'Death Streamer' Movie Ending Explained And Recap: Were Alex And Co. Able To Kill Arturo Valinor?

For better or worse, after producing some low-budget experimental horror classics, Charles Band has dominated the niche B horror VOD movie genre for the last few decades. At this point, it doesn’t matter whether most of them are generally regarded as exploitative shlock or not; lasting so long in the ever-changing entertainment business itself is a credible feat. The latest release from his Full Moon Features production is Death Streamer, which introduces a tech-savvy vampire who uses virtual space to create his hunting ground on the physical plane. If this premise feels interesting enough to spend seventy minutes sitting through barely funny, caricature-ish dialogue and acting and go through recurrent gratuitous nudity that is just there for no reason, then you surely have the “refined” acquired taste for Band’s works. Something I feel should be mentioned is that the narrative, however little there was of it, displayed a clever sense of self-awareness, which doesn’t allow viewers’ experience to be a tedious one. 

Spoilers Ahead

Shenanigans of Hellfire House

Death Streamer opens in a shady S&M club, Hellfire House, and the proprietor of the establishment, an eccentric Arturo Valenor, is seen trying to chat up one of his female clients. Before long, Valenor drugs her drink with his blood, coerces her to drink it, and as she loses her cognitive capabilities, one of Valenor’s enforcers takes her to a room, which appears more like a designed setting. Baring his white fangs, Valenor shows his true vampire self to the woman and proceeds to feed on his victim. The entire ordeal is live streamed by Valenor’s specialized smart goggles through a first-person POV sequence, and as the scene continues to turn horrific, subscriber and like count increase exponentially. However, the livestream is shared within a very restricted digital space, probably on the dark web, which allows Valenor to maintain his secrecy and grow his cult. To keep up with the shifting dynamics of modern age, even vampires need to update themselves—and how!

Church of Chills and Proxy Business

The narrative focus shifts to a group of three friends, Alex, Edwina, and Juniper—the trio of whom run an online horror-exploration channel named ‘Church of Chills,’ which is geared towards grotesque and macabre discussions, urban legends, and weird and shock-value-oriented myths—the usual drill. A former medical school dropout, Alex, is the irritable, narcissistic, bossy one who makes it his duty to call the shots, while Edwina and Juniper, who seem more tolerable than their obnoxious friend, are just there without particularly distinct personalities to explore. The trio runs an episode on Dr. Jonas Hope, a medic from the Victorian period who used his patients for vile experiments—this segment goes on for too long but has not much narrative significance except to convey what the trio do for a living. 

While diving deep online for new content, Juniper comes across the videos of Valenor preying on his customers, which seem a little too real to be staged. Even though Alex initially dismisses the videos as high-production-value viral gimmicks, while watching one of Valenor’s live streams, he deduces the videos to not be fabricated by using his medical knowledge. In this age of online proxy business, where any content acts as source material for someone else’s creation, Alex’s greedy mind is quick to think of the profits to be made from Valenor’s videos by making them viral. Alex’s plan works, and the next two videos of Church of Chills, which focus on the horrors of Hellfire House, gain astronomical growth in terms of view count. This doesn’t sit well with Arturo Valenor, as exposing his secret, Alex has left him in a tight spot. After all, even vampires are not invulnerable. In another of Valenor’s videos posted long ago and later withdrawn, Alex and co. see him sacrificing a contractor lady in some strange ritual. In the same video, they stumble across the name of the establishment: Kreurheim, an old stately house in the farthest part of town, where Valenor has set up his lair. Before they can pry further, Valenor’s disembodied presence appears in front of them in a red mist and threatens them with their lives. He is enraged at Alex’s attempt to mooch off of his murderous handiwork and warns the trio of consequences if they continue doing so. Juniper draws an allusion with them being treated by Velanor as Renfield was by Dracula, but the nosferatu considers them to be even lower in comparison. Apparently, Christian symbolism doesn’t do as much harm to vampires in this movie as you’d think, as Arturo managed to enter the church—the base of operation of Alex and co.—in his mist form.

Were Alex and Co. able to kill Arturo Valenor?

The presence of Arturo Valenor takes its leave as daylight peeps through the church window, instilling a foolish confidence in Alex as he decides to stream the contractor-murder video on their channel. Juniper, who had felt a strange sense of fear and admiration towards the vampire, decides to quit—and goes on her way after collecting her due profit from Alex. Juniper and Edwina shared a bond, as both of them seemed morose while bidding each other farewell. Even Alex is saddened, but he remains adamant about uploading that particular video on their channel. 

Alex decides to fortify the church with makeshift crucifixes and garlic powder—all kinds of conventional vampire deterrents—while Edwina goes to the library to research Valenor and Kreurheim. A mysterious lady helps her by presenting a book that has a chapter on ‘Kreurheim Vampire Cults’, and the in-your-face comedy is unmistakable. However, Edwina is able to learn that, through the ritual sacrifice in the presence of his cult, which in this case is virtual, he is trying to bring the eternal night—plunging the world into chaos and doom in the process. As the old chronicles reveal, Valenor attempted to do the same in 1880 but failed to do so. But now backed by his ever-growing online cult, the master vampire will be able to complete his unfinished work, as his cult will reach the necessary critical mass it takes for the ritual to succeed. As Edwina shares this with Alex, he maintains his stance about uploading the video, which he thinks might end up helping them get Valenor’s cult exposed and his influence lessened—thereby saving the world from eternal darkness. However, as Alex and Edwina begin recording an emergency message to expose Valenor to warn his subscribers and the rest of the world, he is interrupted by Valenor’s influence on his devices. It’s already sundown, and they are no longer safe. As Valenor shows them in a recorded video of the ritual sacrifice, the victim turns out to be none other than Juniper. 

Valenor enters the church in his physical form to hunt down Alex and Edwina and demolishes the makeshift crosses that were seemingly having an effect on him. In one of the most bizarre sequences of vampire deaths, Edwina flashes Valenor, stupefying him momentarily, and Alex takes this opportunity to drive a stake through Valenor’s body, killing him at long last and avenging their friend, Juniper, in the process. However, the final twist comes at the concluding moments of the movie, as Juniper is revealed to have turned into a master vampire herself, and she reveals to her friends that Valenor was the necessary sacrifice needed to bring the eternal night. A colony of bats surrounds the church windows, darkening the surroundings, and in the final moments, Juniper quotes Dracula’s memorable lines about the flapping wings of bats creating a melody of the night, although in the novel’s context the creature was a wolf.

Although the ending of Death Streamer might seem straightforward, it can go a number of different ways still. Juniper might take over the world by giving in to her baser instincts; however she might also help her friends to clear up this mess if any shred of humanity is still there within her. 

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