I Saw the TV Glow
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy 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.
- Genre: Drama, Horror
- Studio: A24, Fruit Tree, Smudge Films, Hypnic Jerk, Access Entertainment
- Keyword: high school, friendship, loss of sense of reality, sexuality, identity, obsession, surrealism, asthma, sleepover, nostalgia, buried alive, suburbia, coming of age, loneliness, arcade, vhs, tv show in film, guilt, lgbt, lgbt teen, nostalgic, planetarium, running away, gender dysphoria, existentialism, 1990s, repression, escapism, subconscious, 2000s, 2010s, gay theme, movie theater, bar, independent film, body horror, teenager, liminal space, nonbinary director, audacious, gay
- Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler
