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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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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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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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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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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?

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[Analysis] Shudder's HOST (2020): Getting to the Heart of Social Distancing

HOST (2020), Shudder’s brand new feature film, premiered on the streaming in late July 2020 to much acclaim.

Featuring relative unknowns in Haley Bishop (Deep State 2018), Jemma Moore (DOOM: ANNIHILATION 2020), Radina Drandova (Dawn of the Deaf 2016), and Caroline Ward (Stalling It 2020), HOST touches on our anxiety of quarantine and the invisible danger lurking beyond it in a neatly-paced virtual horror that takes place entirely through the video conferencing service we all have come to rely on this year, Zoom.

We are quickly introduced to our unknowingly ill-fated characters, and the scene is tersely set: They are to perform a seance at the request of the person to start the video call, Haley. We are shown that there’s something strange happening to her and from her admonishing of another character, Jemma, we learn this seance isn’t a joking matter.

Just as quickly, the rest of the characters are introduced, and we dive into the seance. With a lot of references to quarantine and staying safe, we learn this world is very much set in our own: it’s best to stay inside.

Yet staying inside is no safer, as we all know. The unknown lurks behind every corner, perhaps in a forgotten counter that needs to be wiped down after being touched, hands unwashed that trail across everyday objects…

Much like in our real world, we have our disbelievers of the invisible, namely in the aforementioned Jemma. She routinely makes a joke of the seance and dealing with the unknown, much to Hayley’s chagrin, and it is easy to wait for things to pick up for her to meet her demise.

Things pick up when Jemma jokingly creates a character, Jack, to ‘make something happen.’ She tells a tear-jerking story of a boy who hung himself, unknowingly, according to the medium invited to lead the call, inviting ‘any’ entity into their seance. Her joking nature quickly becomes serious as she realizes the severity of what she’s done with her friends being toyed with and killed off one by one.

It is interesting to note that when another friend Teddy, who originally joins the chat and gets disconnected before all of the terrible stuff happens is fine—until he logs back in. He and his girlfriend meet their end pretty quickly once he does so—which is our fate nowadays. A quick in-person meeting with friends can easily lead to an unsuspecting friend/family member falling ill or worse in our current climate.

It’s easy (perhaps too) to draw the parallels between those who don’t wear masks and adhere to the CDC’s suggestions in our waking life, and those who ignore or disobey the medium’s warnings in this movie, so I’ll leave it there.

TL;DR

With heart-pounding jump scares, and just-on-the-camera demon reveals before the characters meet their deaths, HOST is an excellent catharsis to deal with our new world. We’re locked inside (some of us), but we’re no safer from the threat outside our walls if we absentmindedly let it in.

THE MONSTER: COVID19 or more specifically, those who reject its seriousness.

MONSTER RATING: 9/10 for a chilling look at how our actions influence those we hold dear, especially in this volatile time.

Look out for the review and a quick analysis in the next Monster Thoughts video coming this week (Wednesday, August 5th, 2020).