Zach Cregger's uncanny and funny horror secret

The comic concentrated Weapons Has the same mix of horror and comedy that made the filmmaker Barbar Such a success. Here, Cregger Mines, even terrible excitement of dark rooms and the supernatural worsening bodies that linger in them. But for any moment of the electrifying horror the White most children you know Alaun cleans the pallet with the same comic make -up.

Sometimes this balancing act proves to be a volatile: early on, the film uses too many fake jumping, in which it turns out that the characters dream or hallucinate, and the climax reaches a breast point where the comedy undermines the remaining voltages. But on the whole, Cregger brings alchemy correctly and the tonal layers of the film are simple.

How BarbarPresent Weapons Also uses a chapter structure. First of all, we follow Julia Garner's Justine, the teacher of the missing children and the main suspects in their disappearance before the title cards are introduced to the events in a row in five other affected perspective of the city dwellers. The most prominent among them are Josh Brolins Archer, a mourning father, and Alden Ehrenreichs Paul, a deputy who is largely indifferent to the disappearance.

While he is quoted magnolia As a reference for the ensemble nature of the film (it is also an influence in honor of the series as an incompetent Mustachio police officer), Cregger has made a closer and lichen film, albeit a non-related. By separating chapters, the characters feel dismissed in their own worlds, which have proposed random people who are in the wrong places at the wrong times during the apparently supernatural event.

This does not mean that Cregger's character work is missing because he has a number of grounded and incorrect characters. We see superficial but realistic manifestations of Justine's alcoholism and otherwise problematic behavior, and only later we learn that this is only the tip of the iceberg of your personal problems. What we do not see is a long way in Weapons. The same approach to the characterization of fewer IS-MORE also applies to Paul, who is in the middle of a marital spit. We are only the basic lattice. Even Whitmer Thomas, who plays the father of the only student who is not missing, gives a sobering melancholy into an otherwise Chipper character with just a few minutes.

What refreshes Cregger's work is the extent that he is social problems such as gentrification, sexual assault and in the case of attacking WeaponsSchool shots without his narrative concerns. Against the background of a community that mourns the loss of several children in a classroom, we receive a psychedelic dream sequence in which Archer hallucinated a huge AR-15. If you read the film to regain the life of children who were killed in school and avenge you to take revenge on your attacker, the climax can be in a bad taste, but Cregger knows when he should take his foot from gasoline. At this point, the fantasy logic will be confused to attribute a real analogue, and Cregger is happy to steer us to a happy representation of limbs and brave slaughter.