Stream (2024)

At a small hotel named The Pines Hotel, a masked figure abducts the owner Linda Spring.

Elsewhere, the Keenan family (father Roy, mother Elaine, son Kevin, and daughter Taylor) is in disarray after two police officers bust Taylor for stealing alcohol and warn her that she will be arrested next time. Roy and Elaine decide to go away for the weekend as a family, driving to The Pines Hotel. The apparent owner Mr. Lockwood lets them know that the hotel does not have any internet connection, even though cameras are being placed around the hotel.

At a bar, Taylor meets Theo and Louis, two French teenagers in town for a First to Eleven concert, but Elaine catches her.

In the hotel basement, a man wearing a plague doctor costume and computer gloves murders Linda with a power drill.

At night, Taylor sneaks out to hang out with Theo and Louis. She and Theo go to the hotel roof to smoke, where they kiss.

Mr. Lockwood activates a lockdown and sends out four masked killers: the enigmatic Player One, the brother/sister duo Player Two and Player Three, and the muscular Player Four. He turns out to be the pitboss of a murder game. However, the security guard Oswald "Ozzie" Hanson catches him, so he knocks Ozzie out. When Ozzie comes to, Lockwood reveals himself as the plague doctor and then stabs Ozzie to death.

Roy wakes up to find Taylor missing, so he and Kevin search the hotel. While they are gone, Player One sneaks into their hotel room and garottes Elaine. Roy returns to find Elaine's body and teams up with retired police officer Bernard Davidson to investigate, leaving Kevin in Bernard's locked hotel room. When they and other guests gather in the hotel courtyard, Lockwood announces to the guests what's happening: he's the organizer of a livestream in which the four players murder the guests while audience members bet on the outcome.

Despite the lockdown, Theo and Taylor sneak out of the hotel to a First to Eleven concert by leaving off the roof, unaware of the livestream.

The players arrive in the courtyard and murder several guests, then spread out throughout the hotel to murder others, including Louis. When one guest fatally stabs Player Three in the neck with a fork and escapes the hotel through a window, an enraged Lockwood retaliates and murders her.

Kevin hacks into Lockwood's system. Lockwood discovers him and heads to the room to kill him, prompting Kevin to run away. Player Four attacks Bernard and Roy when they return to check on Kevin, but Bernard shoots him dead after a struggle.

Meanwhile, Player One catches up with Kevin, but a security breach announcement calls all players to "the disturbance." The security breach is Taylor and Theo returning to the hotel. Player Two appears and impales Theo, driving him against a wall with Taylor pinned behind him. Taylor is injured and knocked unconscious, which appears to the audience that she suffered the same fate as Theo.

When Player One attacks Roy and wrestles him against a wall, Bernard abandons him to his fate. He sneaks into Lockwood's control room, revealing himself as a bettor who wants to win the game his own way. However, Lockwood is on to Bernard and kills him with a knife and a power drill for interfering with the Stream. Lockwood then announces that there is only one guest left (Kevin) and two players, so it becomes a one-on-one competition to hunt Kevin down and kill him. Taylor comes to and pushes Theo off her.

Disguised as Player One and still alive, Roy finds Kevin in the hotel kitchen. Kevin plays dead in Roy's arms so that they can escape, but Lockwood finds out on camera and warns Player Two that Player One is a guest. Player Two attacks Roy, but Roy sets him on fire by shoving him onto a stove and igniting it.

With all the players dead, Lockwood sets out to finish Roy and Kevin off himself. He finds them in the lobby, but Roy batters him with punches. Taylor shows up and impales Roy with the same spear used on Theo, mistaking him for Player One since he's still wearing the disguise. When Lockwood attacks her, she beheads him with a hatchet.

The next morning after the Stream, Detective Hart interviews Taylor and Kevin in the back of an ambulance. A paramedic delivers them drinks. Leaving, he checks a Stream app on his phone, revealing himself as a bettor. The app lists Taylor and Kevin as the winners. Another man using the identity of Lockwood tells the viewers to stay tuned for the next season, which shows that the Stream is much bigger than the Pines Hotel. He walks away from the car he was in that explodes while holding the same plague doctor mask.

In a mid-credit scene, the Atrium movie theater hosts another Stream. The Atrium players murder three moviegoers and knock out another, an older man named Bruce who is trying to get in to save a fourth person named Sofia. A player named Jimmy finishes off the victims with Sofia handcuffed and in a noose. This Stream's pitboss, a wheelchair-bound masked man using the Lockwood identity, joins Jimmy in explaining the Stream as Bruce is shown strapped to an electric chair. Lockwood has Jimmy murder Bruce and prepares to kill Sofia as he maniacally laughs.