Superhot is a movie that has been sitting on my “Watch List” for quite a while. This was the year I finally took it off, but was it worth the wait? Ehhhhh…
Monica Stoker is an attractive, young, unsuspecting girl who has just received a mysterious book. A book that was not meant for the living. Instead of paying the person who brings it to her, she has them killed. This book contains the magical ritual to bring back the long-dead vampire, and she intends to use it at her first opportunity.
Jackie delivers pizza for a living for Superhot Pizza. It’s not what she intended to do, nor is it something she wants to do, but it’s a job and it pays the bills for now. She would rather sit around with her friends Sam and Kevin and talk about movies, comic books, and other nerdy shit. The real problem is that her girlfriend, Carmen, is moving into a sorority house and away from Jackie and both Sam and Kevin will be leaving this summer for college, as well. She will be alone, with her dead-end job and no one to hang out with. Little does Jackie realize that the sorority house Carmen is moving into is run by a coven of vampires looking to resurrect the original vampire, Dracula himself.
Super Hot feels like another one of those films that has a decent enough premise, with decent actors, and a script but just doesn’t feel complete. After watching it I felt like this is what would have happened if Clerks had been a horror movie. It’s written really well, and the actors in the film FEEL like they are good friends. The relationships in the movie feel real. The best friends seem like they have known each other for long enough to be complaining that they will no longer be around each other this summer and you truly feel like this is bumming them out. Almost all of the dialog in the movie comes out naturally and doesn’t feel forced at all. Good timing, good delivery. As stupid as having a character named Monica Stoker and Warren VanHelsing in a horror movie is, Warren stole the show, for me personally anyway.
The special effects in the film, though sparse, come off as well as the dialog. Nothing seems egregiously CG and doesn’t stick out like most low-budget SFX normally do. As stated, there aren’t a lot of effects to be had and all but once scene is subtle in the way they are used. The film is also shot well enough. It doesn’t have that weird low-rez filmgrain on every scene like a lot of cheap films do.
Like I said, the pieces are all there to potentially make this a great low-budget, underground movie, but for me, something just didn’t click. They clearly put some time and effort into this movie and I appreciate that. They had a vision for it and achieved (more than likely) exactly what they set out to make. There is a clear opened door for a sequel and I truly hope they get to make it. I will give “part 2” a shot to win me over, but this one just didn’t do it for me.
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