Onslaught will be released in theaters on September 4. Onslaught is an apt title for Adam Wingard’s continuation of the world the director and co-writer Simon Barrett established early in their careers through You’re Next and The Guest, because it just never lets up. The platonic ideal of a “midnight movie,” Onslaught serves up heaping helpings of gruesome action, witty dialogue, Nazi experimentation, pro-veteran and anti-government sentiment, and three militarized Michael Myers figures hunting a community of unsuspecting trailer park residents. If all that sounds distasteful and exhausting to you, the rest of this review is not for you: you’re a lost cause and I invite you to go back to watching paint dry or whatever it is you do with your free time. For those with a taste for debaucherous mayhem in your cinema, pure and crazy… Onslaught, baby! Over 92 rocket-powered minutes, Onslaught follows the classic “survive the night” story structure with a simple premise which Wingard imbues with all manner of schlocky adornment. At base level, Onslaught is about a trio of super-soldier experimentation subjects programmed to kill anyone in their path escaping containment and fulfilling their purpose in the desert community of Moriarty, New Mexico – the very same town at the heart of 2014’s The Guest. Onslaught finds a no-bullshit hero in Celeste (Adria Arjona), a veteran sniper struggling with PTSD and motherhood as she seeks peace at the Windy Oasis Trailer Park, where most…
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