20 Best Found Footage Horror Movies Ever
16. Host
Though the found footage genre had become firmly niche by 2020, Rob Savage's Host breathed fresh life into it by being the right film to get made at just the right time.
Conceptualised, shot, and released in just 12 weeks during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Host is a screenlife movie taking place entirely within a Zoom call as a group of friends accidentally conjure a demon during an online séance.
For audiences themselves stuck at home during the pandemic, Host became a uniquely immersive found footage riff, but even watched in a freer today, there's a shrewd effectiveness to the scares throughout, most of which the cast had to execute remotely themselves, given that the picture was itself shot under genuine lockdown conditions.
At a tight 56 minutes in length, Host provides yet further proof that a film should only ever be as long as it needs to be, rather than padding itself out to what's arbitrarily deemed "feature length."