Home Sick (2007)
Jan 4, 2024Various Killings
The first film from Adam Wingard from which it is hard to guess that this would be the future director of Godzilla vs Kong. A amateurish work, nevertheless with an undeniable enthusiasm for the genre
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Pop Skull (2007)
Jul 27, 2008Drug Hallucinations and Madness
Micro-budgeted early Adam Wingard film that delves into the disturbed mental spaces of a depressed man
A Horrible Way to Die (2010)
May 7, 2019Serial Killer
Adam Wingard has been a director on the rise in the last few years, although his films often feel as though they could have been more than they are. This mumblecore serial killer film is his most satisfying and fully achieved work so far
You’re Next (2011)
Aug 24, 2013Home Invasion Thriller
Adam Wingard directs a home invasion thriller in a similar vein to The Strangers. This is a film that strips everything extraneous away and simply lets Wingard go for broke and give the audience a brutal and intense workout – at which you cannot deny he succeeds most satisfyingly
The ABCs of Death (2012)
Feb 26, 2013Horror Anthology
Unique anthology that offers 26 episodes from different genre directors, each ending with a death. The episodes vary wildly in quality and approach but a sufficient number ignore all good taste and/or travel waaaay across taboo lines
V/H/S (2012)
Sep 2, 2012Anthology of Found Footage Horror Tales
An anthology of five short Found Footage horror films each from a different director. As with any anthology these are variable in tone but are on the whole mostly effective and contain a number of alternately unearthly and spooky moments
V/H/S/2 (2013)
Jul 13, 2013Anthology of Found Footage Horror Tales
Sequel to the modest success of V/H/S, an anthology of short Found Footage horror films featuring a different line-up of genre directors. The episodes are competent at best, none standout and mostly forgettable
The Guest (2014)
Nov 10, 2014Sinister Stranger
Adam Wingard thriller about a sinister stranger who inveigles his way into a household. This does well playing off the handsomely polished charms of Dan Stevens, less well when it turns into an a left field action film
Blair Witch (2016)
Sep 24, 2016Found Footage/Backwoods Haunting
The Blair Witch Project was genuinely innovative. It is a surprise that we never saw a string of sequels. Adam Wingard finally does here but at a time when the Found Footage genre feels played out of moves
Death Note (2017)
Sep 2, 2017Notebook with Killing Powers
The English-language remake of the popular Japanese franchise that extends to manga, a four film series, a tv series and an anime series. Essentially remaking the first film, this is passable enough in its own right – not terrible – but still no patch on either of the original Japanese films
Seance (2021)
Aug 15, 2021Girls’ Boarding School Ghost Story
Adam Wingard’s regular scriptwriter Simon Barrett directs a revival of the girls’ boarding school ghost story. I had very high expectations of this
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Apr 10, 2021Giant Monster Bash
One of fantastic cinema’s great titles bouts is a spectacular effects show. At the same time, it also has one of the single most ridiculous script I have ever come across in the entire time I have been running this site
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Jun 1, 2024Giant Monster Bash
A follow-up to Godzilla vs Kong, this tries to offer more of the same but ended up being overshadowed by the huge acclaim that Godzilla: Minus One received