt & dad(stroked out is the lie told) Alex the only child in the 3rd grade class, didn't disappear. Police check the house but Aunt is 1 step ahead. Alex is terrified for a month. Everyone else is looking for the missing kids. His teacher feels like something is wrong at Alex home but made to seem like a creepy drunk. Thankfully she doesn't give up & Alex has learned a lot watching Aunties spells.
He dishes out karma in the end.
The actor who played Alex did a great job showing fear, hopelessness & courage.
The other characters deal with creepy stuff but Alex lived the nightmare on a different level.
1 star off for the random gun scene. I get it was dream sequence or whatever but it was unnecessary & bizarre.