The writer and director of 'I Saw the TV Glow' grew up obsessed with pop culture and now they’re helping to redefine it
Schoenbrun watched Sarah Michelle Gellar play Buffy, who over the course of seven seasons, figures out who she really is — a powerful woman chosen to fight evil forces. And Schoenbrun imagined how they might fit into the show. They saw themselves in everyone, from the wacky pal Xander to the broody vampire Angel to Willow and Tara, a pair of witches in love — gender be damned.
Schoenbrun is helping to usher in a whole new wave of the horror genre, one where a previously underrepresented community can truly see themselves on the screen. Horror has long been seen as a largely male, cisgendered art form — at least on the surface. Think half-clad co-eds getting the ax while the virginal Final Girl makes it to the sequel.
Looking for a refuge, Schoenbrun told stories — whether it was making up episodes of favorite TV shows, playing Dungeons & Dragons, or filming zombie movies with their friends on a camcorder they got for Hanukkah. And through it all, they found solace in fiction: horror flicks likewas a coping mechanism for not being able to find and express love in the real world,” they say.
“I remember wishing that magic was real as a kid,” they tell me. “When you’re 12 and lonely, it becomes a coping mechanism to go looking for that in media and in fiction.” As a kid, they spent ample time on message boards themselves, trading theories and even manufacturing their own spoilers for their favorite shows — some of which spread through communities as truth. “It was never like, ‘I’m just a fan,’” they say.
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