His authentic approach seeps into Host's final product, making its quality all the more impressive.Īlways on the lookout for new horror/science fiction/dystopian films for Friday movie nights, I know what I'll be watching tonight. The result is Host, a horror set over a Zoom call that couldn’t be more relevant and more zeitgeisty, which will likely secure a place in horror history as a movie that captured a moment which. In an interview with SF Chronicle, director Rob Savage explained that he got Zoom's permission to use their software in the film, taught the actors how to set up spooky effects with fishing wire, and directed their performances over video chat. Though Host takes place on a computer screen, it feels different from previous attempts at laptop horror because its principal photography actually took place using the devices used by the characters. The seance goes about as well as any seance goes in a horror movie, though Host is far from typical in its brilliance and unique execution. But what starts out as innocent fun quickly takes a sinister turn, with an evil spirit invading their homes and. One of the friends, the uptight but justified Hayley (Haley Bishop), sets up the meeting as an 'online seance,' calling in a medium to provide some low-key thrills for her friends. Host is an innovative, timely, and terrifying Zoom-based horror film that mines classic found footage tropes for fresh new scares and uses technological and. Host revolves around six friends who ask a medium to oversee a séance over Zoom. Host's premise revolves around a group of friends meeting up on Zoom to stay in touch while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.

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