Spoiler-Free Onslaught Review

Yeah.

I'm gonna go with, uh, the film style.

I'm gonna talk about the film style.

This is directed by Adam Wingard, who, um, has one of the more interesting careers if you go [laughs] look at, uh, directors on, on IMDb, in the sense that he started off directing, um, cult horror hits like V/H/S and You're Next, which I loved You're Next.

Um, and, uh, The Guest, which I have not seen.

And then w- went on to direct a bunch of these, like, Godzilla Kong movies, um, that are so, well, bad.

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Um, but [laughs] but beyond that, just, like, huge action CGI tentpoles that are, like, so far removed from the stuff that he was doing before.

Mm-hmm.

And now he's back to doing...

Like, this is, this is an A24 film.

It's smaller scale.

It's smaller stakes and everything.

It's a lot more tactile, practical.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and I love the approach with this.

In the marketing that I saw for it, which was just, like, some targeted Instagram ads, um, they have these, like, kind of gimmicky, like, character names for the super soldiers that are in this movie, like Crybaby and The Butcher.

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And, um, that, those were the kinds of Instagram ads I was seeing, and they were all, like, kinda given this V/H/S kind of grain to them, and they even had, like, some promotional materials where they showed the movie as a V/H/S.

And so there was this very clear creative vision.

Um, and style is an overused word whenever we talk about movies.

People think of aesthetic as style, but style, f- for me at least, and this isn't necessarily right, but is just the, um, the form of the movie.

Not necessarily just the aesthetic-

Mm