![]() Host currently holds a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, with The New York Times saying Savage "finds a surprising amount of ingenuity" in the premise, while Pajiba says that it's a "satisfyingly scary picture," The Guardian says it's a "genuinely effective little chiller," and the Austin Chronicle dubs it "one of the most brutally innovative horrors of the last few years. ![]() But when an evil spirit is conjured, things quickly go wrong. The premise of the movie is straight forward six friends hire a medium to hold a seance over a Zoom call during the COVID-19 pandemic. With this incredibly fast timeline in mind, critics say the end result works surprisingly well. Host was directed and co-written by Rob Savage and released exclusively on Shudder on July 30. Following a group of six friends whose weekly Zoom call turns dark when they decide to conduct a seance, the movie was "conceived, shot and edited in 12 weeks," and it came together after a video of 28-year-old director Rob Savage pranking his friends on Zoom went viral back in April, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Shudder, the horror-focused streaming service, has debuted a new 56-minute horror film called Host, which takes place entirely on Zoom and was made from quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() This weekend on streaming, horror fans can find themselves being scared silly by. ![]()
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