Oct. 10, 2026
Countdown To Halloween! Amy & T.J.'s Comedy/Horror Pick #1: “Deadstream”
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RSS Feed Every Saturday and Sunday we are counting down to Halloween, giving you our top recommendations for guaranteed horror movie hits. There are so many sub-genres in the horror movie category, so each weekend day we’ll highlight our top movies within that category. Today’s sub-genre is one of our absolute favorites: horror comedy. Who doesn’t like to laugh and scream in the same movie? It’s the perfect balance to entertain you, and keep you in the spooky spirit of the month.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Saturday, October 10th. You need a guaranteed go-to horror movie that is going to be a crowd pleaser. We have the movie for you, but you're going to probably have to put aside everything you think you know about horror movies and found footage movies. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We have reached number one, and this is a gem for us roves in the horror comedy world. genre. We found this one not too terribly long ago. We cannot believe this gem.
00:00:37
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:00:37
Speaker 3: We thought we were putting on a movie that we would, sometimes we just, this sounds silly.
00:00:43
Speaker 1: I'm almost embarrassed saying this out loud, but we turn on a movie, like a horror movie to fall asleep to. But this one, sometimes they turn out to be really, really good. And so we're like, oh, wait, this actually is such a good movie. Let's pause this for tomorrow. So then every night for about two weeks, I feel like Monday through Friday, we're trying to watch it. And yes, we're exhausted because of the time we get up. And I'm going to admit, I'm the one who kept falling asleep. But when we finally watched this thing.
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Speaker 2: That's probably not a good selling point for this movie to say she fell asleep on it for a week.
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Speaker 1: No, but the truth is, it was so good. I was trying so hard to stay up. It was just my body not allowing me to. But we knew it was so good. That's why we kept going back to it. And we kept returning to it. And we kept saying, we are finishing this movie because it's that good.
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Speaker 3: And it is.
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Speaker 1: It's called Deadstream. And it's a parody on a live stream. It's a horror comedy. And it's this interesting situation where you... love to hate the character, but you're kind of rooting for him, but you also don't care if he dies?
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Speaker 2: He carries the movie. He is the movie. He is wonderful. You won't recognize him, don't know who he is, where he came from, don't have a lot of credits, and in fact, it's him and his wife that actually directed this movie. But this guy puts on a performance. I'm not talking about some award-winning Oscar. He just commits to the bit. And the bit carries on the entire movie of a guy a youtuber who was desperately trying to hold on to his fame and his followers to get sponsors to pay and the the links he's willing to go to to make all that happen you could argue robes that's some type of um I don't know, some indictment of our society and where we are these days, instant gratification. He's going through this live stream and he accidentally curses and says, oh, please don't take my sponsors. Little things like that that are just, it's a gem of a movie, but this, yes. As we've been going through our horror comedy lists for you this weekend, we've given you now three, and number one on our list does deserve to be there. It is, yes, called Dead Stream. The synopsis kind of nails it here, and you find out really off the top of the movie robes in a, They do it in a really cool way. You don't even realize you're watching a movie almost. It looks like a commercial.
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Speaker 1: It does. It does.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good point. You are like, wait a minute. Is this the movie starting? And it is. Here's the synopsis.
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Speaker 1: After a public controversy left him disgraced and demonetized.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say demoralized. That's hilarious. Disgraced and demonetized.
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Speaker 1: A washed-up internet personality tries to win back his followers by live-streaming himself spending one night alone in a haunted house. When he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life and social relevance as he faces off with the sinister spirit of the house and her own powerful following.
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Speaker 2: It's a smart idea. It's clever. It's creative. It taps into exactly what a lot of what we see in society. How far are people willing to go to get followers on YouTube or Instagram? That is what this is. And oftentimes we see YouTubers get in trouble because of some controversy they set up. You know, some stunt that went wrong. This is that thing. So, Robes, this you have in the entire movie. Two actors, really? There's a third that makes an appearance, kind of. But you're watching a guy's live stream the whole time.
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Speaker 1: And it's funny because I read an interview that the main star and his wife, he stars in it.
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Speaker 3: They obviously wrote and directed it. And they said that very thing.
