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Host (2020)

31 Days of Horror My ★★★★★ review of Host #FilmReview #Film

Host (2020) Synopsis – Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit invades their homes, they realise they might not survive the night – Host. Director – Rob Savage Starring – Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward Genre – Horror |…

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4/60 Watching Every Non-US Shudder Original Film (Not Sponsored)

Film: Host (2020)

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Language: (British) English

Runtime: 56 minutes

Shudder Synopsis: Six friends get together during lockdown for their weekly zoom call. It's Haley’s turn to organise an activity and instead of a quiz, she’s arranged for a Medium to conduct a séance.

Director: Rob Savage

Writer(s): Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd

Cast: Haley Bishop, Radina Drandova, Jemma Moore, Caroline Ward, Emma Webb, Edward Linard

Pre-Thots: I knew nothing (as I prefer, as always), and didn’t even read the synopsis. I picked this one because it had the shortest runtime (56mins) of all Shudder originals, and I wanted to see what they were going to do with that runtime.

Post-Thots: Babyyyy, I was NOT disappointed. This might be the best spent 56 minutes of screentime I’ve ever seen. Even with a microbudget, and being filmed DURING lockdowns, this really worked for me.

Posi-Thots: Where to begin? Using a video call to give the scares, while lulling us into a false sense of security because it feels so grounded and mundane? Inspired. Dialogue: natural, funny, realistic. Overall look, feel, visual language: immersive, and using that immersion for scare points.

Techni-Thots: Hair and make-up: A short making-of-video I watched after mentioned this was self-done and/or not really applied, I loved that! Camera work: Again, the short mentioned this was self-taped, which baby, if we’re talking about working with what you have – amazing! SFX: rarely used and very well-executed!

Harsh-Thots: Honestly babes, there was this random man character and I was like “who are you, and why are you here?” I did not like that character’s energy or how the mood changed when he entered the video call. He’s not in much of the film, but I wish he’d been cut entirely. Maybe he was added so they wouldn’t have an all-women cast, but c’mon, we should be past that.

Personal Sub-Genres: Screenlife, (Digital) Found Footage, Occult/Supernatural, Set In The Pandemic

Rating: 5/5

Who Might Enjoy It: Fans of the current wave of screenlife films (e.g. Spree), fans of less-gorey films/ thrillers, fans of short-and-to-the-point films, fans of supernatural/occult themes, perhaps one to watch with non-horror fans.

Who Might Not Like It: Those who don’t like screenlife/ digital found footage, those who prefer lots of gore, those who prefer slow-builds, those who don’t like supernatural/occult themes, anyone not ready to watch a lockdown-themed film of any kind – LD is the backdrop, so keep this in mind.

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Host (2020)

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Host (dir. Rob Savage, 2020)

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🎃 Recommendation Of The Week (Halloween Special): Host (2020)

Dir.: Rob Savage

Cast.: Haley Bishop, Radina Drandova, Edward Linard, Jemma Moore, Caroline Ward, Emma Louise Webb.

Genre: Horror

Plot: Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.

Filmphilics score: 7/10

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Host (2020).

Dir. by Rob Savage.

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Host (2020)

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Host (2020)

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HOST (2020) ★★★★☆

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Film | Host - Review

My ★★★★★ review of Host #FilmFriday #Film

Host (2020) Plot – Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit invades their homes, they realise they might not survive the night – Host. Director – Rob Savage Starring – Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward Genre – Horror |…

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Host hits DVD/Bluray this February!

Host hits DVD/Bluray this February!

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to HOST from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. HOST will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 2, 2021. The film is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 100 percent score on the Tomatometer.  HOST was shot remotely during quarantine and features groundbreaking…

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Evil Will Find You In The UK Trailer For Host

Evil Will Find You In The UK Trailer For Host

Will you sleep well tonight after you watch this Trailer? Evil will find you in the UK Trailer for Host, the critically acclaimed indie British horror for Shudder is set for an UK and Irish cinema release in December, courtesy of Vertigo Releasing.

The film may only run it 50 minutes long, but in the era of lockdown, this is made entirely on Zoom. If you use the software for work or to…

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Host (2020)

Director: Rob Savage

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 57 Minutes

Main Cast: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Edward Linard, Seylan Baxter

Plot:During the Coronavirus lockdown of 2020, six friends hire a medium to conduct a seance over a Zoom call. Some of the group take things more seriously than others, but what starts out slightly spooky turns sinister very…

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Host will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 2 via RLJE Films. Filmed during the pandemic and presented as a Zoom call, the 2020 horror film is streaming exclusively on Shudder.

Rob Savage (Dawn of the Deaf) directs from a script he co-wrote with Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd. Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, and Caroline Ward star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Behind the Scenes of Host

The Boo Crew Podcast with writer-director Rob Savage and writer Jed Shepherd

Séance with the Host cast and crew

Host is the story of six friends who hire a medium to hold a séance over Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargain for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night.

Pre-order Host on Blu-ray or DVD from Amazon.

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REVIEW: Host

There’s a reason HOST is listed as one of the “Best of 2020” on Shudder: it just works.

If you haven’t seen it, here’s the basics.

1. A group of six friends (Haley, Jenna, Redina, Emma, Caroline, and Teddy) ‘get together’ via Zoom call.

2. Haley’s arranged for a medium to join the call and for them all to hold a séance. About half the group takes it seriously.

3. The first person to be contacted by a spirit is Haley, who feels someone touch her shoulder, but Jemma feels this overwhelming pressure on her neck and immediately thinks of a boy, Jack. He had been kind to her one day at school, but later died by suicide; he hanged himself.

4. When the medium has to leave the room for a moment, Jemma cracks up and admits she made up the whole thing.

5. A destructive presence actually shows up and all hell breaks loose.

By its release on July 30, 2020 most everyone could see themselves in this group of friends. People are drinking more, goofing around as best they can, connecting over Zoom, having spats with their partners, and generally try to get on with life during a pandemic with as much “normalcy” as possible.

By that point in the summer, people were also sick of the quarantine routine and wanted to shake things up a bit. The idea of a Zoom séance doesn’t make us bat an eye. We’d all probably try it if we could.

However, we’d also be more prone to use it as a source of entertainment rather than take it seriously (because what isn’t serious nowadays?) and so we understand precisely why these six people end up in their horrific predicament — under similar circumstances, it could have been us.

The choice to use largely unknown actors only added to the verisimilitude — familiar faces would only detract from the relatability factor, especially in a time when celebrities were insisting they were “just like us.” I didn’t recognize Haley Bishop (Haley), Jemma Moore (Jemma), Emma Louise Webb (Emma), Radina Drandova (Radina), Caroline Ward (Caroline), or Edward Linard (Teddy), but the choice to name their characters after themselves was a good one, especially since they’ve worked together on projects before: Bishop, Drandova, and Ward were in Dawn of the Deaf; all but Linard were in Multiplex; and Moore and Ward were in Stalling It. Linard is the only one who hasn’t worked with the others in other films. It’s plausible they could know each other in real life, thus the use of real names. Of course, that’s only a theory.

The practical effects are excellent, as well as using an actor to play the demon. We’re not caught up on bad CGI so the scares hit harder and feel real — because everything is really happening. 

Best of all, no time is wasted. The movie is 57 minutes long and feels complete at that length. There’s nothing that feels like filler.

If you’ve got access to Shudder, give it a watch. It’s a demonic presence movie that could have ended up looking like a poor man’s Paranormal Activity with “predictable” written all over it, but instead feels completely original and kept me on my toes.

Wonderfully terrifying with tension that would dull any knife and characters that feel just like people you’d know. What’s not to like?