Director Zack Kreger quickly established himself as one of the most exciting voices in horror. The trader who turned into a comedian makes disclosed stains that are frightening as original, full of twists and turns and many surprises. With "Weapon", he delivered a perverse suburban nightmare It handles the frightening theme of the missing children, and let's say that the story gets into some wild places. Similar to his Previous horror shocked "barbaric" (One of The best movies from 2022), "Weapons" is a mystery that proves that the original horror is alive and well, and every future film with the name of Kreger is attached to it, has our attention.

The director's starvet did not always shine light, however, because its debut -back feature was a bomb. As early as 2009, he and Trevor Moore Co-wrote and directed "Miss March", a tumultuous sex comedy for a man who wakes up after a four-year coma to reveal that his darling in high school is now a playmaker. Determined to conquer her, he and his best friend are on the trip to visit the Playboy palace, introducing Hugh Hefner to the road.

Unfortunately, Miss March failed to generate the same buzz as "Road Travel", "Sex Disk" and other Hondogs movies that drive around the country, as it boasts a 5% bad result on "wounded tomatoes" and bombarded the box office. The poor performance of the film has almost killed Kreger's directorial career as he spent years struggling with the Hollywood desert until "Varvarian" rejuvenates his career. "What is more, neither he nor Moore were interested in making Miss March in the first place - so what made them do it?

Before becoming known as a horror author, Zack Creger was part of the comedy "The Whitest Kids U'gnow" with Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams and Darren Trometer. The comedians even had their own sketching show, which aired on FUSE and IFC from 2007 to 2011, and their efforts have attracted Fox's attention, who approached Kreger and Moore for writing, directed and starring in Miss March. As Kreger said Cinemablend:

"It wasn't something we were interested in doing right away. It's not exactly what we imagined to get out of the gate he was doing. But the idea of coma and a playmaker had a complaint, so we decided to treat him as a writing exercise, to see if we could do anything in the genre.

It is clear that "Miss March" did not complain about Kreger's sensibilities, so no one can accuse him of failing to throw out a minor sex comedy outside the park. However, at least he did not forget about his comedian roots, because his horror eyelashes are funny funny in his own strange way. Not only that, but he remained best friends with Moore, after their careers took them to different paths, and their relationship informed the "weapons" to some extent, though for heart reasons.

Zack Kreger's friendship with his co-director of "Miss March" dates back to their days as students at the Faculty of Visual Arts in Yorkyork. After the meeting through a mutual friend, he and Trevor Moore continued to make TV shows and films together, while still staying close to the scenes. But Moore died in a car accident while Kreger was still working on "Barbarian", and the tragedy brought him an emotional price. While he was talking Rolling stoneKreger revealed that he was thrown into writing to cultivate his sadness, and that is when the story of "weapons" began to shape. In his own words:

"I wanted to do something honest and discovered that as I was constantly writing, and the more I identified with all the people I was writing about, the more it became something like an honest diary of my inner everything. It is funny, I talked to Ari Aster about this and it was like," I don't know about personal affairs. " And he was like, “Personal things are what makes this job.

"Miss March" may be the most famous film in Oover of Creger, but has little to do with one of his best in the "weapon". Although it is sad to realize that the horror hit was inspired by the tragedy of Kreger who loses his old colleague and friend, the existence of "weapons" is a reminder that art can be therapeutic, no matter how wild.