The following year, Host took the crown as the Scariest Horror Movie According to Science as it increased its audiences’ heart rates to go up to 88 BPM on average. In 2021, Sinister was declared the scariest, causing audiences’ heart rates to reach 86 BPM and spike to 132 BPM from jump scares. The Science of Scare Project from Broadband Choices carries out studies to declare which horror movie gets audiences' hearts beating the fastest. It's authentic enough to give the effect that you are looking in on a real call but refined enough to still be an exciting and terrifying horror watch. Host genuinely feels like a real Zoom call without ever feeling like it's too low-budget or amateur.
The lighting and practical effects were done by the actors themselves. As aforementioned, the group all know each other in real life, and there was less of a script and more of an outline. But there are no breaks, no flashbacks to give you a breather, it is non-stop thrill and horror. Due to the fact that you’re looking at exactly the same screen as the characters, you're basically implicit in the story, you’re just as vulnerable as they are. “The film pulls you in” is a compliment used to death for movies, but this really does apply to Host.
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He wavers between, “Yeah, I’m in no rush to scare you” to “Here’s a full minute of just absolute horror.” There is no way to predict what is going to happen, and since the runtime is just 56 minutes, you have absolutely no time to prepare yourself. Savage’s pacing of the film is really where the magic lies. They can incite such an equal measure of absolute dread and paralyzing fear, and it’s a brand new way to both tell a story and terrify the audience. A simple Facebook message or friendly Zoom call doesn’t seem like it can be as terrifying as a knife-wielding Ghostface or a possessed girl with her neck turned 180 degrees - but trust me, they can be. Screenlife movies always push the boundaries of what directors can employ to scare us. But bring Orson Welles back from the dead and I'll bet he couldn't make a computer screen movie as terrifying as Host or Unfriended! Computer screen films or "Screenlife" means movies that take place through the computer screen of a character, with 2014’s Unfriended kicking off the current trend of them (but the first one ever was actually back in 2002 with The Collingswood Story). Yes, it may seem like too far a departure from “classic cinema,” and more gimmick than story. Savage was so dedicated to the prank that he tweeted weeks leading up to the prank about the “man in his attic.”Īs someone who has always adored computer screen movies, I know how many eye-rolls it musters just when they're mentioned. Savage borrowed the terrifying clip of the bloody man from the iconic found footage movie Rec. The friends didn’t know the prank was coming, but they seem as amused as they are terrified, and since they knew their friend is a horror director, they probably knew right away that this was down to some great directing and editing. As he slowly pans his camera around, a terrifying and bloody face pops out. Savage carries his device with him up to the attic, mirroring a scene in the movie where Caroline does the same thing, and it ends up being the “Shit Just Got Real” moment of the film. Savage tells his friends that he can hear something in his attic and his friends urge him to investigate and joke about it being mutant rats. In the video, he is on a Zoom call with a few friends, most of whom end up being in the feature-length Host.
Near the start of the pandemic, Savage shared a 2-minute video on his Twitter. The story of how Host came to be is almost as fascinating as the plot.
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