The horrific opening scene of "Weapons" - in which Nick Cannon's smiling face explodes as a shotgun blast takes out half his head - began as a dream in the mind of the movie's writer-director Adam Bhala Lough.

"I dreamed that scene, I woke up and I wrote the scene down," Lough said Friday in a post-screening Q-and-A at the Racquet Club Theatre

And while some may find the shot's violence gratuitous, Lough said there would have been no movie without it. "I wrote the whole script asking, 'How would this scene come about?' " Lough said.
- Sean Means