When it comes to movies about kids disappearing in the suburbs, Weapons and Prisoners are two of the best, so I am sure it's not surprising to learn that when director Zach Cregger was making his latest horror flick starring Julia Garner and Josh Brolin, he had everyone check out Prisoners as a reference. Let's dive into this topic a little deeper. In an interview with The Playlist, Cregger said, “Prisoners is all over this movie." And when you watch it, you can tell. The sullen parents who take matters into their own hands to find their kids. The rainy and bleak town that always seems to have wet streets. The epic mystery that unfolds as we see how these psycho biddies prey on the power of the youth. Both movies have all that stuff.Those ideas were further expanded on when he spoke to Letterboxd, saying, “First of all, the cinematography of Prisoners is so gorgeous. Roger Deakins! It’s this washed-out, somber, cloudy, rainy movie. I really wanted to evoke everything visually that that movie evoked, so my cinematographer and I watched Prisoners and talked about it a lot when we were scouting. It’s very lived-in, too—that movie feels very authentic. You know, the mess in the people’s homes and all that stuff is great."The harrowing themes of both movies show that no one is really safe in the suburbs, which are communities that provide an illusion of safety that lulls people into making poor decisions or trusting the wrong...
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