LonzoBall

Welcome to hell, because for the next 1 hour and 26 minutes you will wish you were burning in the fiery inferno instead of watching this.

mrkesu

Acting was good, but the story just went nowhere. Not worth the time.

NedPops

At one point it felt like it was really going somewhere and truly had an opportunity to pull out something great, but it just trailed off and did nothing, such a shame.

JC230

So directly influenced by Schoenbrun’s Slender Man doc that feels like required viewing, this builds off the odd dual community and isolation of the internet age and the creepypasta community in particular. A fragile, tenuous lifeline keeping you afloat all while pulling you in deeper. Cobb and Rogers give haunting, lonely performances. And the ending is a perfect ambiguity. The whole film is able to work on many different readings of how ‘real’ this all is and being equally tragic in each one. I think maybe TV Glow works against this film- it builds on a lot of the tone, the gender identity, the tragedy in a way that makes this feel like a bit of a warm up. It’s a film that made me think, but TV Glow made me think and feel. A great debut film that promised- and delivered- greater things from Schoenbrun.

MisterX867

Maybe I need to watch this more than once but I really felt like this was a project that no one on set knew what exactly it was supposed to be.

Lucan26

Extremely depressing and lonely, took me back to my dark days…which I guess it gave me hope for escaping that period of my life. Parasocial relationships online is handled well here and the ending is open enough to be the saddest conclusion possible - it felt like it was kinda romanticising/normalising pedophilia slightly though (???), at least in my eyes, by just brushing off the situation as “he’s lonely” and even forces sympathy on his character after he’s rightly called a pedo…but then I could be completely wrong - the ending is very open to interpretation. I’m a little old for it to hit now but I can see why this means so much to many teens.

FoxyStoat95

A slow burn that never leads anywhere.

MCubed1220

Slow and confusing. Not quite sure what I watched.

csrz

Flat, boring, unengaging. I waited over a year for this and was disappointed. This is another case where a film with a unique concept never managed to grow into something bigger. It's like taking a good short film and stretch it out needlessly. The experience of going through 'spooky' internet videos and playing it constantly evoke a good sense of discomfort, but it can't quite make for a compelling narrative. The story may be relatable to some audience but it's clear I'm not part of those audience.

miguelreina

[FICX'21] Explore loneliness through fear, the fears of an teenage trapped in the weird reality (or unreality) of the internet. There are really chilling moments, for their subtext rather than for what is shown, along with scenes that are lengthened unnecessarily. It's a horror film that is not exactly terrifying, but rather conveys a chilling feeling about the boundaries between truth and lies.