Weapons director Zach Craigger reveals inspiration behind his horror movie (exclusive interview)

I want to avoid spoilers, but this is also what I start. “Al -Barbari” was a large extent, as it knew less, and the better the experience. Earlier this year, “Rafik”, who I feel had had a similar approach. Now we have this movie, which I think is really a wonderful business in creating a mood without giving up a lot. So I wonder if you can talk about how important it is to maintain confidentiality.

Zach Cryber: Yes, I mean it is very important. I feel that if I leak beans, you cut half of joy from the viewing experience. So I really want people to be able to enter and see the movie as it was intended, which is this type of ambiguity. The word mystery has a lot of weight here. It is not a mystery if you know what happened. So let’s keep it my mystery.

Can you talk about the shape of the movie? I saw you commenting that you are inspired by “Magnolia”, and reminded me of “Magnolia”, “Pulp Fitch” and Robert Altman films like “Short Cuts” and “Nashville”. Did you want to do – a horror version of that?

Yes, “Magnolia” (is) a big one. It is clear that if I refer to “Magnolia”, I refer to “Nashville” and “brief abbreviations” just because they are very connected. “Pulp Fitch”, for sure, I must point out that often because this movie really inspired me as a child to think of the temple outside the box, which was (Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avari) well in this movie. But “Magnolia” is really just because it is a big band and is quite proud to be an epic movie and to be a little messy. It draws with all these different colors, but it contains a specific plate, which is sad, funny and everything. I just love this movie. So when I thought about writing a horror movie, not with (something like) “the genetic” as an inspiration – and by the way, I worship “hereditary” – but when I think of (“weapons”), this is a predecessor for “Magnolia”, and then gives me a license to think differently from how to write it.

I had read that the book “The Gift of Fear” is partially inspired by “Barbarian”. I wonder if something is similar here. Again, I know that you do not want to enter the spoilers, but if there is anything that inspires this specific story or the stories really because there is a lot.

Yes, it was The personal tragedy that happened in my life. So it was not like a piece of media or anything like that, but it was just something that happened to me. Therefore, it’s much more, if “Al-Barbari” is a movie that faces out, a movie that had a lot to say about society-it seems that it appears to be a ton-but it was a movie that was looking and talking about the world. While “weapons are a movie that is very similar to looking at home and my experience, it is a biography in several ways.