With two seconds left in the film, ‘Jack’ attacks the two, and his horrifying face is burned into our retinas. Trapped in one of their apartments, they walk to confront ‘Jack’ down a dark hallway, with the Zoom countdown ticking down to the end of the call in the top right corner. One by one our party is picked off in horrific fashion, until we’re finally left with two who meet up in real life. Then, almost as quickly as the call ends, the group starts experiencing horrors beyond our worst imagining. The séance supposedly ends, but then strange things start to happen.Įventually, we learn from the psychic (over the phone) that a mask of ‘Jack’ had been created for any demonic entity to populate. Our psychic is booted from the call with technical difficulties, and it is then revealed that ‘Jack’ was never real. She says that Jack hanged himself and nobody ever knew why. All seems well, there are even some hijinks, until one of the bunch decides to lie to the medium about a friend she had in school named ‘Jack’. The movie begins with five friends consulting a professional medium to conduct a séance over Zoom.
Let’s get a quick synopsis out of the way first: But this one-this one really got me.īe warned, there are spoilers ahead (also, trigger warning for suicide mentions). I’m not some badass, I’ve just watched a lot of horror movies. Let me put it this way: it takes a lot for a horror movie to really scare the shit out of me. Peppering in references to the pandemic at every turn-our protagonists wearing a mask before heading outside, greeting one another with elbow touches, some of the girls lamenting the lack of a social life, and of course the integral Zoom call-the director creates a horror movie that definitely made me shut my eyes from fear once or twice. Somehow, to my surprise, Savage accomplished it. After all, how do you make a Zoom call scary? I’ll be honest, the premise sounded fairly ridiculous to me at first. The film’s premise is set in our current world, showing six friends conducting a séance via Zoom with the help of a practicing medium. In my opinion, that’s an accomplishment that can be awarded to “Host”, a Shudder original directed by Robert Savage. In an age when filming a movie is nigh-in impossible to do safely, when we touch elbows to greet one another, when the real horror seems to be the things going on outside, it can be really tough to create a horror film that actually scares you.
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