Weapons Cut Out Its Chapter About Aunt Gladys, And I Had To Ask The Director How It Would Have Fit Into The Movie

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Weapons . If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!

While coming together as a cohesive whole, Weapons is a film built on characters and perspectives. A single narrative is fractured into six separate chapters that both overlap and fit together like puzzle pieces – each hitting a special climax before moving on to the next. From Justine (Julia Garner), the schoolteacher, to Alex (Cary Christopher), her only student who didn’t disappear, the movie gathers its momentum via the points of views of the key people involved in the larger mystery haunting the town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania.

Really, the only perspective we don’t see in full is the one belonging to the sinister Aunt Gladys (Amy Madigan), wh