WEAPONS Theory

SPOILERS Ahead for Weapons. Just watched the film and several things jumped out. We find out Gladys is a Witch and driving all of the misfortune in the town including making an entire classroom of children dissapear.

We learn a few things about her like she is likely quite old in fact. But several of her behaviors really begin to jump out as rather familiar.

These elements have been seen elsewhere before: The Blair Witch.

First you have the children going missing. This is the first shared trait. You might think "This is common for witches' but it gets much more specific.

Then we have other people are made to do her bidding, become her slaves, soldiers. Multiple times we see normal people captured to become her foot soldiers and do her bidding for her. This is exactly how the Blair Witch operates as we saw at the end of the original film where the man kills the main characters, and previously the children in the name of the Witch.

But heres the last detail: When the children run away, they make an eerie, distinct pose with their hands, frozen, outstretched, exactly like the symbol of the blair witch symbol. I believe Gladys is indeed the Blair Witch in modern day. We know she was never caught and this is her living on.