Rob Savage has done an excellent job of directing these women to get the best out of them, especially when your tied to a Zoom call narrative. The writing in Host is very strong too… I am well aware that a movie like this will often have pages of no dialogue which is where tension setting comes in and I didn’t think a beat was missed. A huge shout out goes to Haley Bishop and Jemma Moore but all the ladies are great and draw you in from the moment the movie starts I was unaware of most of this cast but every one of them impressed the crap out of me.

The acting from all involved is top quality. However I don’t think I have EVER seen this concept done this well. Okay, so not exactly the freshest concept on the horror market, we have seen this type of story done before. The friends begin noticing strange occurrences in their homes as the evil presence begins to make itself known, and they soon realize that they might not survive the night. However, her prank gives license for a demonic presence to cross over, taking on the guise of the boy in Jemma’s made-up story. Bored and feeling mischievous, Jemma decides to have some fun and invents a story about a boy in her school who hanged himself. It’s Haley’s turn to organize an activity and instead of a quiz, she’s arranged for a medium to conduct a séance.

Six friends get together during lockdown for their weekly zoom call. A Blair Witch for the 2020s you could say… We wont, but you could. Well, well, well… I guess we knew it was only a matter of time before we started to get a plethora of lockdown movies coming out the woodwork and it would seem that horror based streaming platform Shudder are going to be the first to dip their toe into, what I assume, to soon be very crowded waters… I can’t say these are times I have been looking forward to knowing how fairly uncreative things can get when we are essentially just following a trend but like any reviewer or just all round movie lover It is my duty to at least watch the movies and give them a fair shot. Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb | Written by Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd | Directed by Rob Savage

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