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5/10
More entertaining than most "good, professional" movies available out there
politehere2 July 2011
Well, I must say the movie is better than some of the reviews here make it out to be. There are way more stupid "horror" films out there. The first 30 minutes were intriguing, that is up to the point that the guys still have no idea what they are dealing with. From there on, it turns into a "creature feature" movie with the car emitting some freaky noise. (Why didn't it do that before it was known what it actually was?) It was rather fun to watch how they went about hunting the "car" or to be more exact, how the car went about hunting them!

Here's how it feels to watch this. You all know those movies where a killer in a car is chasing a victim in the dark to run him over. Well, that's exactly what you will get here from the beginning to the end, except that there's no killer.

The movie could've been a lot better if the makers decided to crush some nice sports car like the red one in the beginning, but, due to its being low-budget, all the cars are old and uninteresting. Wouldn't the creature be able to chase his food if it was a fast Ferrari? The design of the creature was awful. They could've done better. The most annoying character in the movie was Ray (the boss). He made the movie a pain to sit through and I think he shouldn't have survived. The "nicer" guy should have, like it's the norm in movies.

There's nothing scary about this movie and since it doesn't look professional at all, it gets boring after 60 minutes. It would've made the movie a lot more interesting if they didn't limit the scenes to the garage and took it out on the street and even better if the police or the military got involved, but you know explosion scenes would require a lot of budget, that which this movie lacked. One thing is for sure. This is not a movie that anyone would watch more than once. It's not great but it's not bad either. It definitely deserves a 5. Actually, it was way more entertaining than most "good, professional" movies available out there.
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5/10
Low budget thriller about a car that eats people
krachtm5 October 2011
I admit that I walked into this movie thinking it was going to be dumb. I thought that Christine was one of Stephen King's weaker novels (and John Carpenter's movie version was similarly weak), but I tried to be as open-minded as possible. The first third of the movie, which is mysterious and interesting, was enough to make me think that perhaps some of the reviews on here were a bit too harsh. The score is also quite good, and it's used to great effect in the movie. Once the movie starts in earnest, however, it becomes formulaic and boring, though it picks up again near the climax.

The director did the French cult movie Malefique, which I liked, but it essentially boiled down to Hellraiser in a jail cell with painfully, self-consciously quirky characters. This movie dispenses with the overly quirky characters to give you somewhat bland and generic characters, thanks to the dismal writing of Benjamin Carr (the genius responsible for writing Thirteen Ghosts, Hellraiser: Deader, and a whole slew of Charles Band movies). Though the actors infuse their characters with some personality, none of them are particularly memorable or even interesting. There's a bit of pointless, filler back story on some of them, but, really, they're just meant to be nameless, forgettable fodder for a killer car. It's unfortunate that the scenes involving characterization or back story feel like filler, because I think the actors could have done some pretty decent performances given better material. Still, for a low budget movie about a car that eats people, the performances were credible. The nice guys were likable and the douchebags were appropriately unlikeable.

The real problem I had with this movie (besides the concept of a car that eats people, of course), was that it just gets plain *boring* near the middle. Humans bicker over who the leader is. Killer car makes ominous growling noises as it sneaks up on them. Humans scatter and run for their lives. Killer car chases after them -- though not driving fast enough to quite run them down -- until the scene drags on for several minutes. Repeat several times. It's just not very interesting.

After the killer car has eaten a few people, pruning down the cast, the pacing gets a bit better and the action scenes become a bit more interesting. Unfortunately, the low budget CGI comes to the forefront here, whereas it was previously used somewhat sparingly. For the apparent budget, the CGI isn't all that bad, but if you're used to something like James Cameron's Avatar, I think you'll be a bit disappointed.

