Host

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“Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.”

Found footage movies tend to be the most successful and entertaining when they not only capture an individual story, but rather something that encompasses and environment the view can connect with. That is one of the brilliant things about this movie. It captured supernatural fears with the tense times of the Covid lockdown.

By the time that Host was released, the entire world completely understood Zoom meetings and the medium of an internet meeting gives us a familiar connection.

Since the friends can’t get together during Covid, they decide to do a Zoom seance. My sarcastic ass had the first thought of “what if the ghost doesn’t have W-Fi?” Although, it appears many of them seem to share my sarcasm.

But, the witch in me is like – should you be so sarcastic about something you’re not familiar with? And in this movie, as you guess, the answer is no.

The spiritual guide warms them ahead of time to be respectful and of course, there is one gal who decides to pretend to be getting some message from the spirit realm. This opens up a sort of doorway to let something not so nice to join.

There is the belief that energy is energy so then why wouldn’t things from the beyond decide to hop on the old Wi-Fi waves and pop on in? Maybe ghosts got bored during quarantine as well.