Unturned
2024 · 23m · USA
Directed by Kyra McConnell, Jessica Apatow
Tones: dark, melancholic, tense
An aimless young woman befriends a rising actress, and what begins as parasocial closeness curdles into jealousy and quiet menace. A slow-burn study of online-to-offline friendship and its rot.
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The scouts
Two performers writing each other into a trap they both want to be in. The Apatow surname is a dare; the film answers it.
Co-directed and co-starring by its two leads, who built the parasocial-to-menace dynamic from inside out — that's the kind of authorial commitment that makes Ingrid-Goes-West premises work at short length. McConnell and Apatow staked something real here.
Co-directed and co-starring by its two leads, who built the parasocial-to-IRL dynamic from inside — that's why it can be a slow-burn instead of a thriller. Twenty-three minute runtime gives the menace room to seep.
Reviews
carried by the duo's captivating performances along with a foreboding score