Weapons(2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpThntO9ixc

At exactly 2:17 AM on a regular Wednesday morning, 17 children in the town of Maybrook walked out of their homes and disappeared. Their teacher, Ms. Justine Gandy, is suspected of having some involvement in the disappearances, leading to parents threatening and harassing her. One parent, Archer Graff, whose son Matthew went missing, leads his own investigation into what happened.

The culprit is a woman named Gladys, the aunt of Alex Lilly, the only student in Justine’s class who didn’t vanish. Gladys is a witch who first uses Alex’s parents to rejuvenate herself by keeping them catatonic and controlling them to do her bidding (she turns people into her “weapons”) by performing a ritual where she rubs her blood on sticks from a tree she grows, and then using a lock of the intended victim’s hair wrapped around the stick, which is broken and makes her “weapon” go after the victim, controlling them with a bell. When they are not enough to sustain her, Gladys makes Alex grab items from his classmates, which she uses to summon them to the Lilly house and keeps them there for months.

Gladys controls Principal Marcus Miller into killing his husband and then trying to kill Justine, but he fails and is run over by a car. She later possesses Justine’s ex, a cop named Paul Morgan, as well as a junkie named James that he apprehended. Justine and Archer put their differences aside and try to investigate the Lilly house. The weaponized Paul and James attack them, while Mr. and Mrs. Lilly chase after Alex. Justine kills Paul and James with Paul’s gun, but Gladys possesses Archer to attack Justine. Alex performs Gladys’ ritual to cause the 17 children to chase after Gladys into the streets, where they tear her to pieces.

Gladys’ death causes her spells to wear off, breaking Archer and the Lillys from her hold. Archer reunites with his son, who is left catatonic, as are the other kids and Mr. and Mrs. Lilly. Alex’s parents are institutionalized while he is sent to live with a nicer aunt, and the other kids are reunited with their parents, with a few being able to speak again.