Whenever Barbarian Reaching cinemas in the fall of 2022, had electricity that many films have tried and have not been able to recover. The writer’s director, Zach Cregger, begins with what seems to a slow treach about the constant surveillance that women should affect, since Tess (Georgia Campbell) reaches an Airbnb in Detroit to find it double reserved). It’s late, and there is room for both of them to stay, but can you trust it? That question opens to another when Tess finds in the basement of the house; And another one when the film cut a seemingly unrelated story, bar his time to return to how and why he connects to the house where Tess and Keith are investigating … something.
Part of the emotion of the film, so it was the unpredictability of the fork: horror movies have so many troos, franchises and scams, that such an original film (only in its path and clear influences) felt like a balm. Intelligently, Cregger did not immediately plan a quick response sequel to Barbarian; Buddythat produced, almost worked like that, with its own pivots (less exciting). It was fine, as much as a horror comedy, as a Meeano of absorbing any leg leg. Barbarian.
So what happens if the independent film of a new talent has secretly inspired a film universe?
After BarbarianCregger’s own monitoring project Weapon It became an object of great interest, especially within the horror fandom. Repeatedly described and vaguely as a Magnolia-The terror terror, little more was known about Weapon Until recently, when marketing assumed that it will increase before its debut in August. (Originally it will be released in January 2026, progress was made to August in a Big Warner Bros. Date Shuffle, a sign of trust, no doubt). An advance of advance has just launched today, but the only other marketing marketing piece, so far it is a false, intentionally homemade, the Maybrook website, which is announced to the children, and appears in the children’s post. New movie. The only other article on the site refers to the sequels of BarbarianMentioning Tess’s character by name.
The basic design of the page and the small number of stories seems an indication that Maybrook could be close to Detroit. (Actually, there is no Maybrook in Michigan; there is one in Orange County, New York). On the other hand, this could be an easy -to -find Easter egg that indicates that two stories come from the same filmmaker. After all, Barbarian and Weapon Not only do they leave the same study; The first was fine for Disney’s Fox, while Weapon It is from Warner’s new footprint.
It could also be more similar to what filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson have done in the past, referring to the characters of their films without formally connecting the subject. Anderson’s first movie, Eight hardRefers to the names of the characters that appear in Boogie nights and Magnolia. Tarantino films have many interconnections, such as the false brand of Apple Apple cigarettes, or the last name Vega, shared between the character of Michael Madsen Reservoir dogs and John Travoltas in Pulp fiction. (An alleged Vega Brothers movie never materialized). If the Internet in its current form had existed in 1996, “news” publications on cinematographic universes would have an insufferable bone, some small connections in complete conspiracies would exploit.
So we do not assume that Zach Cregger is elaborating the BarbarianFresco yet. It is possible that it will go specifically at a time less franchisee. And if you can do it, maybe that is the first step to calm down on the universes of movies that have rarely come out.
Jesse Hassenger (@Rockmaroned) He is a writer who lives in Brooklyn Podcasting ATE www.sportsalcohol.com. He is the usual collaborator of the AV Club, Polygon and the week, among others.