Aarcflick

 I still remember the terror that ran down my spine in the summer of 2017 as I flipped through the famous “Dear David” thread. He was on the New York subway, sweating because the broken air conditioning on those trains was his most reliable attribute. And yet I had chills, literal chills. The ghost story that caused a stir on the Internet back then has now been adapted into a feature film. But can a movie capture the unique emotion of the original Twitter story? Coming from Anna and the Apocalypse director John McPhail, there was reason to hope that Dear David could be as terrifying as other disturbing Internet-centric tales, like Levan Gabriadze's Unfriended or Rob Savage's Host. Now that I've seen the movie, my hope is deader than Dear David. Director: John McPhail Writers: Adam Ellis, Evan Turner, Mike Van Waes Stars: Justin Long, Andrea Bang, Augustus Prew I regret to report that Dear David lacks the stomach-churning suspense of its origins, instead offering a painfully...