Streaming in the UK now and in cinemas Fri Dec 4. Rob Savage, the director and co-writer of Host, finds a surprising amount of ingenuity in mining the horror of yet another quarantine conference call. If you’re after a film to scare you witless and teach you the ins and outs of video conferencing, look no further. The meat of it unfolds within the familiar parameters of a 45-minute Zoom call, but there’s enough creepy atmospherics and nastiness crammed in to leave you drained when the call ends. Six friends accidentally invite the attention of a demonic presence during an online séance and begin noticing strange occurrences in their homes.

The 48-year-old actress has announced the news via her TV talk-show, revealing that shes already. Host wears its debt to found-footage horrors like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity on its sleeve, while briskly reworking the formula into a laptop-based horror with big jumps and relatable bits where the wifi craps out. Drew Barrymore is set to host the 2023 MTV Movie and TV Awards. She forgets to tell them that taking the piss during the seance could have very grim consequences. Host is a 2020 British computer screen supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage. She turns out to be a medium who promises to connect them with spirits. The premise has a group of uni mates catching up on Zoom, laughing, in-joking, doing shots and grousing about being stuck inside quarantining as they wait for the star attraction to turn up. Major props to director Rob Savage and his cobbled-together cast and crew for whipping up something this fresh and freaky while the rest of us were busy trying to keep up with Joe Wicks on YouTube. Until someone makes a film about a haunted sourdough starter, this ingenious horror movie will remain the zeitgeistiest thing to emerge from lockdown.

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