The cast had to shoot over consumer webcams and smartphones, so nothing is ever too clear, and you can tell they actually lived in the spaces they were filming. The film’s scrappy production also lends itself to the creepy atmosphere. If we spent any more time with these characters, as often happens with overcooked Netflix shows and movies, we might end up souring on the Zoom horror concept. It fits a ton of scares and character building into 57 minutes.
Indeed, Host’s short running time is one reason it’s so impactful. Shudder was also open to something shorter than a standard 90-minutes. The cast shot themselves remotely, and also handled their own effects and lighting. It gave him the freedom to shoot the film in order sequentially and in creative new ways. Shudder, an AMC-owned streaming service dedicated to horror, ended up being the perfect home for the film, Savage said. Then came the calls for a longer spin on the concept, which led Savage to enlist writers Jed Shepherd and Gemma Hurley to write up a 17-page outline. He cut the Zoom recording down to a two-minute clip which, unsurprisingly, went viral on Twitter. Savage gathered a group for moral support as he explored the creepy attic in his new apartment -but what they didn’t expect was for him to be attacked by a zombie, throwing him to the floor. The idea for Host came after director Rob Savage pranked his friends over a Zoom call, he told Rolling Stone. Like the audience, they’re all clearly tired of this shit. The annoyance of joining a Zoom call properly (and the piercing sounds of bad audio reverb). There’s the frustration of wrangling an older parent who keeps going outside, even if a short walk may mean certain doom. While we don’t spend much time with the friends before things get creepy, we see them deal with issues familiar to anyone living through the COVID-19 epidemic. And the aforementioned guy friend is staying with his girlfriend’s parents in the country.
One girl invited her short-term significant other to stay with her, but they’re clearly already tired of each other. Most are locked down in their apartments, but there are glimpses of the other ways people are sheltering in place. We meet the main characters, a group of young Millennial women and their obligatory, wild guy buddy. If you’re watching it on a laptop, it’s easy to mistake it for the ritual you may already be doing several times a day. The film starts with a Zoom call login (complete with manually selecting “Join with Computer Audio”).
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Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. God’s Not Dead 2 is streaming on PureFlix. It tries way too hard to present a “both sides” argument, which it spectacularly fails at, but not in a funny way. I’d recommend skipping the third movie, God’s Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness. God’s Not Dead 2 stars Melissa Joan Hart as a science teacher who is prosecuted for answering a student’s question about Jesus, and it’s equally ridiculous. The story is just as ham-fisted and persecutory as it sounds. It stars Kevin Sorbo as a smug college professor/atheist strawman who requires students to sign a paper declaring “God is dead” in order to pass his class. God’s Not Dead manages to check both boxes.
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Bonus points if a given movie is based on 1) a Contemporary Christian song or 2) a semi-true story that your grandma forwarded to you in an email. There’s no pastime more satisfyingly cringeworthy than watching evangelical Christian movies with your friends, especially if some of you grew up going to church, and some didn’t. Jesse Metcalfe and Melissa Joan Hart in God’s Not Dead 2.