Host is a short, tightly wound lockdown horror told entirely through one group video call, where a seance is treated as a joke by the friends taking part.
If you want more of that, these films give you more screen-only scares: haunted video chats, livestreams and everyday tech turned against the people using it.
About the film: Host (2020)
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Unfriended (2014)
Friends on a group video call are joined by an unknown user who knows their secrets
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The Collingswood Story (2002)
A long-distance couple's webcam chats bring in an online psychic and a string of supernatural events
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Dashcam (2021)
Host director Rob Savage's next film: a live-streaming musician drives a stranger through London at night
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Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
A game night on a group video call turns dark when messages for a laptop's real owner arrive
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The Shadow Side (2020)
During lockdown in Buenos Aires, a woman on nightly video calls feels something else is in her flat
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Untitled Horror Movie (2021)
Out-of-work actors shoot a horror film over video calls and hold a real seance for one scene
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Searching (2018)
Not horror, but told entirely through laptop screens and video calls as a father hunts for clues
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The Den (2013)
A student studying a webcam chat site sees what looks like a murder on a stranger's camera
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Confined (2021)
Separated by lockdown, a couple can only talk by video call as strange things happen around her
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Deadware (2021)
Two friends on a 1999 webcam chat find a browser game that might be haunted
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E-Demon (2016)
Old college friends reunite on webcam, and a demon starts jumping from one video window to the next
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Don't Log Off (2025)
A lockdown birthday video call goes wrong when one friend suddenly vanishes from the screen
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Mind Body Spirit (2022)
A would-be yoga influencer films herself following a ritual her estranged grandmother left behind
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Death of a Vlogger (2019)
A vlogger with a shrinking audience catches something strange on a livestream from his flat
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