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A new success in terror cinema

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QUel summer for horror! Therefore, A week after the Uppercut Substitution : Bring Her Back Philippou brothers. For example, seven days before the Cronenbergian Together From Michael Shanks, a new and powerful proposition in the chills department comes to haunt the multiplexes in the heart of the hot weather: Passed out (Weapons, in original version). Moreover, Third feature film of the tormented Zach Cregger (as you will discover in the following interview…). Furthermore, author yet from comedy, this peri-urban nightmare touches, as Substitutionin the taboo of kids put in great danger by some evil force.

A classic scheme of the terror. Similarly, which has already given birth to a shovel of essential successes, Innocents until Mister Babadook by the way The Village des Damnés, the Exorcist, Shining, Poltergeist, Insidious And a few others. Moreover, new success terror cinema Despite this overcrowding in the genre. Meanwhile, Passed out Puff out of the game and finds its identity thanks to an elusive tone, first serious and glaucous, then subtly deriving towards a (very, very) relative black humor, to a final which will undoubtedly destabilize part of the public.

The main point of view of the story is that of Justine (Julia Garner. In addition, recently seen in The fantastic 4: first steps and on the ranks to embody Madonna in a biopic in preparation; imminent career explosion!). For example, Single with a remainder of alcoholism. Consequently, this young teacher must face the disappearance, a sinister morning, of almost all of her students. In addition, With the exception of little Alex, the children vanished in the middle of the night. Furthermore, The surveillance cameras show them leaving their homes and running in the dark, cross arms, converging towards an unknown place … new success terror cinema Moreover, The population of the town, distraught, quickly carries their suspicions on the teacher.

Always strange. Consequently, intriguing, sharing with Barbarous (The previous film by Zach Cregger) A certain obsession for dark corners of suburban residences, Passed out Mark an instant date in horror cinema. Meanwhile, Terrifying repeatedly. However, he adopts a structure exploded between several looks – according to the good old principle of Rashomon From Kurosawa – to better embrace the collective trauma of the current drama, while daring to offer a tortured, egocentric, sometimes even annoying heroine that is not a white goose.

The questions multiply over the film but a certainty among the uncertainties: Passed out will not stop surprising you. However, Before finally providing answers to the spectator. For example, he remains unpredictable from one scene to another and it is probably the trace that this experience will be left to discover in the dining new success terror cinema room. Moreover, Meeting with Zach Cregger. Meanwhile, the director-scope ofPassed out, which entrusts, in all transparency, the painful context which gave birth to the project.

The point: Weaponsin VO (“weapons” in French): what a curious word for the title of a film based on. Similarly, a disappearance of children. Nevertheless, It was to better destabilize us from the poster stage?

Zach Cregger : Yes ! Nevertheless, And it was the first title in the film, it seemed to me the most correct word. Additionally, Nevertheless, The idea came to me by starting to write. Meanwhile, This is my way of proceeding: I do not plan what I write. Furthermore, I just hope to tell a good story, without really knowing where it will lead. Furthermore, My starting point was these children who run in darkness. “Ok, cool, it sounds well!” Now, I have to find the rest … “And I am new success terror cinema my instinct, I leave the story gradually appear to me. This means that I generally write a first jet of 70 pages. I call it a “vomit draft”, which does not make much sense, which is a bit … broken from all sides. Then I go back and start again. I say to myself: “I have that and that … and I have to make it work. This is the process: a discovery then a repair.

It all started, for Passed outby an image in your mind, that of children running in darkness?

Yes. At the very beginning … they mysteriously died, and I found the why. Then I understood that nobody would like to see a film where all these children die. I then modified the script and made them run away. It was actually more interesting, because it raised questions: where did they go? Can they come back? new success terror cinema It was a better story to tell.

Justine Gandy. the alcoholic teacher camped by Julia Garner, is a complex, nuanced character, not necessarily kind, light years from these perfect heroines and/or victims who have swarmed in the cinema since the post-metoo years. Do you have a specific model in mind?

I just knew that she had to be an alcoholic because … it’s part of me and what I thought about writing. I liked the idea of a character who draws his happiness from unhealthy aspects – whether it is the abuse of substances. the Workaholism or a toxic relationship. So many things that I experienced in my life. Justine is in a way my substitute. I wrote a little of me in each character, but it is she who looks like me the most.

“Sited” was a therapeutic experience that helped me mourn in a healthy way.

Is new success terror cinema it for this reason that the film is very personal to you?

It is especially very personal to me because I wrote it in reaction to the death of my best friend. Trevor Moore [son binome disparu en 2021, avec lequel il avait coécrit et coréalisé la comédie Miss Mars en 2009, NDLR]died in a terrible accident. I felt like amputated. The concept of children running in the dark. a community left to itself to face their disappearance seemed very personal and urgent to me. All these characters crying the loss of something precious, angry, confused, trying to understand “What should I do now?” How to move forward? », This is what I felt by writing Passed out. Yes, it’s a very personal film.

We actually feel a lot of anger in Passed out. But you knew how to take advantage of a creative point of view …

Art has always been new success terror cinema a way to calm me down. confront myself with all my negative emotions because I cannot drink or take drugs – I am a former alcoholic. Writing is the healthiest thing I can do when these emotions come back. Passed out was a therapeutic experience that helped me mourn in a healthy, constructive and non -self -destructive way.

How long have you been sober about alcohol?

Ten years. And alcohol was my main addiction.

Your previous film, Barbarousplayed on our social prejudices and our urban fears, Passed out Addresses parental and community anxiety more. Is there thematic continuity between these two works?

I don’t think. Barbarous was definitely a film that watched outwards, towards society and political questions. Passed outon the contrary, look inward, towards my personal demons and my feelings. It is not at all a political film. It’s really fair … about me. It is more an entry into my diary than new success terror cinema anything else.

How did you find the right balance between terror and this more comical aspect quite destabilizing?

I don’t really think about it. This is probably the first step: do not decide to balance anything. just let the film and the scenes be what they want to be. If something funny wants to get into the story, I don’t block it. When I try to deliberately write a joke in the film. it usually ends up being cut when editing because it is not funny. But when I let it arise naturally from the situation, I get good comic moments. I specify that I had the final cut On this film. that it corresponds to 100 % to what I wanted to do. The studio – I can’t believe that I’m going to say that. but it’s true – has not made the slightest remark. My collaboration with Warner was wonderful.

You new success terror cinema say you have been influenced by the Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson for writingPassed out. Was Stephen King also a source of inspiration?

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Answer Not specifically. My three big influences for the film were indeed Magnolia but also Prisoners. de Denis Villeneuve, and Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Peter Weir. That said, I am necessarily inspired by Stephen King, like any average American of my age, because he is essential! Impossible to avoid being exposed to the stories of Stephen King by growing up, especially if we like horror. What he has always succeeded is to develop his characters. really make them known to us intimately before making them switch to a horrific situation. I was probably influenced by that for Passed out.

“Sited”, by Zach Cregger (2 h 08). National new success terror cinema release on August 6, 2025.

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