A few years back, we got the disastrous “Unfriended”. It was a horror film that took place on a Skype call. With the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns in full swing during 2020, many were now using Zoom to chat to friends and colleagues. “Host” is therefore a horror film that takes place on Zoom. While you may admire people for getting creative during the challenges of lockdown, this is a devastatingly bad movie.

A group of friends decide to hold a séance over Zoom during lockdown. They hope this will just be a bit of fun but of course, things take a terrifying turn. Instead of just the tedium of a Zoom call, they’re forced to deal with supernatural threats.

The characters in this are mind-numbingly dull. Talking to real people over a video call software can be awkward due to the technical issues and just the fact that you’re not really in the same room as them. Seeing fictional people try to have a Zoom call is just unbearably boring. I don’t care about these people because they’re not doing anything more exciting than I am. I don’t know if the adults here are more or less annoying than the teens in “Unfriended”.

Like “Unfriended”, I had to turn this film off because it was just so obviously not going to captivate me. We live in an era of 4K video and terrific audio, “Host” tries to force us to endure watching pixelated video with dodgy audio. Overall, I think this is worse than “Unfriended” because this comes after that film so it’s not even original in concept to have a horror film take place over video call software. I hated the whole lockdown experience and I don’t want to be reminded of it with bland films like this. I know the lockdown was difficult for most people and some were just trying to be inventive by making things like this but I just absolutely hated what I saw of this.