SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Weapons. If you have not yet seen the film (which is now available to stream with a HBO Max subscription), continue at your own risk!
Looking back at the many, many movies I watched in 2025, I can’t think of an ending that I loved more than the conclusion of Zach Cregger’s Weapons (a title that placed highly in CinemaBlend’s rankings of the year’s best films). The whole movie is a roller coaster ride full of twists and scares, but the big climax is a masterpiece – with Amy Madigan’s sinister Aunt Gladys forced to run for her life as she is pursued by a mob of children. It’s an utterly brilliant big screen moment that had audiences screaming in delight this summer, and only making me appreciate it more is learning how the actress forwent having a stunt double for the majority of the sequence.
