9 Found Footage Fates Worse Than Death

9. Host - Watching Your Friends Suffer

Host isn't the first film to make use of webcam technology or video calling, yet it's a movie that felt so fresh when it landed on our collective laps last year via the Shudder streaming platform.

2020 was a year in which the world was turned upside down, with quarantine restrictions and lockdown regulations in place across the globe. From the minds of Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd, though, Host managed to take this painfully real situation and use it as the launching point for one of the most impressive horrors of the year.

Like the rest of us, the core cast of Host find themselves partaking in weekly Zoom calls to help pass the monotony of lockdown life and isolation. What was unique about the particular video chat featured in this picture, though, is that it began with a fake séance that ultimately led to a very real demonic presence coming to the fore.

By the time this swift 56-minute offering concludes, the only fates left up in the air are those of Jemma and Haley - as the rest of the characters have had their heads smashed into their PC screen, their necks broken, been burned alive or terrified enough to cause their own death.

For Jemma and Haley, they've had to watch the majority of these brutal ordeals unravel for their friends - all while being tormented themselves, up until the movie ends as the call's Zoom timer runs out.