I was very tuned into the idea that this was all Jemma’s fault by dishing out that lie, but that take on Haley’s ( Haley Bishop) possible connection to some entity certainly makes sense, especially when you also add in this deliberate sound decision:

And she might have inadvertently brought it in, and just by the medium kind of conjuring this psychic connection between the lot of them, that might be the thing that allows it to kind of feed on their collective summoning and start to manifest.” But, we also wanted this idea that Haley being a character who has performed lots of seances in the past, might already have something kind of lingering in her apartment, might already have something attached. That allowed something to come into this world and wreak havoc. Basically, on the face of it, he would have been fine, he would have had a lovely night unless he had come back because, you know, the transgression was Jemma making up the story about Jack. I think one thing and my co-writers think another thing. “Well, there’s two schools of thought here. Haleigh and I couldn’t wait to dig into the details on the development and production process, but we also went heavy on mythology and one particular thing Savage brought up in that department could change how you view the movie. Given the fact that Teddy ( Edward Linard) left the call before Jemma ( Jemma Moore) told that lie about Jack, would he have been safe if he never called back in or did joining the Zoom call in the first place already seal his fate? Here’s what Savage had to say: That being said, you can probably imagine how thrilled we were to have Savage on the latest episode of The Witching Hour. But, you know what? They wound up knocking it out of the park. Throw in the fact that Host was made during lockdown and there's really no denying that director Rob Savage and his team really had their work cut out for them with this one. How good is the new Shudder release, Host? As a big fan of screenlife storytelling, I'll always have high hopes that the format is loaded with potential, but there’s no denying that it's an especially challenging format to pull off.

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