Strange sounds, phantom touches, and flickering lights begin to freak out the friend group. But these jibes aren’t appreciated by the dead. Sweet Emma (Emma Louise Webb) and smirking Caroline (Caroline Ward) nervously joke to break the tension. The jocular Teddy (Edward Linard) and snarky Radina (Radina Drandova) make up a drinking game, while spirited Jemma (Jemma Moore) toys with psychic Seylan (Seylan Baxter).
That’d be Haley (Haley Bishop), a true-believer in the astral plane, who struggles to get her weekly Zoom mates on board. Like Unfriended, the entire movie is shown as if you’re watching the laptop screen of the chat’s host. Savage, Gemma Hurley, and Jed Shepherd collaborated on the screenplay, which follows a group of friends as they conduct a seance over the video-chat app. I’ve been hearing strange noises from my attic, so I called a few friends and went to investigate… /CxmJAf44ob- Rob Savage April 21, 2020 The two-minute short packed a punch, offering a solid proof of concept, which urged Shudder to produce a feature-length version. The creation of Host began with a Zoom-set short film, which director Rob Savage shared on Twitter.
It’s set during the pandemic, and it’s the kind of scream-inducing scary that’ll make you nostalgic for sleepover movie nights or the before times when we could easily go see a movie in theaters with friends!
This now-streaming Shudder exclusive was made entirely during the pandemic. That’s why it’s almost infuriating that Host is as good as it is. It’s not like on top of working from home, home-schooling kids, planning meals three times a day, and trying not to fall apart at the seams you don’t have the time or mental bandwidth, right? We all deserve applause for functioning at all at this point. I mean, if Shakespeare could pull it together to write one the greatest plays of human history during a plague, you could at least write a novel, create a concept album, or elevate the rom-com. “Did you know Shakespeare wrote King Lear during a plague!?” They chirped as back-handed encouragement. As quarantines shut down the world as we know it, too many took to social media to proclaim this could be a grand opportunity for creativity.
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