Host (2020)
Film details
View on IMDb ↗CastHaley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Alan Emrys, Patrick Ward, Edward Linard, Jinny Lofthouse, Seylan Baxter
KeywordsScreenlife, Digital Horror
Review
"Host is a Zoom-inspired flick that, in less than an hour, gets more mileage than all The Conjuring movies combined. A circle of friends hire a psychic to conduct a séance online and spice things up in the midst of the COVID epidemic. Like in every group, there's a skeptic all too happy to sabotage the ceremony — only instead of poking holes, this creates a virtual vessel that allows spirits to travel to the mortal plane. Host has no fat and makes great use of personal screens' negative space and the social dynamics that unfold on Zoom. The jump scares are effective as is the incidental comedy." - Jorge Ignacio Castillo, Planet S Magazine
Ranking history
The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data
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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)
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