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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lisa Wright

Weapons review: 'has a twinkle in its evil eye and a bonkers ending'

Julia Garner as Justine in Weapons - (Press handout)

Mark our words, when Halloween rolls around this October, there’s going to be one costume that all on-the-pulse horror buffs will be clamouring for: Aunt Gladys.

A Hoxton-via-the-old-folks’-home ginger wig with a teeny fringe; red lipstick smeared around her mouth, Gladys’ arrival halfway through Weapons — the second feature film from acclaimed Barbarians director Zach Cregger — marks the entrance of one of 2025’s most instantly memorable characters, brought to gleefully freakish life by Amy Madigan.

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