Deep Cuts Horror Hit List #3 “Host”

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Coming in at number 3, with some Pandemic inspired fear, 2020’s “Host” Each day in the month of October we will count you down to Halloween with our favorite, not-so-obvious guaranteed horror hits! We’ll tell you why each one made the list, what the critics say, who should watch it and who should NOT and what food/drink/atmosphere to pair it with each night…. And of course, where you can watch it.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:12.0	Hey there, folks.
0:13.1	It is Wednesday, October 29th, and the number three movie on our horror hit list is actually number one when it comes to
0:24.7	Rotten Tomato Score.
0:27.7	And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
0:30.8	We continue our horror hit list.
0:32.1	We are now in our top three.
0:34.3	This one has the highest rotten tomato score of any of the 30 movies we have on our list.
0:40.7	Robs put into some kind, put into words, our affection for this movie.
0:46.6	We love this movie. It is so digestible and fun. And every time we watch it which is now i think countless times we still feel
1:00.1	the excitement the rush and the appreciation of the movie it's on as we're talking right now
1:06.3	it's on in the background and you're right rose we have seen it so many times. The scares work.
1:12.4	The creepy factor works each and every time. This is number three. I can't believe we made just
1:17.7	number three. I know. Tell the people what number three is on our list. It is host. And it was
1:23.9	released in October of 2020.
1:28.1	Very important date.
1:29.2	Yes, because this is a pandemic film that is brilliant.
1:34.5	I mean, talk about artists using the current situation that we were in at that point and using it for horror.
1:42.3	It really was effective. I actually remember where I was,
1:47.2	when I watched this, I was sitting next to Nikki, and this movie scared the bejesus out of us.
1:55.8	I mean, we have to consider folks. We need to get into it a little. I'm just putting this together.
1:59.9	October 2020, we weren't that far. We weren't a full year into the pandemic necessarily just yet to think that
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