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‘Weapons’ Director Zach Cregger Tips Hat to Horror Masters in Alamo Drafthouse “Don’t Talk” PSA [Exclusive]
Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger isn’t the first horror filmmaker to hail from a comedic background, and he points that out in an entertaining new “Don’t Talk” PSA from Alamo Drafthouse.
Tickets are on sale now for Weapons, which releases in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025.
Watch the new PSA video below, which will be featured on Alamo Drafthouse screens, to see Cregger dive deep into horror to point out a history of comedan-turned-horror directors relayed in a way designed to “get ‘er chucklin'”!
The PSA is the latest among the theater chain’s popular “Don’t Talk” series meant as a cheeky reminder to audiences to uphold their “no talking, no texting” policy.
In Weapons, “When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.” Dive deeper into the mystery on MaybrookMissing.com.
Related: Watch an eye-popping new scene from Weapons.
The cast for Cregger’s new film includes Josh Brolin (Dune 2), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear), Benedict Wong (3 Body Problem), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives).
“[It’s] a fun movie,” Cregger recently told Empire Online. “It’s funny, it’s scary, it’s inviting. It’s not a grim, morose slog. And yet the story it tells is really fucked up.”
The filmmaker also teases that Weapons is “a lot bigger and weirder than Barbarian.” Luckily, we won’t have to wait much longer to uncover just how weird it will get.
A hospital stay grows more nerve-frazzling when memory loss distorts reality in our exclusive clip from This Tempting Madness, inspired by a true story.
The mind-bending psychological thriller will be released in select theaters and on demand on June 12 via Vertical.
Simone Ashley (“Bridgerton”) stars as Mia, who awakens from a coma, grievously injured, her memory fractured. As she puts the pieces of her past together, she starts to question her own actions and her perception of reality.
In This Tempting Madness, “Mia awakens from a coma grievously injured, her memory fractured. As she puts the pieces of her past together, she starts to question her own actions, and her perception of reality.”
Jennifer E. Montgomery makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with director of photography Andrew Davis, inspired by Montgomery’s first-hand experience with tragedy involving her best friend.
“Months before the incident, there were signals that her world was unraveling,” says Montgomery. “I could feel the pressure building, though I didn’t know what form it would take. I never could have known what violence would come, and I certainly never imagined making a film about it.”
Austin Stowell (“NCIS: Origins”), Suraj Sharma (Happy Death Day 2U), Mojean Aria (Reminiscence), Amol Shah (“For All Mankind”), and Zenobia Shroff (“Ms. Marvel”) round out the cast.
Smoke Jumper Films and Mango Monster Productions produce in association with Catchlight Studios (Heretic, The Blackening).
This Tempting Madness is rated R for “language, violence/bloody images, and brief sexuality.”