Like many good things in life for Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett, their Onslaught journey began over cocktails with a cool filmmaker. In this case, it was margaritas at Casa Vega in Sherman Oaks, where they met director Adam Wingard and his writing partner Simon Barrett. Wingard was coming off a pair of big budget Godzilla movies, and he wanted to go back to his scrappy roots. He had dreams of making a throwback movie akin to John Carpenter films like Assault on Precinct 13 or The Fog. Ryder and Swett knew this was something they could embrace — a down and dirty movie that would ultimately shoot in the freezing cold nights of New Mexico….
