Run Sweetheart Run (2020)
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A single mother must survive a night-long hunt by a supernatural monster after a blind date turns deadly.
The story
Cherie, a single mother and pre-law student working as a secretary in Los Angeles, is asked by her boss to attend a dinner with an important client in his place. During the dinner, she is charmed by the client, Ethan, but the evening takes a terrifying turn when Ethan reveals his true nature as a supernatural monster. He attacks her, forcing Cherie to flee into the streets. As she attempts to find help, she discovers that she is being hunted in a relentless game of survival that lasts through the night.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Cherie, a single mother and pre-law student in Los Angeles, reluctantly attends a dinner with a client named Ethan. After a charming start, Ethan attacks her, revealing himself as a supernatural monster. Cherie flees and is briefly detained by police, where Ethan declares he will hunt her until morning. She learns she is one of many 'tithes' for Ethan. Seeking help, she encounters various people, including her ex-boyfriend Trey and his girlfriend Dawn, but Ethan kills them both. Cherie uses her menstrual blood to mislead him and seeks out a group of women led by 'the First Lady,' Dinah. Dinah reveals Ethan is a fallen angel who seeks male dominance. Cherie acts as bait at the Santa Monica Pier, luring Ethan into the sunlight. As dawn breaks, Cherie and the women from the spa trap Ethan in a room, flooding it with sunlight to fatally weaken him. Cherie mocks him as his power dies, and Dinah sets him on fire. Cherie finally returns home to her daughter.
- First release year
- 2020
- Runtime (minutes)
- 104
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Shana Feste
- Writers
- Shana Feste · writer; Keith Josef Adkins · writer; Kellee Terrell · writer
- Cast and characters
- Ella Balinska · Cherie; Pilou Asbæk · Ethan; Dayo Okeniyi; Betsy Brandt; Ava Grey; Lamar Johnson; Jess Gabor; Clark Gregg; Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Genres
- supernatural horror; horror thriller; independent; chase; feminist
- Themes
- survival; female empowerment; violence against women
- Tone and mood
- supernatural; horror; tense
- Premise and plot tags
- blind date; monster hunt; fallen angel; survival
- Source material / true-story basis
- Feste based the film on her real-life experiences of being a victim of a traumatizing date and sexual assault.
- Content notes
- violence; sexual assault
- Reception
- The film received generally mixed reviews from critics.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 51 · scale: 100 · review count: 14
- Production trivia
- The film was scheduled to screen at South by Southwest on March 13, 2020, but the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.; It was scheduled to be released theatrically by Blumhouse Tilt and OTL Releasing on May 8, 2020, but it was pulled from the schedule due to movie theater closures because of the pandemic restrictions.
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