Now the video conferencing software is ubiquitous, it’s how many of us run meetings, talk to our friends and family, engage in quizzes, and replicate the pub experience as best we can. Remember July 2019 when lots of people had never even heard of Zoom? We are not in that world anymore. Though Host certainly leans into horror movie tropes that existed before it – you can see shades of The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity and Unfriended here – Host is put together with such ingenuity, particularly given the whole lockdown situation, that it’s difficult not to be somewhat in awe of what Savage and his extraordinary cast and crew have achieved. 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, with any luck, will look like a bizarre blip.

That’s 12 weeks from conception to its appearance on streaming service Shudder. But that’s actually worked to the advantage of director Rob Savage who has managed to create an incredibly timely, sincerely scary and wonderfully shot horror movie in 12 weeks.

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