The Host Movie Reviews

Earth has been invaded by these unknown peace-loving, alien souls. While they mean no harm, they can only survive by taking over the human bodies as their 'hosts'. A few humans manage to resist the alien 'seekers'. Melanie ( Saoirse Ronan) is one of them. However, she gets captured and eventually taken over by a soul called 'wanderer'. Unlike the rest, Melanie's mind stays active even after being possessed

A new Stephenie Meyer book on film, and it is about a teenage girl in a freako set-up being chased by two hunks. Before you cry Twilight, this one is a sci-fi. Mumbo jumbo and psychic parasite aliens take over from vampires and werewolves. The overall flavour, though, is of teenybopper mush. The story imagines a future when Earth has been conquered by psychic alien parasites known as Souls, which survive in human bodies by taking control

When an alien enters the body of a nice teenage girl, her original spirit refuses to leave, her head now crowded with two voices that want different things, including two boys who aren't particularly fond of each other. Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight books, recycles the same love triangle formula, only replacing vampires and werewolves with a sci-fi spin. 'The Host', based on another bestseller by Meyer, is just as spectacularly silly