History Film / Deadstream

* CentralTheme: Fame, and the madness that can come from pursuing it. Shawn is a streamer that gets into more and more water as his stunts attempting to grab attention get increasingly dangerous and/or offensive, and besides him, [[spoiler:Mildred is not a ghost so obsessed with becoming a famous poet that she is trapping souls in her house in a messed-up mish-mash of family and fans.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chrissy [[spoiler: knows the house well, appears and disappears seemingly at random, and gets offended when Shawn insults Mildred's poetry... It was later revealed she's actually Mildred.]]

''Deadstream'' is a 2022 FoundFootage HorrorComedy film directed and written by Joseph and Vanessa Winters. Joseph also stars as the lead character.

* GroinAttack: Shawn is on both the giving and receiving end of one I’m the film.]]
** [[spoiler: When he’s hiding in the closet from Mildred, her head appears between his legs and bites his family jewels.

* [[spoiler:LaughablyEvil: Mildred has her moments, such as her trollish behavior while disguised as Chrissy, her childish back and forth with Shawn about who should go after who in the climax, and her falling down the stairs while chasing Shawn.]]

* [[spoiler:LaughablyEvil: Mildred has her moments, such as her Troll behavior while disguised as Chrissy, her childish back and forth with Shawn about who should go after who in the climax, and her falling down the stairs while chasing Shawn.]]

* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends with Shaun celebrating his victory, only to then be surrounded by the rest of the house’s spirits.]]

* BladeOnAStick: Shawn makes a makeshift spear out of a knife and a stick.

* GoshDarnItToHeck: Throughout the film, Shawn consistently self-censors himself to not lose his sponsors.

* ChekhovsGun:
** The sparkplugs to Shawn's car, which he throws into the woods at the beginning of the film. [[spoiler:When it seems like he's close to escaping, he's forced to try and find them which leads to his encounter with the Plant-Thing]].

* TakeThat: Live-streamers, especially ones in the vein of Creator/LoganPaul, are portrayed as complete assholes through the character of Shawn, who acts obnoxious for the sake of views. It's also revealed that he did something that put a homeless man in the hospital and also did a video where he smuggled himself across the Mexican border.

* {{Manchild}}: Shawn looks to be ''at least'' in his late twenties, early thirties[[labelnote]]Joseph Winters was 35 at the time of shooting[[/labelnote]] yet has an extremely juvenile style of video editing, makes constant mentions of his mom (who has apparently packed him a lunch and his anti ghost kit), and just overall acts like an overgrown teen.

* {{Manchild}}: Shawn looks to be ''at least'' in his late twenties, early thirties[[labelnote]]Joseph Winter was 35 at the time of shooting[[/labelnote]] yet has an extremely juvenile style of video editing, makes constant mentions of his mom (who has apparently packed him a lunch and his anti ghost kit), and just overall acts like an overgrown teen.

* {{Manchild}}: Alex looks to be ''at least'' in his late twenties, early thirties[[labelnote]]Joseph Winter was 35 at the time of shooting[[/labelnote]] yet has an extremely juvenile style of video editing, makes constant mentions of his mom (who has apparently packed him a lunch and his anti ghost kit), and just overall acts like an overgrown teen.