Verdict
Summary
A quick and sometimes clever little horror film with a huge, heaping dose of sex and nudity (and at only 71 minutes, that’s a lot, trust me), Death Streamer had me nervous a few times with its high creep factor with the way the snuff / sex scenes play out … which is actually impressive considering how jaded I’ve become to horror films. The girls are uniformly hot (which is a major plus, obviously), the gore effects are convincingly executed on camera, and the performances are surprisingly good from a cast of newbies.
Plot:
A vampire is killing women on live streams, and a group of cryptid hunters shine a spotlight on him … but become the hunted.
Review:
An underground live stream of a guy who kills gorgeous women in a kinky sex club attracts millions of viewers and subscribers, and it becomes a regular attraction: The man (played by Sean Ohlman) has fangs, drinks blood, and behaves like a vampire, but is he the real thing? Meanwhile, a team of three struggling “cryptid” and ghost hunters (played by Aaron Michael McDaniel, Emma Massalone, and Kaitlin Moore) living in an abandoned church get wind of the intense vampire / live stream killings and set their sights on trying to track this guy down. When they air a show on the recent killings, they also realize several things at once: 1. The series of live killings all follow a very specific set of rituals, 2. The vampire guy might actually be a vampire, and connected to one of their recent investigations, and 3. The vampire and his cohorts are now onto them and will be hunting for them. Now that the proverbial game is afoot, the plucky hunters have to prepare for a war before they become the next victims on the live streamer’s next ritual.
A quick and sometimes clever little horror film with a huge, heaping dose of sex and nudity (and at only 71 minutes, that’s a lot, trust me), Death Streamer had me nervous a few times with its high creep factor with the way the snuff / sex scenes play out … which is actually impressive considering how jaded I’ve become to horror films. The girls are uniformly hot (which is a major plus, obviously), the gore effects are convincingly executed on camera, and the performances are surprisingly good from a cast of newbies. Genre veteran Charles Band wastes no time at all with his pacing, although the film is often conspicuously under populated and bereft of extras, taking place in two basic locations. Band is obviously an expert at these tight, super low budget films, but he’s always able to camouflage those shortcomings with solid production value, good camera work, attractive and capable actors, lots of nudity, and plots that are easy to follow, but also manage to hold your attention for under 90 minutes. Death Streamer is exactly what it needs to be, and for that it’s a success.
Full Moon’s new Blu-ray of Death Streamer is out now, and comes with a behind the scenes feature, footage from the premier, and bonus trailers.
