Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on basement television.
It’s fun when a movie goes in a direction that you don’t expect. Because The Guest is on the They Shoot Zombies list, I knew this would eventually turn into a horror movie, but I wasn’t sure exactly how it was going to turn into a horror movie. On the surface, this looks like it could be a lot of things, and while thriller is certainly a possibility (and it’s closer to a thriller in a lot of ways than straight horror), there are moments when it looks like it might be a comedy or even a romance. I respect that in a film. Keep the audience guessing.
The Guest doesn’t start out like a horror movie, but we’re going to get some real hints that it’s going to dive head-first into horror. We begin with the realization that the Peterson family has lost a son in military service. Shortly after this, a man named David Collins (Dan Stevens) arrives and tells them that he knew their son in the service. David is good-looking and plenty charming and has soon gotten Laura Peterson (Sheila Kelley) to invite him to stay with them for a few days. David’s claim is that he promised Laura’s son Caleb that he would look after them.
