'That's everything I need to say as far as reaching African Americans, which is the population most vulnerable to this virus,' says Brown, who is Black himself.īut escapism is also the point, say Nathan Crooker and James Gannon. Part of what makes Stay At Home so effective - and heartfelt - is the insistent drone of news anchors discussing the mounting carnage. As of this writing, it's racked up nearly 200,000 views on YouTube. Based on the myth of Pandora's Box and the evening news, Stay At Home is elegantly lit and crafted.

'And the story started to build and build and build.'īrown went to film school, and you can tell. 'I literally just grabbed a box, and I set up the camera on a tripod and gave myself a scenario,' says Kenneth Brown, a former Uber driver turned horror auteur. (They come from Brazil, from Canada and from, well, Funny or Die.) And a new movie Host, filmed over twelve weeks in quarantine and entirely on Zoom, debuted on the horror channel Shudder last week.Īmong the most chilling of the YouTube offerings is Stay At Home, part horror movie and part PSA from a filmmaker in New Orleans. And now, a few filmmakers are making it official.Īll over YouTube, you can find inventive homemade horror shorts taking the pandemic as inspiration. It's no exaggeration to say this year feels like a horror movie. A quarantine seance performed over Zoom goes awry in the new horror movie 'Host,' streaming now on Shudder.

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