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6/10
Supreme cringe
BandSAboutMovies26 June 2022
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Look, I know that we do a streaming show every Saturday night but man, I still don't get Twitch streamers. Maybe I grew up in the 70s when video games were new and we wanted to fight people for the chance to be up next, but I despise watching anyone else play, much less talk nonsense the entire time. But hey, media changes and grows and gets dumber, so who am I to be an elitist?

Touchmytoaster (Connor Del Rio, who co-wrote the script) is a streamer so popular that people track down his house, ask for his blood and pay him money to even watch him sleep. Somehow, he still has an interesting partner named Meghan (Allison Landi), even if she sleeps in the guest room now that those streamers watch every single snore of her man.

Can fans go too far? Trust me, as someone who has been a pro wrestler -- even on the indy and Japan level -- for a quarter of a decade, yes, a thousand times yes. None of them have ever come to my house and ask if they can take a dump or get a hug, however.

There's so much cringe in this in the best way, cringe becoming part of horror, the fact that we have to leave behind our screens to actually interact with humans and then remember exactly why we hide behind screens. Yes, I'm connecting with you, but please leave me alone.

Director and co-writer Gaelan Connell has somehow made a better movie in 14 minutes than the Tubi exclusive First Person Shooter did about the same idea and they had 90 minutes. And yet both films feature a very awkward bathroom scene.

That said -- this has the most frightening use of a toaster ever.
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10/10
Clever Concept and well produced.
herbnjuice10 March 2024
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Watching this in 2024 feels like this was way before its time, especially with the recent rise of streamers becoming mainstream and some even household names. To stumble upon this now and to say it's still relevant is an understatement. Love the comedy/horror concept, with the horror not only being portrayed with the ending, but the horror of the reality of the requests that fill the DM's of streamers every single day (underwear and watching them sleep are considered vanilla by todays standards) But most importantly, the acting was 10/10 from Connor Del Rio, he has a sense of calmness in front of the camera that only years of perfecting his craft could be obtained. He has the unique talent of going from goofy to serious within a single frame which makes the viewer feel like there's more than one character being played, similar to Jim Carey, or Robin Williams. I recently saw him in the new Geico Insurance commercials which brought me to his IMBD page and was not disappointed at all by this short film and will check out some other movies/TV series he's been in.
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