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My Favorite Films of 2014 (25 movies items)" "You did the right thing. I don't blame you." Directed by Adam Wingard Written by Simon Barrett Music by Steve Moore Cinematography by Robby Baumgartner Editing by Adam Wingard"
Watched in 2022
Favorite Action Films: 2014-2015 (32 movies items)" Directed by: Adam Wingard Produced by: Jessica Calder and Keith Calder Written by: Simon Barrett Cinematography: Robby Baumgartner Edited by: Adam Wingard Music by: Steve Moore Distributed by: Picturehouse Pictures "
Summer 2021 Viewings (25 movies items)"Format: Blu-Ray Viewing: 2nd Thoughts: The Guest is that rare bird of midnight movie greatness that manages to be exciting, suspenseful and gleefully violent at times. It makes you wish more horror filmmakers would step out of their comfort zone from time to time and experiment with genre a bit more. The story is nothing new, a family takes in a drifter that clearly has ulterior motives. We are along for the ride but just as conflicted as the family, we want to like David but the guy is clearly "
Rainaloki 2020
Watched in 2019
History of Horror
The 50 Greatest Horror Movies of the 21st Century (50 movies items)"The Guest is carried by an intense and surprising mood of erotic melancholia. Adam Wingard leans real heavy on 1980s—or 1980s-sounding—music in the grandly, outwardly wounded key of Joy Division, and he accompanies the music with visual sequences that sometimes appear to stop in their tracks for the sake of absorbing the soundtrack. The film is a nostalgia act for sure, particularly for The Hitcher, but it injects that nostalgia with something hard, sad, and contemporary, or, perhaps more ac"
Film Journal 2015 (112 movies items)" I didn't know Dan Stevens could do intense psychopath. That's welcome considering I've only seen him be a British ladies' man so far. New and different are my favorites."
