Like in his horror hit Barbarian, Zach Cregger's new film Weapons utilizes yet another aged, sickly woman for unsettling scares.

The filmmaker began writing the feature after the death of a friend, but its final section came from mining his childhood. Still, he is ready for viewers to take what they will from the story: "I don't care if any of this stuff comes through.

Is Weapons related to Barbarian? Writer Zach Cregger explains the fan-speculated connection between the two horror films at its premiere