Jane Schoenbrun’s Buffy-infused I Saw the TV Glow may look nostalgic but it’s anything but warm and fuzzy.
is a treasure trove. With its vibrant saturated colour palette, it looks like an artefact of the time. Its moody soundtrack evokes the music of the era .and Nickelodeon’s late-night weekend line-up. There are even cameos from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst andcast member Amber Benson, as well as a nod to the Smashing Pumpkins in the name of its villain, Mr Melancholy.
“I not only had seen it coming, but in many ways those consequences were the very thing that had kept me repressed for so long – this complete atom bomb exploding in my sense of life and reality, eventual estrangement from my family, and in many ways a reassessment of every relationship in my life, not to mention my sense of self and place in the world.”The prospect of emerging into their authentic self “was exciting, and it was absolutely terrifying”, Schoenbrun says.
Screen culture, in one form or another, has been central to Schoenbrun’s work to date. There was the 2018 found-footage documentary, about the Slender Man internet horror phenomenon. And there was the 2021 feature debut, which opens with a teenage girl recording a vlog, pricking her finger with a lapel pin in order to draw blood, and invoking a name three times in order to join an occult online game.
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