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On today’s edition of the Really Awful Movies podcast, the Shudder-produced low budget, Superhost.
Superhost refers to a duo, Claire and Teddy, who are travel vloggers who occupy an Air BnB style sprawling home, a quid pro quo arrangement in exchange for a very positive review of the rental property.
Soon, they find out their host is not so super…
In today’s episode:
- the travel vlogging phenomenon and the explosion of YouTube travel content
- a rundown of some of the more popular travel vlogger channels, including Kara and Nate, NFKRZ, Bald and Bankrupt, Wolters World and Downie Live.
- the use of first person POV/found footage and its effectiveness as a conceit in horror films
- female antagonists in horror and how/where Rebecca from this film (pictured, right) compares with some of the all-time greats
- protracted lockdowns and the need to cocoon
- surveillance and accommodation horrors like, Psycho, 13 Cameras and The Rental
In The Boy Behind the Door, two young boys are kidnapped and taken to a remote farmhouse near some oil rigs. And terror awaits! Actually, lots of terror at least for the first hour, before things take a turn for the cheesy.
A quick one this week, while we reboot and get back to regularly scheduled programming.