"Weapons" — Read, Study, & Download The Screenplay by Zach Cregger
At 2:17 A.M., Seventeen Kids Walk Out. One Stays Behind.
"Weapons" is a multi-perspective horror mystery set in Maybrook, told like a “true story” you’d swear someone once whispered to you at a sleepover.
The hook is brutal and clean: seventeen children from Justine Gandy’s third-grade class disappear in the same night, stepping out of their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanishing into the dark. Only Alex Lilly remains.
What follows is not just a search for kids, but a town slowly turning into a courtroom, a mob, and a myth factory, all at the same time.
"Weapons" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
How to Write a Mystery Where the Town Is the Monster.
The "Weapons" screenplay is a killer craft read for students studying multi-POV structure, escalation, and rule-based dread. It shows how to build a mystery around a single, repeatable mechanism (2:17); use shifting perspectives to reframe blame, fear, and motive without losing momentum; and turn “community grief” into narrative pressure that keeps tightening.
→ Download the full Educator Breakdown (PDF) for tone analysis, screenwriting takeaways, classroom discussion topics, and a Critical Lens on scapegoating, moral panic, and the ethics of revelation. For the complete screenplay download, scroll until you see the button.
Weapons (2025) — Classroom Study
The "Weapons" screenplay is a lesson in taking a high-concept hook (kids disappear at the same time, in the same way) and expanding it through perspective, pattern, and moral pressure. Instead of explaining the horror up front, the script makes the audience do what the town does: guess, accuse, mythologize. That’s the real engine. The supposed supernatural may be the headline, but the story’s propulsion comes from how people behave when they need an answer more than they need the truth.
- Designing a “rule” for horror and escalating it.
- Scapegoats in storytelling: when the community becomes antagonist.
- Multi-POV structure: how to switch lenses without losing momentum.
- Evidence scenes (footage, testimony, maps): turning info into drama.
- Writing child-centered stakes responsibly (tone, restraint, implication).
- Symbol vs mechanism: when a motif becomes a plot device.
- “Survivor” characters: isolation, suspicion, and empathy design.
- Town-as-character: how setting exerts moral pressure.
"Weapons" One Sheet & Script Intel
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. Warner Bros.
| Type | ... |
FYC
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| Version | ... | FinalSalmon Rev. |
| Date | ... | 06.24.2024 |
| Pages | ... | 132 + 32 |
| Genres | ... | Horror Mystery |
| Screenplay | ... | Zach Cregger |
| IMDb ID | ... | 26581740 |
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