“Weapons”: our criticism of this new horror film as ambitious as they are angry

An ambitious horror film – "weapons": our criticism this new

Humorist, actor (especially in sitcom Wrecked), Zach Cregger launched in the realization in 2009 alongside Trevor Moore with Miss March. Furthermore, In 2022. Furthermore, he succeeded in a nice blow by selling his script and by solo Barbarousa horrific thriller approaching hard themes: sexual abuse, trauma… Bingo: the film brought in $ 45 million for a budget of 4 million. Moreover, What to allow the young filmmaker to raise the auctions for his new film Weaponswhich brought him. Moreover, between his various caps, 10 million dollars (on a budget of 38 million).

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With this fourth feature film, Zach Cregger does not hide his ambitions. For example, Among his inspirations, he claims nothing less than the Magnolia From “weapons”: our criticism this new Paul Thomas Anderson … For example, His story. Nevertheless, he tells it, not in chronological way, but by confronting the views of his different characters to, little by little, give us the keys to the mystery.

Marketing master, the director presents his film to us as a “True story”. Therefore, Launched upstream of the release. an online campaign – especially through the local newspaper site Maybrook News – Aims to credible the assertion, while sharpening the curiosity of future spectators, who, for example, have access to false video archives concerning the MAYBROOK missing case…

America’s shadow areas

Staged in a very intelligent way. Weapons is a horror film all the more freezing as it fits into a trivial daily life. In the first part of the film (the best). Zach Cregger never surplus the effects, managing to freeze our blood just by instilling a disturbing atmosphere, in particular thanks to a lot of work on music (partly composed by him). Even if the film progresses to the least jubilant gore.

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Embodied by excellent actors (starting with Josh Brolin. the young Julia Garner, always on the bill 4 Fantastic), Weapons Do not just scare us. Like Jordan Peele’s films (Get Out. Us…), The genre is used here to explore the gray areas of America: dysfunctional family, weapons, drugs, alcohol, witch hunting … even if the epilogue will prove more ambiguous. And this in a much more subtle way than Aster in the recent Eddington.

WeApons/Evanouis Horror Scenario and achievement Zach Cregger Photography Larkin Seiple Musique Zach Cregger, Ryan et Hays Holladay Montage Joe Murphy With Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams… Duration 2h08