The director “weapons” Zach Cregger on Tante Gladys style inspirations

Zach Cregger’s Creepy Weapons is now available to look at home, which means that the people who have missed it in theaters can see its safety horrors of their sofa. In addition, this means that whoever shaping a Halloween costume is stylized after the most mysterious and memorable character of the film can rewind and freeze so that all the details of Aunt Gladys are good.

Like everything in WeaponsGladys looks are very carefully thought out. Her more vulnerable scenes reveal that she is much older than you think – even old – but the rupture style goes definitively when Gladys (wonderfully played by Amy Madigan) must make a public appearance. She has her red wig with micro-freeness, oversized sunglasses from the 1970s, a thick bar of lipstick, colored outfits that cry out “of eccentric suburb”, and this very important handbag filled with spell milk tools.

Speaking to Collider, Congger explained a little how this frightening style icon was born.

“It is not based on everything I have experienced in real life, necessarily,” he said. “But … Gladys as aesthetic, his aesthetics come from Cindy Sherman and Twin peaks and the retirees of Boca Raton. »»

We would have guessed a little Gray gardens There too, and maybe Witchesas well as the classic hag spolitation What happened to Bébé Jane?

Congger explains that Gladys, beyond his physical appearance, was Influenced by the aspects of his own life, something he has already discussed.

“Gladys, as a theme, is very autobiographical. And really, it is my childhood. And it is not that there was a diabolical woman who entered my life, but it was more to grow in an alcoholic family,” he said. “And the idea that a new entity enters your home and overthrowing family dynamics, and taking a safe place and transforming it into a scary place, and what it does to children, and this kind of thing … But no, I have never encountered a crazy woman with red hair.”

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