Resident Evil And Weapons Director Reveals If He's Ditching Horror Next
With Resident Evil up next and sci‑fi thriller Flood on the horizon, Weapons director Zach Cregger addresses whether he’s stepping away from horror—explaining why the genre still feels personal even as he expands into new territory.
Zach Cregger is not breaking up with horror anytime soon. Even with a Resident Evil movie on his plate and a sci-fi flick called Flood lined up after, the Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker says the dark stuff is still home base.
Not worried about being the 'horror guy'
In a new chat with Collider, Cregger was asked if he worries about being pigeonholed the way people sometimes label Ari Aster. His take: not really. He thinks Aster genuinely loves horror and doesn’t see it as a stigma. Same goes for him. He doesn’t treat horror as some stepping-stone to something else; if a non-horror project shows up one day, cool, but he isn’t angling for an exit.
'I don’t have any plans to... Flood is a sci-fi movie, but it’s got heavy horror elements to it. I just like horror stuff, and I like really dark, scary stuff. That’s my favorite thing.'
Why stick with it?
Because that’s his wiring. He says it would feel weird to go against his nature, and right now the market actually wants this kind of movie, which is part of what helped him break through with Barbarian. When your taste lines up with what audiences are showing up for, you keep riding that wave.
The man falls asleep to nightmare fuel
Cregger also laughed about how, despite being a pretty happy person, he unwinds with truly nasty, unsettling audio to fall asleep. It makes him smile, he says, and it’s soothing — not because he has any sinister intentions, but because that’s just where his brain relaxes. Honestly, not a shock if you saw Barbarian.
Where this fits in his slate
- Resident Evil: He’s set to direct the next big-screen take on the game series.
- Flood: A sci-fi film he plans to tackle after Resident Evil — and yes, it’s loaded with horror elements.
- Weapons: His in-the-works horror project, further cementing that he’s not leaving the genre.