Deadstream

Very fresh and energetic found footage and probably the most ideal Halloween horror entertainment this year. It works both on the level of the joke and on the level of the scare. Only the opening half hour or so was weaker, because the main character is such an annoying dick. But then when bad things start happening to him, the film picks up the pace and there’s plenty of fun. (10/16/2022)

What to do with a comedy that is not funny and a horror movie that is not scary or brutal? This is pure overhyped mess. I was quite looking forward to Deadstream, the reviews were positive, but I'm going to have to go strongly against the grain because I just didn't find it good in many ways. The protagonist is a big problem for me, a whiny unsympathetic moron whom I didn't find funny or entertaining, I felt awkward most of the time, and the whole movie feels like a child youtuber playing “Silent Hill” on Twitch and squealing like a woman while doing it. The acting is so tragic that it would have been bad even in a C-movie. The very concept of the main character spending the night in a haunted house is fine, but I didn't find the house creepy either, in fact I found it so cozy that I would have slept there just fine too. Add to that a lot of bad SFX, worse than Raimi had 40 years back in Evil Dead and there's something to be said (obvious dummies). The plot is weak, the gore is rubbish, the scares didn't impress me one bit, I found it absolutely not funny and the first hour is a heavy cringefest and quite tedious, too. The finale was relatively okay and the found footage form isn't as annoying here as elsewhere, but the financial shortcomings are damn near everywhere. Host and Grave Encounters are gold in comparison. Plus I take it as propaganda of influencers and youtubers, which I hate from the bottom of my heart. 4/10 (10/19/2022)