Your Host

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Your Host

2025

1h 31m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Four 23-year-old friends go on a birthday retreat to a luxury cabin, while partying, they find a VHS Camcorder filming them from the woods. During the night they are drugged in their sleep by a man in all black who stays hidden in the shadows... but when they wake up, they find themselves in an abandoned factory transformed into a gameshow-like torture room. Their captor is a deranged host in an orange-velvet suit with a terrifying mask who forces the friends to play games and hurts them if they lose. In a twist of fate, it seems this is not random abuse. The host has a connection to one of the friends and he keeps it a secret. He gives them all a chance to admit it was them, to set three free and kill the one. When his target victim doesn't come clean, the brutal games continue. To survive, they must play unique and deadly games that only a psychotic gameshow host could invent. The host laughs as the friends betray, hurt, and eventually start to kill each other. But the only way to escape... is to win.

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

Torture game show, with a bad backstory.

Rated: C-

Nov 3, 2025

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Mikal CG

Film Threat

Jackie Earle Haley’s brilliant acting holds this entire piece together and makes it all work – and work well.

Rated: 7.5/10

Oct 24, 2025

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Matt Donato

Daily Dead

[Your Host's] carnage is noteworthy, and DW Medoff's management of Haley is immaculate, yet there’s a sour taste left by the rest of what’s involved.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 23, 2025

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Lucas Moore

JVS Media & Productions/Team JVS

Your Host pulls off some of the most creative stunts you'll see in horror this year and has an amazing third act that brings the film to a satisfying conclusion. Just don't expect to care for most of the characters on screen.

Rated: B-

Oct 17, 2025

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Taking inspiration from the Saw movies, director DW Medoff and writer Joey Miller clearly enjoy devising the most sadistic nastiness they can think of while keeping everything both jaunty and sharply pointed.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 17, 2025

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Stephanie Malone

Morbidly Beautiful

A blood-slicked morality play for the social media era, Your Host may not win points for originality, but it delivers where it counts — in guts, grit, and gallons of fake blood.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 15, 2025

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Lee P.

If i could give it no stars, i would. The acting is so bad!! I mean, so, so bad!! I bought it on Prime Video and turned it off 28 minutes in. It's the worst movie I've seen all year.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/05/25

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James .

The acting was horrendous plus little mistakes like this in moves really get to me there was a scene where the actor was picking up some trash he looked at a video camera that was on but before picking up the rest of the trash (there where a few more little pieces on the ground) he took the trash bag outside, I mean who just leaves a few more pieces that where beside the ones you were picking up on the ground? Sorry this just really irritates me.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/02/25

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sebastian andres o

A little gem we occasionally find around. It possesses grace and intelligence to keep the viewer on edge, backed by a skillful direction that combines tension with bloody moments, evoking the early days of Jigsaw.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/29/25

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tm11999 M

this isn't really a movie, it's simple torture porn. none of the characters make any attempt to grab when they can and the ending isn't an ending at all. y'all should get ready for more contestants as nothing is resolved. say your prayers instead of watching this sin of a "movie".

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/25

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Austin C.

The beginning of the movie was boring but the rest of it was great

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/25/25

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Al S

This was a thoughly disappointing movie that was barely saved by a few moments of decent gore.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/24/25

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Four 23-year-old friends go on a birthday retreat to a luxury cabin, while partying, they find a VHS Camcorder filming them from the woods. During the night they are drugged in their sleep by a man in all black who stays hidden in the shadows... but when they wake up, they find themselves in an abandoned factory transformed into a gameshow-like torture room. Their captor is a deranged host in an orange-velvet suit with a terrifying mask who forces the friends to play games and hurts them if they lose. In a twist of fate, it seems this is not random abuse. The host has a connection to one of the friends and he keeps it a secret. He gives them all a chance to admit it was them, to set three free and kill the one. When his target victim doesn't come clean, the brutal games continue. To survive, they must play unique and deadly games that only a psychotic gameshow host could invent. The host laughs as the friends betray, hurt, and eventually start to kill each other. But the only way to escape... is to win.

Director: DW Medoff
Producer: Seth Michaels, Sara Sometti Michaels, Reece Foster
Screenwriter: Joey Miller
Distributor: Benacus Entertainment
Production Co: Benacus Entertainment, RNF Productions
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 14, 2025
Runtime: 1h 31m

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