What a film to kick off the new year with! Adam Wingard's The Guest is a fantastical, joyful, gleefully violent, and brilliantly executed thriller that calls back to cinema from the past in order to reinvent itself. It's like Adam Wingard called The Terminator, Judge Dredd, Thief, The Stepfather and Big Trouble in Little China and said; "Hey, is it OK to use this and that?" However, in spite of many people in the cinematic industry trying to showcase homages and tributes for the sleaze and VHS trash of old, Adam Wingard is one of the few that actually gets it. The simplicity, the violence, the tight and focused screenplay, the tonal shifts, THE SOUNDTRACK, the climax, the final shot,…