Movie Review: Despite Its Title, the Slasher Siege Movie ‘Onslaught’ Takes Its Time – WTOP News
Celeste defends her daughter from three engineered killers as A24 opens Adam Wingard’s 92-minute R-rated thriller in theaters.
- On Friday, A24 released the thriller Onslaught in theaters, starring Adria Arjona as Celeste, a PTSD-riddled former Army sniper defending her home and daughter from three engineered super-soldiers.
- Dan Stevens plays the mad scientist who engineered three elite killing machines from dead soldiers' bodies, naming them the Butcher, the Cockroach, and the Crybaby before unleashing them across a Western plain.
- Written by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the 92-minute B-movie thriller is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for strong bloody violence, sexual material, and language. Critics describe it as "intentionally straightforward."
- The movie marks Wingard's return to low-budget filmmaking roots echoing You're Next and The Guest. Though the plot begins with a clock "ticking below 12 hours," the director lingers on anticipation rather than urgency.
- Arjona delivers a standout performance in her leading role, supported by Reginald VelJohnson and Eric Wareheim as neighbors, rounding out the eccentric ensemble cast in this A24 release.
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'Onslaught' Review: Out of ammunition
Adam Wingard’s Onslaught should have been a slam-dunk. Reuniting Wingard with the other members of the brain trust behind The Guest — one of the best genre pictures of the ‘10s, for my money – including writer Simon Barrett and star Dan Stevens, it’s pitched as a kind of return to his roots in lower-budget action-horror work, and, at 92 minutes, it’s something that film wasn’t, in that it’s easy on the bladder. A24 certainly wants you to know it…
Movie Review: Despite its title, the slasher siege movie ‘Onslaught’ takes its time – WTOP News
Masked soldiers deployed on domestic soil and an air of conspiratorial paranoia give Adam Wingard’s not-quite-grindhouse siege film “Onslaught” a contemporary pulse, even if this lean, B-movie thriller doesn’t deliver much more than a flicker of its throwback promise. Wingard, though, does seem freshly liberated in this return to his low-budget thriller roots (“You’re Next,”...
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Movie Review: Despite its title, the slasher siege movie ‘Onslaught’ takes its time
Masked soldiers deployed on domestic soil and an air of conspiratorial paranoia give Adam Wingard's not-quite-grindhouse siege film “Onslaught” a contemporary pulse, even if this lean, B-movie thriller doesn't deliver much more than a flicker of its throwback promise.
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Onslaught Review: A24's Violent Super-Soldier Slasher Packs a Political Punch
Back in 2019, filmmaker Craig Zobel’s The Hunt made headlines when conservative pundits claimed that the film targeted right-wing politics. The film’s release was eventually pushed back six months due to concern over recent (at the time) mass shootings. Even though the conservative characters were, in fact, the heroes of the film, Republicans felt persecuted, […]
When Could A24's 'Onslaught' Hit Streaming? Here's What We Know So Far
Adria Arjona is gearing up for her biggest action showcase yet, and fans are already asking the question that comes with every A24 theatrical drop these days. Before anyone can stream ‘Onslaught‘ from their couch, they will have to catch it on the big screen first, and that timeline is now locked in. ‘Onslaught’ is...
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