Dear David (2023)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 94 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John McPhail
Stars: Augustus Prew, Andrea Bang and René Escobar Jr.
IMDb score:
3,9 (2.008)
Releasedate: 13 October 2023
Dear David plot
"Going viral is a nightmare."
Shortly after comic book artist Adam responds to internet trolls, he begins to experience sleep paralysis - as an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he reports on increasingly evil occurrences in a series of social media posts, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David. Encouraged by his boss to continue the "Dear David" discussion, Adam begins to lose his grip on what's online and what's real.
Actors and actresses
Adam Ellis
Evelyn
Bryce
Kyle Sanchez
Dear David
Adult David
Linda
Fred
Norris
Miss Nola
Reviews & comments
Shadowed
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- 11670 messages
- 6867 votes
Dear David is set in a world where you can completely move floors, including furniture, papers and pets, within a few hours. Always useful motivation, those Twitter ghosts, because Augustus Prew rakes his own ghost into his house in a particularly easy way by only responding to one of his internet trolls. The sheer lack of logic in director John McPhail's second horror film is particularly bad, since the most sensible solution to spotting a ghost is apparently to post about it frequently on the Internet. Fortunately, this is offset by a more than solid atmosphere and a number of exciting scenes. McPhail's visual decoration looks neat and as a director he shows that he is not at all incompetent in his profession. Prew does what he can with his limited and stupid script, but his character is too stupid for words, let alone sympathetic. Although the film can run for a long time on atmosphere and a fairly classic ghost story infused with social media, towards the final phase things really go wrong and Dear David turns into a messy and derailed genre mix in which basically nothing goes together. McPhail scored well for me personally with Anna and the Apocalypse, which further reinforces the disappointment of this film. Hopefully he will recover quickly with his next project.
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cantforgetyou
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- 2034 messages
- 1744 votes
This is really a very bad horror film. The story is not presented well.
However, I do give the film 3 *** because of something completely different.
Finally, the main character has a different sexual preference, but it is not exaggerated or paid attention to. This way you can promote gay acceptance.
No cliché cousins, parties, drag queens, pink, etc. But just a person who could also have been straight, but this time has a boyfriend. Well done!!! Compliments.
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mrklm
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- 12367 messages
- 10458 votes
Adam Ellis was working as a cartoonist for Buzzfeed in New York City when, in 2017, he began experiencing terrifying apparitions in his apartment that he believes were the result of a social media account called “Dear David.” He started posting a series of Tweets about his experience, and they form the basis of this oddball horror film, in which Adam [Augustus Prew] is urged by his editor-in-chief [Justin Long] to post more Tweets about “Dear David,” though Adam tries to make it clear that he’s not making it up. What started as unexplained sounds and phenomena spirals into something much more frightening, as Adam struggles to maintain the relationships he has most important to him. The horror scenes are effective, and the underlying message about the consequences of trolling is well-delivered, but the horror is clumsily mixed with romance and comedy, making it feel like you’re watching three different movies at once.
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