Photo courtesy of Zach Cregger.
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve featured playlists from Adéla, Jim-E Stack, and PinkPantheress. This week’s installment comes from Hollywood’s hottest horror auteur Zach Cregger, whose batshit crazy thriller Weapons has now grossed over $150 million worldwide. It’s so batshit crazy, in fact, that Jordan Peele reportedly fired his managers after his production company lost a bidding war over the movie. Now that it’s inspiring fear in the hearts of moviegoers everywhere, we asked the 44-year-old comedian-turned-director to curate a playlist of songs that inspired his twisted tale about a group of third graders who vanish under the cover of night—all at the exact same time. Then we had Cregger answer our questionnaire, where he revealed his all-time favorite horror movie and the song that takes him back to third grade.
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Where do you dance? Sadly, I don’t. Weddings if I must.
What song on this playlist do you wish that you wrote? “I’m A Mother” So perfect, so creepy, so beautiful.
What song on this playlist makes you cry? Anything by William Basinski gives me the feels.
What’s your weapon of choice? I lived in Fiji and I bought a tribal Fijian war club that I keep under my bed. It’s beautiful and it can also double as an oar but I bought it to hit people in the head with.
All-time favorite movie soundtrack: Cocktail (1988)
The world is ending. What are you wearing? A Dixie cup and a lot of duct tape.
What does your notes app look like? It’s mostly grocery lists and then a little bit of half-cooked story ideas.
What song makes you feel like you’re in third grade again? When I was in third grade, I was obsessed with The Beach Boys.
What’s your favorite horror movie of all time? The Shining (1980)
You founded the comedy troupe “Whitest Kids U Know.” What’s the whitest song on this playlist? I think every song on this playlist is embarrassingly white.
