Crew
Director/Story/Producer – Charles Band, Screenplay – Roger Barron, Photography – Thomas L. Callaway, Music – Jonathan Walter, Visual Effects – Alex Calvo, Dave Matherly & Michael J. Sechrist, Makeup Effects – Alan Tuskes, Production Design – Sydney Allen. Production Company – Full Moon Features.
Cast
Sean Ohlman (Arturo Valenor), Aaron McDaniel (Alex Jarvis), Emma Massalone (Edwina), Kaitlin Moore (Juniper Coleman), Llana Barron (Contractor Lady), Piper Parks (Pale Blonde Girl), Maddy May (Raven Haired Girl), Chili Jean (Li Chen), Travis Stoner (Thug), Darby Puckett (Librarian)
Plot
Based out of an abandoned church, Alex Jarvis and his two assistants/co-presenters Edwina and Juniper produce the Church of Chills podcast devoted to all things creepy and horrific. One of the girls comes across a livestream being conducted by a vampire from a club. As they watch, various women are drugged and their blood drunken while this is broadcast via camera-wired glasses. Alex works out that what is going on is real, not staged. As he prepares to include the vampire club material in his broadcast, this attracts the attention of the vampire Arturo Valenor who comes after them.
Producer and occasional director Charles Band has been one of the most prolific makers of low-budget films in the last half-century. Band began making movies in the 1970s. Along with his now late father Albert, the two formed Empire Productions in the 1980s and went on to set up Full Moon Productions and a variety of successors to that. During his time, Charles Band had put out multiple series of low-budget genre films including the Ghoulies, Trancers, Prehysteria!, Puppetmaster, Evil Bong and Gingerdead Man series, among many others. (See below for Charles Band’s other films as director).
Band and Full Moon have touched on the Vampire Film occasionally before, most notedly with Subspecies (1991) and its long-running series of sequels, and other oddities such as Blonde Heaven (1995), Vampire Journals (1997), Teenage Space Vampires (1999), Cryptz (2002) and the Band directed Decadent Evil (2005) and City of Demons (2025).
The idea of a vampire live-streaming its kills across the internet was a bit of a head-scratcher of an idea at first. It seems to be trying to tap a modern fad but one that begins and ends with the title concept. However, I was prepared to go with Death Streamer as it opened. We get a series of scenes where vampire Sean Ohlman drugs various women then drags them away, strips their tops and bites into their necks, all while wearing a pair of glasses that streams what he is doing. This is contrasted with Aaron McDaniel and assistants (Emma Massalone and Kaitlin Moore) who stream a horror podcast from a church and then stumble across the vampire livestream while in search of material.
Death Streamer actually looks not too bad. It is far better shot and lit than most Full Moon productions end up being. The acting however does leave something to be desired – all the contrived posturing for horror effect during Aaron McDaniel’s podcast goes on far longer than you want it to. But beyond the vampire kills that we keep switching back to every so often, there is not much to the film. It briefly gains something more when it comes to the scenes where the vampire threatens the group – there is the amusing scenes with Aaron McDaniel trying to hammer together crucifixes to protect himself and painting a doorway in garlic powder crosses. The film arrives at an odd twist ending that makes no real sense.
Charles Band has produced over 200 films. As director, his other genre films include:- Crash (1977), Parasite (1982), The Alchemist (1983), Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983), an episode of The Dungeonmaster/Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate (1984), Trancers/Futurecop (1985), Pulse Pounders (1988), Crash and Burn (1990), Meridian (1990), Trancers II (1991), Doctor Mordrid (1992), Dollman Vs. the Demonic Toys (1993), Prehysteria! (1993), Head of the Family (1996), The Creeps/Deformed Monsters (1997), Hideous (1997), Mystery Monsters (1997), Blood Dolls (1999), Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003), Dr Moreau’s House of Pain (2004), Decadent Evil (2005), Doll Graveyard (2005), The Gingerdead Man (2005), Evil Bong (2006), Petrified (2006), Dead Man’s Hand (2007), Decadent Evil II (2007), Dangerous Worry Dolls (2008), Evil Bong II: King Bong (2009), Skull Heads (2009), Evil Bong 3D: The Wrath of Bong (2011), Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011), The Dead Want Women (2012), Devildolls (2012), Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012), Ooga Booga (2013), Unlucky Charms (2013), Gingerdead Man vs Evil Bong (2013), Trophy Heads (2014), Evil Bong 420 (2015), King of Cult (2015), Evil Bong: High 5 (2016), Evil Bong 666 (2017), Puppet Master: Axis Termination (2017), Evil Bong 777 (2018), Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King (2020), Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 (2020), Corona Zombies (2020), Evil Bong 888: Infinity High (2022), Aimee: The Visitor (2023), Quadrant (2024), City of Demons (2025), Cutter’s Club (2025), Prompt (2025) and Dungeons of Ecstasy (2026).
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