![]() ![]() Other noteworthy Shudder originals include The Beach House, Revenge, and Terrified. Which is admittedly not a deal-breaker when the staging is as innovative as Savage achieves at his best: standing out against all the shaky, blurry, screamy high-jinks, there’s a bit that physically weaponises a character’s laptop against her, resulting in something like the ultimate in technophobic brutality (somewhere, the David Cronenberg of Videodrome is smiling). Shudder also has a fantastic slate of originals such as the Zoom inspired horror film, Host. Shudder has released the first trailer for an upcoming horror thriller titled Host. The characters are ciphers, and the extended roundelay of kills comes off as simply mean-spirited. Movie Trailer Host Horror Shudder Zoom 3 years ago by Joey Paur. ![]() The speed with which Host was produced and that sense of rush elide real melancholy, and what we’re left with is a contraption. The constant toggling between multiple webcam perspectives is impressive on the level of editing, sound design and post-production manipulation: an atmosphere of realism is established and maintained throughout. What the film lacks is the embedded empathy of Unfriended, which was closer than anything else to Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s formative social-network allegory Pulse (2001) – a fable of outcast sadness metastasising into vengeance. Six friends weekly hangout over Zoom turns into a living nightmare when they begin noticing strange occurrences in their homes. ![]()
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