Far and away the best horror film of 2025, in my humble opinion, is Zach Cregger’s Weapons. The truly scary, truly funny mystery film made a big splash in its theatrical run this summer. But if you didn’t get a chance to see the movie in a cinema, but also don’t want to pony up to rent the movie on digital, you’re still in luck. The movie will make its streaming debut on HBO Max on Friday, October 24. That’ll give you a whole week to watch before Halloween. If for some reason you’d rather watch on cable, it’ll also be on HBO proper beginning October 25 at 8pm EDT.
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Part of the fun of this movie is watching the story unfold, so I won’t get into plot too much. As you know from the trailers, it concerns a town in which one night, at 2:17am, 17 of the 18 children from one particular class at the elementary school mysteriously get up and run into the night, their arms outstretched like an airplane. No one knows where they went, no one can figure out why only these kids, and everyone, especially father Archer Graff (Josh Brolin), blames the teacher, Justine Gandy (Julia Garner).
The story unfolds through following one character at a time as they intersect and fill in gaps in the action. Aside from Justine and Archer, we also follow local police officer Paul (Alden Ehrenreich), school principal Marcus (Benedict Wong), local scumbag James (Austin Abrams), and, eventually, Alex (Cary Christopher), the only little boy in the class who didn’t disappear.
If you’ve somehow managed to get this far in the year without learning the rest of the story, you are in for a truly strange and spectacular nightmare.
Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.
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