However, what starts off as a laugh (and an effective drinking game) soon turns sinister when the friends start to experience events much more frightening than awkward Zoom silences. Host tells the story of six friends – Emma, Teddy, Caroline, Hayley, Jemma and Radina – who, while bored in lockdown, decide to take part in a séance over the popular video chat programme, Zoom. So the fact that it’s actually going to go to the cinema is bizarre and amazing!” I think we thought it would be something fun to do with our friends,” says Emma Louise Webb, who plays Emma in the movie (all of the characters have the same name as their actors) “ if it works then it would be great, and if it didn’t we still had fun. “I don’t think any of us really expected it to get to the cinema. Originally commissioned and shown on the horror subscription service Shudder, word of this Zoom-based found-footage horror soon circulated and the movie will now be available to watch on the big screen this December. Now, that’s saying a lot during this particular year but the film’s popularity is clear. As the subgenre expands, though, topping the horrors of a particularly boring Zoom meeting at work may remain too great a task.What did you do while in lockdown earlier this year? Well, while this particular writer decided to watch all seven seasons of Mad Men (true story), the cast and crew of Host made what the poster boasts is ‘the scariest film of the past decade’.
Host is just the latest horror film to take place entirely on computer screens after movies like 2014's Unfriended and 2013's The Den, though given how well this particular project seems to have worked out despite coronavirus production shutdowns, one can only assume many more like it will be on the way. Not only was the film produced during the pandemic, but it incorporates the coronavirus crisis into its plot, and writes that it's "nice to see that the first horror movie to specifically address our present hellish circumstances is as unpretentious and tidy as it is." Host currently holds a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, with The New York Times saying Savage "finds a surprising amount of ingenuity" in the premise, while Pajiba says that it's a "satisfyingly scary picture," The Guardian says it's a "genuinely effective little chiller," and the Austin Chronicle dubs it "one of the most brutally innovative horrors of the last few years." With this incredibly fast timeline in mind, critics say the end result works surprisingly well.
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