Haley’s done this before and is quite confident about it, while Emma and Caroline are nervous, Radina needs a break from her controlling boyfriend, and Jemma (Jemma Moore, pictured below) is jokily sceptical. The story begins with Haley (Haley Bishop), who’s hosting the event, welcoming her buddies to the online meeting. The various bits of fiddling about and dodgy connections will be familiar to anyone who has found Zoom an only partially acceptable substitute for three-dimensional human interaction, while having the action partitioned off into discrete boxes with a limited field of view means that very small effects – bumps, thumps, flickering lights, a sound of heavy breathing – can evoke mounting terror out of all proportion to their size. Previous films such as Unfriended and Searching have deployed computer screens to tell their story, but the idea of using Zoom adds a different dimension, and Savage has cannily exploited the parameters of the setup.

British writer- director Rob Savage (a 2013 Screen International Star of Tomorrow, factoid fans) has made the most of the unwelcome imposition of our first national incarceration by creating a Zoom-powered horror movie, in which a group of six friends gather around their phones and laptops to stage an internet-powered seance.

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