Rob wanted to make them believe a zombie had eaten him, live on a Zoom call. Rob, Jed and some friends were meeting for Zoom ‘happy hours’ during lockdown. TOP TIP: Make contacts and collaborate wherever you can. Of course, it’s Shudder who is now streaming Host! They did (and now some of those students are in Host, too!).ĭawn of the Deaf ended up at Sundance which opened a lot of doors, including with US management and platforms like Shudder. A drama school gave them the money on the condition they put their students in the film. They wanted to make a feature, so made the short as a ‘proof of concept’. Jed then pitched Rob a short horror film called Dawn of the Deaf, which they made for just £7K. It was called Touching from a Distance and prompted Jed to reach out to Rob on Twitter, saying they should hang out. Jed and Rob met when Jed saw Rob’s 16 second comedy short (yes seconds, you read that right!) online. Here’s what director and co-writer Rob Savage and writers Jed Shepherd and Gemma Hurley had to teach me and the Bang2writers … Enjoy!ġ) You Have To Make Your Own Opportunities Luckily for me no ghosts or monsters came after me as a result.
So I met the creative team behind séance horror movie Host on Zoom … because OBVIOUSLY! In fact, had the pandemic not happened, this horror movie may never have been written and produced at all. Receiving rave reviews and a whopping 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, Host was conceived and shot in Lockdown! That’s right, Host did not exist even in its creators’ minds BEFORE March 23 rd, 2020.
Host (2020) is a low budget British Horror movie that IMDB describes as, ‘Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.’
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