{"id":304370,"date":"2025-11-21T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304370\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:33:08","slug":"zach-cregger-on-autobiographical-weapons-talks-gladys-pic-resident-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304370\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger On ‘Autobiographical’ Weapons, Talks ‘Gladys’ Pic, ‘Resident Evil’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a very personal movie,\u201d says Zach Cregger<\/a> about his auteurish horror blockbuster Weapons<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWeapons is autobiographical in a lot of ways,\u201d he tells us on the latest episode of Deadline\u2019s Crew Call<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tHow\u2019s that for a movie about a twisted, witchy aunt (Amy Madigan\u2019s sublime Gladys) who has a lock on an entire small town\u2019s young children?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Alex chapter, the final chapter,\u201d explains the comedy guy turned genre maestro, \u201cHe\u2019s very much how I felt as a kid. Anyone who grew up in a household of addiction can smell what\u2019s going on in that chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know what it\u2019s like to live in a house where a foreign substance comes into my house and turns my father into a different person, and I know what it\u2019s like to go to school and act like nothing\u2019s wrong, and then come home and have a scary, scary house with a dad I don\u2019t recognize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCregger was prompted to write Weapons during post on his first horror movie Barbarian; a best friend of the director\u2019s having died tragically. <\/p>\n

\n\tWe talk with Cregger about getting Barbarian made by the seat of his pants for $4.5 million, the financing coming together at the last minute (\u201cI aged ten years in that weekend\u201d); the whole meaning and inspiration of Weapons\u2018 children running in the middle of the night to George Harrison\u2019s \u201cBeware of Darkness\u201d; reassembling a cast largely from scratch post strikes, landing Madigan, his next movie for Resident Evil (\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a Resident Evil movie\u201d) for Sony\/Constantin, the vibrant state of horror at the box office, and what\u2019s up with his Gladys prequel. <\/p>\n

\n\tWeapons, which Cregger wrote in his garage next to a noisy washer and dryer, was made for a net of $38M and has grossed over $268M at the global box office, a late summer savior. He not only wrote, directed and produced the horror pic, but also co-composed the score as well. <\/p>\n

\n\tListen to our conversation with Cregger below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s a very personal movie,\u201d says Zach Cregger about his auteurish horror blockbuster Weapons. \u201cWeapons is autobiographical in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63739,63740,88,206,3439,34726],"class_list":["post-304370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-crew-call","tag-crew-call-podcast","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-weapons","tag-zach-cregger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}