I SAW THE TV GLOW Trailer (2024) Brigitte Lundy-Paine, Justice Smith

I SAW THE TV GLOW Trailer (2024) Brigitte Lundy-Paine, Justice Smith

I SAW THE TV GLOW Trailer (2024) Brigitte Lundy-Paine, Justice Smith, Drama Movie
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I Saw the TV Glow features Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine as leads bonding over a cancelled TV show.
The film was written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun.
I Saw the TV Glow arrives in theaters on May 3, 2024.
The first trailer for I Saw the TV Glow has been unveiled by A24, giving audiences their first look at the upcoming horror movie that took audiences by storm during the film's festival circuit. Written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow centers around two people bonding over the cancellation of their favorite television series. Something that is all too familiar these days.

Owen (Justice Smith) was introduced to "The Pink Opaque" by Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine), a devoted fan of the series, when they were younger. After the series is cancelled by the network, strange things begin to happen to Owen and Maddy, sending them on a journey that will have them constantly questioning their reality. What began as an innocent passion for a television program turns into something capable of altering their perspectives, putting them at risk of falling victim to the horrors present in I Saw the TV Glow.

Jane Schoenbrun is no stranger to diving deep into scary stories, with the filmmaker working with a variety of horrifying threats throughout their career. Before crafting the unpredictable twists and turns of I Saw the TV Glow, the director wrote We're All Going to the World's Fair—a coming-of-age tale about a teenager who starts noticing unusual events after participating in a dangerous viral challenge. Schoenbrun clearly likes to take familiar aspects of our reality and turn them into horrifying, cautionary tales.

Where Have You Seen The Charismatic Leads of 'I Saw the TV Glow'?
Justice Smith has had a busy couple of years with his work in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and the Jurassic World franchise, in addition to I Saw the TV Glow and The American Society of Magical Negroes, which both come out this year. Similarly, Brigette Lundy-Paine was last seen on the big screen in Bill & Ted Face the Music and Bombshell, and they starred in Netflix's long-running series Atypical.

You can check out the first trailer for I Saw the TV Glow above, before the movie premieres in theaters on May 3, 2024.

I Saw The TV Glow Film Poster
I Saw the TV Glow
Drama
Horror
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.

Release Date
May 3, 2024
Director
Jane Schoenbrun
Cast
Amber Benson , Justice Smith , Brigette Lundy-Paine , Danielle Deadwyler
Runtime
100 minutes
Main Genre
Drama
Writers
Jane Schoenbrun

What happens when the line between reality and TV becomes a little too blurred?

For two outcast teens played by Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine in “I Saw the TV Glow,” a cult favorite horror series comes to life with haunting consequences. Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun‘s A24 feature was one of IndieWire’s must-see films at Sundance 2024 and landed a coveted “A” rating from IndieWire critic David Ehrlich.

The film, which homages everything from the eerie vibes of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” to late-night Nickelodeon ’90s television, follows teens who “bond over their shared love of a scary television show, but the boundary between TV and reality begins to blur after it is mysteriously canceled,” per the official synopsis.

Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Phoebe Bridgers, Fred Durst, Danielle Deadwyler, and Sloppy Jane round out the cast.

Writer/director Schoenbrun’s feature debut “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” premiered at Sundance 2021 and was a breakout indie hit. Acclaimed out of the Premieres section at Sundance 2024, “I Saw the TV Glow” is produced by A24 and Emma Sone’s Fruit Tree banner along with Dave McCary and Ali Herting. Sarah Winshall with Smudge Films and Sam Intili also produce.

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Schoenbrun previously opened up about her path to filmmaking with IndieWire, saying, “I kept finding that every screenplay I wrote was about trans shit. This was before I knew I was trans, which is ridiculous. The warning signs that the universe sends you are so loud, or that your subconscious sends you.”

She also helmed a Lucy Dacus music video in March 2023; Dacus and “I Saw the TV Glow” star Bridgers are both part of the band boygenius.

The IndieWire review for “I Saw the TV Glow” compared the sophomore feature to Gregg Araki, with critic Ehrlich writing that the movie was shot with the “ultra-vivid resolution of a recurring dream.”

The review reads, “It marries the queer radicality of a Gregg Araki film with the lush intoxication of a Gregory Crewdson photo, and finds Schoenbrun holding on to every inch of their vision as they make the leap from outsider artist to A24-stamped auteur. This is a movie that knows it will be seen (or was at least financed with that expectation), and yet, to an even greater degree than Schoenbrun’s debut, it’s also a movie about how the things people watch can have the power to see them in return. Even the parts of themselves they might be hiding from. Even the parts of themselves they aren’t ready to name yet.”

“I Saw the TV Glow” premieres May 3 in theaters from A24. Check out the trailer below.