The first great entry in a genre already dubbed “ quar-horror,” Host imparts the message that nowhere is safe-especially not the online spaces that Big Tech offers as refuge. But Savage’s film portrays the paranoia that haunts the housebound this summer as a demonic entity unleashed by a Zoom call. The director Rob Savage sets his movie in a familiar virtual zone-a Zoom session-flipping the script on the current conventional wisdom that online meetings are a safe alternative to in-person gatherings. But the new film Host takes an unexpected approach. During a pandemic, just about any spot where people congregate will do. Every generation has its dark places, settings where horror filmmakers stage the zeitgeist’s fears. The woods outside Burkittsville, Maryland.
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