FrightFest: Maika Monroe on The Guest, It Follows, horror and finding interesting female roles

Despite a starring role in Ramin Bahrani‘s At Any Price and supporting roles in Labor Day and The Bling Ring, Maika Monroe isn’t a well-known name to many. But following her excellent performances in both The Guest and It Follows, a pair of highly entertaining new horror pictures, and a role in upcoming YA adaptation The 5th Wave, I … Read more

FrightFest: The Guest review

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett previously collaborated on the reasonably successful and rather enjoyable home invasion thriller, You’re Next. Now their second feature together, The Guest, is along and it’s similarly enjoyable, and could very well be as successful. But also like You’re Next, The Guest doesn’t entirely come together, and while it has some interesting ideas, they aren’t always … Read more