This article contains spoilers for "weapons".

Although the recent horror film "Weapons" has already received many comparisons with the Magnolia thriller in 1999, he says there is another hard film director Zack Kreger. In a A recent interview with LetterBoxdKreger explained that it was the "prisoners" thriller led by Hugh Jackecman, who drove the most of all.

"First of all, the cinematography of" Prisoners "is so beautiful," Kreger explained. "It is this washed, unusual, cloudy, rainy film. I really wanted to evoke everything visually that film evoked, so my cinematographer and I watched "prisoners" and we talked a lot about when we were intelligence. It is very lived-that movie feels very authentic. You know, chaos in people's homes and all things are great. " In Interview with the playlistKreger reiterated this link, saying, "" Prisoners "is all over this movie."

It is easy to see what it means: both are films for a seemingly pleasant suburban city that has its world shaken by a mysterious tragedy. With "weapons", it was the sudden disappearance of 17 children from one classroom, a premise that returns to the 17 children killed in the 2018 Parkland School shooting. With "prisoners", the mystery is a little more earthed, starting as simply kidnapping.

Although the hijacker's motives are revealed to be more complicated than expected, and its methods are less Existantly frightening by Aunt Gladys of "Weapons", " "Inmates" is still a darker, more painful film in general. "Weapons" moves away from its claustrophobic, anxious tone to Give us a fun final act; The "prisoners" denies its viewers as such a relief.

Kregers explained how, in addition to the inspiration of "Prisoners" and "Magnolia", there were pieces of "hereditary", "hanging rock" and "Virgin Suicides" and his film. "Only those species of suburban Nori. These are the ones," he told the playlist.

All of these films live in the idea that suburban American life, so often considered an ideal place for people to settle down and start a family, has something dark and poisonous beneath the surface. In the "weapon", the darkness is not only its wicked villain, but the insulation of the city from each other. The witch can do so many damage in the first place because Alex, the child who she strongly manages in her classmates, is abused by his peers and neglected by adults in his community.

There is an adult (his teacher Justin) trying to approach him, but she is constantly persistent because it helps its students out of strict dynamics of teachers/students. The original human relationship is discouraged in this city, so Alex can take his house by a witch for more than a month without checking any of the neighbors (even those on his street). His house is surrounded by other houses, but in this antisocial city, that means nothing.

In "prisoners", the darkness lurking through the city is not just the kidnapping of the two girls, but the fact that Mentally ill Alex (Paul Dan) is a victim of kidnapping For more than a decade, his suffering ignored by the community around him. The key to both films is that the horror does not actually start by encouraging the story's incident; With both films, the horror has been developing for years before the city is forced to consider the results.