‘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 is “a lot bigger and weirder than .” Luckily, we won’t have to wait much longer to uncover just how weird it will get.