Hope (2026) Movie Review

 

So many horror movies coming out, this one is worth watching! So easy for any one to make a movie, any smart phone can record high quality video, tons of editing software online. Anyone with a half of concept and a little free time can release a movie to the masses. Of course, most take a mildly disinteresting idea and dilute it with a half-ass execution mixed with a little THC, we get a movie no one wants to see.  Even some of the big studio releases no one wants to see. Seriously who green-lit Digger, Other Mommy, or one of my favorite John Wayne films Angels and the Badman (seriously no one saw the first one, and it was Phenomenal!)?

This is one of those movies you wish got the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment. Have Joe Buck and Troy Aikman calling play by play. Taking cheap shots perhaps till the death, there can only be one. Maybe a little product placement. Nike can supply the creatures with some shoes. And Dodge can provide some Hellcat Chargers for the police. The chase scenes would be grandiose (word of the day TP).

Director Na Hong-jin crafted a layered story and brought it to life. The creature feature where no one is the standard plastic good or evil, hero or an anti-hero, disposable character only there to provide a part to stretch screen time, set-up a throw away sequence or quick laugh. It is funny to see south Korea has hillbillies too. Without a doubt, this filmmaker promises to be a compelling talent in the coming years.  

We believe individuals will not make decisions that negatively impact themselves. But we see people around us making the worst decisions, all the time. This film shows questionable actions. In real life under a high-pressure catastrophe people make bad spit second choices. The audience see characters do some dumb things here.

Hope 2026 YouTube Trailer

Highly recommend a watch. It’s not your typical straight forward monster film, Monster bad, people fight monster, either the monster or humans die, end movie. Be warned, there are subtitles. But the horrible excruciating pain of having to read, is worth the price of admission. Can’t wait to see the second one!