If you frequented Twitter back in 2017, you may remember what was at the time a rather innovative, ongoing short-form horror story called “Dear ... movies in 2023, you may remember that Dead ...

A tepid attempt at horror about a narcissistic blogger as he’s menaced by a ghost with an oddly wholesome anti-cyberbullying agenda, Dear David is not a good movie. But it is the most epic bacon ...

So naturally, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling. Five years later, the “Dear David” movie is here, directed by John McPhail (“Anna and the Apocalypse”), who told ...

It felt like a new form of storytelling with its blend of audio, video, photos, and microblogs posted over a long series of months. So I do definitely understand the desire to adapt it all into a ...

And this spooky season comes another Twitter-thread-inspired movie, “Dear David,” based on the events recounted by artist and writer Adam Ellis that had readers on the edge of their ...

At the time, Ellis presented his Dear David tweets as an account of real ... every “based on a true story” supernatural horror movie is similarly fake. So it’s arguably a little silly ...

Arguably, the worst instinct of the movie kicks in in its final act, when “Dear David” desperately searches for a way to neatly tie everything together in a convincing finale. For that ...

Using a cobbled-together premise more unbelievable and less coherent than if the Cats movie was also pitched as a true story, Dear David disappoints in what it seems to try to do. Instead of ...

In one of his dreams, Ellis said he was “in a library and a girl came up to me and said, ‘You’ve seen Dear David, haven’t you?’,” and in another Dear David — a child with an ...

A BuzzFeed employee claps back at his haters, thus attracting the misdirected ire of an evil ghost that only targets cyberbullies. Boredom ensues. I’ve never been especially afraid that Janicza ...