Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

Writer/director Zach Cregger’s Weapons opens with a synopsis of its setup narrated by a young schoolgirl. She describes the disappearance of a classroom full of children from a third grade classroom in the small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania.

The rest of the film will follow the perspectives of people affected by the event, including the teacher and a parent of one of the missing kids. Like Cregger’s Barbarian (2022), Weapons is a gripping mystery with big scares and big laughs.

Cregger is an excellent screenwriter, and a refreshing original voice in a movie landscape lacking them. He is also a savvy director who knows how to use camera movement and composition to milk every scene for maximum effect.

The opening sequence is a great example of those filmmaking chops, and a brilliant use of the George Harrison song ‘Beware of Darkness.’ The tune (which was new to me) soundtracks a montage of the children’s late-night disappearance, with images that have already become iconic.