And Diane Kruger shows an adeptness for playing an alien that she had not shown for playing human beings over the past decade. New horror film 'Host' filmed mostly on Zoom - YouTube A new horror film directed and written by Rob Savage was filmed mostly over Zoom during the pandemic lockdown. At the worst of times, you have the anticlimactic 'The Host' which states in its own less than credible way that what makes us all human is inane soap opera, as expressed by author Stephenie Meyer's awkward sexual politics.(If Saoirse Ronan ends up looking lost, you know there is something seriously wrong with the story.) Even after a bad start, the movie does get somewhat better when William Hurt shows up on the scene. Melanie has other ideas, however.Įven at the best of times, it can be hard to visualize certain concepts of science fiction for the big screen. Available on the streaming service Shudder, the horror film, directed remotely by Rob Savage and shot in actors' homes, follows a group of friends who decide to hold a sance on Zoom during. For the Seeker(Diane Kruger), that is not out of the ordinary, as she hopes to get Wanderer to provide intelligence on other humans like Melanie's younger brother Jamie(Chandler Canterbury) and friend Jared(Max Irons). But somehow Melanie still resides in the back of her brain.

Somehow she survives, even after literally putting a dent into the pavement. The plot of Host (which was filmed over 12 weeks) is deceptively simple: six friends, clearly sick of virtual quizzes, hire a medium to hold a séance over Zoom during the coronavirus lockdown. Instead of being assimilated into an alien intelligence that has conquered the earth, Melanie(Saoirse Ronan) jumps out of a window from a tall building.

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