Safer at Home Review: Friends Don t Let Friends Take Molly on Zoom
A video-chat party during shutdown goes south in this dull, implausible thriller.
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Running time: Running time: 85 MIN.
Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment
One of the sleeper hits of the shutdown last year was Rob Savage’s British horror “Host,” a very short (just under an hour) and sweetly scary tale of friends whose weekly Zoom call during COVID quarantine gets crashed by an unwelcome supernatural visitor. It was, however, bound to be the exception which proved a preexisting rule: that found-footage thrillers remain a tapped-out genre, no matter if one in every 20 or so manages to squeeze some new life from the form.