At first, Weapons (2025) seemed to be a metaphor about school shootings. Maybrook felt like a makeshift name for the tragedy years ago in Connecticut. With moments that pay homage to The Shining (1980,) The Children Under the Stairs (1993,) What Lies Beneath (2000,) Tangled (2010,) Hocus Pocus (1993,) Monster House (2006,) IT (2017,) and more, the allegory has levels. Given the current state of the country and the fact that so much of Horror is reliant on our anxieties, (for

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Since the onset of the genre, Horror has remained inherently political - largely due to its accessibility and its confrontation of societal