Host

Six friends arrange an online séance over Zoom during lockdown, bringing in a medium to lead it. What starts as a shared experiment goes wrong quickly, and the participants find themselves dealing with something that follows them out of the call and into their own homes. As the night goes on, they have to work out how to get through it.

Host is a British horror, mystery and thriller directed by Rob Savage, who wrote the screenplay with Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd. It runs under an hour and was made by Shadowhouse Films and BOO-URNS. The cast includes Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward and Edward Linard, playing characters who share their first names. It was released in September 2020, arriving between Savage's earlier feature Salt and his later work Dashcam, The Boogeyman and Other Mommy.

On IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 50,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.6 out of 10 from about 1,300 votes, indicating a modest but solid audience response. Its critics' rating stands at 7.7 out of 10 from 98 reviews, noticeably higher than the audience scores, suggesting reviewers responded more strongly to the film than general viewers did.