And according to director Genki Kawamura, one of the reasons that the movie feels so fresh could be because of how he approached it. "I wasn't necessarily thinking about a film adaptation of a video game," he tells The Verge. "I was thinking about how to create a new cinematic experience that blurs the lines between video game and cinema."
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reunite to play renowned, real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, facing an "evil unlike anything they've ever encountered." That evil? It lives in the Pennsylvania suburbs of 1986, of course. The evil thing this time is a full-length wooden-framed mirror with carvings of three children. It's given as a gift to a girl's confirmation - a mirror, really?
As I emerged from a showing of Weapons at my local multiplex on Saturday night, I saw a teenager running around the lobby, his arms extended downward and outward to the great amusement of his friends. "You're going to see a lot of kids running like that on Halloween," I heard someone say, and I think he was right. Weapons has been in theatres for just two weeks, and it's already given us an unshakably memorable image:
Black Cab focuses on the gendered evergreen of the horror genre: a woman in distress, defined through terror, victimisation, abuse, possession, subjection, infection.