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The Guest (2014)
David receives a warm welcome from the Peterson's whohad lost their son Caleb but he's soon placed under scrutiny by their daughter when his acts becomes mysterious.
1962, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
9 October 1961, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
13 June 1978, Huntington Beach, California, USA
January 05, 2015
This 1980s-style movie has wickedly pleasing aplomb. As fantasy escapism, it's brave, colorful and entertaining for audiences who can handle substantial carnage.
October 17, 2014
The pleasures of The Guest lie mainly in anticipating how the next expected corner will be turned.
January 05, 2015
It's not a particularly brilliant conceit, but, not unlike Stevens's beautifully one-note performance, it's evocative nevertheless -- lending the whole movie an aura of pop inevitability, turning its blunt predictability into something of a virtue.
February 28, 2015
Barrett and Wingard are more about exploring the wish-fulfillment than getting into any deep psychological warfare. Still, the screenplay knows just when to create more menace and move on, and it escalates the craziness right up to the breaking point.
July 23, 2015
If The Guest were a colour it would be the neon blue of its title card: a little bit show-off, a little bit retro, but it'll definitely brighten your night.
April 12, 2016
The kind of immediate pop artifact that's sure to keep many veteran filmmakers awake at night.
January 05, 2015
A slow-burn approach seems to pose a challenging change-up for the filmmakers, who struggle to build tension as the second acts stretches well past the point when the level of menace should be escalating.
July 20, 2015
...[Dan Stevens] plays wholesome, aloof, seductive, dangerous, psychotic... He nails every single beat.
January 05, 2015
Wickedly entertaining.
October 31, 2014
The Guest borrows from other genre pictures with such intelligence and clarity of purpose, it manages to feel fresh, exciting.
January 05, 2015
One of the many pleasures of director Adam Wingard's tough, fun thriller "The Guest" is seeing Matthew Crawley -- er, British actor Dan Stevens -- serve up a mesmerizing star turn of psycho charm.
June 21, 2016
The Guest makes a strong case for Wingard as our next great action director.