'Weapons' star Josh Brolin thinks the movie is the solution to 'boring' streaming movies

Josh Brolin thinks audiences will get a good scare of “Weapons.”

Brolin, who stars in the film alongside Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, and Benedict Wong, said the movie brings horror to “the edge of absurdity,” offering a change of pace for viewers.

“‘Right now, with so much content, you’re just watching things on whatever streaming service you’re on, and you're just going, ‘F--k, why is this so boring, man? Why?’ And just go to the next thing. It's all the same s—t,” Brolin told Collider.

“And then somebody not only takes the horror genre, but then f--ks with it and then does something on the edge of absurdity, and it's sort of humorous, so it's keeping you off-[balance] enough for him to have an emotional impact, ultimately.”

“Weapons” follows the aftermath of 17 children from one classroom all disappearing on the same night, told from different perspectives of people in the town as the mystery deepens.

Brolin was already a fan of “Weapons” director Zach Cregger, who also directed the 2022 surprise hit “Barbarian.”

“When I saw ‘Barbarian,' I was like, ‘Yeah, I really liked it, but I don't know I,’” Brolin said. He added that he had to call his daughter to get a read on what she thought of the movie, and she loved it, as did her husband.

“Then you talk to that era of people, and, I mean, he's like a god to them,” he said of Cregger. “And I'm like, okay, so they're reacting to something that I may not understand. I would rather not understand it and do business with that guy and understand it better later. And I think that ‘Weapons’ is a much more refined version of something that he had his finger on the pulse of with ‘Barbarian.’”

Brolin, a Hollywood veteran, admitted he challenged Cregger to make sure he didn’t get overrun by other crew members.

“I just generally challenged him. I think he had a very strong DP [director of photography, who handles lighting and other visuals], and I had experienced this before where a DP kind of took over,” the “No Country for Old Men” star said.

He added, “So, I think that he had a very strong DP, and then what I ended up seeing is a very strongly cinematic, emotionally lit movie, which was good.”

“Weapons” was a box office hit in its debut weekend, taking the number one spot at the box office with $43.5 million in ticket sales, per Box Office Mojo.

It beat out the Jamie Lee Curtis-Lindsay Lohan sequel “Freakier Friday,” which brought in around $28 million.