Host (2020)
I love horror, but I loathed this. Every participant appears somewhere on the scale between annoying and insufferable. It's under an hour long and there's still 20 minutes wasted on drawn-out set-up before things actually get started. We get the usual stereotypes of those looking forward to the seance, those who are nervous, those who think it's a lark, and the usual 'What was that?????? Oh, it's nothing' fake-outs. It has the same shouting over each other/loud crashes offscreen/camera jumps that 'found footage' movies are crammed with. Plenty of 'Shut up! Shut the **** up!', What the **** was that?' and 'Seriously, what the ****?' edgy dialogue. And of course the staple Blair Witch Project barely audible dialogue, whispered through choking tears. I've seen other films use this kind of format that were okay, but this was dreadful. The last horror movie I remember finding this overhyped was Paranormal Activity. This is basically Paranormal Activity by Zoom. 4/10