 If you're in the mood for a unique horror comedy and you keep thinking to yourself, man, what happened to the found footage style films? Well, you're in luck. There's a movie called Deadstream that fulfills that need, that craving that you have. All you need is shudder. Let's talk about Deadstream. This movie review comes at the behest of Joseph Riello on Patreon at Patreon.com slash Adam does movies. He's a Mithril member, which means he gets to request a movie. I have to review it, give him a tip of the fictitious hat. So we're talking about Deadstream today. This movie came out in 2022. It's not rated. I don't know why it's not rated. IMDB says it's not. I would put it at an R though. There is some blood. There is some gore. No nudity that I recall. And the most important part for me, it's only an hour and 27 minutes long. Get seeing it gets out. Doesn't waste time. But is it a good hour and 27 minutes? Well, I think it is. I think it is. Is it great? No, no, but it is creative. It plays with the tropes and it has a hell of a lot of fun in the process. It also brought me back to my childhood days, filming with my buddies, these found footage style whoreflicks out in a cornfield or in a creepy basement, cameras shaking, people are freaking out. Now I will say this, the found footage genre can really turn people off due to the overwhelming amount of shaking. It seems like a director strapped a camera to a bird and let the thing loose. That's not the case here. This is actually found footage how it would be shot by a person that at least knows how to hold their arms straight when they have a camera in it. They're not just doing this the whole time. No, it's polished found footage. And the film is able to get away with creative shots, different camera angles because we're following an influencer, an obnoxious influencer. Joseph Winter plays Sean. He's basically the only character in this film. You're following him the entire time. Actress Melanie Stone shows up playing Chrissy a little bit later in the movie. It's a smaller role. She's solid. They're both really good at what they're doing here. Sean specifically does a fantastic job embodying the obnoxious creator on YouTube, on TikTok, wherever this person lives. They exist all over the place. He actually reminds me of a character I do called Khaleesi Grimes 82 on a show called The Cringe. Used to be on this channel. You can find some of them. Now it's a Patreon exclusive and a YouTube join exclusive. If you're at the $10 membership, you can watch those every single month. New episodes of The Cringe are coming out starting in just a few days. So I'm very excited. I'll have an announcement video on that separately. But for now, Joseph absolutely nails it as Sean. And that's going to come at a price for some viewers. Some people might not be able to stand Sean. He's very dramatic. He's very over the top. He screams at the top of his lungs constantly anytime he hears a noise. He's just freaking out. It can wear a person down for sure. All right, let's get the premise out of the way without ruining anything. Sean's one of those douchey content creators that goes around filming dead bodies in woods. Things like that gets in hot water, gets kicked off a bunch of social media platforms. And now he's trying to revitalize his career, make his image a little better. And to do this, he does the only thing that a person of his stature would do. He breaks into a haunted house for the night where he's going to record everything. He has all these rules where he's going to throw his keys into the woods so he can't escape. Anytime he hears a creepy noise, he's going to investigate. He's going to go against normal people's instincts for the lulls, for the views, for the revenue. What a great time to be alive. This is very much comedy first, horror second. I found it scary maybe twice because of the atmosphere they built up just kind of like what's behind this door, what's behind this closet, sort of a thing. The lighting's very bright. It's pretty punchy. You're inside a very creepy house, but it doesn't feel that scary because the lights are always pretty bright in the rooms, even when it's dark. It's still pretty solidly light. And that's not a negative necessarily, but if you're looking for something that's going to scare you, probably not this. This one's going to make you laugh. It is going to entertain you. You'll get in, get out, and you'll be like, well, that was a fun little experience. Definitely something new and refreshing for a change. A few highlights for me in this thing. I like that they even incorporated the music to the found footage angle where Sean has made his own mixtape and he plays John Carpenter-esque songs when he goes into different rooms. I like that Sean's character is so phony that even when he's scared, he still comes off as disingenuous. This guy is so far gone from how a normal person responds to things that it's hard to really believe anything he's saying or take it seriously. He's also full of shit, which adds another layer to everything because you're kind of thinking the whole time, is any of this real? Is it all elaborate setup? My favorite thing about this is how he interacts with his fan base. He asks them questions. You have the live feed coming in once in a while where people are making fun of him. They're calling him dad. It's pretty damn funny. And they even submit videos telling him what they think is happening in the house. That stuff was really well done. It did add a little bit of eeriness to it all. They could have even gone further with that. As it stands, Deadstream, a very easy watch. Thank you again, Joseph, for the request. I enjoyed this one. 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