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Few filmmakers have really captured the fascinations of Gen Z quite like Jane Schoenbrun has – with their first film We’re All Going to the World’s Fair being a horror film centered on scary stories that circulate the internet and how quickly young people can get sucked into them. To follow that up, Schoenbrun brings forth I Saw the TV Glow, another sort of horror film that perhaps embraces a sort of existential crisis that may very well be best tracked down to how people cling onto media that they feel a particularly nostalgic connection towards. But it also delves into the realities that such people find themselves identifying with in a search for acceptance – to that end, it’s not only enough to make I Saw the TV Glow one of the year’s best horror movies, but a wholly devastating one at that.

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