I don't think this movie quite deserves its 3.x rating, but it's definitely not something that I'd recommend to casual horror/thriller fans. For junkies like me, it's enjoyable enough for a watch, as long as you're not too demanding.
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4/10
Don't bother
jonno7219 June 2019
I bought the 3d version on e bay which only played in 2d which was a bad start.I've seen worse produced films but it really is daft.You have to be some horror geek to even entertain this.
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Little horror gem that somehow fell thru an IMDb rating crack.
Someguysomwhere31 August 2011
The IMDb rating for this movie is 4 stars. No, no, no, no, no ----Nooooo! To be fair, this movie is nowhere under 5 stars. I think it deserves 6. It's about a shape-shifting "Super Hybrid" (they call it) that assumes the form of a car to hunt and attract victims to it (Come on! You're a horror vet. You've seen and heard crazier ideas). So people step into the car, peer into it, or generally get too close to it --and they're lunch. Of course the Hybrid is able to go from any make or model to any other as suits it. So reader, is that really your car parked at the corner? Best check under the hood before you get in.

The movie starts out with the Hybrid, sleek and black, cruising the Chicago streets one night. There are some good shots of it from different angles (including nice sky views). It not only looks cool, but ominous and deadly; predatory. Shortly it drives thru a back alley some place and waits for any sucker who will take an interest in it. It will be a nice night for it because 2 do.

Later, as it is going WHO KNOWS WHERE, it either accidentally or deliberately has an accident. It is taken to the Chicago District Garage (so the sign says) which is presently under repair and so is not accepting any more cars now. The guy who towed the Hybrid there tells the mechanic some sob story about a pregnant wife and the mechanic allows him to leave the car there. Big mistake!

The people who work at the garage, 7 in all; 2 women and 5 men, including the boss (an obnoxious guy named Ray) become trapped inside with the Hybrid. The emergency exit doesn't work because Ray "the genius" welded it shut. Even sealed off windows. "Why'd he do that Boloxxxi?" --Well reader, he said he wanted to keep junkies out. Apparently he's never heard of doors that only open from the inside --or with keys either, that he could have conveniently hung near the door or kept on his person. To top things off, it's a weekend and no one was coming by until Monday morning. I think we can both agree here that predators love stupid people.

You know, I first became aware of this movie a few months back when I rode up to the IMDb website on my trusty steed Hewlett Packard. "Easy, HP", I said, "Whoa, boy! It's only the IMDb website. Nothing to fear". So I checked out the movie, saw the ratings and what some people said about it. Discouraged, I mounted HP again and rode off into the Cyber sunset. A few months later I returned again to check Super Hybrid's rating; no change. I'm a big horror movie fan so I decided that at 4 stars it can't be that bad. I was not optimistic.

To my surprise and delight I enjoyed the movie. It was a solid horror flick. What I learned is that you can generally rely on a consensus of people's opinions when they are to the extreme; very bad or very good (3 stars or less, 7 stars or more). But something close to the middle can be deceptive because it is possible that it could be plus or minus 1 or 2 more stars. In which case, it badly falls thru the IMDb ratings crack as either a better or worse movie than it actually is.

In this instance, Super Hybrid is 1 or 2 more stars better than it is given. In closing, let me say reader that I felt obliged to get some justice for this entertaining movie. You know, like someone who sets out to clear the name of someone wrongly accused of something. This movie is wrongly accused of being only 4 stars. It's better than that. Enjoy. Away, Hewlett! Justice has been served! Love, Boloxxxi.
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2/10
Release the ...
kosmasp26 December 2010
... movie? I think I meant something else, but having watched this at the Fantasy Film Festival I can tell you there is a reason why it has not been released yet. And it's not anything positive either. On the other hand, this could be the perfect party movie (I won't say ever though). A movie to rival your favorite "It's so bad, it is actually fun to watch" movie.

