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.
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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.
Safer at Home is set to be released in Select Theaters, VOD & Digital on February 26, but does this movie - shot during the COVID-19 pandemic - make good use of its premise? Find our verdict right here.
Trailer: Recreational Drugs & COVID Don’t Mix in SAFER AT HOME from the Director of ESCAPE ROOM
Trailer: Recreational Drugs & COVID Don t Mix in SAFER AT HOME from the Director of ESCAPE ROOM By Josh Millican
Look for the COVID-themed horror movie
Safer at Home in select theaters and VOD platforms beginning February 26th courtesy of Vertical Entertainment. Give the trailer a spin and read more about the movie below.
Synopsis:
Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside.
In lockdown, no one can hear you scream.A virtual quarantine party takes an incredibly dark turn in the first trailer for
Safer at Home the latest thriller to mirror the COVID-19 pandemic. Set in 2022, the film imagines a world still grappling with the novel coronavirus. A brand-new strain has emerged and this one is both deadlier and more infectious than previous iterations of the pathogen that s kept the world shut down tight for the last year. With humanity still unable to leave their homes, a group of friends gather for a Zoom-based soirée that careens of the rails when they all ingest a drug that turns out to be something much stronger than molly.