‘Dear David’ Review – A Supernaturally Charged Cautionary Tale for the Internet Age

BuzzFeed comic artist Adam Ellis began a Twitter thread in 2017 that went viral as it chronicled the eerie happenings within his apartment, with sleep paralysis giving glimpses of the specter responsible, a young ghost boy with a misshapen head named David. The movie adaptation of that thread, Dead David, aims to expand the paranormal mystery that haunted […]

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‘Dear David’ – Director John McPhail on Parallels Between Haunting and Online Trolling [Interview]

Lionsgate and BuzzFeed are bringing the creepy viral story Dear David to the big screen this Friday the 13th, with Anna and the Apocalypse director John McPhail at the helm. Dear David adapts the viral 2017 Twitter thread in which then Buzzfeed cartoonist Adam Ellis chronicled the child haunting his apartment. Mike Van Waes wrote the screenplay, and Augustus Prew stars as the fictionalized version of Ellis. Director […]

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‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ Director Will Adapt Creepy Viral Story ‘Dear David’ for Lionsgate

Originally set up at New Line Cinema, Lionsgate and BuzzFeed have now taken over the film adaptation of the creepy viral story Dear David, Deadline is reporting tonight. “On August 7th, 2017, popular cartoonist Adam Ellis began telling the story of how a dead child is haunting his apartment and is trying to kill him. […]

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