![]() ![]() ![]() In effect, it’s like trying to run half a dozen different film shoots at once. We can only imagine what an unusual and demanding shoot this must have been, especially for Savage in the role of coordinator for all of these actors filming their own segments. But it also looks like Host got fairly ambitious with its practical effects when it comes to throwing its actors around, especially considering that most of the time those actors were having to rig the effects themselves. And some of the specific scares here, like an invisible force leaving footprints in flour or white powder, have been lifted directly from Paranormal Activity. 20 years later: Hunter is obsessed with finding. A Wolf’s Cross pendant hangs around her neck. The child is wrapped in a blanket with satanic symbols. Leave ’s official synopsis reads: An abandoned infant is found in a cemetery in the United States. The “horror movie over online conference call” has been around for more than half a decade, since 2014’s Unfriended. Horror Two friends embark on a horror-fueled road trip and livestream the most terrifying night of their lives. This is the premise of Alex Herron’s new film, Leave, which is now streaming on Shudder. Sure, we’ve seen pretty much all of this before. Not once did director Rob Savage ( Dawn of the Deaf) actually set foot in any of the actors’ homes due to social distancing protocols, and we have to say that considering all those limitations, what they’ve produced actually looks surprisingly competent. ![]() This film was truly shoe-strung together by its cast and crew, being filmed entirely by the actors themselves in their own homes. ![]() Shudder’s new original film just hit the horror streamer this week, and packs a trailer that is both knowingly derivative but fun in its own especially “DIY” sort of way. Of which I can only assume Host will be a prime example. That means all of the Zoom commercials, the Zoom sketches on SNL, and yes, the Zoom horror movies. When we’re looking back on the age of the coronavirus pandemic a few years from now-hopefully that will actually come to pass-then we’ll surely at some point have to collect all of this era’s “Zoom parody” pieces into a single tome for assessment of how they reflected our anxieties of living through the pandemic. The film’s synopsis reads: Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. ![]()
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