Livestream

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.

This is one of the worst moves I've ever had the displeasure of watching, though I could not watch till the end.

The entire movie consists of excruciatingly over-acted performances; the "characters" were grievously annoying and unlikeable. The synopsis has it that livestreamers embark on a haunted house challenge. Where did they suck that information from? Nothing in this "movie" suggested this. Just screaming, put-on performances trying to conceal the fact that herein lies no talent of any kind. I was so overjoyed that they all got their asses handed to them. They deserved it.

Utter, utter trash, in every conceivable way.

In my experience it's never a good thing to have the writer also direct. When you add acting into the equation, you're doomed. One Victor Soares played the hat trick here. His direction was made easier by relying on a variation of the "found footage" genre, here using a "livestream" as his crutch... or in this case his walker.

His "hyper-manic Brazilian" character was especially annoying and would've been the low point, acting-wise in most no-budget movies, but here there were even more blatant offenders.

The main character was played by Sarah Moliski, it was her live feed and she was the master, or mistress, of ceremonies. Another absolutely spastic role of overacting and that Gen Z/Millennial sort of attitude that fills Tik-Tok and YouTube with their willful ignorance and airheaded know-it-all-ness. Oh, she plays it to perfection and I'll grant that her character felt legit. I hope she's nothing like that in real life. But the death of her character, like that of Soares, was not lamentable. More likely cathartic.

Mao Sun played a wannabe actor and funnily enough, he was the least talented thespian of a weak bunch. He wasn't asked for much and yet still struggled.

But the main problem was the writing. It really was pedestrian. Examples are rife, you'll see.

The location was cool and could've been much better utilized. It's a shame the writer/director/actor's ego got in the way. Jack of all trades, master of none

Add this together with a zero budget and, well, you're lucky you emerged with four stars from this viewer.

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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.

Awful! Please do NOT waste your time.

The synopsis is incorrect, no haunted houses or haunted challenges involved. The only thing "challenged" are the people responsible for this movie being made.

The main character is annoying AF, and so is her boyfriend Joss/Josh.

The story is terrible, and the acting is even worse. I doubt you'll see any of these people in anything else that is worthy of watching.

There are no twists or turns in this movie. Things are pretty easy to figure out, and very obvious from the start.

"Screamboat" was a better movie than this movie, and it's killer was a mouse ffs.