Hockey continues to dominate the Radio NL 610 AM airwaves, but there's still time for those fine purveyors of film de cinema to work their audio magic. From The Basement returns once again to pleasure your ear holes with a slew of new reviews, and an update on the local movie scene. First up: the movies! Jason and Shawn provide a feature review on Padraig Reynolds's latest effort, the slasher flick Open 24 Hours. This one stars Vanessa Grasse in a twisted tale at an all-night gas station. Does it deliver the spooky -- and let's face it, gruesome -- goods? Stick with us! And stick with us you shall, as The Basement Boys take on the latest Netflix original Project Power starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the ghost story Widow's Point from genre vet Greg Lamberson, and the horror/Western The Pale Door... all so you don't have to! But wait, local movie fans, Kamloops Film Society executive director Dusan Magdolen checks off a bucket-list item by comin...

Host is one of those great scary movies that come out of nowhere and completely win you over, much like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity before it. In fact, Rob Savage's lean, mean, scare machine is being compared to those genre classics, and rightly so. Set entirely during a Zoom chat in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Host is about a group of friends who decide to hold an online seance during their weekly call. Naturally, things go horribly wrong. Now, we know going in that something is going to go wrong, but Savage and his capable cast hold our interest from moment one, and there is an instant feeling of dread that never goes away. In fact, it builds and builds to a frightening climax that, although not unexpected, is pure gangbusters.  It helps the film is a scant 56 minutes -- not much longer than an average Zoom call on a free account -- and not a moment of that time is wasted. We get to know the characters through their interactions, and...