Halloween has been Terminated...
Arriving on the heels of their darkly funny and twisted slasher flick You're Next, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett's latest project, The Guest, is a balls-to-the-wall action-thriller in the vein of eighties genre fare. But in contrast to the most recent wave of big screen shoot-em-up throwbacks, this sly homage doesn't just rely on bombastic action set-pieces and moviegoers' nostalgia. No, The Guest is something else entirely — a bloody, subversive and self-aware romp in which the man of the hour, Dan Stevens, blows audiences away in the title role.
