The Bone Garden

The Bone Garden

Sympathetic Magic 101: What Weapons Gets Surprisingly Right

Folk magick mechanics hiding in plain sight behind Aunt Gladys’s blood ritual

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Shannon Hilson
Oct 30, 2025
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Weapons — Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (Zach Cregger - 2025)

You know those movies that linger in your brain long after you’ve watched them, whether you want things that way or not? Well, Weapons is definitely one of those, and with good reason.

On the surface, it’s a cleverly crafted non-linear tale about a string of disappearances in suburban Penn…

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