A crew of online content creators returns for a second round of terror in Livescreamers, the 2023 sequel to 2020's cult horror hit Livescream, this time squaring off against a video game that refuses to stay inside the screen.
What is Livescreamers about?
Livescreamers picks up with a well-known group of streamers and creators whose online fame becomes the very thing that puts them in danger. A video game that should not be playable starts bleeding into the real world, and the group that built a following by broadcasting everything about their lives now finds a haunted program broadcasting their misfortune instead. Director Michelle Iannantuono leans into the found-footage, screen-life aesthetic that made the first Livescream a talking point among horror fans, using webcams, game feeds and livestream chat windows as the vantage points for a story about an audience watching a group of friends turn on each other in something close to real time.
About the cast
Michael Smallwood and Neoma Sanchez anchor the group of creators at the centre of the film, joined by Christopher Trindade, Evan Michael Pearce, Sarah Callahan Black, Coby C. Oram, Kristopher Bosch and Ryan LaPlante as the rest of the streaming crew caught inside the game.
Context & significance
As a direct sequel, Livescreamers extends the screen-life horror format of the original film rather than starting a new story, betting that fans of the 2020 original will recognise the format even as the cast and stakes move forward. The haunted-video-game premise puts it alongside a small but growing lane of horror built around gaming and livestreaming culture, genres that speak directly to an audience that already lives much of its social life through a screen.
Watching Livescreamers on Ktime
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