Austin Abrams, from "Weapons," plays a medical courier fending off viral beasties in a throwaway horror film that surges into symphonic loopiness.
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©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection One of the many splendid things about Zach Cregger’s “Weapons” is that it was a horror film made with humanity. It overflowed with majestic creepiness, but all the witchy stolen-child stuff was folded into emotionally suspenseful situations that Cregger interwove like a junior “Pulp Fiction.” (That’s part of why Amy Madigan’s evil crone had such nightmare resonance.)
When a movie becomes as big a sleeper sensation as “Weapons” did, the director who made it can write his own ticket. So when Cregger announced that his next movie would be a reboot of “Resident Evil,” I thought, “Really?” My reaction was: How utterly of this day and age to follow up a movie as remarkable as “Weapons” with a reboot of the most inhumane horror series of the last 25 years.
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