
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly home for playlists put together by our friends, rivals, and lovers. In the last few weeks, we’ve highlighted playlists from Adéla, Jim-E Stack, and PinkPantheress. This time around, the spotlight is on Hollywood’s rising horror mastermind Zach Cregger, whose wild thriller Weapons has already pulled in more than $150 million at the global box office.
The film is so unhinged, in fact, that Jordan Peele reportedly dropped his managers after his production company failed to win the bidding war for it. Now that the movie is terrifying audiences everywhere, we asked the 44-year-old comedian-turned-filmmaker to put together a playlist of tracks that shaped his dark story about a classroom of third graders who mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night, all at once.
Afterward, we had Cregger answer our signature questionnaire, where he revealed his favorite horror movie of all time and the song that instantly 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.