![]() Berry and Bruni’s bond makes each investigation an intimate experience as they try to connect with spirits on a personal level, and the show has gained a large, loyal fanbase over the course of seven seasons. The show follows Berry and Bruni as they investigate locations with a history of paranormal activity and attempt to communicate with any entities they encounter. Since 2018, Kindred Spirits has aired on Travel Channel and Discovery+. While on Ghost Hunters, Berry became close friends with fellow investigator Amy Bruni and the two of them ultimately left the show to star in their own paranormal series Kindred Spirits, which aired on Destination America and TLC from 2016 until 2018. When paranormal investigator Adam Berry won Ghost Hunters Academy, his prize was supposed to be a guest spot on the TAPS team, but he went on to appear on Ghost Hunters for the next several years. Ghost Hunters eventually spawned several spinoff television series, including Ghost Hunters Academy (2009), a paranormal competition reality show. Each episode followed the TAPS team as they explored allegedly haunted locations, and the show became extremely successful. ![]() The original Ghost Hunters featured paranormal investigators Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who formed The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) and assembled a team which included Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango. I’ve been watching paranormal reality television shows since Ghost Huntersfirst aired on Syfy in 2004, so this month I wanted to talk to one of the OG ghost hunters, paranormal investigator and researcher Adam Berry. Do you believe in ghosts? Even if you’re a skeptic, you’ve probably tuned into at least one of the many TV shows or web series about ghost hunting. You can listen to The Boo Crew’s full chat with William Brent Bell below. So yeah, we definitely want to bring that sequel to life. But AI and augmented reality… that kind of stuff is blending a video game and reality for real. Now we’d be behind the curve if we just did a straight video game. “Five-ten years ago it would’ve been on the curve, ya know, riding the curve. “It was ahead of the curve,” Brent Bell reiterates. We’ve been talking about that for a while.” And how it can play as a story element, it didn’t just have to be window dressing. The studios didn’t understand the video game aspect they didn’t understand the importance of it. He continues, “People just have a warm spot for this movie. Here we are 15 years later and that’s exactly the response it seems to be getting,” Brent Bell notes. ![]() ![]() When people watch it when they’re 13, 14, 15… when they get older, they’ll always have a soft spot for that movie. “When I made that movie, I looked at it like… I love movies like Last Starfighter… I was like, ‘I want that to be what the movie’s gonna be like. We never did get any sort of follow-up to Stay Alive, but chatting with BD’s Boo Crew Podcast, Brent Bell says he still intends on making one! “Today, Stay Alive seems ripe for an update,” Ryan wrote in his article celebrating the 15th anniversary of the movie centered on a mysterious video game that bleeds into reality and knocks off its players one-by-one… in real life. Years before making horror films like The Boy, this year’s Separation, the upcoming Orphan: First Kill, and The Devil Inside, William Brent Bell made his debut on the horror scene with 2006’s Stay Alive, which Ryan Larson recently revisited in his BD column You Aughta Know.
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