Movies like I Saw the TV Glow

“I Saw the TV Glow (2024) is a 2020s American body-horror coming-of-age drama that remaps late-90s suburban interiors into a medium-specific anxiety. The narrative tension stages a television program as a diegetic catalyst whose chiaroscuro-lit presence fragments a teenager's grip on reality while subjective framing and slow-burn editing register bodily and psychological disturbance. The film therefore argues that mediated domestic images can materially reshape adolescent identity and cultural intimacy.”