The excitement about Zach Cregger’s Weapons is almost overwhelming. Full houses, high pitched screams, spontaneous applause, and a 4.5 out of 5 score. That’s starting to sound less like a horror movie and more like the introduction of the next killer memecoin. As someone who parses through blockchain projects on...

The horror genre has long been a critical lens through which we can view America’s anxieties, fears, and perhaps our most exploitative desires. Zach Cregger’s newly announced second film, “Weapons,” sounds just as heart-racing. More importantly, it will explore paranoia, anxiety and depravity in deeply unsettling ways that don’t merely...