Moderately so — Weapons mixes scares with other modes. As a supernatural film, it scored 6.0/10 for fear, 7.0/10 for atmosphere, and 7.1/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 2 ratings.

How many jump scares are in Weapons?

Weapons has 9 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like Weapons?

Films similar to Weapons on Watch Darkly include Don't Breathe (2016), Let the Right One In (2008), It Chapter Two (2019) — selected by cosine similarity on the curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Weapons

2025 · R · 1h 46m

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark ...and they never came back.

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

7.1

Overall

Based on 2 curator ratings

Strongest on atmosphere.

Jump scares

Weapons has 9 jump scares. Compare counts

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7.1Overall

Fear6.0

Gore5.0

Atmosphere7.0

Genres

mysteryhorror

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Directed by

Zach Cregger

Written by

Zach Cregger

Cinematography

Larkin Seiple

Music

Zach Cregger, Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay

Starring

Julia Garner as Justine · Josh Brolin as Archer · Alden Ehrenreich as Paul · Austin Abrams as James · Benedict Wong as Marcus · Amy Madigan as Gladys · Cary Christopher as Alex · Toby Huss as Captain Ed

Production

BoulderLight Pictures, Domain Entertainment, New Line Cinema, Subconscious, Vertigo Entertainment