There are simply not enough thrills in The Host to offset its pedestrian missteps.
Read full articleDirector Andy Newbery - working from a script credited to four writers - makes the story look classy but can't find its beating heart.
Read full articleThe pedestrian approach here simply proves tedious, which is no small achievement considering the utter craziness on display.
Read full articleThe movie has so much of Psycho in it, that it's a blatant homage or ripoff, depending on your perspective.
Read full articleIt's all very silly, not especially well-written, and any echoes of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Psycho, clearly an influence, are of the tinny and remote variety.
Read full articleAndy Newberry's knowingly derivative thriller reimagines Psycho as a modern, gender-switched clash of classes.
Read full articleEach writer seems to have come to this film with their own pet plot strands and characters. The quantity of events taking place far exceeds their ability to develop any of these properly within the narrative space that remains to them.
Read full articleThe Host leaves the audience waiting for the film to be over and reach its inevitable end. It also doesn't help that a final twist leaves the audience groaning as it is as pointless as the first.
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