Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett have created an homage to the great John Carpenter and the super soldier cannon with his latest movie “Onslaught.”
I went to see the movie Saturday night and although it has many problems, it was still an enjoyable excursion.
Melding John Carpenter’s Attack on Precinct 13, Halloween, Lori Strode, and movies like Universal soldier, and anchored by an excellent Adria Arjona, Wingard failed to create something new and instead hatched a B movie version of them all.
I immediately caught the Carpenter references from the outset when Wingard used Carpenter styled graphics as well as some of Carpenter’s pulsating type music cues.
Dan Stevens, who was awesome in Adam Wingard’s much better, sort of prequel called The Guest, played a campy German scientist who created these new super soldiers with no conscience along with his equally campy dominatrix wife played by Rebecca Hall.
Jesse Hassenger at the AV Club has a nice review.
For all it’s flaws I still had a good time.
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