Review of Superhost

Superhost (2021)
3/10
Ridiculous film
17 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The first half of this film was ok, it set things up nicely, nothing you haven't seen before but still watchable.

The premise has been put down in so many other reviews, so I won't bother writing the same thing here but safe to say the 2nd act of this film is so unbelievable and stupid, it literally has you shouting swear words at the TV.

You are being chased by a crazed murderer with a knife, do you A: run away until you find help?

B: Get into you car and drive away to find help?

Or C: run into the killers house and stare out of the window until they come to the house and get you?

If you guessed it was C, then that's exactly right, that's what these 2 morons, we are supposed to be rooting for, do.

Then when they are in said house, there's a kitchen with all sorts of big knives lying around and they choose to stand there, looking out of the window completely unarmed and then run around screaming when the killer shows up.

Oh and did I mention that the killer is a dainty, 5ft 2 woman with a pocket knife, yet she manages to completely overpower 3 people, one of them a man, and kill them all without any kind of resistance whatsoever. None of the 3 clowns, sorry, protagonists, put up any sort of fight, they're all killed in big open spaces, so there's plenty of room to escape, grab a weapon or throw a bloody couch at her if they choose to, but nope, they all just stand there and let this women attack them, it's absolutely infuriating.

The guy in this film is so painfully woke and weak that he literally just melts down and shakes instead of protecting his girlfriend. I could understand that if he was being chased by Dave Bautista or Dwaine Johnson with an axe but he's being chased by a tiny woman with a flick knife, it's bonkers.

I've given the film 3 stars only for Gracie Gillem's performance, she does go from cute, the really weird to just absolutely insane and she does it so effortlessly, that it's hard not to give her credit for it, it's just a shame her talents go to waste in such a poorly scripted mess of a film.
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