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Speaker 1: They were worried that they were basically just making a movie about with just one guy, like basically like kind of a selfie the entire time. And was that going to get old? Was that not going to work? And it truly did. It was remarkable. Someone put it like this, a critic said that this is basically the Gen Z version of the Blair Witch Project. And I would agree that that is, but it's so clever and the writing and just some of, as you pointed out, like when they make fun of live streaming and folks who are influencers and who are literally their rent paychecks are dependent on who follows them and how many likes they get. So it really leans into that and they have a blast with it. So, and there are jump scares. There are scary moments in this movie as well.
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Speaker 2: There is horror.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Now out of, let me think here, baby, out of the top three, you know what, of the three we've recommended in the horror comedy, this might be the most horror of them. There are legit, there's possession, there's demonic stuff going on. There's creepy stuff going on. There's ghost stuff. Creepy kids. Yeah. But it is probably the funniest maybe of the three as well. He does such a good job carrying this movie. And to anybody that might get a little turned off, I just don't want to look at one guy the whole time. They are able to mix it up because he's interacting with his audience. So you see cuts to different parts of his screens, and then he sets up cameras throughout this haunted house that he's in. So it's not just like you're staring at one guy in one live stream. They do have different camera angles, which helps carry the story along. Is it the writing here and maybe the performance as well? I am so impressed that he was able to carry a movie like this. We watch this movie now all the time. We don't just put it on.
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Speaker 3: We have it in the background a lot now because we like it. I will say this.
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Speaker 1: You kind of have to suspend because it's interesting when you first start watching it. He is, the main character, is annoying just by nature. And that is also a part of the parody, obviously, because he's this obnoxious.
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Speaker 3: YouTuber, live streamer.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes when I hear it in the other room, I'm like, wow, that really is annoying. But you get sucked into it, and it's weird how you don't mind how annoying he is because you're in it. You're with him, and you're kind of cheering him on, but also not wanting to see what happens next. It's funny, though, because have you heard how obnoxiously he screams and talks sometimes?
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Speaker 3: He's annoying the whole time. Completely, and yet it's so entertaining.
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Speaker 2: His face is right up on you. I mean, he's right in your screen the whole time. It's not the most, I don't know. complimentary angle of him necessarily it's kind of what do they call it commando it's kind of shot in such a way they know what they're doing here babe but it's it doesn't look that polished and that's the point.
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Speaker 1: Yes exactly uh the runtime again in our absolute sweet spot we nailed it today with our runtimes and the movies we've offered this one comes.
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Speaker 3: In at an hour and 27 minutes it's.
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Speaker 1: Perfect and i do love it even it like we recommend these movies we hope you like them as much as we do but at the end of the day it's not that big of an investment of time it's not like you wasted a whole afternoon it's an hour and 27 minutes and look the critics agreed with us they don't always oftentimes they don't we don't always agree with them that's very true but rotten tomatoes the critics 92 i was.
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Speaker 3: Surprised at how well reviewed it was were you.
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Speaker 2: That high from the critics um That is a surprise because, again, I don't see what they, I didn't read through a lot of theirs, but, Robes, that says a lot about this movie. That is, I mean, the budget for this thing couldn't have been more than a couple hundred thousand. Maybe. And to pull this off, it's just so smart, Robes. The writing, I mean, how they're going about it with a YouTuber, it seems like this is the exact scenario you could believe. Rose, this is a brilliant piece of moviemaking. Agreed. And I looked to see if they had anything else, and there were no other credits, major credits for this duo. I would love to see them do something else.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope they continue. This was in 2022, I believe this one came out. Yes, some of the critics wrote, Vanessa and Joseph Winter's low-budget, high-ambition project really hits its stride, resulting in one of the most fun haunted house movies in years. I think that's a really good way to put it. And I think it surprised a lot of people. They weren't expecting it to be as good as it was.
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Speaker 2: We weren't, no. No.
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Speaker 1: Again, we were putting it on literally as one of those movies. Oh, this might be kind of fun. Found footage. We'll slowly fall asleep. Who really cares what happens in this plot? And it was so good that we ended up saying, wait a minute. We got to pay attention to this movie. This movie is actually awesome. Now, the audience score was 74%. I don't know why there was a....
