‘Dear David’s trailer breathes life into Twitter’s most terrifying thread
If you weren’t chronically online on Twitter in 2017, allow me to acquaint you with the thread that changed the site forever.
Created by BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis, Dear David was a Twitter thread documenting Ellis’ supernatural encounters with the ghost of a young boy. The ghost, named David, would haunt Ellis at night and had a habit of answering questions only if prefaced with a “Dear David” first — but be warned, one must only ask David two questions or else… The thread quickly became a viral hit and garnered Ellis over a million followers on Twitter. Read it at your own risk.
Six years later, the Dear David Twitter thread is now a horror film starring Augustus Prew as Ellis, and the trailer is terrifying. Taking it up a notch, David not only appears in ghost form, but as a Twitter troll mocking Ellis online with a tragic backstory and some other ghost friends. It’s a full Internet-infused ghost haunting, and dare I say, is the most realistic horror film adapted from a true story I’ve ever seen. Don’t fuck with David y’all.
Dear David releases in theaters, on demand, and on digital October 13.