It has all the necessary tropes for horror movies: forced isolation, a young, good looking cast and sloppy deaths.īad things can happen when you fool around with the supernatural. Zoom has replaced the creepy VHS tape left in a cabin.ĭirector Rob Savage co-wrote HOST with Gemma Hurley. It’s called possessed, but that doesn’t have to be a negative thing.” That just means that the spirit is communicating through us.

We could all be the channel of communication, we could all be possessed. Seylan tells the girls, “There’s no reason why a spirit can’t communicate with us over the Internet. The girls, burdened by pandemic boredom, go on a Zoom Chat Room and hire a medium, Seylan (Seylan Baxter) to lead them in a séance. is a computer/smartphone of characters making “selfie videos.” In HOST, five attractive college-age girls, led by Haley (Haley Bishop), unleash supernatural forces that results in some gruesome online deaths. HOST shares similarities with the 2018 film UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB, where the camera’s P.O.V. That is the basis of HOST, an original film from Shudder, the streaming service devoted to horror movies which I lovingly think of as “the Netflix of Horror.” It is probably the first film made and released during our current pandemic and the first Zoom-based horror movie. “Zoom-bombed” has entered our consciousness. Thank you for your understanding and, again, we’re sorry!”īad things do happen on Zoom. We’ve been Zoom Bombed! Someone got the code and has hacked our yoga class with dirty pictures and offensive language – it’s not our fault! Please bear with us and this will be corrected shortly. What intrigued me was the Zoom Fitness Classes: Mandy’s Barefoot Bootcamp!” Then, a yoga teacher I know sent an email in a panic: “WARNING. Zoom has transformed itself with Zoom Parties, Zoom Business Meetings and Zoom Happy Hours. I had never heard of Zoom, the to-go for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations before the pandemic. During an online séance, six friends accidentally invite the attention of a demonic presence.

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