Last year, Jane Schoenbrun’s junior feature, I Saw the TV Glow (2024), cemented them as a profound and distinct voice in filmmaking, but their found-footage debut, A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018), already had all the trappings of a groundbreaking filmmaker. The experimental documentary, originally uploaded to YouTube and always screened for free, appropriates video clips culled from the Internet to explore subjectivity, truth, and children’s autonomy through the Slender Man phenomenon.

In 2009, there was a contest on the website Something Awful that invited users to share their best images altered to look like paranormal phenomena. A user submitted a black-and-white photo of children scattering while a tall, thin figure loomed in the background. He supplemented it with creepy quot

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