What Is 'Run Hide Fight: Infidels' and What Is Ben Shapiro's New Movie Actually About?
Ben Shapiro and his conservative media platform Daily Wire+ have released their latest original film, Run Hide Fight: Infidels — a follow-up to the 2020 action-thriller Run Hide Fight, which itself was a deeply polarizing school shooting survival drama that struggled to find mainstream distribution.
This new entry appears to double down on the formula that made the original controversial: high-octane action framing wrapped around a politically charged worldview. Based on HasanAbi's review, the film features Muslim and Russian antagonists and includes a scene that commenters immediately identified as a direct dramatization of a talking point frequently deployed in right-wing political discourse — specifically, the claim about LGBTQ+ treatment in Gaza. Whether intentional provocation or sincere storytelling, the result landed as neither tense thriller nor coherent political commentary to most viewers.
Who Made It and Who Is Reviewing It?
HasanAbi, the massively popular Twitch streamer and YouTube commentator whose real name is Hasan Piker, published his reaction and review to his main YouTube channel on September 23, 2026. Piker is one of the most prominent left-leaning political commentators in the creator space, making him a natural — and wildly entertaining — counterpoint to anything bearing the Daily Wire stamp.
Ben Shapiro, co-founder of The Daily Wire, has had a well-documented and long-frustrated ambition to break into Hollywood filmmaking. Before pivoting to political media, Shapiro studied at Harvard Law but was also deeply interested in screenwriting and the film industry — an ambition that, according to both critics and even some of his own commenters, has never quite translated into commercially or critically successful work. Daily Wire+ has poured significant resources into original content production in recent years, banking on an audience hungry for entertainment that reflects conservative values.
The film is produced and distributed through Daily Wire+, the platform's subscription streaming service, which has previously released films like Am I Racist? and The Erosion of American Values — titles that perform reliably within their base but rarely cross over into mainstream cultural conversation without controversy attached.
What Is the Internet Saying About 'Run Hide Fight: Infidels'?
The online reaction has been fast, and it hasn't been kind. HasanAbi's comment section filled up quickly with a mix of political commentary and straight-up comedy:
"Ben Shapiro has always wanted to be a screenwriter. He finally gets an opportunity to have a real actor perform his screenplay. And the world gets an opportunity to see why Ben was laughed out of Hollywood." — @Itsalwayscloudyincleveland
"Hollywood tried to protect us 😔😂" — @RashidMBey
"BOX OFFICE GOLD...LOL!!!!" — @shanonb8921
"In these movies you see the true colours of what the right wing thinks about the rest of us — totally low IQ bigotry slop." — @glintrhmj
One commenter noted that the film's opening sequence — apparently featuring an extended falling scene — prompted this gem:
"The reaction Ben hoped for: 'oh my God I'm so triggered and offended.' Literally everyone's reaction: 'huh, why is he falling for such a long time.'" — @obviousghost5895
Even the film's technical execution drew mockery, with one viewer clocking what they described as a "2015 dubstep intro font" at the 5:30 mark — a detail that, honestly, tells you most of what you need to know about the production design ambitions here.
The comparison to The Room — the infamously bad Tommy Wiseau passion project — surfaced almost immediately. Multiple commenters invoked the "Oh hi Mark" energy, and one simply noted the clip "could easily come from The Boys," which is perhaps the most backhanded compliment a piece of right-wing political filmmaking could receive.
Should You Watch 'Run Hide Fight: Infidels' or Skip It Entirely?
If you're a Daily Wire+ subscriber who enjoys the platform's specific brand of conservative action cinema, this film was made for you. It hits the expected beats, features the ideological framing the platform's audience expects, and exists comfortably within its own ecosystem.
For everyone else? HasanAbi's reaction video is almost certainly the more entertaining 90 minutes. Piker has a sharp eye for the absurd, and Run Hide Fight: Infidels appears to have handed him more material than he could comfortably fit into a single stream.
The film's real story isn't whether it's good cinema — it isn't. The story is what it reveals about the ambitions, anxieties, and worldview of conservative media in 2026: a genuine desire to compete in the cultural arena of Hollywood, combined with an apparent inability to produce work that doesn't read as political messaging dressed in a tactical vest.
Virality Prediction: Expect clips from HasanAbi's review — particularly the 'falling scene' and the LGBTQ+ Gaza sequence — to be circulating heavily on X/Twitter and TikTok by the evening of September 23, 2026. This story will likely peak across political and creator news spaces by September 25, as more commentators and rival streamers pile on with their own takes. Daily Wire+ will almost certainly use the negative attention as a fundraising and subscription driver for their base — which means, in a strange way, the mockery is part of the business model.