V.P.
2023 · 19m · USA
Directed by Gloomy Texan Media
Genres: horror
An internet sleuth investigates a porn video that allegedly drives viewers to madness.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Internet sleuth chases a cursed porn video — Marble Hornets DNA at nineteen minutes with no real festival pedigree. Could be a gem, could be a pile of static. Gambling on it.
Cursed-media premise filtered through internet true-crime aesthetics is well-trodden territory since Marble Hornets, and the Gloomy Texan Media context positions this more as a YouTube-horror artifact than a festival work. Eighteen minutes is a real commitment to ask of the conceit.
18:42 cursed-media horror with 1,000 views — the internet-true-crime filter on the cursed-tape trope is a sharp framing, but no festival or curation credits are visible from the page. Without more craft signals, holding judgment.