Everything Zach Cregger got wrong in Barbarian's ending, he gets right with Weapons

Everything Zach Cregger got wrong in Barbarian's ending, he gets right with Weapons

But more importantly, Weapons has what every horror hit needs: a lot of effective, unexpected, sharp shocks, imagery that gets under your skin and sticks there like a thorn, and an ending that will leave people talking, interpreting, and even arguing. Cregger doesn’t stint on answering the questions that first trailer asked: Why did 17 children from the same third-grade classroom all leave their beds in the middle of the night and disappear? Whe…

Weapons Ending Explained: The Director Reveals the Origins of Amy Madigan’s Creepy Gladys

“The last chapter of this movie is straight-up autobiographical,” filmmaker Zach Cregger says.

WEAPONS Director Reveals The Wild Alternate Ending That Never Made The Cut — GeekTyrant

Director Zach Cregger’s latest horror film Weapons has been getting rave reviews, but it turns out audiences almost saw a very different, and much more brutal, finale. In a recent interview, Cregger opened up about an alternate ending he had planned before deciding it just didn’t fit.While talking to CBR, Cregger explained that he once envisioned a climactic showdown between Julia Garner’s Justine Gandy and Amy Madigan’s Gladys Lilly that would …

Weapons — Zach Cregger [Review]

On the basis of his two solo outings as a writer-director, the filmmaker Zach Cregger has established a bit of a lane to himself in focusing on the somewhat déclassé notion of film primarily as a plot-delivery machine. As modern horror (“elevated” and otherwise) has increasingly become “theme-forward” and something to be parsed for hidden [...] The post Weapons — Zach Cregger [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.