Host
Someone new has joined the meeting.
Six friends gather via video call during lockdown for a séance that promises supernatural thrills. What begins as a carefree game fractures into genuine terror when an uninvited entity answers their call. Trapped in their separate homes, they realize the presence bleeding through their screens is also bleeding into their physical reality, turning isolation itself into a weapon.
Host collapses found-footage grammar into lockdown's temporal prison: Savage ditches the genre's usual sprawl for mathematical constraint—56 minutes, one unbroken Zoom grid, escalation without mercy. Where Unfriended weaponized platform chaos, Host treats digital séance protocols as scripture, letting frame restrictions and latency glitches carry narrative weight. The film's actual antagonist isn't supernatural—it's the suffocation of platform-mediated sociality, the medium as cage. What makes it quietly radical: the refusal to break its own formal rules for jump scares. Critics who dismiss it as gimmick miss how thoroughly its form expresses its content.
- Original Format
- Digital (webcams Zoom)
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.78:1
- Original Runtime
- 57 min
- Sound
- Stereo
- Color Process
- Color
Entirely shot on Zoom during COVID-19 lockdown. 57 minutes, the length of a free Zoom call.
