Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Super Hybrid (2010)

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Trapped in a Chicago police garage, a shapeshifting car looks for an escape route, killing any and every single city worker that stands in its way in the 2010 killer car flick, Super Hybrid. The film stars Shannon Beckner, Oded Fehr, Melanie Papalia, Adrien Dorval, and Ryan Kennedy. It’s a good film with an interesting premise and I was actually surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did.

In the film, Beckner portrays a character named Tilda, an ambitious mechanic that works in the city garage who discovers that it’s a car that is killing people. Her co-workers don’t believe her at first, but once they realize that she is telling the truth, they devise a plan to capture the creature for profit. Heading up the rest of the group is their supervisor, a greedy, seedy jerk named Ray (Fehr). Tilda is just trying to survive and save her friends, but Ray has more sinister plans in mind. You’ll have to watch Super Hybrid to find out what happens.

Fehr is the most recognizable face in the film. He played Ardeth Bay in the Brendan Fraser-starring The Mummy franchise and has also had roles in the Resident Evil franchise. He does a great job at being a sleazeball boss. The rest of the cast do decent jobs as well. Beckner is solid in the lead role of Tilda. I really liked Adrien Dorval as Gordy. Melanie Papalia was great as the garage secretary, Maria.

The real star of the film, however, was the bizarre creature that transformed into a number of vehicles throughout the film. It would lure drivers into its cab and then use tentacles to squeeze the life out of them. It also used the more traditional killing technique of running people over and ramming into them.

I’ll admit that the premise of the film sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it works just fine. In fact, a similar type of alien/vehicle hybrid plot worked just as well, if not better, in the 2016 children’s film Monster Trucks. That movie didn’t feature killer cars, however.

Super Hybrid manages to be a decent little flick, even with its absurd plot. It’s worth a look if you enjoy science fiction thrillers. It has a good cast, some nice action, crappy CGI, and some pretty sweet cars. Give it a look if you’d like. Thanks for reading my post.