Host is a quick and dirty frightfest that will inevitably conjure up comparisons to the Paranormal Activity and Unfriended franchises. None of the actors were ever in the same room together, and Savage directed everyone remotely. Savage also shot it entirely using Zoom, the video software du jour. Host’s main hook is that it’s not just about the current uncertain moment of lockdown in which we’re all finding ourselves. British director Rob Savage’s new horror film Host debuted on Shudder Thursday. So it was only a matter of time before someone made a film about the coronavirus. Starring: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Edward Linard, Seylan Baxter Written by: Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd

And once you take out all the nostalgic re-releases of The Empire Strikes Back, Jurassic Park and the like, the domestic Top 10 for this month is mostly horror with a side of Palm Springs. T he highest grossing film of July 2020 was Relic, a horror film released only to drive-in theaters and VOD. Horror films always surge in popularity when a country is going through turmoil. It’s certainly the genre of the moment for this pandemic.

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