Could you imagine Bram Stoker’s 1897 creation, “Dracula” — and all the cinematic incarnations that have followed over the years — using modern technology to showcase its vampire ways, especially with nubile young beauties?
Teaming with screenwriter Neal Marshall Stevens (AIMEE: The Visitor, Puppet Master: Axis Termination, etc.), Band has done exactly that with Arturo Valenor’s (played by Sean Ohlman — Letters to Stephanie) blood-sucker streaming show.
While the concept flips the traditional vampire trope upside down — showcasing the dark arts to the public, rather than doing the blood-feasting in sensual secrecy — Valenor’s story is pretty much your basic haunted mansion coupled with a victim pool horror tale.
We might add, a seemingly willing “victim pool” of lusty young women! And we also know right up front who the monster is, but is there a final girl in all of this blood lust?
Here’s the twist that makes Death Streamer so much fun. There’s a rival streaming group, “Church of Chills” — run by a trio who seem to have nothing better to do — whose focus is on documenting the occult and the horrific offbeat.It is a production run by Alex Jarvis (Aaron McDaniel) and his two lovely co-hosts, Juniper (Kaitlin Moore) and Edwina (Emma Massalone), who have stumbled upon this rival streaming site and have decided — after some debate — to try and take advantage of the “Death Streamer” and the eye-popping viewership numbers that he generates.
Alex surmises (correctly) that what they are witnessing is real, but he concludes (incorrectly) that the so-called vampire is nothing more than a very public serial killer with fake fangs.
You’ve got the set up, rival streaming snoops who have decided to make Valenor’s “private” (member’s only) site public (benefiting from the numbers to be generated in the process) and expose his fiendish ways. He’s a killer to be sure, but his vampire “trappings” are just for show (oops). Do you suppose that this could be a rabbit hole adventure that might just be fatal?Will the alluring Edwina — or perhaps the lovely Juniper — be in the running for the coveted honor of being the final girl?
To find out, be sure to tune-in on Mar. 11 when Full Moon Features unleashes both Blu-ray and DVD editions of director Charles Band’s Death Streamer.
Bonus features include footage of the film’s Los Angeles premiere and the featurette titled “Videozone: Behind the Scenes.”
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