At some point in the future, Terminator will be hard rebooted. It's going to happen whether we want to or not.The first Terminator was a slasher film not unlike Halloween or Friday the 13th. It had its own style, but it definitely was a horror movie. I'd say it was mainly 70% horror and 30% action flick. Some years later, Cameron made Terminator 2 by taking a page out of Aliens: he made it more action than horror. This time, the movie was more like 70% action and 30% horror. Despite the slight shift in genre, it still was unmistakably a Terminator movie.Every single Terminator movie that followed lacked that special something. That Terminator feeling. Even T3, arguably the best post-T2 Terminator movie, lacks that aspect despite having its moments. And not only did all of these movies lack the Terminator special sauce, they all had another thing in common: they had zero horror-movie DNA in them.The eventual Terminator reboot absolutely needs to go back to its horror roots. Even if you prefer the action part of the franchise, you have to admit that the franchise giving us a new horror Terminator film would be very refreshing.In the recent past, there have been many great horror movies. Three that come to mind are Green Room (2015) by Jeremy Saulnier, Don't Breathe (2016) by Fede Álvarez and It (2017) by Andy Muschietti. Any of these directors could make a fantastic Terminator film (of the three, I'd go with Saulnier, as Green Room was absolutely).That said, I have to admit that my first choice to make a new Terminator film wouldn't be these men. My first choice to bring back Terminator to its glory would be Adam Wingard, alongside his screenwriter sidekick Simon Barrett. To understand my choice, you need to have seen 2011's You're Next and 2014's The Guest.With these movies, both Wingard and Barrett proved themselves to be very adept at melding genres. You're Next is a horror movie that completely subverts the usual home-invasion trope in a way I have never seen, before or after. As for The Guest, it is a horror-action blend that is probably the movie that feels the closest to being a non-Terminator Terminator movie. The character played by Dan Stevens is a chillingly unstoppable dude not unlike the terminator itself. But more importantly, the movie has that unique feeling of genre blending and subversion that very few accomplish successfuly. The movie is adept at doing what it sets out to do, and that is why I think that Wingard and Barrett would be perfect as the guys tasked with bringing back The Terminator home.In any case, y'all need to get on watching these two movies. They're fantastic.