10 Recent Horror Movies Which Broke The Fourth Wall To Scare You
9. Deadstream
A breath of fresh air in the found footage genre, Deadstream is equal parts amusing and chilling, and serves as a fun (and well-deserved) jab at content creators who engage in hollow spectacle to obscure their reprehensible failures and actions.
The Vanessa and Joseph Winter-directed effort follows Shawn (also played by Joseph), a vlogger who sought redemption in the public eye after one of his infamous stunts goes horribly wrong. To do this, he intended to livestream his experience in Death Manor, an abandoned house long thought to be haunted. Once his biggest fan, Chrissy (Melanie Stone) unexpectedly enters the fray, things unsurprisingly become terrible for the arrogant internet star.
Unlike most entries on this list, the vast majority of Deadstream is a massive fourth wall break. Once Shawn addresses his fans on his livestreams (with said fans responding in kind), viewers in the real world feel like they are his regular audience.
Because of this, they experience the thrills of being attacked by the spectre of Death Manor in a more immersive and visceral manner compared to a more traditionally filmed and structured horror movie.