I'm not sure if the actors would like to have that on their CV (especially Oded F., who is the most recognizable after all), but then again they played in it, shouldn't they know what they did? Then again with CG and editing maybe they don't. And it all looks and feels very ridiculous. Dialogue is ... well let's say another part of the whole "Party" feeling. The strangest thing is, that the movie tries to play it straight, when in fact it is so ridiculous ... If that was on purpose, than I might have underestimated it ...
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2/10
Bad, really bad...
iso-mail15 November 2011
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There's only one word to describe this film accurately: STUPID!! This film makes no sense, the genius who wrote the screenplay must be 5 years old or less. The dialogs sound like a bunch of lunatics who just speak about random subjects that have nothing to do with what's going on, and the most stupid detail is the explanation one of the characters finds to what's going on: it was something he had already studied in school!! Amazing how someone actually paid to have this movie done. 1hour of my life lost forever (yes, at the end I was just doing fast forward)! I gave it 2 stars but after writing the review I'm giving it only one...
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3/10
A killer car film or maybe it's a creature feature
peteranderson97527 June 2011
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Synopsis a car prowls the streets of Chicago hunting humans when it gets smashed up in a collision with another car. It is towed to the 29th district garage where the staff quickly realise the car is alive and it is hunting them all down.

This film is really not very good. The basic idea may work on paper but it is basically stupid. Anyone with any training in biology may have to be restrained from attacking the screen when they hear the rubbish theories by the characters when they are trying to figure out what the car is. Maybe that was actually a subtle joke about poor educational standards.

The film is fairly tedious with lots of running around and driving cars about in the garage. The killings are fairly tame and bloodless and most came about from script induced acts of stupidity.The padding is quite obvious when the car, which can change to look like any car, keeps doing this even when no-one comes near it to see it.

I didn't really care about the characters. Oded Fehr's character Ray is so incredibly stupid and he's written that way to ensure that a weak idea for 30 minute short is padded out into a full length feature film. The main protagonist Tilda, played by Shannon Beckner, also annoyed me a lot. The actors are okay but they are poorly written.

CGI plays a big part in this film but it really lacks credibility or imagination and instead looks like just another bland spectacle more suited to a derivative first-person-shooter game.

I don't really now who this would appeal to because it really didn't appeal to me.

rating 3/10
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4/10
Pretty dumb
td_username27 November 2021
The acting and action was good. Just can't get past the big hole in plot line where owner of garage had doors welded shut. That's cute and all if you don't understand what tools do. Any garage will have an angle grinder, there is actually a scene where one of the guys was using it to build their little trap. This tool is meant to cut metal and easily would cut through welds. And that's assuming they didn't have any metal cutting saws or air compressed cutoffs which every garage would have also. These aren't million dollar tools, most Homeowners have at least a couple of these things just laying around.
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2/10
Super dumb
BandSAboutMovies22 October 2023
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Directed by Eric Valette (the 2008 American remake of One Missed Call), this movie feels like a decade ahead of when it should have been made. It was written by Neal Marshall Stevens, who also writes a lot of movies for Full Moon as Roger Barron.

A shapeshifting car is on the streets of Chicago, going from a black Chevrolet Nova to a red Chevrolet Corvette Z06, luring in would-be criminals and then basically eating them and getting into accidents just to get impounded and murder policemen. It even becomes a 1968 Lincoln Continental with tentacles inside it that drag people into the interior.

The title is good, you know? But this is no Christine. It's also no The Car, a movie that while one of the dumbest films ever created is one of my favorites and in my opinion, way better than U of M grad Steve King's car movie.

All you need to know about how this movie was made is that the underground garage where it was shot wasn't well-ventilated and the entire cast got sick.
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7/10
Utterly daft, yet strangely watchable
bowmanblue16 December 2014
The latest 'horror bad guy' to grace our screens is a car - a car that kills people. Um, and that's about it. I could leave the review there. If you can deal with that concept you may just like the film.

Said nasty car is trapped in a large garage (certainly not your average Kwik Fit) with people who, for some reason, are equally trapped IN with it as it is with them. I watched Shark Night 3D recently - a film about killer sharks. Now, the thing about sharks is that they're kind of constricted to water and not too good on land, in the air and anywhere else. Hybrid is a bit like that. A car is only really good on flat roads, but, luckily for the metal monster, our hapless heroes find every excuse to sort of run around a bit in front of them.

