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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Movie Review: The Perfect Host

The Perfect Host
Starring: David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Tyrees Allen, Cooper Barnes, Megahn Perry, Annie Campbell, Helen Reddy, Indira G. Wilson, George Cheung, Brooke Anderson, Cheryl Francis Harrington, Amanda Payton, Joseph Will, Nathaniel Parker 
Director: Nick Tomnay
Stacey Testro International, Mark Victor Productions, Perfect Host, Preferred Content, USA, 2011. 
The Perfect Host title
John Taylor (Clayne Crawford) has a bad day. First he robs a bank and gets wounded in his foot. Then he tries to buy disinfectant but gets robbed. Also his face is all over the news bulletins. Trying to get a hideout he pretends to be a friend of friend of Warwick Wilson (David Hyde Pierce). Nice and polite Warwick is waiting for visitors and is preparing a dinner. 
Clayne Crawford
John Taylor
David Hyde Pierce
Warwick Wilson
John blows his cover and threatens Warwick. However the tables are turned as Warwick does not have all bats in the belfry. Also the dinner guests are quite unusual. John does his best trying to survive the night alive. Meanwhile two detectives Valdez (Joseph Will) and Morton (Nathaniel Parker) try to solve the bank robbery. However nothing is as it seems. 
Things get dangerous
John is invited to dinner
Tables are turned
David Hyde Pierce plays his role a bit more casually than in the role of Niles Crane in "Frasier". At least until Warwick turns into party host who is possibly a serial-killer. Largely the movie is a two-man show of Pierce and Crawford, with some flashbacks of John's girlfriend Simone (Megahn Perry). Clayne Crawford looks a lot like Ray Liotta:
Clayton Crawford and Ray Liotta doppelgangers
Entertaining and chilling thriller with some black comedy, with some surprising twists but not without some plot holes.
Detectives Morton (Nathaniel Parker) and Valdez (Joseph Will)
Party to be missed
Rating: Good

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