武器：格拉迪斯奶奶的恐怖魅力

AUNT GLADYS HAS escaped containment. When an entire classroom full of young children vanishes into the night, Amy Madigan’s Pied-Piper enchantress turns out to be responsible, slowly draining their youth to restore her own life-force. Madigan, here across between your favourite grandma and your worst nightmare, stole the entire movie, in a whirlwind of smeared lipstick, plastic jewellery and sing-song delivery. But for a while, even after the film’s release, writer-director Zach Cregger kept the peculiar old biddy safely hidden from view. Now, Madigan is finally free to talk about her, at a time when Gladys has become truly inescapable: Weapons vaulted her to icon status, and Cregger is mulling a possible prequel about the character. …