It has all the horror clichés you've seen in all the other horror films out there. It's pretty daft and the acting is questionable - certainly in the first third (I was contemplating whether it was actually a foreign film and had been dubbed, but you get used to it as it goes on). You have the sensible woman, the daft plank who wants to catch a monster car instead of leaving, cell phones that don't work and an ensemble of unlikeable characters who you won't miss when they start to attack a large metal beast with a bit of wood (or something equally questionable).

If you've seen a film where a beastie stalks a load of slightly inept people, you've basically seen this. If you fancy seeing idiots stalked by a car that sees the world as if it was a Predator alien, give it a try. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy a bike.
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4/10
Not quite what I expected.
alfredogarciajr200428 February 2012
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Well, I was expecting a Christine type plot where the car is possessed by an evil entity not a squid/octopus looking sort of creature. I did like parts of it however. The creature/car integration effects were good. I found the end surprising in that there were more of these Super Hybrids out there and they seemed on taking revenge for the loss one of their species. Did the doomed one communicate telepathically upon dying and contact the others? This was not clear to me. Also, not enough explanation of the creature's origin. It just showed up. What made it turn into a car as opposed to some other shape? Lots of questions, but thanks for keeping me somewhat entertained. :-)
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10/10
loved it
info-733-9790948 July 2013
its a just a great movie must see its a little bit like Christine the movie from the 80ys.

fantastic camera work loved the establishing shot of the city scary but not to brutal excellent story telling good actors i really recommend this film its not really suited for kids you may look at cars differently after watching it.

the cg is are looking so-real you will not believe it this is just a film after my taste. all the action feels so real. not a boring minute in it. those revues here have to be ten lines long but there is nothing else i want to say that's why i write this last sentence sorry for my bad English but I'm from Switzerland but i still hope this will help someone to choose this film and has a great time watching it enjoy
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7/10
Great little movie!
Indifferent_Observer31 August 2011
If your not a real horror fan then you probably won't like this movie. I can't understand the bad rating here on IMDb as this movie as at least a 5 1/2 6. At the least. Its not perfect, but it is an interesting,premise has its share of gore and a nice little script. The movie is actually about a shape shifting predator then can morph itself to anything it wants including great looking,but generic no named cars. This "car" finds its way onto a police impound and after a bad accident and chaos ensues.

...if your me and love independent horror, you'll enjoy this. I have to admit I had virtually no hope of a decent movie after reading some of the reviews here, but luckily a trailer was available so I knew it wasn't bad student project style horror and decided to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. You can ignore the bad reviews, if you think you may like this you will.

Its a solid 6, but I gave it a seven for all the unjust reviews here and overall bad rating. This is not a bad movie. I wouldn't go spending $20 on it or anything, but if you catch it in Redbox or some discount shelf give it a watch.
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4/10
SILLY HORROR
ftalker24 September 2023
Weak characterisation, poor editing & no necessary sense of ever-present dread hurt this movie immeasurably.

The actors are all fine but it is hard to care for their characters when they are so thinly-drawn and possess no grounded motivations for their relationships with one another.

Overall, there is no compelling reason for this film to exist. It offers no social commentary on the existence of the automobile, where on Earth the shapeshifting monster came from (& what it's purpose is) and why something as hard-to-manoeuvre-in-small-spaces as a motor car could ever truly be seen as threatening, scary or in need of being hunted down like a wild animal in an underground car park.
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a bit too ridicule to remain interesting
depraeter15 August 2011
I saw the trailer and i thought it would be interesting. I thought it would be like Christine. However, once the movie starts the characters almost immediately know what the car really is, and want to capture it. It's an incredible being lets capture it instead of destroying it. For the remainder of the movie it's just car chases in a garage. It really doesn't keep the interest for long. When you reach the middle of the movie you really want to fast-forward to see the ending. The monster is not too bad, but we are used to good (greater) looking monsters in other movies. All in all a fun movie but not good enough. You won't watch it twice.
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5/10
Killer car that's not.
Dodge-Zombie11 July 2022
In the world of movies there are several "Killer cars" that became quite well known. This is not one of them.

