Speaking to the director over Zoom (a truly nerve-racking experience having watched Host the night before), he provides us with insight into the frantic production of his film and the importance the original viral “prank” played in getting it made. It’s one of the most unusual and exciting short to feature stories we’ve followed on Short of the Week and whilst many of us have struggled to put on trousers for the last few months, Savage has created the ultimate self-isolation film.
Well, the “guy” in that video was director Rob Savage, a filmmaker we’ve featured on S/W three times – with Healey’s House, Salt & Dawn of the Deaf – and he’s taken that initial idea to freak out his friends and expanding it into the truly unsettling Horror feature Host, for Shudder. Featured on news sites worldwide, with headlines ranging from Man leaves friends petrified after investigating ‘footsteps’ coming from attic and Guy scares sh*t out of friends after telling them there’s something making noise in attic, the 2-minute video went viral, clocking-up millions of views. A few months back, when most of us were at the height lockdown and working-life was now dominated by never-ending Zoom calls, you may have seen a video doing the rounds online about a guy who scared the living sh*t out of his friends on a video call.
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