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Speaker 3: Still damn good that is good no no.
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Speaker 1: Question but I am surprised I was trying to see what people didn't like about it or super obnoxious yes more of a comedy than a horror so those are the people who didn't like it mostly I'm seeing okay infuriating to watch this sniveling dunce for an hour and a half so if you Couldn't get past being annoyed by him.
00:10:21
Speaker 2: That is a wonderful review because he did exactly what he was trying to do. He was trying to be completely annoying. Yes. He was trying to be that guy on YouTube and he nailed it, baby.
00:10:33
Speaker 1: Someone just wrote, the main character was annoying, but I think that was part of the joke. Surprisingly, some genuine creepiness here too. That's absolutely valid. And there were jump scares. There were great jump scares. You know, I love a jump scare.
00:10:46
Speaker 2: And there's some creepy stuff in there.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:10:50
Speaker 2: And you know what gets a little violent? There are some haunting moments in this movie. And you will laugh out loud watching this movie as well. This guy... Was amazing.
00:11:01
Speaker 1: Yes. And everything I can see about why people didn't like it was because the guy they thought was too annoying. But that's the whole point. They weren't in on it. They weren't understanding. That was the point. He was supposed to be annoying.
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Speaker 2: Even his followers that he had and he was interacting with in the movie, they too were annoyed by him.
00:11:21
Speaker 3: Right?
00:11:22
Speaker 2: It was the point. He is an annoying, obnoxious guy who does all these.
00:11:29
Speaker 2: What was his thing? He goes around the world and takes on his fears for people's entertainment.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
00:11:38
Speaker 2: And that was the gig. And he is completely annoying.
00:11:42
Speaker 3: Very much so. Very much so. Quickly, the critics' consensus.
00:11:46
Speaker 1: Proof that there's still life in the found footage gimmick. Deadstream is a scarily good bit of B-movie fun.
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Speaker 3: I think that's so fair.
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Speaker 1: Because horror comedies are never going to be this like, oh my God, I was so scared.
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Speaker 3: They really have.
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Speaker 1: To thread a needle and straddle two really important genres because for it to be something that we would recommend, you have to have some.
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Speaker 3: Scares, but also you have to have a lot of laughs. And that's a tough thing to do.
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Speaker 2: Rose, he had us laughing throughout this movie, but closer to the end.
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Speaker 3: Mildred is scary.
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Speaker 2: It got scary.
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Speaker 3: Mildred the ghost is scary.
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Speaker 2: It did get scary throughout. So stay here. We'll tell you where you can watch this sucker, but also we will tell you once again why we guarantee if you put this on in front of a group of friends, this will absolutely be a crowd pleaser. All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. Horror comedy weekend that we are having here. Yes, our number one. The movie in this category that we recommend more than any for this Halloween is Dead Streams. You need to see this. It is what it sounds like. It is a guy who is essentially live streaming at a haunted house. Wait, is it a... Yeah, this one's a house. It's not an asylum. You know my... You love an asylum. I love an asylum.
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Speaker 3: That's more.
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Speaker 1: We've got an asylum movie coming up in another weekend, actually. We love a haunted asylum. But this is a haunted house, which also is equally fun. And yes, it's just perfect for Halloween, I would say, because the haunted house genre is so... in tune with Halloween. And I actually think this is a fun movie, especially if you've got younger kids around or like, you know, you just want to have a family horror night like we do.
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Speaker 3: But seriously, around Halloween, I do think when you've got older kids, that is a fun one.
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Speaker 1: I think this is a good one and they'll get into it because it's YouTube style. They might even get into it more than the adults will just because they're used to that kind of programming, that kind of entertainment. They really lean into the whole making fun of the YouTuber, live streaming kind of thing. And I think that's cool because it does, it will bring the younger crowd into the movie room, into the family room.
