Dear David 2023

Dear David 2023

Dear David 2023
1h 34m | Horror, Thriller | Release date: October 13, 2023 (Canada)

Storyline:

Shortly after comic artist Adam responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis – while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. 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. Encouraged by his boss to continue the “Dear David” thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online… and what is real. Based on the viral Twitter thread by BuzzFeed comic artist Adam Ellis.

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for violent content, language and a sexual reference

User review:

We’ve seen similar adaptions of various CreepyPasta stories. Most famously is probably Slender Man which did not work well. Grimcutty did a similar thing, but that one did actually work better. On ScreamBox, you can even find a horror anthology titled CreepyPasta which also has several really strong segments.

For the first two acts, I was very impressed with how well this adaptation worked. And then that ended with the third act which just lost me.

It’s the curse of many of these CreepyPasta adaptions – as it is with all other horror movies. Maybe you’ll love the ending of Dear David, but as far as I’m concerned, they had a perfectly good horror movie and simply ruined it with the ending. For me, it changed the whole tone and went from being a character-driven horror story, based on a real-life experience, to just another generic horror movie.

Director: John McPhail
Writers: Adam Ellis, Evan Turner, Mike Van Waes
Stars: Justin Long, Andrea Bang, Augustus Prew
Country of origin: United States
Language: English
Filming locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada