17 children vanish into the night — ‘Weapons’ is terrific and terrifying

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Seventeen third graders vanish into the night in the new horror movie Weapons. (Warner Bros. Pictures)In the prologue of the 1983 film adaptation of The Twilight Zone, two men, played by Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd, are driving along a highway at night. They talk about The Twilight Zone and which episodes they think are scariest. This is one of the things horror does; it allows people to process the most frightening things that could happen while remaining safe themselves. One of the things Weapons is so good at is never relying on a single horror note, but using the entire orchestra of scares.