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Speaker 2: I think, Robes, to your point about the younger group and how they can watch it, Robes, this movie grabs you and entertains you from the beginning. If we didn't tell people this was a horror movie and you just start watching it, you're going to love the movie. I think if you have some preconceived notion of what a horror movie is supposed to be or how funny this is supposed to be, you might go, Robes, you cannot help but be entertained. And you cannot take your eyes off this guy from the very beginning of this movie. So, Robes, there is no question. If you folks have a group at the house and everybody's looking at each other, oh, anybody got a good horror movie? Throw your hand up and say, yes, I got one. And it's called Deadstream.
00:15:08
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:15:09
Speaker 1: If you want to have fun, if you want to laugh, if you want to bring everybody into the room, and yes, just lean into it.
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Speaker 3: And remember, don't even just trust us. The critics liked it too. And that says something given how.
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Speaker 1: This is a little bit, this isn't your classic horror movie. And this type of movie oftentimes gets absolutely skewered by the critics. So for them to give it almost, I mean, I would say just about every critic gave it really high marks. That just shows you how good this is, how great this Joseph and Vanessa winter are.
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Speaker 3: I hope, yeah, I hope we see more from them.
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Speaker 1: I just actually looked myself to see if there's anything else out there from the two of them. Don't see anything, but man, please keep producing, keep creating because this was very creative. The acting, the writing, the concept, everything was spot on. It was the perfect balance. So you all enjoy.
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Speaker 2: The, And we have it right. It is on Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 3: It's on Amazon Prime for everyone to watch.
00:16:10
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: So if you've got that, you can rent it. You can buy it if you don't have Amazon Prime. That's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: Have we settled yet on what we're doing tomorrow, Sunday? What genre?
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Speaker 3: So I picked it.
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Speaker 1: And I guess if we put it here now, we're just going to settle into it. The monster creature horror. So monster horror creature feature. We've got three really good ones. And I love the ones we're picking. They're not the obvious ones.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: If you want to find something that you just isn't obvious, we're not going to tell you Jaws. We're going to give you some interesting movies that you might not have heard of that are going to be absolute winners if you love.
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Speaker 3: A creature feature.
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Speaker 2: We should have said that at the top in telling about this because people might roll their eyes. They think, ooh, movie recommendation. have you heard about Nightmare on Elm Street?
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Speaker 3: Right, we're not doing that.
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Speaker 1: These are ones that you probably haven't heard of. We've watched them for you, and we guarantee there are going to be hits.
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Speaker 3: In your home.
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Speaker 1: So with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach, alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Saturday, October 10th. You need a guaranteed go-to horror movie that is going to be a crowd pleaser. We have the movie for you, but you're going to probably have to put aside everything you think you know about horror movies and found footage movies. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We have reached number one, and this is a gem for us roves in the horror comedy world. genre. We found this one not too terribly long ago. We cannot believe this gem.
00:00:37
Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: We thought we were putting on a movie that we would, sometimes we just, this sounds silly.
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Speaker 1: I'm almost embarrassed saying this out loud, but we turn on a movie, like a horror movie to fall asleep to. But this one, sometimes they turn out to be really, really good. And so we're like, oh, wait, this actually is such a good movie. Let's pause this for tomorrow. So then every night for about two weeks, I feel like Monday through Friday, we're trying to watch it. And yes, we're exhausted because of the time we get up. And I'm going to admit, I'm the one who kept falling asleep. But when we finally watched this thing.
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Speaker 2: That's probably not a good selling point for this movie to say she fell asleep on it for a week.
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Speaker 1: No, but the truth is, it was so good. I was trying so hard to stay up. It was just my body not allowing me to. But we knew it was so good. That's why we kept going back to it. And we kept returning to it. And we kept saying, we are finishing this movie because it's that good.
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Speaker 3: And it is.
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Speaker 1: It's called Deadstream. And it's a parody on a live stream. It's a horror comedy. And it's this interesting situation where you... love to hate the character, but you're kind of rooting for him, but you also don't care if he dies?
