Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Riding the coattails of the popular "Saw" and "Hostel" franchises is Ryan Nicholsons' "Live Feed", which may not be that good as a film but does its job as an intense, atmospheric, onslaught of gore. A quintet of not terribly sympathetic attractive young folk are travelling in Asia, taking in the sights, when they make the fateful decision to enter a movie theatre. What they don't know is that the local crime boss delights in voyeurism, watching as the unlucky schmucks who enter the V.I.P. rooms of this theatre get filmed as they get systematically tortured. It remains to be seen whether any of these people are going to survive the night, as things get progressively more demented and depraved. It can't be said that Nicholson doesn't know how to go for showmanship as the blood flows and flows and flows. It's true enough that viewers may find themselves having a hard time caring about what happens to the characters, but if you can go into this not really expecting to give a hoot about that sort of thing, you might be amused by the spectacle. At the very least, this is the only film that this viewer has seen that has a scene of a snake forced down the throat of one victim and then emerging from a gash made in their belly. The filmmakers create an appropriately seedy look for the whole thing, and the transitions from camera footage to live action aren't badly done. As for the acting, well, as has been said in numerous other reviews, it's not the kind to generate any Oscar buzz, but it basically gets the job done. Stephen Chang looks to be having a high old time as the crazed, creepy mob boss, Kevan Ohtsji is remarkably sincere as the young police detective wanting revenge, and lovely Taayla Markell is quite easy to watch as Emily. Overall, while "Live Feed" doesn't size up as anything special, it's not as terrible as its reputation would suggest and might satisfy the more undemanding of genre fans who just want to have a gory good time. Six out of 10.

I have never, ever, ever turned a film off in my life, neither have I walked out in any and believe me I've been close ("Import/Export" COUGH) but with "Live Feed" I was so, so close to turning it off. I bought it in "Poundland" for the magical price of £1 but please save that pound and cherish it! Buy yourself a nice posh pen or something because this is utter, utter sh*t. I've even been close to throwing this away.Everything could not be more worse. The acting actually made me laugh out loud in places, the actors are as wooden as the "John Smith's Pine" shop. The directing is absolutely sickening, as is the terrible special effects (there's nothing special about them). The plot is taken entirely from "Hostel" with even more perverted sex scenes in. The director is obviously trying to shock but with such tacky effects it can only disgust."It's Hostel... With snakes!" A quote boasts on the DVD cover. It's so predictable and cheap it really angers me thinking about it! The characters are just complete perverts, like the director, and the revenge sequences are just laughable. "Live Feed" is quite possibly up there with "Import/Export" with being one of the worst films I have ever seen. It's not even fun to laugh at, it's just pure exploitation. Trust me a snuff film would be more fun to watch.

Live Feed is set in some unnamed Chinese/Japanese Asian district somewhere as five American friends, Sarah (Ashley Schappert), Emily (Taayla Markell), Linda (Caroline Chojnacki), Mike (Lee Tichon) & Darren (Rob Scattergood) are enjoying a night on the town & taking in the sights. After a scuffle in a bar with a Japanese Triad boss (Stephen Chang) they decide to check out a porno theatre, as you would. Inside they are separated & quickly find out that the place belongs to the Triad boss who uses it to torture & kill people for reasons which aren't made clear. Can local boy Miles (Kevan Ohtsji) save them?This Canadian production was co-written, produced & directed by Ryan Nicholson who also gets a prosthetic effects designer credit as well, one has to say that Live Feed is another pretty poor low budget shot on a camcorder type horror film that seems to exist only to cash in on the notoriety & success of Hostel (2005) & the mini craze for 'torture porn' as it's become known. According the IMDb's 'Trivia' section for Live Feed writer & director Nicholson wrote it after hearing about certain activities taking place in live sex theatres, for my money I reckon he wrote it after watching Hostel! The script is pretty poor, there is no basic reason given as to why this porno theatre has a big fat ugly freak dressed in bondage gear lurking around torturing & killing people, none. Was it for the Triads? Was it for his pleasure? Was it to make snuff films to sell? Some sort of explanation would have been nice. Also why did he turn on the Triad boss at the end? If your looking for a film with a coherent story then forget about Live Feed. It seemed to me to be some sort of uneasy misjudged mix of sex, S&M, horror, torture, gore & action films which doesn't come off. I mean just setting a horror film in a porn theatre isn't automatically going to make your film any good, there still needs to be a decent script & story, right? The character's were fairly poor clichés & some of their actions & motivations were more than a little bit questionable. It moves along at a reasonable pace, it's fairly sleazy mixing gore, sex & nudity but it does look cheap which lessens the effect.Director Nicholson doesn't do anything special here, the editing is choppy & annoying, he seems to think lighting almost every scene with neon lights is a good idea & the film has a cheap look about it. Available in both 'R' & 'Unrated' versions I saw the shorter cut 'R' version which really isn't that gory but I am prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to the 'Unrated' version & say that it might be much, much gorier but I can't say for sure. There's a fair amount of nudity too if that's your thing. I wouldn't say there's much of an atmosphere or many scares here because there isn't & aren't respectively although it does have a sleazy tone in general which is something it has going for it I suppose.Technically Live Feed isn't terribly impressive, the blood looks a little too watery for my liking & entire scenes bathed in annoying neon lights sometimes makes it hard to tell whats happening, it to often looks like it was shot on a hand-held camcorder & the choppy editing at least on the 'R' rated version is at times an annoying mess. Shot on location in an actual porn theatre somewhere in Vancouver in Canada. The acting is poor, sometimes I couldn't tell if the actresses in this were supposed to be crying or laughing...Live Feed is not a film I would recommend anyone to rush out & buy or rent, I didn't think much of it with it's very weak predictable storyline lacking exposition & which goes nowhere, poor acting & less than impressive gore (at least in the 'R' rated cut anyway). Watch either Hostel films again or instead as they are superior.

The first full-length feature from FX-man turned director Ryan Nicholson, Live Feed treads similar territory to recent 'torture porn' movies Hostel 1 & 2 (and to a lesser degree, Vacancy and Turistas), and likewise fails to make the most of an admittedly interesting premise. I guess the fact that I actually rate it on a par with much higher budgeted efforts from major studios can be seen as a positive, but, considering I really enjoyed Nicholson's earlier 'short' Torched (rated 8/10 by me), I can't help but feel somewhat let down.Live Feed sees a group of five hedonistic friends on vacation in the Far East, who become trapped in a sleazy porno theatre. There they become the latest victims of a vicious organised crime syndicate whose boss gets his kicks from watching people die. One-by-one, the petrified tourists are slaughtered by a hulking brute wearing a rubber apron and a bizarre S&M-style mask, with all of the gory action broadcast to the sadistic boss on a 'live feed'.With plenty of nasty violence and loads of gratuitous nudity, this film certainly doesn't pull any punches, but it is let down considerably by bad characterisation, lame acting and a poor script. Unfortunately, no amount of extreme bloodletting and welcome T&A from pretty girls could distract this viewer from these weaknesses, and although I enjoyed the many brutal deaths (especially the bit where one guy gets his head twisted clean off!), I wish more time had been spent on bringing the substandard aspects of the film up to scratch.Nicholson could be praised for achieving the same degree of nastiness in his film as self-proclaimed 'saviour of horror' Eli Roth does with his over-hyped Hostel. But since I genuinely believe that he has more potential than Roth (and certainly has more respect for fans of the genre), I regrettably give this film a rather disappointing 5/10, and hope that he fares much better with his next project, the intriguingly titled Gutterballs.