I sat down to watch the 2021 horror movie "Superhost" without knowing what it was about. And trust me, if I had known that it was another pointless movie about vloggers, I wouldn't even have given the movie a second glance.
Regardless, I ended up watching this, as I had the opportunity to watch it and not knowing what it was about. I have to admit that I was lured in by the movie's cover/poster, which definitely was an interesting one.
The storyline, as written by Brandon Christensen, whom also directed the movie, was sort of a mixed bag of nuts. I don't enjoy movies about ego-centered vloggers and their pathetic quests for likes and subscribers. It is just a pathetic trend that permeates the social medias of today's society. And it doesn't really make for great entertainment. But then again, the disturbing behavior and personality of Rebecca in this movie was actually interesting enough. So there was a swing and a miss part to the movie, but also an interesting part to the movie.
Needless to say that I didn't care one bit about the vlogging aspect of the storyline, nor did I care about Clair and Teddy, the two vloggers. But I will say that Sara Canning and Osric Chau were good enough performers, but were just given bad characters to portray. It was definitely nice to see Barbara Crampton showing up in the movie, despite only for a short while. Now, I have to say that "Superhost" was carried solely by the performance of Gracie Gillam, playing Rebecca, because her performance was just spectacular.
For a horror movie then "Superhost" was a swing and a miss, it was generic and predictable to the point where it was painful to sit through. There is nothing scary or exciting in the movie, unless you consider vlogging at the top of entertainment.
My rating of "Superhost" lands on a generous three out of ten stars. It would have been rated lower had it not been because of the performance from Gracie Gillam.
