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Описание: 11/8/2025 DRAWING AUNT GLADYS FROM WEAPONS
THIS DIGITAL DRAWING TOOK ROUGHLY 20 HOURS AND I USED ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.

Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film directed, written, produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.

After the critical and commercial success of his film Barbarian (2022), Cregger began working on the spec script for Weapons. It prompted a bidding war between several studios, with New Line Cinema emerging as the victor. Casting initially ran from May to July 2023 before several actors dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, as a result of production delays during the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. Casting resumed in February 2024 and ended that May, when filming began in Atlanta, and wrapped that July.

Weapons was released in theaters in the United States on August 8, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews and grossed $268 million against a $38 million budget.

The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, with chapters for various characters whose stories intersect. The following is a linear summary of the plot.

Alex Lilly’s distant aunt, Gladys, moves in with his family in Maybrook, Pennsylvania. It soon becomes clear that Gladys is a witch who has bewitched Alex’s parents, draining their life force, and coerces Alex to maintain a façade of normalcy. She threatens to use her magic to make his parents kill themselves if he disobeys. As her health worsens, Gladys persuades Alex to collect personal belongings from each of his classmates.

Not long after, seventeen children from Alex’s third-grade class are mysteriously compelled to run from their homes at 2:17 a.m.—all except Alex—setting off the film’s central mystery. Their teacher, Justine Gandy, becomes the prime suspect and is suspended. Shunned by the community, she falls back into alcoholism and rekindles a destructive affair with her ex-boyfriend, police officer Paul Morgan.

Worried about Alex, Justine follows him home one evening. She notices the windows covered in newspaper and his parents sitting motionless in the dark. Alarmed, she begs school principal Marcus Miller to conduct a welfare check. Later, as she drunkenly keeps watch from her car outside the house, someone slips in and cuts off a lock of her hair.

Meanwhile, Archer Graff—the father of one of the missing children, Matthew—launches his own investigation, frustrated by the police’s inaction. Reviewing doorbell camera footage, he notices the missing children’s paths converging but cannot determine where they went.

During a patrol, Paul arrests a homeless addict named James for attempted burglary. While searching him, Paul accidentally pricks his finger on a syringe and, in anger, punches James. Realizing the incident was caught on his dashcam, Paul releases him after extracting a promise to stay away.

Later, James breaks into Alex’s house and discovers the missing children in a trance-like state in the basement. Hoping to claim the $50,000 reward, he tries to alert the police, but Paul spots him and gives chase. James flees into the woods, where he sees Gladys and hides in his tent. When Paul catches up, James reveals the children’s location. Paul drives to Alex’s home, leaves James handcuffed in the car, and enters the house. Hours later, Paul returns and drags James inside.

At school, Marcus meets Gladys, who claims she is caring for the family because the parents are ill. Marcus insists on meeting Alex’s legal guardians. The following day, Gladys appears unannounced at Marcus and his husband Terry’s home. She enchants Marcus, forcing him to kill Terry by slamming their heads together before turning on Justine. Marcus later attacks Justine at a gas station while Archer is confronting her; she escapes, and Marcus is struck and killed by a car.

Recovering in the hospital, Archer shares his findings with Justine, who concludes that the children had all been running toward Alex’s house.

Realizing her cover is blown, Gladys tells Alex they must flee. Archer and Justine break into the Lilly home and are assaulted by a bewitched Paul and James. Justine kills them both with Paul’s pistol. In the basement, Archer is bewitched into attacking Justine, while upstairs Alex evades his crazed parents and uses a loose strand of Gladys’s hair stuck to her wig to cast her own spell against her. The bewitched children burst from the basement and chase Gladys through the neighborhood, tearing her apart.

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