One of the better movies this year in the horror world has been Weapons. We’ve talked about it a number of times and there has been some debate on whether it lived up to the hype or if expectations were just too high to begin with. But all that aside, the opening sequence of Weapons sticks in your head. Kids running through neighborhood streets, the suburban landscape turning ominous, the way the tension creeps up before you realize why you’re uncomfortable.
As a matter of fact, I was at a football game last week — one of the final ones of the season — and some of the students in front of me were laughing about how the players looked like the kids from Weapons and how it was the greatest movie they’ve ever seen. They’re young. They still have the entire library of 70s and 80s horror history to experience. So we forgive them for the cardinal sin for now.
But the movie was pretty good, and that opening scene was genuinely memorable. And one of the strongest reasons why the opening hits so hard is the song choice. The George Harrison track that plays over the scene isn’t just background noise — it sets the emotional temperature. It elevates it. It whispers something the dialogue doesn’t say.
And here’s the thing: there’s a lot going on behind that George Harrison song that most people don’t know.
Beware of Darkness – What the Song Is Actually Saying
George Harrison’s “Beware of Darkness” isn’t literally about “evil” or some boogeyman in the woods. He was drawing from Hindu and Eastern spirituality, particularly the concept of Māyā — the illusion of the material world that distracts the soul.
When Harrison sings:
“Beware of the Maya”
He doesn’t mean a person.
He means the force that tricks you into forgetting who you really are.
The song is layered with meaning:
Beware of the world’s negativity.
People will try to use you. Leaders will mislead. Culture will exhaust you.
Beware of your own sadness.
Not in the sense of denying it — but in not letting it swallow you whole.
“It can hit you, it can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for.”
You are not meant to live permanently in despair.
Beware of forgetting the spirit.
Māyā — illusion — convinces us that status, approval, and fear are reality.
Harrison’s message is simply:
Don’t lose your inner light.
Don’t let the world make you forget yourself.
Movies know how to use music when they’re paying attention.
Weapons did.
That song wasn’t just a soundtrack choice — it was the thesis.
A warning delivered before the audience knows what’s about to happen.
And now, as we move deeper into the darker stretch of the year — colder mornings, longer nights, that creeping seasonal weight that settles in the chest — maybe the timing is fitting.
Maybe it’s a reminder:
Beware of the darkness.
Beware of the sadness.
Beware of the soft-shoe shufflers.
And yes — beware of Māyā.
Because sometimes horror isn’t on the screen.
Sometimes it’s just life trying to make you forget who you are.
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