“One of the things I was keen to do off the back of the prank video is withhold a lot of stuff from the cast.
This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Here he explains how this unique production came together. But what starts out as innocent fun quickly takes a sinister turn, with an evil spirit invading their homes and putting all their lives in danger.Īs well as acting in the film, the cast did their own make-up, lit their own scenes, operated their own cameras, and created their own practical effects, while Rob directed them all from his own front room. Host revolves around six friends who ask a medium to oversee a séance over Zoom. But while the rest of us were making banana bread, doing PE with Joe Wicks and watching Tiger King, writer-director Rob Savage – best known for horror short Dawn of the Deaf – was hard at work.Īnd what started out as a prank to scare his friends turned into Host, a genuinely terrifying flick that hits streaming service Shudder this week. The film industry ground to a halt in March when coronavirus forced much of the world into lockdown. During his investigation, he edited in a scene from the horror film to fully freak out his friends, with his prank going viral.A still from Host, the new horror film shot during lockdown, by Rob Savage. Due to social distancing precautions, Savage never set foot in the same room as his actors at any point during production and instead directed them remotely.Įarlier this year, Savage played a prank on his friends in which he was on a video call and went to investigate sounds he heard coming from his attic. The film stars Haley Bishop ( Deep State), Radina Drandova ( Dawn of the Deaf), Edward Linard ( The Rebels), Jemma Moore ( Doom: Annihilation), Caroline Ward ( Stalling It) and Emma Louise Webb ( The Crown), who also operated their own cameras, helped pull off their own practical effects, and lit their own scenes. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night. Host is the story of six friends who hire a medium to hold a séance over Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargain for as things quickly go wrong.
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