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Hosts (2020)
How bad? Very, very bad.
This movie is past ridiculous. Nothing make sense. The dialogue is low effort. You dont care about anyone in this movie. The decisions made by both protagonists and antagonists make no sense, and there is no direction as to where things are going. Are they killing people? possessing them? why? who is spared, who is killed, etc, ...just no sense whatsoever. If you need the bodies to posses them, why kill them or weaken them. If you want to kill them, why don't do it soon enough?, etc, etc, etc. This is a good movie to learn what NOT TO DO as a filmmaker. My guess is, someone had a cool idea of how creepy peoples pupils look when lit up in a dark alley. The plot was made around that 1 drawing or scene.
Hosts deals with a couple that goes to visit a family for dinner either before, during or after Christmas, ...its not important. It just goes down hill from then on. Both in a narrative sense and movie quality.
The acting is bad but, you have to put context on the actors. They were not given enough to even work with, so I honestly don't know if it was their fault or the script. But I highly blame the script/Screenwriters.
Plot is completely non existent, I would say. It starts with a mysterious possession, that is kept mysterious throughout the movie, without rhyme or reason. The movie finishes and you have no idea what has happened, or why!
But I think the worst part of this movie are motivations and actions throughout:
----SPOILERS AHEAD----
Where do these lights come?, and then it turns out is a video signal that possesses the victims via a tv screen. That's all you will know about the bad "guys". A woman's head is smashed in a dinner christmas by the 2 strangers that are not eating and just staring blankly throughout the whole dinner, but that I assume is just "normal" where they live. Then the "demons" decide to torture, but not kill their hostages/victims, because.... reasons. A protagonist(which is never stablished who really is the main protagonist here) gets a cell phone and decides to call her fiancée, not the police(that would be too easy), and explain to him in detail for like 5 minutes of dialogue and crying about what happened in her house, ...oh the horror. And then she is taken upstairs to fake shot her whiny brother(adult) in his face(with an unloaded shotgun). Her father is locked in his room, and cant get out because, for convenience sake, all the doors in the house can only be opened from the hall, ...nope, not from inside the room(fire safety reasons? I assume or they bought an old mental asylum and decided to live in there). And in this houses, I am assuming the windows are bulletproof, because no one tries to escape through the blatantly big windows in this 1 floor home. When she fails to kill her brother, shes is dragged down again from the attic to the ........some room, that has a TV. And oh, these demons are so slick, they can slip under your bed undetected but they cant her or see a tied grown woman that escapes in front of their faces. And you are finally, ..like "well s***'s about to get real!", She escapes and runs, and runs through the forest that is more lit than a stadium in superbowl, and keeps running and finally stops, outside of the house where the murderers where, tired, huggin a tree in desperation. And she ends up 10 feet away from the main door of the house where family is kept. What? She is standing in full blown light, right outside the door where her mom was killed and her family is being tortured. What does she do next? why, wait of course! For like 10 more minutes just there. Finally the devils catch up with her which turns out, are way more than just the 2 in her house. blah blah blah, she gets her brother or son out of the house, just to find that there will be "Hosts 2: the AirBNB revenge" because those lights are all over the sky.