Rob Savage and Jed Shepherd name The Blair Witch Project among Host's influences, and the film references it: horror told entirely through the characters' own recordings.
Film· 2020· Horror
Host
by Rob Savage
Host: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced Host
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Savage and Shepherd name Paranormal Activity among Host's influences: a haunting captured on domestic cameras, scares built from what moves at the edge of the frame.
Savage and Shepherd name Lake Mungo among Host's influences: an apparition glimpsed in recorded footage, and grief that invites something in.