Tag: horror

Preface: Lest Triggered

As stated in the excerpt, the premise of this article is that the widely acclaimed 2025 horror movie Weapons is, primarily, an ‘antisemitic’* representation of the Jewish people and a political allegory about Israel’s influence on Palestine and the US. However, it is not a claim that Zack Cregger or anyone associated with the movie Weapons is antisemitic, nor am I interested in their actual views about the Jews or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article is not purposed to criticise or defend groups or particular people but to excavate the most significant symbolism I’ve seen in Weapons that has been part missed and part wilfully ignored by mainstream and social media (at least as far as I’ve seen). Suffice it to say here that entertainment media – as with society and the world – is designed and directed from an orchestrating source above and behind the individuals who are accredited with creating it. Zack Cregger’s comments about the meanings of Weapons (some of which I quote in this article) happen to exemplify this principle: that artists are not the true authors of their works (which, like Cregger, they often hint having ‘channelled’) and aren’t even required to know the deepest meanings and functions of them.