I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow

There is still time.

16+ 2024 · 100 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama, Horror

In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun · Written by Jane Schoenbrun

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Cast

Justice Smith Owen
Jack Haven Maddy
Ian Foreman Young Owen
Helena Howard Isabel
Lindsey Jordan Tara
Danielle Deadwyler Brenda
Fred Durst Frank
Conner O'Malley Dave
Emma Portner Amanda / Mr. Melancholy / Marco / Evil Clown
Madaline Riley Polo
Amber Benson Johnny Link's Mom
Albert Birney Mr. Sprinkly

Trailers & Videos

Make it a double feature

3h 23m together

I Saw the TV Glow

Sorry, Baby

Both from Jane Schoenbrun.

More from Jane SchoenbrunSee all →

Sorry, Baby

Sorry, Baby · 2025

MovieDramaComedy

Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away · 2017

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

MovieScience FictionFantasy

On an isolated desert planet, a man who is looking for parts to repair his robotic companion teams up with a young woman searching for an imaginary lake.

CAMP

MovieDramaHorror

Emily is the cause of two tragedies early in her life; her dad suggests she go to a Camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is taken in by the other counsellors; they accept her as she is and wrap her in a veil of peace & forgiveness. Emily stands at the forefront of a new kind of life, but there’s a voice out there in the woods she can’t ignore, telling Emily to go home.

A Self-Induced Hallucination

A Self-Induced Hallucination · 2018

A Self-Induced Hallucination

MovieDocumentary

A documentary about the mythos and real-world effects of the internet legend, Slender Man, consisting of clips from various sources from across the internet.

Collective: Unconscious

Collective: Unconscious · 2016

Collective: Unconscious

MovieDramaMystery

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Chained for Life

Chained for Life · 2019

Chained for Life

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · 2026

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

MovieComedyHorror

An ambitious director sets out to revive a faded slasher franchise, but her meeting with the film’s reclusive original star spirals into a terrifying maze of obsession, fear, and blood-soaked delusion.

Obex

MovieFantasyAdventure

Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.

Opener

A queer musician returns to her hometown to encounter the strange masculinity of the music scene.

Resurrection

Resurrection · 2022

MovieDramaHorror

A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.

Monsters and Men

Monsters and Men · 2018

Monsters and Men

MovieDramaCrime

After capturing an illegal act of police violence on his cellphone, a Brooklyn street hustler sets off a series of events that alter the lives of a local police officer and a star high-school athlete.

We're All Going to the World's Fair

We're All Going to the World's Fair · 2022

We're All Going to the World's Fair

MovieHorrorDrama

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed · 2024

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Swallowed

Swallowed · 2016

MovieDramaHorror

Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party and has a family Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. This breaking point is the film SWALLOWED, where psychological horror meets dance.

Random Acts of Flyness

Random Acts of Flyness · 2018

Random Acts of Flyness

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage · 2026

Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

MovieComedyDrama

Izzy does everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning.

More Like This

Malena

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

The Accused

The Accused · 1988

MovieCrimeDrama

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.

The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead · 1985

The Return of the Living Dead

MovieComedyHorror

Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate · 1980

MovieDramaWestern

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.

Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing · 1996

Beautiful Thing

MovieComedyDrama

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

The Fox and the Hound

The Fox and the Hound · 1981

The Fox and the Hound

MovieAdventureAnimation

When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his best friend!

Stonewall

Stonewall · 2015

MovieDramaHistory

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.

Animal Farm

Animal Farm · 1954

MovieAnimationDrama

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Murder by Numbers

Murder by Numbers · 2002

Murder by Numbers

MovieCrimeDrama

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

The Inspection

The Inspection · 2022

Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter