Zach Cregger says that the prisoners of Denis Villeneuve were a huge inspiration for weapons

Zach CreggerThe new horror movie is Weapons He attracted attention to his chilling history and wildly disturbing images. Apparently, one of the greatest influences on the appearance and atmosphere of the film came Denis VilleneuveAcclaimed Thriller 2013 Prisonersinterpreted Jake Gyllenhaal AND Hugh Jackman.

“The cinematography of Prisoners It’s so gorgeous. It is like a washed, gloomy, cloudy and rainy film, “Cregger said in an interview with Letterboxd.” And I really wanted, really, to evoke everything visually that that film evoked. And it is also very lived … the mess in the people of the people and all that stuff. It’s great. “

Villeneuve’s Prisoners The heartbreaking search for two girls who disappeared in a small city drenched in the rain follows. The dark visual style reflects the emotional weight of the story, something that Cregger wanted to capture WeaponsWhich he did.

Beyond the mood and atmosphere, there are also parallels in the way both films have bad people who operate unnoticed, merge into the world around them until it is too late.

But Prisoners It was not the only film stone that leads Cregger. For multi-thread fiction e Alden EhrenreichThe character of the police agent, Paul, drew Paul Thomas Anderson’S Magnolia.

“Magnoliamasterpiece, epic. All these different characters who interact, spiral around a strange central miracle. I love him, “Cregger explained.” I modeled Alden after John C. Reilly. “

Another inspiration came from Peter Weirinstant of 1975 Mystery Picnic in Hanging Rock. “It is a bizarre behavior of children and a disappearance, and you are only left to face why. And it’s really, it’s a shocking film,” Cregger said. “It’s difficult for me not to think about that movie when I think of this movie.”

And, of course, Cregger could not leave the film that made him fall in love with horror, Stanley Kubrick’S Splendor. “I lift directly from Splendor In this movie. I don’t even assert. I mean, it’s obvious, “he admitted.

“It is the first film that made me deeply fall in love with the horror … that scene with the twins in the corridor, has just annihilated me. And since then I hunted that feeling.”

With inspirations ranging from Kubrick to Villeneuve, it is no wonder Weapons It feels visually rich and emotionally stratified. The film is currently playing in the cinemas, inviting the public to identify the intertwined cinematographic DNA in its disturbing world.