live feed be set in some unnamed chinese or japanese asian district somewhere as five american friend and sarah ( ashley schappert ) and emily ( taayla markell ) and linda ( caroline chojnacki ) and mike ( lee tichon ) and darren ( rob scattergood ) be enjoy a night on the town and take in the sight . after a scuffle in a bar with a japanese triad bos ( stephen chang ) they decide to check out a porno theatre and a you would . inside they be separate and quickly find out that the place belong to the triad bos who use it to torture and kill people for reason which aren not make clear . can local boy mile ( kevan ohtsji ) save them . this canadian production be co write and produce and direct by ryan nicholson who also get a prosthetic effect designer credit as well and one have to say that live feed be another pretty poor low budget shot on a camcorder type horror film that seem to exist only to cash in on the notoriety and success of hostel ( 2005 ) and the mini craze for torture porn a it become know . accord the imdb trivia section for live feed writer and director nicholson write it after hear about certain activity take place in live sex theatre and for my money i reckon he write it after watch hostel . the script be pretty poor and there be no basic reason give a to why this porno theatre have a big fat ugly freak dress in bondage gear lurk around torture and kill people and none . be it for the triad . be it for his pleasure . be it to make snuff film to sell . some sort of explanation would have be nice . also why do he turn on the triad bos at the end . if your look for a film with a coherent story then forget about live feed . it seem to me to be some sort of uneasy misjudged mix of sex and s and m and horror and torture and gore and action film which doesn not come off . i mean just set a horror film in a porn theatre isn not automatically go to make your film any good and there still need to be a decent script and story and right . the character be fairly poor clichés and some of their action and motivation be more than a little bit questionable . it move along at a reasonable pace and it fairly sleazy mix gore and sex and nudity but it do look cheap which lessen the effect . director nicholson doesn not do anything special here and the editing be choppy and annoying and he seem to think light almost every scene with neon light be a good idea and the film have a cheap look about it . available in both r and unrated version i saw the shorter cut r version which really isn not that gory but i be prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to the unrated version and say that it might be much and much gorier but i can not say for sure . there a fair amount of nudity too if that your thing . i wouldn not say there much of an atmosphere or many scare here because there isn not and aren not respectively although it do have a sleazy tone in general which be something it have go for it i suppose . technically live feed isn not terribly impressive and the blood look a little too watery for my liking and entire scene bath in annoy neon light sometimes make it hard to tell whats happen and it to often look like it be shoot on a hand hold camcorder and the choppy editing at least on the r rat version be at time an annoy mess . shot on location in an actual porn theatre somewhere in vancouver in canada . the acting be poor and sometimes i couldn not tell if the actress in this be suppose to be cry or laugh . live feed be not a film i would recommend anyone to rush out and buy or rent and i do not think much of it with it very weak predictable storyline lack exposition and which go nowhere and poor acting and less than impressive gore ( at least in the r rat cut anyway ) . watch either hostel film again or instead a they be superior .