HOST is a 57 minute long movie that Rob Savage directed entirely over Zoom in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The movie was released on Shudder at the end of July, and it's turning out to be a massive success for the 25-year-old filmmaker. Sam Raimi has come on board to produce a single-location supernatural horror film that Savage will be directing from a screenplay by Micah Ranum, and now Savage has set up a separate project at Studiocanal.
Very little is known about the Raimi collaboration, but Deadline has learned that the Studiocanal project is being described as "THE CONJURING behind bars". Savage told them that the film will be a
melding of the prison escape movie and the haunted house movie, in which a group of women who stage an unsuccessful breakout attempt discover a secret room that unleashes a dark presence that marauds the halls at night. The film will have a claustrophobic quality akin to THE DESCENT."
THE WIND screenwriter Teresa Sutherland is writing the script. (You can watch THE WIND at THIS LINK.)
Savage is hoping to get the film into production sometime in 2021. Jed Shepherd will be producing with Studiocanal.
I haven't watched HOST, but a prison break movie that draws comparions to THE CONJURING and THE DESCENT sounds interesting to me.
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