Zach Cregger, the filmmaker who went from comedy to horror

In Hollywood, a bridge is being built between comedy and horror. As if, in today's America, where the political scene seems to have preempted all parody, the poles have reversed. Among the new faces of horror, we already knew Jordan Peele ( Get Out , Nope ), who came to the genre through the television sketches of the duo Key & Peele. We must now count on Zach Cregger, author of Vanishing , an ambitious summer thriller about a mysterious disappearance of children.

Zach Cregger comes from another burlesque breeding ground: the Whitest Kids U'Know troupe, which was revealed online before running for five television seasons. From the same generation, the two men also found themselves, indirectly, in competition over the project Vanishing . Auctioned in early 2023 between several studios, the script was finally won by New Line Cinema (a subsidiary of Warner Bros), to the detriment of Universal, Jordan Peele's distributor – so dissatisfied, it is said, that he immediately broke with his agents.

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