Livestream

It feels as though the director went to directors school at Youtube University and is stuck in Forever 17. I predict they will not be the next Stephen King or any other name you will ever hear again. Apparently my review is too short so I will add that nothing in this movie, absolutely nothing cannot be found for free on youtube. And they dont even use directors. I would have to be paid to watch this again. As for the actors, nothing special about any of them and I would have to add that I would guess that they based their acting ability on what they see on youtube and they all probably have their own sad channel with sad subscribers.

Heading out to a special house, a team of social media influencers streams their exploration of a haunted cabin, which will be perfect for their followers to watch them navigate and find themselves haunted by a series of past indiscretions, distracting them from the real threat in the house.

This was an utterly disappointing and underwhelming modern genre effort. The main focus is on some of the most vapid and annoying figures possible in this kind of scenario, with the hyper-excited, self-centered figures looking to ensure internet popularity at the sake of likability. There's very little about who they are, what they're at the house for, and the desire to keep the cameras recording on everything that happens at the house. Very few of the interactions here make for a fun time getting to follow them. It doesn't help that there's a constant stream of other unlikable factors that emerge over time with the group getting far more frayed with each other for lame indiscretions including secretly filming each other while trying to engage in private moments, using the shoot for ulterior motives without their knowledge, or just accusing each other of asinine factors that just don't make them all that easy to follow along. On top of that, there's so little actual point to labeling this a genre effort. The scares are nonexistent with everyone running around yelling at each other the way they do, the live one-take format grows old incredibly easily due to the lack of action preventing it with doing anything extravagant or outrageous, and the whole thing gets wrapped up with the most predictable of outcomes possible that renders any attempt at surprise or suspense void with the whole thing given away so the film doesn't have much genre interest going on. Further damaging everything is the layout on-screen, as the constant influx of messages and jabs by the commentators makes this a consistent headache trying to manipulate the on-screen action and keeping an eye on that to ensure there's nothing hidden away in the form of easter eggs to what's going on. By the time it finally clears up at the end, it's too little, too late to save this one with all these issues.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Of course I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. And despite it being a 'found footage' movie about social media 'influencers', then I will say that the acting performances were actually fair.

Writer Victor Soares certainly had a fair enough idea for the concept of the storyline and script, just a shame that it was made as a 'found footage' movie and focusing on social media freeloaders. So yeah, in my opinion, if Victor Soares had opted for a properly filmed movie and changed the characters away from narcissistic social media 'influencers' to regular people, then the movie would have been a whole other level of enjoyment. But as it was, then the movie stood a snowball's chance in Hell of winning me over.

"Livestream" was not a great movie to sit through, because I absolutely loathe 'found footage' movies and social media 'influencers'. And this movie's theme was a combination of those two things, so I was not in for an evening of stellar entertainment here. This is definitely not a movie that will grace my screen a second time.

If you enjoy horror movies, then I would not recommend you to waste 91 minutes on watching "Livestream". Some of us literally suffered through this ordeal, so you don't have to; you're quite welcome.

I am sorry, but hand-held camera footage and narcissistic social media freeloaders just doesn't cut it for me. And the constant flood of messages from the viewers was a major nuisance, as it often stole focus from the happenings on the screen.

My rating of writer and director Victor Soares's 2025 movie "Livestream" lands on a very generous two out of ten stars.

This is some taylor swift fans brand of horror. It's cheesy, morbidly cliche', utterly predictable complete with low budget performers. One word. Corny. I'm not going to include any spoilers but going into the movie I immediately figured out the plot in literally less than 3 minutes after they introduced certain charaters. From that point on I had to decide if I'd give it a chance. Sit until the end. Well, I almost made it. I just could not get with the overly zealous, feigned so called jump scenes not to mention it just made no sense. Perhaps a movie like this may sit well with soysagues and soy egg consumers but in the real horror world, this does not measure up to even be placed in the genre. At best, this may qualify as a thriller...without thrills.

It's not worth the watch. Really bad acting, but I can't tell if it was the actors fault or the writing was so bad that even the best actors would make this a bad movie. I don't know why people make "horror" and throw out second-grade common sense and force them to make and do stupid, non-realistic things throughout the movie. There are several moments that are stretched way too long for no reason, just to fill up the space to make it a longer movie. I guess their motivation was the Blair Witch Project, but they missed by a long shot. My suggestion is to actually rewatch what you made and be honest with yourself and ask the question, Would I rewatch this? Because the answer would be no. I will say the actor who was signing was on point a very good signer. The only thing in the movie that was enjoyable.