Host, filmed entirely during lockdown, has all the hallmarks of your average work Zoom call. But thanks to some clever camerawork and the film’s super-creative practical effects team, this high concept, at-home chiller provides even more scares than your weekly video catch-up with ‘sweaty Jeff’ from accounts.Set somewhere in the barren wasteland of post-COVID Britain, Host sees six friends hire a local medium to conduct a seance for them.
Bored and feeling mischievous, the pals ditch their usual quiz while one girl invents a story about a boy in her school who hanged himself.
As anyone who has seen a scary movie before knows, this kind of prank is bound to cause problems – and the gang soon realises how pleasantly monotonous their lockdown.
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