Such as a character running for her life but remembering to put a mask on. These aren’t normal human reactions and even nods to the pandemic come across silly. It’s found-footage idiocy 101, yet makes even less sense here. Characters will go to investigate a noise and bring their laptop/webcam with them. It’s very hard to care about any of them.Īs things really go wrong and people start to die, this Zoom meeting continues and continues. A bit of a problem when we’re supposed to care about their perils. Names are said and promptly forgotten and a handful are even quite unlikable. The cast are fine, no bad acting here but their characters are non-existent. No, its problem surrounds everything else starting with the characters. Making you jump and giving off creepy vibes isn’t Host’s problem. Not just getting the desired reaction but leaving a hollow feeling in the pit of the stomach. In fact, there are one or two that work very effectively. However, that’s not to say they’re all terrible. You see, the false story allowed an evil spirit to latch on to the ‘character’ they created and now it wants to make them suffer.Įxpect jump scares and get jump scares, that is what Host has to offer. Rightfully so, this annoys a few of the others but that is nothing compared to the terror they’re about to go through. Of course, some scoff at the idea and even though they’re asked to be respectful, one behaves poorly making up a story about someone who died. Six friends are meeting up on Zoom alongside a medium to have a little séance. Perhaps though, its biggest sin is that it is quite dull which is some feat considering it’s only 57 minutes long.ĭirected by Rob Savage who co-wrote it with Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd (seriously? 3 writers for this?). However, on the other it recycles so many ideas and tropes that it begins to give off seriously strong feelings of déjà vu. That it uses everyone’s favourite online meeting place, Zoom to great effect. On the one hand, you have to admire that Host was a movie made during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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