This article was published on July 20, 2015

Eli Roth is murdering Vine and YouTube stars on Snapchat…it’s a bloody dream come true


Eli Roth is murdering Vine and YouTube stars on Snapchat…it’s a bloody dream come true

Regardless of whether you love or hate the swarm of young, good-looking social media stars that have colonized the Web, you’ll probably enjoy this:

Eli Roth is using a Snapchat story to slaughter a clutch of them in inventive ways.

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Dumb social media star meets dumbbell

As Variety reported, the whole thing is a stunt for Crypt TV, a digital network co-founded by the director. It’s all playing out through a 24-hour Snapchat narrative.

Viewers have that time to work out the identity of the killer who has been rapidly slicing through the group of social media ‘influencers’ who have been showing off their wooden acting at a mansion party.

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Instagram *that* dinner

The murdered new media darlings are Logan Paul, Nick Bateman,David DobrikLia Marie Johnson, Jack Baran and Simone Shepherd. Between them they have over 29 million followers across Vine, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.

https://vine.co/v/er3BDeABOTK

Logan Paul has a death wish anyway…


 

As you’d expect from the man who masterminded ‘Hostel’, Roth has been finding some great ways to slay them. It’s a modern b-movie with acting as bad as you’d find in any old-school slasher flick.

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Say ‘freeze’

But hey, that’s the Snapchat vibe. Remember ‘Literally Can’t Even!’?*

‘And then there were none’ [Crypt TV via Variety]

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*Realistically, you probably don’t. 

 

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