“I think it was then that Shudder and a bunch of other production companies got in contact with Rob, Jed and Doug our producer and were just like: ‘Hey, we saw what you did with no budget, what could you do with a budget?’” Haley Bishop explains. “He’d made this incredible contraption on his laptop where halfway through he’d switch from the phone onto the laptop, which was sort of cut in with his attic, and he scared the living daylights out of every single one of us! He recorded it all, cut it all together, and then put it out on the internet.
“Then one day he got us all on Zoom and was like ‘shall I go up there?’” she continues. Then Rob planted the seed that there was something in his attic and so we were all like ‘whatever, just don’t go up there you’ll be fine’. So we were watching movies on Netflix and we were doing quizzes. “The whole crew I think is pretty much in that group.
Things become a lot scarier for our friends…įor our six actors, the project also started off as something of a laugh: “We’re in the Quarantine Movie Club group, and it’s basically all of our creative friends,” Jemma Moore explains.
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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