If you missed out on seeing writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s neon-infused nightmare I Saw the TV Glow in theaters, you can now watch one of the year’s most unique and haunting horror films at home—which may even enhance its enchanted-by-the-boob-tube effects.
Starting today, I Saw the TV Glow is available to rent or buy on all the usual platforms; there’ll be a Blu-ray release coming from A24 July 30. It’s a loose companion piece to Schoenbrun’s 2021 feature We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, about a lonely teen who becomes enmeshed in a viral internet stunt that begins to alter her reality. I Saw the TV Glow is similarly media-fixated; it follows a pair of friends (Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine) who bond as teens over a shared obsession with a cult TV show, The Pink Opaque. As we follow them through the years, their fandom becomes a way to escape into fantasy… except it starts to feel like it’s not a fantasy, and that perhaps The Pink Opaque has shifted from nostalgic entertainment into something both liberating and highly sinister.
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I Saw the TV Glow co-stars Ian Foreman and Helena Howard, with Fred Durst (yes, that Fred Durst, in a menacing, nearly wordless role that somehow doesn’t feel like stunt casting) and Danielle Deadwyler.
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