Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Guest


Movie House Mayhem's Mighty Mayhem Pick for the month of September is The Guest starring Dan Stevens as David, an Iraq vet who pays a visit to the family of a deceased army pal from the war.  Director Adam Wingard delivers this Halloween treat which manages to fuse thematic elements from several memorable thriller and horror classics of the 1980s while keeping an identity of its own as a visually stylishly slick, campy cult classic.

Enjoy the unbridled badness of the dark comedic dialogue and action interwoven into the framework of the story much on the same level as Heathers.  The Guest also pays homage to The Terminator and is set to driving techno dance tunes and intense situational standoffs and revenge-guided ruckus.

Brendan Meyer plays Luke, the young son who is perpetually bullied at school and Maika Monroe plays Anna, the older teenage daughter with something between a crush on and suspicions toward the family's enigmatic guest.

This is a Mighty Mayhem Pick to put on your Netflix Watch Instantly list.
Director:  Adam Wingard

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