“It’s a very personal movie,” says Zach Cregger about his auteurish horror blockbuster Weapons .

“ Weapons is autobiographical in a lot of ways,” he tells us on the latest episode of Deadline’s Crew Call .

How’s that for a movie about a twisted, witchy aunt (Amy Madigan’s sublime Gladys) who has a lock on an entire small town’s young children?

“The Alex chapter, the final chapter,” explains the comedy guy turned genre maestro, “He’s very much how I felt as a kid. Anyone who grew up in a household of addiction can smell what’s going on in that chapter.”

“I know what it’s like to live in a house where a foreign substance comes into my house and turns my father into a different person, and I know what it’s like to go to school and act like nothing’s wrong, and then come home and

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