I Saw the TV Glow (15)

★★★★ To call it horror seems reductive. With its shapeshifting disquiet, I Saw the TV Glow is too languidly weird, too unmoored from genre conventions to be neatly categorised. But there’s not a frame in Schoenbrun’s suffocating second feature that isn’t drenched in dread and unease.~ The Observer.

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Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun follows up We’re All Going to the World’s Fair with another genre-bending outing that stalks the outer limits of horror cinema.

Formally and thematically adventurous, I Saw the TV Glow marks Schoenbrun out as one of the most distinctive voices working in genre filmmaking

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show – a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. 

In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. 

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★★★★★ Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★★ A remarkable mystery drama that speaks directly to the trans experience, Schoenbrun’s celebrated follow-up to ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ is about how art can sometimes know us before we truly know ourselves. ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ Visceral and intensely moving, this film feels like something you’d stumble across on TV in the small hours and never forget. It might herald a new era for queer cinema. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ Claustrophobic, unwholesome and brilliant, it deserves cult classic status without the “cult”; it is deeply scary, deeply strange and deeply sad, a deadly serious new version of Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge for the 2020s. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ An instant queer cinema classic. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Total Film.

★★★★ ~ NME.

★★★✭ ~ The Irish Independent.