Okay scary season can officially start cause you can now watch Michael Smallwood and Christopher Trindade star in Livescreamers on Tubi! For free!
If you're a millenial who watched Markiplier in 2013 this one is for you! If you followed Rooster Teeth to the day they died, this one's for you! If you have ever seen a streamer ruin their entire life on Twitter because they were a dick, this one's for you!
(Also if you just like Resident Evil or Until Dawn this one is definitely for you too; I wear my homages openly.)
Local58 Made Me Understand Why Analog Horror Works**
Local58 honestly creeped me out more than I expected. There’s something about old-school TV style mixed with horror that hits different. It feels wrong in a way modern HD video doesn’t.
The Nexpo video helped explain it. Analog horror works because it feels like you’re discovering something you were never meant to see. The low quality, the weird cuts, the emergency broadcast stuff… it just gets under your skin.
Screenlife films are interesting too. They feel almost too real because everything happens on a laptop or phone screen. It’s the kind of format we use every day, so it makes the story feel like it could happen to us.
Missing will be released on Digital on March 7 and on Blu-ray and DVD on March 28 via Sony. The 2023 screenlife thriller is standalone sequel to 2018’s Searching.
Searching editors Will Merrick & Nick Johnson write and direct. Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long star. Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching) executive produces.
Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by writers-directors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson
Storm Reid and the Challenge of Missing featurette
Misdirects, Online Crimes and the Social Media Mystery featurette
The Screens that Rule Our Lives featurette
Hunting for the Missing Easter Eggs
Deleted scenes
When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
Not Pictured: The People Who Are Missing (CREDIT: Screen Gems)
Starring: Storm Reid, Nia Long, Ken Leung, Joaquim de Almeida, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Tim Griffin, Megan Suri
Directors: Nick Johnson and Will Merrick
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Rating: PG-13 for Over-the-Top Ragers and Implied Disturbing Violence
Release Date: January 20, 2022 (Theaters)
What’s It About?: 18-year-old June Allen…
