Zach Cregger

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q3574497: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Barbarian (2022); Weapons (2025); Resident Evil (2026); Resident Evil (Cregger's announced project). Count them as writer (1 film), actor (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Barbarian (2022): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (director follow-up) · through Weapons (2025), which they directed: Barbarian ⇒ Weapons (the host's read). Sean says Barbarian made Zach Cregger a filmmaker to follow, which paid off with Weapons.
    “that really just came to fruition with weapons and the success that Zach Kreiger had with that movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Die Hard (1988): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they directed: Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass).
    “You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Evil Dead II (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (tonal influence) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they directed: Evil Dead II ⇒ Resident Evil (the maker said so: a conversation with Cregger on the show last year). Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera.
    “I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

John Carpenter: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they directed: John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
    “It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

The Thing (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they directed: The Thing ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing.
    “You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Weapons (2025): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (respectability) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they directed: Weapons ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
    “this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Resident Evil (2026): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (respectability) · through Weapons (2025), which they directed: Weapons ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
    “this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Weapons (2025): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (director follow-up) · through Barbarian (2022), which they directed: Barbarian ⇒ Weapons (the host's read). Sean says Barbarian made Zach Cregger a filmmaker to follow, which paid off with Weapons.
    “that really just came to fruition with weapons and the success that Zach Kreiger had with that movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (9) everyone in directing

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Acting (1) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (upcoming project): Zach Cregger → Resident Evil (Cregger's announced project). The hosts joke that Cregger should open his Resident Evil film with a true-story card; he is shooting in Europe.
    “You should do that in front of the Resident Evil movie you're doing, Zach.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:47:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Paul Thomas Anderson. Early-career PTA was a comp for Cregger, but Resident Evil would be his Punch-Drunk Love (a simpler follow-up after the bigger film).
    “I had been thinking about his career in terms of PTA's early career.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career parallel): Zach Cregger → Jordan Peele. Cregger's first three films resemble Peele's: a short window, escalating ambition, genre with Carpenter influence; both come from sketch comedy.
    “The thing that it reminds me of the most is Jordan Peele.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:14:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Quentin Tarantino. Four films then a breather would be like Tarantino's Kill Bill then the stop-down.
    “for Quentin, that would have been like the kill Bill and then the stopdown after that, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (audience-clout comp): Zach Cregger → Christopher Nolan. Cregger has already done what Nolan did, smashing through online fan concern-trolling.
    “he's already done what Nolan did, which is apparently just like smashed through the, like, fake concern control online.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:13:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (output comp): Zach Cregger → John Carpenter. Twelve 87-minute Cregger films would feel like when Carpenter put out a movie every 18 months.
    “What we imagine it was like to be like our age when Carpenter was putting out a movie every 18 months.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Zach Cregger: Cregger and Leslye Headland both wanted Fargo; he got it and the hosts got him for the Coens miniseries (Headland had No Country offered). He calls it quite arguably his favorite movie of all time.
    “I wanted Fargo because this is this is quite, quite arguably my favorite movie of all time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:13:04 · Zach Cregger (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Zach Cregger: Filmed in snow in Prague for seven months; he told THR you cannot erase footsteps to redo a take.
    “once you step in snow, how do you erase those steps so you can redo a take?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:37:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Zach Cregger: Constantin Film head said Cregger came to them with the idea; Cregger's next film is a big sci-fi action movie, The Flood, for Warner Bros.
    “Zach Craiger came to them and was like, I have an idea for a Resident Evil movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:13:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Zach Cregger: Chris wishes Cregger would make twelve 87-minute movies.
    “could you make 12, 87 minute movies?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:15:58 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)