“Host:” Quarantine Horror for the Online Generation
Shudder’s Host (not a particularly original title, I must say) attempts to bring the spooks to “the quarantine generation” by presenting us with a scary Zoom call during lockdown.
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REEMA (NIUMA), a happy-go-lucky girl while on her island for holidays meets ZAID (LUFSHAAN), a land surveyor from Male'. For them, it's hate at first sight but through comical meetings they fall in love. But REEMA'S life is thrown in to unpredictability and turmoil when connection to ZAID is mysteriously lost after he leaves to Male' promising to return within few days. Days turn to weeks and weeks to months. While REEMA waits desperately, she sees her life changing unexpectedly as if fate has other plans for her. Can she survive these changes of events? Can she fight fate and wait for ZAID forever? Should waiting for true love be a punishment?
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REEMA (NIUMA), a happy-go-lucky girl while on her island for holidays meets ZAID (LUFSHAAN), a land surveyor from Male'. For them, it's hate at first sight but through comical meetings they fall in love. But REEMA'S life is thrown in to unpredictability and turmoil when connection to ZAID is mysteriously lost after he leaves to Male' promising to return within few days. Days turn to weeks and weeks to months. While REEMA waits desperately, she sees her life changing unexpectedly as if fate has other plans for her. Can she survive these changes of events? Can she fight fate and wait for ZAID forever? Should waiting for true love be a punishment?
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Genre:Drama, Romance
Written By:Mahdi Ahmed, Mahdi Ahmed
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Runtime:140 minutes
Studio:Farivaa Films
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