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The last time Dan Stevens turned up in an Adam Wingard movie, he was pulling an achy tooth out of Kong’s mouth in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. It was hard to imagine the longtime collaborators topping that gloriously absurd aerial-veterinarian sequence. But somehow, they may have done it with Onslaught, trading a medical transport chopper for something far more grounded and bizarre.
Onslaught is a John Carpenter- and James Cameron-inspired action-thriller that serves as an indirect sequel to Stevens and Wingard’s cult hit The Guest (2014), completing a spiritual trilogy that began with Wingard’s 2011 home-invasion slasher You’re Next. In the latter, the defense contractor KPG is merely namechecked, but The Guest put a face to the name, introducing its headquarters as the company’s board and government partners desperately attempt to cover up and contain the escape and rampage of one of its test subjects — Stevens’ unhinged super-soldier who calls himself “David Collins.”
But instead of reprising his role as David, Stevens now plays Dr. Hans Kammler, a deranged Nazi scientist descended from the legacy of Operation Paperclip, the secret U.S. post-World War II program that brought more than 1,600 Germans to America for their technical expertise. He’s working on an evolved version of the program that created David, and although the film never substantiates the connection, David could very well be Kammler’s ancestor or clone. Dr. Kammler works within a new organization known as Priapus, and Wingard, after some hemming and hawing, confirmed to THR in an upcoming interview that Kammler is the K in KPG and Priapus is the P.
