Come the end of the year, I’m going to have the hardest time whittling down my Top 10 list. I loved The First Omen and maintain it’s the best franchise horror movie of the past decade. Longlegs lived up to the hype, and Oddity, oh, Oddity—that’s real scary stuff. The frontrunner, however, is likely Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow. Few films have affected me quite as considerably as Schoenbrun’s sophomore outing, and as a certified We’re All Going to the World’s Fair fan, I Saw the TV Glow was everything I wanted in a follow-up and more. It truly is one of the best movies of the year, so much so, that it even landed on famed filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s radar. Learn more about the film, now streaming free on Max, below:
Per Max: Introduced to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a secret, supernatural world — teenage Owen’s reality begins to crack.
In my perfect, five-star review of I Saw the TV Glow out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, I wrote, “Less singular, [I Saw the TV Glow is] a groundbreaking odyssey of trans-identity and queerness whose horror-adjacent trappings consistently elevate it to classic status.” The soundtrack is sensational, the leads are electric, and for millennial babies like myself, the pathos are deeply affecting and horrifying in equal measure. In fact, so profound was the film’s impact here at Dread Central, we even developed an entire series around our own personal experiences with the film you can check out here.
I Saw the TV Glow is liable to land on most year-end lists, and according to a recent Associated Press interview, that includes Martin Scorsese. When asked whether he’d seen anything as of late that he really enjoyed, Scorsese remarked, “There was one film I liked a great deal I saw two weeks ago called I Saw the TV Glow. It really was emotionally and psychologically powerful and very moving. It builds on you, in a way. I didn’t know who made it. It’s this Jane Schoenbrun.”
Who made it? Jane Schoenbrun, baby. In our review of their debut, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, I wrote, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is poised, I suspect, to be this generation’s The Blair Witch Project.” It’s a sensationally powerful debut, and while I Saw the TV Glow has really put Schoenbrun on the map, make sure to check out World’s Fair, also streaming free on Max, while you’re at it.
What do you think? Were you a fan of I Saw the TV Glow? Do you agree with Martin Scorsese? Let me know what you think over on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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