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Speaker 2: He carries the movie. He is the movie. He is wonderful. You won't recognize him, don't know who he is, where he came from, don't have a lot of credits, and in fact, it's him and his wife that actually directed this movie. But this guy puts on a performance. I'm not talking about some award-winning Oscar. He just commits to the bit. And the bit carries on the entire movie of a guy a youtuber who was desperately trying to hold on to his fame and his followers to get sponsors to pay and the the links he's willing to go to to make all that happen you could argue robes that's some type of um I don't know, some indictment of our society and where we are these days, instant gratification. He's going through this live stream and he accidentally curses and says, oh, please don't take my sponsors. Little things like that that are just, it's a gem of a movie, but this, yes. As we've been going through our horror comedy lists for you this weekend, we've given you now three, and number one on our list does deserve to be there. It is, yes, called Dead Stream. The synopsis kind of nails it here, and you find out really off the top of the movie robes in a, They do it in a really cool way. You don't even realize you're watching a movie almost. It looks like a commercial.
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Speaker 1: It does. It does.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good point. You are like, wait a minute. Is this the movie starting? And it is. Here's the synopsis.
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Speaker 1: After a public controversy left him disgraced and demonetized.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say demoralized. That's hilarious. Disgraced and demonetized.
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Speaker 1: A washed-up internet personality tries to win back his followers by live-streaming himself spending one night alone in a haunted house. When he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life and social relevance as he faces off with the sinister spirit of the house and her own powerful following.
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Speaker 2: It's a smart idea. It's clever. It's creative. It taps into exactly what a lot of what we see in society. How far are people willing to go to get followers on YouTube or Instagram? That is what this is. And oftentimes we see YouTubers get in trouble because of some controversy they set up. You know, some stunt that went wrong. This is that thing. So, Robes, this you have in the entire movie. Two actors, really? There's a third that makes an appearance, kind of. But you're watching a guy's live stream the whole time.
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Speaker 1: And it's funny because I read an interview that the main star and his wife, he stars in it.
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Speaker 3: They obviously wrote and directed it. And they said that very thing.
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Speaker 1: They were worried that they were basically just making a movie about with just one guy, like basically like kind of a selfie the entire time. And was that going to get old? Was that not going to work? And it truly did. It was remarkable. Someone put it like this, a critic said that this is basically the Gen Z version of the Blair Witch Project. And I would agree that that is, but it's so clever and the writing and just some of, as you pointed out, like when they make fun of live streaming and folks who are influencers and who are literally their rent paychecks are dependent on who follows them and how many likes they get. So it really leans into that and they have a blast with it. So, and there are jump scares. There are scary moments in this movie as well.
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Speaker 2: There is horror.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Now out of, let me think here, baby, out of the top three, you know what, of the three we've recommended in the horror comedy, this might be the most horror of them. There are legit, there's possession, there's demonic stuff going on. There's creepy stuff going on. There's ghost stuff. Creepy kids. Yeah. But it is probably the funniest maybe of the three as well. He does such a good job carrying this movie. And to anybody that might get a little turned off, I just don't want to look at one guy the whole time. They are able to mix it up because he's interacting with his audience. So you see cuts to different parts of his screens, and then he sets up cameras throughout this haunted house that he's in. So it's not just like you're staring at one guy in one live stream. They do have different camera angles, which helps carry the story along. Is it the writing here and maybe the performance as well? I am so impressed that he was able to carry a movie like this. We watch this movie now all the time. We don't just put it on.
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Speaker 3: We have it in the background a lot now because we like it. I will say this.
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Speaker 1: You kind of have to suspend because it's interesting when you first start watching it. He is, the main character, is annoying just by nature. And that is also a part of the parody, obviously, because he's this obnoxious.
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Speaker 3: YouTuber, live streamer.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes when I hear it in the other room, I'm like, wow, that really is annoying. But you get sucked into it, and it's weird how you don't mind how annoying he is because you're in it. You're with him, and you're kind of cheering him on, but also not wanting to see what happens next. It's funny, though, because have you heard how obnoxiously he screams and talks sometimes?
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Speaker 3: He's annoying the whole time. Completely, and yet it's so entertaining.
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Speaker 2: His face is right up on you. I mean, he's right in your screen the whole time. It's not the most, I don't know. complimentary angle of him necessarily it's kind of what do they call it commando it's kind of shot in such a way they know what they're doing here babe but it's it doesn't look that polished and that's the point.
