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[This story contains spoilers for Weapons.] Zach Cregger was far from home throughout Weapons’ storybook run this past summer. The writer-director was 6,000 miles away in Prague, prepping his next film, Resident Evil, which found itself in a hard-fought bidding war just like Weapons did in 2023. When the dust settled on New Line/Warners’ $38 million purchase of the latter, …

Unless someone else as ghoulish as Aunt Gladys comes along between now and Halloween, get ready for a sea of adults wearing costumes punctuated by bright orange wigs, lips smeared haphazardly with lipstick and enormous eyeglasses. Aunt Gladys, played by Amy Madigan, is among the many memorable characters in filmmaker Zach Cregger’s R-rated Weapons, an original horror movie that is …

Zach Cregger remains adamant about not remaking any story within the “Resident Evil” saga for his big-screen adaptation. Although he wants to have an original plot, the “Weapons” director told Inverse that he’s “not breaking the rules of the games.” He continued, “I am the biggest worshiper of the games, so I’m telling a story that is a love letter …

In 2022, filmmaker Zach Cregger’s Barbarian left a big impression. Audience, still just venturing back to the theaters following the pandemic, were rewarded with the kind of shocking, has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed moviegoing experience that Nicole Kidman monologues are made of. (“Suffice it to say that anyone willing to go along for the perverse ride will be thoroughly satisfied,” readd The Hollywood Reporter’s …

An enduring image from the new movie “Weapons” comes early: The sight of elementary school students running out of their homes and onto the suburban grass, moving like flying birds with their arms out, to a song by George Harrison. Except this is happening at night — at 2:17 a.m., to be precise — and there’s no glee from the …

If Sam Raimi was an obvious influence on Zach Cregger’s head-turning 2022 horror breakthrough, Barbarian, Stephen King’s imprint seems to be all over the writer-director’s more ambitious follow-up, Weapons. Framed as a true story, it measures the shockwaves in a community when almost an entire class of elementary school children vanishes at the same time one night. It’s even more …