Interrupting the end-of-summer plainness like an ice bucket over the head is The Guest, a fun, nasty little slice of nuclear family devastation. It’s a tight, black domestic thriller from the seasoned horror partnership of Adam Winberg and Simon Barrett. Like the duo’s previous film, the rudimentary but spirited slasher You’re Next, it’s a genre piece about home invasion and family dysfunction. Here the threat isn’t a gang of animal-mask mercenaries, but a wolf in ship’s clothing. If the sheep shopped at Abercrombie and Finch. The Peterson family, still reeling from the death of son/brother Caleb in the Afghanistan conflict,…
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Having released their Gift Horse/Brother to God Double A-Side last week, Dublin alt-pop Floor Staff have unveiled the equal parts frightening and ingenuous video for ‘The Guest’. A video about two expecting parents coming to term with the fact their baby is going to be a musician, it was created by Irish video director Bob Gallagher. Speaking about the video, Gallagher said, “It actually came about during an interaction I had with a shaman where I took part in an ayahuasca ritual. It’s a powerful hallucinogen that lasts for a few hours. I had a lot of different experiences during that…