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Speaker 1: Yes exactly uh the runtime again in our absolute sweet spot we nailed it today with our runtimes and the movies we've offered this one comes.
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Speaker 3: In at an hour and 27 minutes it's.
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Speaker 1: Perfect and i do love it even it like we recommend these movies we hope you like them as much as we do but at the end of the day it's not that big of an investment of time it's not like you wasted a whole afternoon it's an hour and 27 minutes and look the critics agreed with us they don't always oftentimes they don't we don't always agree with them that's very true but rotten tomatoes the critics 92 i was.
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Speaker 3: Surprised at how well reviewed it was were you.
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Speaker 2: That high from the critics um That is a surprise because, again, I don't see what they, I didn't read through a lot of theirs, but, Robes, that says a lot about this movie. That is, I mean, the budget for this thing couldn't have been more than a couple hundred thousand. Maybe. And to pull this off, it's just so smart, Robes. The writing, I mean, how they're going about it with a YouTuber, it seems like this is the exact scenario you could believe. Rose, this is a brilliant piece of moviemaking. Agreed. And I looked to see if they had anything else, and there were no other credits, major credits for this duo. I would love to see them do something else.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope they continue. This was in 2022, I believe this one came out. Yes, some of the critics wrote, Vanessa and Joseph Winter's low-budget, high-ambition project really hits its stride, resulting in one of the most fun haunted house movies in years. I think that's a really good way to put it. And I think it surprised a lot of people. They weren't expecting it to be as good as it was.
00:09:39
Speaker 2: We weren't, no. No.
00:09:40
Speaker 1: Again, we were putting it on literally as one of those movies. Oh, this might be kind of fun. Found footage. We'll slowly fall asleep. Who really cares what happens in this plot? And it was so good that we ended up saying, wait a minute. We got to pay attention to this movie. This movie is actually awesome. Now, the audience score was 74%. I don't know why there was a....
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Speaker 3: Still damn good that is good no no.
00:10:02
Speaker 1: Question but I am surprised I was trying to see what people didn't like about it or super obnoxious yes more of a comedy than a horror so those are the people who didn't like it mostly I'm seeing okay infuriating to watch this sniveling dunce for an hour and a half so if you Couldn't get past being annoyed by him.
00:10:21
Speaker 2: That is a wonderful review because he did exactly what he was trying to do. He was trying to be completely annoying. Yes. He was trying to be that guy on YouTube and he nailed it, baby.
00:10:33
Speaker 1: Someone just wrote, the main character was annoying, but I think that was part of the joke. Surprisingly, some genuine creepiness here too. That's absolutely valid. And there were jump scares. There were great jump scares. You know, I love a jump scare.
00:10:46
Speaker 2: And there's some creepy stuff in there.
00:10:48
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:10:50
Speaker 2: And you know what gets a little violent? There are some haunting moments in this movie. And you will laugh out loud watching this movie as well. This guy... Was amazing.
00:11:01
Speaker 1: Yes. And everything I can see about why people didn't like it was because the guy they thought was too annoying. But that's the whole point. They weren't in on it. They weren't understanding. That was the point. He was supposed to be annoying.
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Speaker 2: Even his followers that he had and he was interacting with in the movie, they too were annoyed by him.
00:11:21
Speaker 3: Right?
00:11:22
Speaker 2: It was the point. He is an annoying, obnoxious guy who does all these.
00:11:29
Speaker 2: What was his thing? He goes around the world and takes on his fears for people's entertainment.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
00:11:38
Speaker 2: And that was the gig. And he is completely annoying.
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Speaker 3: Very much so. Very much so. Quickly, the critics' consensus.
00:11:46
Speaker 1: Proof that there's still life in the found footage gimmick. Deadstream is a scarily good bit of B-movie fun.
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Speaker 3: I think that's so fair.
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Speaker 1: Because horror comedies are never going to be this like, oh my God, I was so scared.
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Speaker 3: They really have.
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Speaker 1: To thread a needle and straddle two really important genres because for it to be something that we would recommend, you have to have some.
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Speaker 3: Scares, but also you have to have a lot of laughs. And that's a tough thing to do.
