Having this troupe of real friends and frequent filmmaking collaborators share the screen pays dividends and helps everything to feel genuine. You’ll soon easily be able to distinguish those who have seen this film and those who haven’t by whether or not they shudder at the mention of the word “mask”.Īs well as the nicely executed low-fi effects, what really makes Host connect (pun intended) is the easy, natural chemistry of the cast who bring the semi-improvised script to life. Demonic entities apparently do not have a sense of humour and will inhabit any mask created for them intentionally or not. The writers have come up with some smart new additions to the mythology of seances and contacting a presence beyond the veil – whatever you do, don’t invent a deceased friend to liven up proceedings or you could summon something far worse. One of them is miserably living with her soon-to-be-ex boyfriend, another has gone back to stay with her parents and one is very smug to be stranded in a house with a pool. Everyone exchanges pleasantries and the group chats about how life is going, all things considered. Things start typically enough for a quarantine Zoom call. When their hired spiritual guide loses her connection at an inopportune moment and the participants begin making fun of the whole ritual, something malevolent comes through from the other side and exacts its vengeance.
We follow six friends – Haley, Jemma, Emma, Radina, Caroline and Teddy – who liven up their weekly video call catchup by holding a socially-distanced seance over Zoom. It may be short, but by golly is it scary. Host is a horror film presented to us entirely over a Zoom call, with all the limitations from the time cap to the narrow field of view that this brings. These services have connected us with our work colleagues, and more importantly our friends and family, as we’ve all adapted to living and working from our own homes.įilms that incorporate technological artifice to enhance their storytelling are no new thing ( Searching and Unfriended: Dark Web were both released in 2018, while found footage horror dominated the previous decade), but a worldwide pandemic has forced filmmakers to get creative in order to keep releasing new projects. Out of necessity and practicality, video calling services like Skype and especially Zoom have kept people sane. Starring: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Edward Linard, Seylan BaxterĢ020 has changed the way the world communicates, perhaps irrevocably. Screenwriters: Gemma Hurley, Jed Shepherd, Rob Savage
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