Your Host

Play trailer

1:22

Your Host

2025

1h 31m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

82%

Tomatometer

11 Reviews

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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.

Watch on Fandango at Home

Stream Now

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

Full Review

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

Full Review

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

Full Review

Thom Ernst

Original Cin

Your Host is less a thrill ride than a rerun: watchable in its moments, frustrating in its missed opportunities, and in need of a tighter script if it ever hopes to climb the ratings.

Rated: C+

Oct 6, 2025

Full Review

Anton Bitel

SciFiNow

Your Host really is derivative of James Wan’s Saw (2004). Yet where the puppet master in Wan’s film “never killed anyone, he finds ways for them to kill themselves”, Barry is not afraid to get his hands a little dirty.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 15, 2025

Full Review

Kat Hughes

THN

A familiar format that is somewhat elevated by Jackie Earle Haley’s performance, Your Host is ultimately a throwback to the early era of Saw, but focuses too much on imitation and too little on innovation.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 28, 2025

Full Review

Read all reviews

Ryan M

Haley is great, the rest not so much.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

Full Review

Troy R

Jackie and Ella-Rae had good performances but the rest were pretty bad. The story is very done before and unfortunately this one was kind of soso. It is relatively realistic but the ending is a little out there. Overall its not the worst movie ever, but it is unfortunate the it was not better.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

Full Review

rgb B

It's a really good freaking movie! Jackie Earle Haley is great in it. To a degree, it's like SAW meets Captain Spaulding. (And the hot, thick, luscious Joelle Rae chick is gorgeous, for extra eye candy.) lol

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

Full Review

Ashley A

Fast paced movie that kept me interested. No expectations of what was going to happen next.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

Full Review

Adrian J

Good movie with amazing acting worth your time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

Full Review

Ruben C

I wish I could leave a two letter review. It would be a NO!!!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/18/25

Full Review

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

POST RATING

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

DW Medoff

Director

Jackie Earle Haley

Actor

Ella-Rae Smith

Actor

Jamie Flatters

Actor

David Angland

Actor

Joelle Rae

Actor

Your Host: Trailer 1

1:22

View more videos

View more photos

Synopsis

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

Most Popular at Home Now