Your Host | Four friends fight for their life in a twisted Game Show

Your Host | Four friends fight for their life in a twisted Game Show

Celebrating its World Premiere at FrightFest 2025

There is always a winner

Benacus Entertainment in association with RNF Productions are delighted to announce that their dark and gruesome horror, Your Host, is set to have its World Premiere at this year’s FrightFest on 22nd August.

Directed by DW Medoff, Your Host stars Academy Award-nominee, Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, A Nightmare on Elm Street), Ella-Rae Smith (The Stranger), Jamie Flatters (Black Dog), David Angland and Joelle Rae.

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.

New trailer here

Commenting on the film, Producer Seth Michaels has expressed his delight in Your Host’s Official Selection at FrightFest. “It’s a true honour to have our world premiere at FrightFest, a festival that has showcased some of the most iconic and trailblazing films over the decades. We hope the audience connects with Your Host in the same powerful way they’ve embraced past genre-defining works.”

Your Host will have its World Premiere at FrightFest on 22nd August

Director’s Statement – DW Medoff

When I first read Joey Miller’s script for Your Host, I was immediately drawn in. It wasn’t just the sharp dialogue or the relentless pace. It gave me a raw, unapologetic framework to explore the good and bad that coexists in all of us, and the brutal fallout of selfish choices.

There’s a sense of powerlessness in the face of consequence. It’s inescapable. The grotesque nature of watching nice kids get tortured by a wretched man is always horrific. I’m not asking you to forgive an executioner, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own internal conflicts.

Every character is a victim and a wrongdoer. The line is blurred because no one can decide right from wrong for you. Certainly not me: a director who makes horror movies and gladly watched as the cast gave grueling, wounded, and harrowing performances.

One of the most fun parts of bringing Your Host to life was the guts and gore. Having a game show host be the antagonist was a poetic license to commit atrocities that other premises could never give me the chance to commit.

Violence in this film isn’t just for shock value. This movie traps us in a game show, and you are its audience watching the blood soaked spectacle of pain. Ultimately though, making this movie is an exploration of a question: what is right and what is wrong when no one has the moral high-ground?

I hope audiences walk away grossed out, disturbed and hopefully a little excited to apologize to someone they wronged!