Host

The characters, performances, and the skillful way [director] Rob Savage sets up his scares really save this movie.

As impressive as the stunts and practical effects are, especially for a film that came together so quickly, much of it will be recognizable to...

It’s still rubbish – you’ll be constantly yelling, "Just turn on the bloody lights!" – but a good kind of rubbish.

Though the film gets off to a slow start, once the scares start coming, Savage has his audience in the palm of his hand.

There are well-placed jump scares, ones made all the more impressive by the fact we are seeing them via webcam.

An effective shocker for our quarantine times.

"Host" observes uncannily the supernatural, ephemeral, and material worlds colliding together, gesturing toward an uncertain future.

Even if Savage didn’t ground the film so perfectly in the inherent social terror of moment – setting this specifically in the time of pa...

For what it is, it works.

Good directors embrace limitations, and Rob Savage has more than proven his worth on this front.

Host is a lean, nasty little exercise that might not linger for very long but it shows what can be done during this difficult time.

Savage and co-writers Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd do a fine enough job setting up their movie’s better set pieces, but it’s hard...

An adrenaline-spiking fresh take on a well-worn horror format, Host transcends its high-concept premise to deliver original ideas – and s...