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Superhost



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2021
Runtime: 1h 24min
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Horror, Thriller
Plot Summary: With their follower count dwindling, travel vloggers Teddy and Claire pivot to creating viral content around their most recent superhost, Rebecca, who wants more from the duo than a great review.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: A surprising amount of character work for a low budget genre picture. More weird/awkward than creepy, until it turns on a dime in the third act. Gracie Gillam as the superhost is excellently funny/scary, and worth the price of admission.


Outside Reviews:

Brian Tallerico
2.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

The vacation rental industry is just weird. We go into homes owned by other people with security cameras through which they can watch us and act like it's no big deal. This inherently discomfiting situation was unpacked well in Dave Franco's ambitious The Rental last year and it returns as the center of Brandon Christensen's effective Superhost, a story of two vloggers who stumble into the wrong rental. It's slight even in its short run time, but it's anchored by an impressively unhinged performance from Gracie Gillam, who takes her unstable character and runs headfirst into that brand of campy horror that's both entertaining and terrifying at the same time.