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. Just when so many of us have become desensitized to the mundane horror of never-ending Zoom meetings and the isolation of quarantine, comes a movie that explores just that. With this incredibly fast timeline in mind, critics say the end result works surprisingly well. 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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