Shortly after comic artist Adam responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David.
Practical Effects
Dear David's uncanny head tilt and dead-eyed stare
Writing
Adapting actual viral Twitter thread into narrative
Director
John McPhail
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real BuzzFeed artist Adam Ellis's actual viral 2017 Twitter thread that racked up millions of views. Ellis himself makes a cameo as a barista.
The film captures peak 2017 internet horror—a moment when Twitter threads were treated as legitimate journalism and everyone believed they were one viral moment from relevance or ruin.
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