Horror film Weapons succeeds as both a thrill ride and something deeper

My whole life, people have made fun of me for my deep and abiding love of horror movies. When I was a kid trying to explain the plot of Evil Dead II to my family, they would not only question what kind of people come up with such disturbing ideas but what kind of kid was so enraptured by them. I didn’t have the vocabulary back then to explain that it wasn’t the gore and disturbing ideas I was so in love with, it was that being genuinely scared out of my wits made me feel breathtakingly, wholly alive.