The word ‘host’ can refer equally to anyone accommodating a houseguest, to the organiser of a group webchat, or to a person who has become possessed. All these meanings will come into play in Rob Savage’s Host, in which six friends, bored by the isolation of lockdown and eager for any kind of stimulation, agree…
Longer version of piece published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 The masked killer and the point-of-view shot have long been staples of the slasher, uncomfortably allying the viewer’s identity and perspective to those of the film’s antagonist – yet in Branden Kramer’s feature…