The Polygon report added that though Weapons was not a direct metaphor for grief, its chaotic and mysterious tone emerged as a byproduct of emotional upheaval. He said he was exhausted of grief-as-metaphor horror movies, but the energy of the grief is in the film.

Julia Garner and Josh Brolin star in Cregger's long-awaited follow-up to ‘Barbarian,' and it's worth the wait - for about an hour or so

Cregger's follow-up to "Barbarian" offers an even more ambitious cross between domestic horror and sketch comedy.