However, what starts off as a laugh (and an effective drinking game) soon turns sinister when the friends start to experience events much more frightening than awkward Zoom silences. Host tells the story of six friends – Emma, Teddy, Caroline, Hayley, Jemma and Radina – who, while bored in lockdown, decide to take part in a séance over the popular video chat programme, Zoom. So the fact that it’s actually going to go to the cinema is bizarre and amazing!” I think we thought it would be something fun to do with our friends,” says Emma Louise Webb, who plays Emma in the movie (all of the characters have the same name as their actors) “ if it works then it would be great, and if it didn’t we still had fun. “I don’t think any of us really expected it to get to the cinema.

Originally commissioned and shown on the horror subscription service Shudder, word of this Zoom-based found-footage horror soon circulated and the movie will now be available to watch on the big screen this December.

Now, that’s saying a lot during this particular year but the film’s popularity is clear. What did you do while in lockdown earlier this year? Well, while this particular writer decided to watch all seven seasons of Mad Men (true story), the cast and crew of Host made what the poster boasts is ‘the scariest film of the past decade’.

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