It's low budget and that shows in the CGI but I still find it fun.

Only certain people will like it though as it's not for everyone. Not all the acting is great but it's also not all terrible.

It's a gamble.
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5/10
So dumb it was fun to watch...
paul_haakonsen5 March 2024
Of course I had never heard about the 2010 movie titled "Super Hybrid" prior to stumbling upon it here in 2024. And with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to take the time to sit down and watch it. However, I've never been overly fond of movies with killer cars, so I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations from writer Neal Marshall Stevens and director Eric Valette.

The storyline from Neal Marshall Stevens was pretty far out there. I mean, an alien killer car. Yeah, it was as silly and stupid as it sounds. Yet, there is something oddly entertaining about the cheese-factor of the movie, I would say. So it wasn't exactly a swing and a miss of a movie.

One would think that all people would have to do was to get up above ground level, or simply go stand on the stairs between the levels of the building, and they would be safe from a car, which is confined by its size and laws of physics. But I suppose realism wasn't in the drivers seat here, I mean, this was a movie about a killer alien car after all. Duh! And someone working for the police district at the garage breaking laws and welding shut emergency exits in order to discourage break-ins? Come on, that was seriously some of the most stupid writing I have stumbled upon in a long time.

The script is just downright laughable, but it was actually so dumb that it became fun to watch.

Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with actor Oded Fehr. It should be said, however, that the acting performances by the actors and actresses on the cast list were actually fairly good, despite the laughable script and storyline of the movie.

The effects in "Super Hybrid" were actually fairly good.

My rating of director Eric Valette's 2010 movie "Super Hybrid" lands on a five out of ten stars.
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5/10
Christine meets The Car in darkness
searchanddestroy-17 May 2022
If you are a movie buff as I am, you will have noticed a resemblance between this film and John Carpenter's CHRISTINE or Elliot Silverstein's THE CAR, but at a lousier scale. I am horrified that a French gifted director as Eric Valette was involved in such a mess, with an awful acting. It remains however a pretty acceptable time waster. I measure the devastating influence that the producers may have put on Valette to force him to follow their orders, I measure it and it is painful. Maybe was it on purpose that this move was so awful.
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5/10
"We aren't X-men, we're mechanics. We can't do this." - Tilda
The synopsis for this movie on Google doesn't really do it justice as there was actually a bit more under the hood (pun intended) in this film than just a car goes around murdering people. I mean.. that is what happens but it goes about it in a very unpredictable way and nothing really turned out as I expected.

To be fair, I was probably expecting a lesser quality, Christine, another film about a murderous car and although there are some minor similarities, Super Hybrid, is ultimately very much its own thing which is a positive. As I mentioned before, I couldn't predict what was going to happen and the pacing was quite good I felt as I didn't get bored watching it - they maintained the intrigue for the whole runtime. There were references to other movies, some funny dialogue, decent car carnage, decent suspense and the general idea behind the murderous car was very interesting and different but it definitely had its short comings to... bad CGI, boring characters, average acting, slow car chases and ultimately a bland setting. The 3D is also not well utilized, there's maybe a couple scenes of pop out effects and the top down view over the city at the start had decent depth but once it goes into the garage setting, which is dark naturally anyway and not that well suited to 3D glasses, the 3D effects goe bye-bye. You won't miss much watching it in 2D.

