Adam Wingard's A24 action horror film "Onslaught" marks the director's return to original, low-budget-style genre filmmaking after a decade spent on studio franchises like Blair Witch, Death Note and the Godzilla x Kong series. Positioned as a spiritual conclusion to his You're Next and The Guest trilogy, the film aims to recapture the pulpy, gruesome energy of his early work, but the review finds it undermined by thin characterisation and an underdeveloped plot that fails to capitalise on its promising premise.

The story follows Adria Arjona as Celeste, a former military sniper reluctantly caring for her daughter Daisy (Blake Kennedy), whose unresolved PTSD is only loosely tied to a government conspiracy involving Dan Stevens's Nazi scientist Dr Hans Kammler and Rebecca Hall's programme director, whose botched super-soldier experiment unleashes three cybernetic assassins on a New Mexico trailer park. Despite '80s genre nods to films like The Terminator and Scanners, and a supporting cast including Reginald VelJohnson and Eric Wareheim, the 92-minute film is criticised for confining itself to a handful of basic locations, abandoning key subplots such as Celeste's failed marriage, and offering an attempted political statement on militarism that the review says falls flat.