10 Shudder Originals You Must Watch For Halloween 2020

7. Host

Terrified Aterrados
Shudder

Proving every cloud has a silver lining, and that lockdown wasn't a complete waste of time, a a little horror movie called Host landed with a massive splash in the horror genre. Filmed, edited, and released during the period of lockdown, this little movie will be sure to creep out a new generation of horror fans, if not inspire a surge of imitators.

Set during the COVID crisis, a group of friends decide to invite a medium on to their weekly zoom call in the name of poops and giggles. Clearly having never learned anything from any supernatural horror that features a medium, they go ahead and conduct a digital séance.

Needless to say, the zoom call takes a turn for the worst, and they all soon find themselves at the mercy of something malevolent. Host is a brisk creative tour de force on how to achieve a lot of suspense with very little resources, and you'll never look at a zoom call the same way again.

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