Weapons is the second film solely written and directed by Zach Cregger, Barbarian being his first. Knowing that, I set my expectations for Weapons to…very guarded.

With the success (I use this term loosely) of the Scream franchise’s reboot, and the profitability of scary movies in general, it was inevitable that another bygone horror franchise would be brought back from the dead.

One moment, Selma Hayek is doing a seductive dance in her underwear while wielding a large snake, George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino looking on. The next moment, she is a b-movie vampire attacking the strip club’s patrons

Long before the Rocketeer there was Command Cody, (later, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe) and his atomic powdered jet pack, which enabled him to buzz around the air like a determined insect.