mangled

His first job as an actor was in Martin McDonagh’s unruly black comedy “The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” with a plot that hinges on a mangled cat.

But like that film, “Weapons” sees its best, boldest ideas mangled by Cregger’s worst instincts.

What remained in the aftermath were corpses too mangled to be identified.

“Each body had more than 50 bullet holes. There was blood everywhere. It was like they were mangled,” he said, wincing at the memory.

On the edge of the Palisades business corridor I saw the mangled spine of a fallen staircase, lying on its side like a length of broken vertebrae.