By Kip Mooney• On • In TrailerTrailerComments Off on New “Onslaught” Trailer Delivers More Carnage
2026 has delivered films with epic achievements or forced provocative conversations. But sometimes you just want to see a movie that kicks ass. And the new trailer for Onslaught promises such a film.
After two massive Godzilla and King Kong movies (and two poorly received horror adaptations), it looks like Adam Wingard and his creative partner Simon Barrett are going back to basics. Their low-budget revenge thriller You're Next and the explosive follow-up The Guest are two of the most solidly entertaining films of the 2010s. And Onslaught thankfully looks to be in that lineage, with Wingard specifically confirming all three films share a continuity.
Adria Arjona stars as single mother Celeste, who must protect her daughter and her neighbors from an invasion by chemically enhanced super soldiers. Dan Stevens, who memorably starred as an enhanced military vet in The Guest, plays a mad scientist here. This gives him yet another opportunity to ham it up and adopt a weird accent, as seen in Cuckoo, Swiped, and Eurovision Song Contest. The cast also includes frequent collaborator Rebecca Hall, as well as '80s icons Michael Biehn and Reginald VelJohnson. Expect a lot of gunfire, explosions, and quips, which is sometimes all you need from a movie.
Onslaught premieres in theaters and IMAX on September 4.
About Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about.
I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague.
Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work.
In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo.
I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.
