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.
Watch out now
Take care, beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips
Beware of darkness
[Verse 2]
Watch out now
Take care, beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night
Beware of sadness
[Bridge]
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for
[Verse 3]
Watch out now
Take care, beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly
Beware of Maya
[Verse 4]
Watch out now
Take care, beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While Weeping Atlas Cedars
They just want to grow – grow, grow…
Beware of darkness (Beware of darkness)
Meet Me In Montauk 
I had some interest in seeing this movie, but I would have to watch it without my wife. Maybe your writeup will persuade her, but I doubt it.😉
It’s no scarier than something like Sinners; you should give it a try.
I would disagree with this, it’s a very different brand of scary than Sinners!
That being said, I do think they could both handle it hahah
Yes, a different sort of scary… but not hard to watch. 😀
I would HIGHLY recommend a dive into George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”. In my humble opinion it is the best solo album of any Beatle. He had stockpiled dozens of songs that the Beatles had passed on in the years leading up to their break-up. So George, armed with this stockpile and a bevy of musician friends went into the studio to put them down. Of course, a 3 record release has quite a bit of filler, but the first two sides are hard to beat. Songs like todays post, the title track “All Things Must Pass”, “Wah Wah”, “What Is Life”, “Isn’t It A Pity” , “I’d Have You Anytime”, “Run Of The Mill”, “Awaiting On You All”, the Dylan cover “If Not For You”, and of course “My Sweet Lord” are songs any artist would kill to have in their catalogue. Those songs prove that Harrison was every bit the songwriter that his bandmates McCartney and Lennon were. Give it a spin, it is a worthwhile endeavor.
we watched this movie and I agree with Clay. It wasn’t that scary unless in my old age I’ve forgotten but I think it would have stayed with me.