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.

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.

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.

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.

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.