From the little side corridor of screen five at the Alamo South Lamar, director Adam Wingard grins. He’s just spent the last 90 minutes pummeling, ripping, and grinding the audience with his latest slice of no-holds-barred, Eighties-influenced mayhem. “It just feels so good to make this kind of movie again.”
Wingard’s connection to Austin goes back to 2010, when his first feature with writer and now longtime collaborator Simon Barrett, A Horrible Way to Die, took home a shelf’s worth of...