Words Lee Curtis

Something strange is happening in Maybrook.

On an ordinary Wednesday morning in a quiet American town, at exactly 2:17am, seventeen schoolchildren from the same class rise from their beds, leave their homes… and vanish.

Fear grips the town. Parents demand answers. The mystery mirrors some of cinema’s most intense thrillers – Gone Baby Gone, Room, and Prisoners – but one of the most exciting new voices in horror takes every parent’s worst nightmare in a wholly original and totally unpredictable direction.

Julia Garner is Mrs Gandy, the schoolteacher whose class has disappeared. Why hers? Why only hers? The questions mount as the town spirals into chaos. Among those searching for answers: Josh Brolin is a furious father driven to the brink; Benedict Wong, a headmaster under immense pressure; and Alden Ehrenreich, a police officer struggling with a case the likes of which his small town has never seen before.

As time passes, the horrors grow more extreme as the community reaches breaking point. We need answers as much as they do. Is a sinister Pied Piper at play? Is Cregger making a chilling commentary on real-life horrors? Or is he conjuring something even more terrifying again?

After blindsiding audiences with Barbarian, there’s only one way to find out – by seeing one of the year’s most eagerly awaited horrors for yourself.

Maybrook Missing

Zach Cregger burst onto the horror scene with his breakout, Barbarian, a wildly original experience that constantly keeps audiences guessing, terrified, and, by the end, clamouring for more. Three years later, a website mysteriously appeared with clues for his next film. Presented as a local newsletter, maybrookmissing.net chronicles the mystery at the heart of Weapons and displays disturbing doorbell camera footage of seemingly possessed children running through the streets in the dead of night - an unsettling glimpse of the horrors to come. It's a masterclass in viral marketing, echoing the electrifying buzz achieved by The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, and The Dark Knight. Adding to the intrigue, there's also a news artciel about the events of Barbarian, which throws even more questions into the mix!