“The less we know, the better”: Evanuis is one of the secrets of the year

It all starts one night at 2:17 in the morning. Seventeen children from the same class disappear at once. Surveillance cameras are just evidence of the film: leaving all their homes, leaving their arms away, leaving them not behind.

Zach Cregger (Barbarian) Written and Director Evanuis opens with lots of questions: Where did the kids go? What to do? Are they alive again? And first of all, who is hiding behind this disappearance? Viewers are not at the end of their surprises and it is difficult to talk about this film without any answers.

The popularization of Evanuis received the same formula as the Blair Witchcraft Project in 1999: Website, Maybrookmoning.comFalse articles, specially designed to enhance public curiosity. Is it the result?

A terrible fairy tale

Zach Cregger’s feature film multiplies with many points that have in common with Dennis Villenev’s prisoners: a small town, disappearance, father on the edge – performed by Josh Brolin – and fraudulent. Here all fingers indicate Justin (Julia Garner), a child teacher. But very fast, it becomes obvious that the young woman is innocent and the film takes another row.

“I started writing Outside Before I worked on barbariansShows Zach Cregger in Allociné. I wrote it very quickly. It took me about a month and a half. I had this idea about disappearing and came in the rest of the way. “

Divided in a few chapters – everyone is interested in different protagonists in terms of -, Outside Paint from the world of fantastic fairy tales and codes, flirting with Stephen King’s world.

A character that is intended for a cult

Scary, the film features a character – there is no trailer, so we will keep its name – which can turn into a Halloween costume. His clothes, his voice, his gaze … Everything thought that creating an antagonist who might become a cultural world.

First of all, Sunouis loves to process secrets. If the film brings many answers to the viewer, it also leaves them freedom to create their own history. “In my first version I added many more items, then decided to remove themAdds to the filmmaker. SOpen, the less we know, the better it will be. “

In the original version, Outside It is called weapon – weapons in English. The title that adds to the secrets of the secret and the devoted dimension of history when we know the legislation of firearms in the United States. Nevertheless, the director denies any political discourse:

“This movie is not trying to make a slight social or political comment” But this word seems so provoking to me in our time, I wanted to bring you to ask yourself questions and to question this story from a new corner. “

Outside It should be undoubtedly a movie as soon as it comes out and becomes a new source of nightmares.

Interview by Thomas Desrosh in Paris on July 22, 2025.

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