Making a movie that is both scary and funny is extremely rare.
Usually if it's funny, that significantly reduces how scary it is. And if it's truly scary, it's unlikely to be funny.
Anyway, here's a review of Deadstream (2022) which managed to be both scary and funny.
I'm personally not much of a horror film fan, but my husband loves them. So we watch them semi-regularly. Jump scares freak me out, along with the tension leading up to potential jump scares, so I'm that cliche person watching the tv like "nope, nope, don't go in there, nope, why would you do this" while clinging to my husband's arm or something.
There's a big ecosystem of low-budget horror films that are made with a lot of care and attention, and this is one of them. It was made by a husband and wife team, and the husband also starred in it. I watched some behind-the-scenes info about it, and the detail that went in was pretty crazy.
The non-spoiler premise is that there is a famous streamer who does all sorts of wacky stunts for his audience, but he messed up and got demonetized and cancelled for a while. He's trying to make a comeback now, so he is facing his biggest fear: spending a night alone in a haunted house while livestreaming it.
This premise is smart, since it lets them face a lot of horror tropes head-on. Often, horror films are frustrating because characters make stupid decisions like splitting up, or checking on something creepy when they clearly shouldn't, etc. But since this is an influencer doing everything for money and audience, he has rules set up that he *has* to check anything creepy out or he will forfeit the stream's sponsor money, and he has to do certain other things that purposely make it scarier or riskier.
It's not an elevated, thematic film at all. Instead, it's a well-executed satirical B-movie that fully owns what it is. Was pleasantly surprised.
Usually if it's funny, that significantly reduces how scary it is. And if it's truly scary, it's unlikely to be funny.
Anyway, here's a review of Deadstream (2022) which managed to be both scary and funny.
I'm personally not much of a horror film fan, but my husband loves them. So we watch them semi-regularly. Jump scares freak me out, along with the tension leading up to potential jump scares, so I'm that cliche person watching the tv like "nope, nope, don't go in there, nope, why would you do this" while clinging to my husband's arm or something.
There's a big ecosystem of low-budget horror films that are made with a lot of care and attention, and this is one of them. It was made by a husband and wife team, and the husband also starred in it. I watched some behind-the-scenes info about it, and the detail that went in was pretty crazy.
The non-spoiler premise is that there is a famous streamer who does all sorts of wacky stunts for his audience, but he messed up and got demonetized and cancelled for a while. He's trying to make a comeback now, so he is facing his biggest fear: spending a night alone in a haunted house while livestreaming it.
This premise is smart, since it lets them face a lot of horror tropes head-on. Often, horror films are frustrating because characters make stupid decisions like splitting up, or checking on something creepy when they clearly shouldn't, etc. But since this is an influencer doing everything for money and audience, he has rules set up that he *has* to check anything creepy out or he will forfeit the stream's sponsor money, and he has to do certain other things that purposely make it scarier or riskier.
It's not an elevated, thematic film at all. Instead, it's a well-executed satirical B-movie that fully owns what it is. Was pleasantly surprised.
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