Final Verdict: I've seen far worse b-grade horror films and this movie is smarter than what it looks like on the surface but its still very average all round. Remove it from the garage setting and put it out onto the open streets like where the movie started and I think it would of been that much more entertaining film.
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6/10
This film is unrated, because its not that bad
gerry_barnaby22 September 2013
Now a lot of people review this film as being serious bad or just bad but its not been given its fair due's. The concept behind this film in horror sense is the claustrophobic concept, where you trapped in a parking lot with no escape & something evil is out for blood. This is where it gets interesting because if you put yourself in there shoes knowing what a car looks like & should feel yet this one thing isn't what it appears to be this is where the real terror of the film comes into play. Yes it not the best or Oscar winner film & its not meant to be, this film is what its meant to be a well made quiet low budget film that entertaining to watching. It one of those rare film that mite seem really bad but its still a good watching film, mine that not everyone will think this film is good but its all down to the viewer watching the film. For me I found this film pretty good to watch its not scary but still entertaining.
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9/10
Unexpected thrilling full throttle horror ride.....
welshtrekker28 July 2013
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Seems reviewers here missed the point or simply do not really get the horror genre, its eclectic mix of thresholds, how it can transform quickly and how it is not just about Brad Pitt killing zombies.

True horror movies take what we view as ordinary, run-of-the-mill, and take that to a place, usually a dark place, and present something totally unexpected.

Here is a movie that does just that. Believe me, when you see how this movie goes, you will be glad you sat down to watch it. Here we have a killer sentient car, able to transform into other car models (wow...what a paint job!) at will, and tempts people to sit inside - to consume their flesh. Following an accident, the battered car is towed into a Chicago police impound garage. For the employees trapped inside, it is a fight for survival against a malicious being...

The car from hell idea is no newbie to the horror genre but what this film does with the idea - sure is folks! I am not adding spoilers here.

I love horror movies where the evil transcends from the usual: the serial killer, the thing in the lake, the alien beings, the possession... That's all been there, done that, and few films manage to bring something new with those premises. So, when I read about a killer car morphing into other car shapes and outwitting humans - I just had to see it. Last time I saw a killer car idea as good as this one was actually called The Car, a 70s horror movie.

The simple premises are always the best ones in this genre. This one goes into overdrive and pits steel against bone in 90 mins of pure thrill time.
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6/10
Shape-Shifting Chevy
Ralphus27 September 2011
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I wish to reinforce what several other reviewers have striven to persuade potential viewers of "Super Hybrid": that it is not a bad film--certainly not as bad as its low IMDb rating would suggest. I won't go so far as to say it's a great film, or even a very good one, but it does supply what so many other recent horrors do not: genuine entertainment.

A large part of the success is the kick-a** shape-shifting car. In what I presume is its 'base' form, it's a matte black '77 Chevy Nova (I think!). But it transforms itself into various other familiar muscle cars or pickups. If you love sweet rides, this movie will appeal. The driving chase sequences in the parking station are really well done also and the tire-squealing and rubber burning are further bonuses for rev-heads.

The car's biggest problem is under the hood. The CG effects for the big blobby gelatinous turtle-without-a-shell thing that is the actual creature 'unmasked' are pretty...um...poor. But hey! It doesn't matter so much. The whole film has a made-for-TV look to it, and some of the acting is pure daytime telly, so a viewer shouldn't really expect too much effects-wise.

Besides, the acting isn't so bad. The worst is the boyfriend in the beginning, but we don't see much of him. The a**hole boss, Ray, has his moments too, but you can put up with it.

One small thing I liked about this movie is that certain common sense idiocies that film makers often perpetrate, and which infuriate viewers, are avoided in "Super Hybrid". For example, when escaping the car in the parking lot, some characters run behind pylons to avoid being hit, instead of just running straight ahead to get chomped up; that's the smart thing to do, but so many film makers don't seem to like common sense choices like that. In one scene they try to ride some big dumb-a** police Harley (?) up some stairs. In "Ghost Rider" they may have pulled something like that off, but here the makers say, "No", and stupid ungainly bike just topples over a coupla steps in and riders are unceremoniously deposited on their a**es. As I said, it's a small thing--and there are plenty of other things that make no sense at all--but I noticed it and thought it was a smart touch.

Comparisons have been made in these pages with 1977's "The Car" and, while the earlier movie is far better in my estimation, it's not an invalid proposal. The key with both these movies is the car itself. As the stars of the show, they need to be as cool and bad-a** as they are. While not quite as awesome as the car of the earlier film, this shape-shifting mo-fo is still pretty darn cool and, as stated above, THAT is the real drawcard here. "Super Hybrid" is pretty much a success in this all important department. It's this coupled with decent pacing, well conceived and executed action sequences, and a solid score that elevate this above the dross it could so easily have been.

