For some horror fans, the found footage genre is nothing particularly unique.įrom humble origins in the mondo genre of the 60s and some notably nasty precursors in Italian shockers like 1980’s Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980), found footage only really hit its stride with The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, 1999). Both produced and set during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the plot follows a small group of friends who conduct a seance over a Zoom call only to trigger terrifying phenomena that threaten their very lives.

There’s rarely, if ever, been a more uncertain time and everyone is dealing with the crisis and coping in a variety of ways taking up hobbies, starting new businesses, or in the case of one particular British project, making a horror movie.ĭebuting on the VOD service Shudder at the end of July this year, horror fans were thrilled to discover a new British found footage film entitled HOST (2020, Rob Savage).

T he year 2020 has certainly gone in a direction even the most nihilistic cynic couldn’t have predicted.Ī mysterious new virus has flooded most of the civilised world and the entire globe is bearing the brunt of pervasive social distancing, lockdown restrictions, mass infections and deaths.

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