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Speaker 2: Rose, he had us laughing throughout this movie, but closer to the end.
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Speaker 3: Mildred is scary.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: It got scary.
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Speaker 3: Mildred the ghost is scary.
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Speaker 2: It did get scary throughout. So stay here. We'll tell you where you can watch this sucker, but also we will tell you once again why we guarantee if you put this on in front of a group of friends, this will absolutely be a crowd pleaser. All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. Horror comedy weekend that we are having here. Yes, our number one. The movie in this category that we recommend more than any for this Halloween is Dead Streams. You need to see this. It is what it sounds like. It is a guy who is essentially live streaming at a haunted house. Wait, is it a... Yeah, this one's a house. It's not an asylum. You know my... You love an asylum. I love an asylum.
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Speaker 3: That's more.
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Speaker 1: We've got an asylum movie coming up in another weekend, actually. We love a haunted asylum. But this is a haunted house, which also is equally fun. And yes, it's just perfect for Halloween, I would say, because the haunted house genre is so... in tune with Halloween. And I actually think this is a fun movie, especially if you've got younger kids around or like, you know, you just want to have a family horror night like we do.
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Speaker 3: But seriously, around Halloween, I do think when you've got older kids, that is a fun one.
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Speaker 1: I think this is a good one and they'll get into it because it's YouTube style. They might even get into it more than the adults will just because they're used to that kind of programming, that kind of entertainment. They really lean into the whole making fun of the YouTuber, live streaming kind of thing. And I think that's cool because it does, it will bring the younger crowd into the movie room, into the family room.
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Speaker 2: I think, Robes, to your point about the younger group and how they can watch it, Robes, this movie grabs you and entertains you from the beginning. If we didn't tell people this was a horror movie and you just start watching it, you're going to love the movie. I think if you have some preconceived notion of what a horror movie is supposed to be or how funny this is supposed to be, you might go, Robes, you cannot help but be entertained. And you cannot take your eyes off this guy from the very beginning of this movie. So, Robes, there is no question. If you folks have a group at the house and everybody's looking at each other, oh, anybody got a good horror movie? Throw your hand up and say, yes, I got one. And it's called Deadstream.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: If you want to have fun, if you want to laugh, if you want to bring everybody into the room, and yes, just lean into it.
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Speaker 3: And remember, don't even just trust us. The critics liked it too. And that says something given how.
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Speaker 1: This is a little bit, this isn't your classic horror movie. And this type of movie oftentimes gets absolutely skewered by the critics. So for them to give it almost, I mean, I would say just about every critic gave it really high marks. That just shows you how good this is, how great this Joseph and Vanessa winter are.
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Speaker 3: I hope, yeah, I hope we see more from them.
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Speaker 1: I just actually looked myself to see if there's anything else out there from the two of them. Don't see anything, but man, please keep producing, keep creating because this was very creative. The acting, the writing, the concept, everything was spot on. It was the perfect balance. So you all enjoy.
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Speaker 2: The, And we have it right. It is on Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 3: It's on Amazon Prime for everyone to watch.
00:16:10
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:16:10
Speaker 1: So if you've got that, you can rent it. You can buy it if you don't have Amazon Prime. That's a good thing.
00:16:14
Speaker 2: Have we settled yet on what we're doing tomorrow, Sunday? What genre?
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Speaker 3: So I picked it.
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Speaker 1: And I guess if we put it here now, we're just going to settle into it. The monster creature horror. So monster horror creature feature. We've got three really good ones. And I love the ones we're picking. They're not the obvious ones.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: If you want to find something that you just isn't obvious, we're not going to tell you Jaws. We're going to give you some interesting movies that you might not have heard of that are going to be absolute winners if you love.
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Speaker 3: A creature feature.
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Speaker 2: We should have said that at the top in telling about this because people might roll their eyes. They think, ooh, movie recommendation. have you heard about Nightmare on Elm Street?
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Speaker 3: Right, we're not doing that.
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Speaker 1: These are ones that you probably haven't heard of. We've watched them for you, and we guarantee there are going to be hits.
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Speaker 3: In your home.
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Speaker 1: So with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach, alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.