I want to mention the score once more. It's not something you expect to praise in a film like this, but I thought it was effective, unobtrusive when required, and well-suited to the scenes it illustrated. The opening aerial shot makes particularly effective use of the music.

So, for a silly, low budget, B-grade flick, "Super Hybrid" ticks the important 'Entertaining' box and a few others besides. Ignore the nay-sayers. Car buffs will likey and true horror fans (despite the lack of gore) will find something to enjoy. A solid 5.5 to 6 from me.
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Killer Car Movie That Falls Short of Golden
gavin694218 August 2011
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Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident...

This film comes from writer Benjamin Carr. How much his idea translated well on the screen I suppose is a matter of debate. But Carr is an experienced writer. He has over 30 projects under his belt, including some Hellraiser sequels, the "13 Ghosts" remake and one of my favorite films -- "Head of the Family". So, if I have to fault anyone, I am not blaming Carr.

But someone must be blamed... because this film just came up short. A good idea, some gore, some action, a decent cast (Oded Fehr is great). But it just did not hold my attention as well as it should have, and I nodded off a few times. And the very premise of a squid that can mimic a car? That makes no sense. An alien maybe or an evil creation from a mad scientist... but not this.

And how does it compare to "Christine" or "Maximum Overdrive"? Well, it just does not come close. "Christine" is a modern classic and "Overdrive" is bad, but bad in such a way that you have to love it (if you can see it in a theater full of horror fans, the experience will never be forgotten). This one... I do not see it going anywhere but into the memory hole. Sorry.
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7/10
Guilty pressure
atinder3 May 2014
Hybrid (2010) this movie is also know as Super Hybrid" I didn't not expect much from this movie, I expect something really , really bad, so I had very low expectations with this movie.

The movie dose not take to long to get going, which I liked and the moving is very fast pacing and never gets boring at all.

I thought I would hate this movie but I ended up really enjoying this movie, I thought it was lot fun to watch.

There was tense scenes, with the Car trying run people over, Also liked the fact, that the car it's not what it is!

It's looked decent, well not scary also really enjoyed some of the deaths scenes, the acting was okay not great but more then a watch able.

I loved the last scene from movie, perfect ending for this movie 7 out of 10 Really good movie,
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8/10
Way better then expected, good little ride
hopla6829 June 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I was a little surprised by the harsh reviews ( a whole 2) that this movie got. When I first heard about it more then a year or so ago ( after seeing " the car" way back in the day and movies like " duel" ) the idea sounded intriguing.

After that the movie kinda went off the radar to pop up again through the usual channels not too long ago. And I must say its a nice little movie. In the " evil car" sub genre there aren't that many peers..at least not besides the fore-mentioned titles that I can remember and this is a worthy addition. The movie deals of course with a car that eats people, the way it lures them into its interior is reasonably self explanatory after watching the trailer and reading the synopsis..but it works. The car is sufficiently menacing and if you you buy into the idea that it lurks an underground parking garage / impound yard ( after being towed there because it was involved in an accident); you have yourself a nice little cat and mouse thriller. And yes, the characters aren't that fleshed out ( although better as you might expect). The ones who survive and wont comes as a mild surprise and the idea behind it - the car- is actually rather cool.

What I always found lacking in the fore-mentioned " the car" is that you never see who or what drives it, just dives of a cliff if memory serves me right and that is it. Here you do see what.." drives" it. The transformation scenes - from model to model- are nicely done and there is indeed a thrill or two to be found here.

So..yes of course there are " better" movies, however in this sub genre to my knowledge there are not..and no duel doesn't count. So forget the fact that it was shelved for two years. Put your mindset to a nicely done little thriller that wants to entertain in a somewhat gritty and serious manner and its a good way to spend 1.5 hrs.
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