History Film / Host

* TheDanza: All those involved on-screen are using their real names as their character names.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie has its events happen in less than one hour, being shot in Real Time over a Zoom call that lasts about 50 minutes before ending.

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Jemma's made-up story of the boy at school includes the detail that he helped her when she "cracked her head open" in an accident. The medium explains that the spirit is wearing this fictional person and story like a "mask", and towards the end, it flings a glass bottle into Jemma's head, thus giving her the injury she had made up in the story.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: [[spoiler:Alan's hanging body]] can be seen in the background when [[spoiler:Radina]] goes to use the bathroom shortly before the JumpScare where it's dropped onto the ground.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: The spirit makes short work of its prey, systematically killing them off one by one without any warning over the course of about 20 minutes. It is also smart enough to go out of its way to cut Seylan off from them, as she's the only one capable of banishing it. [[spoiler: Its deadly efficiency leaves the entire cast presumably dead by the end of the film.]]

* SeeTheInvisible: Emma tries this with flour (generating footprints) and then again with a robe (draping over the invisible spirit). [[spoiler: It kills her anyway.]]

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: As soon as he runs outside, [[spoiler: Teddy sees his girlfriend and yells out for her. She instantly gets jerked into the air and has her neck snapped, falling into the pool below her.]]
* TheNameless: The spirit is never identified, in fact nobody even attempts to identify it, and it is referred to in the credits as simply 'The Spirit'.

** [[spoiler:Jemma and Haley's fates are unknown after the spirit attacks them as the Zoom call ends at the instant it does so.]]

''Host'' is a 2020 independent British supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage. The film is distinct for taking place entirely in a screencast of a Zoom video call, and was not only shot during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic directly through Zoom over a 12-week period, but also sets its story in the pandemic as well. It was released exclusively through Shudder on July 30, 2020, the same day the events of the film take place.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The spirit favours some horrific deaths, including bashing someone's head against their own computer and setting people on fire.]]

* JumpScare: The film is packed with sudden shocks, especially in the second half once things go sideways. [[spoiler:The film even ends with one courtesy of the spirit lunging towards the screen, although this one is kind of predictable because you can see there are only a few seconds remaning before the call automatically ends.]]

* JumpScare: The film is packed with sudden shocks, especially in the second half once things go sideways. [[spoiler:The film even ends with one courtesy of the spirit lunging towards the screen, although this one is kind of predictable because you can see there are only a few seconds remaning before the call autoamtically ends.]]

* JumpScare: The film is packed with sudden shocks, especially in the second half once things go sideways. [[spoiler:The film even ends with one courtesy of the spirit lunging towards the screen.]]