For a few years now, Adam Wingard has been in MonsterVerse mode. But for all the rock-‘em-sock-‘em delights of Godzilla Vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, his return to original fare is particularly exciting. Because, long before he was going full monster-mash, Wingard made films like You’re Next and The Guest – small, sharp, ultra-knowing genre works that made him a cult sensation. And his latest, Onslaught, looks to be very much in that mould, pitching Adria Arjona against a batch of super-soldiers. Check out the trailer:
Now that looks like a rad time at the movies. Onslaught seems to be something like The Guest with the action dial cranked way up – with a big, burly (and seemingly supernatural) military monster, played by Alex Pereira, on the march. Can Arjona’s battle-hardened Celeste stop him? Judging by the way she revs that chainsaw (“Come on, you little bitch!”), we wouldn’t count her out just yet. The cast also includes The Terminator legend Michael Biehn, Reginald VelJohnson, and Rebecca Hall, who also starred in Wingard’s Godzilla/Kong films.
The real question is, will this have any connective tissue to The Guest? It has that military theme, it’s a collaboration with Wingard’s regular screenwriter Simon Barrett, and Dan Stevens is also in the cast (and mysteriously absent from this trailer). It wouldn’t be the first time Wingard and Barrett pulled a switcheroo on audiences, after their 2016 film ‘The Woods’ turned out to be a secret Blair Witch sequel. Whatever Onslaught ends up being, it looks like a blast. It’s due in US cinemas on September 6, and hopefully won’t be out much later in the UK.