Sundance standout I Saw The TV Glow finally has a trailer for the rest of us

Sometimes, a film premiers at a major festival and feels so intriguing—so major—that it develops a fervent fanbase before most audiences have even gotten a chance to see it. Such is the case with Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature, I Saw The TV Glow, which last month became one of the year’s most anticipated queer horror films after it opened at Sundance.

Now, those of us who weren’t lucky enough to spend January in Utah are finally getting our first real glimpse at the film. A24 just released a trailer that teases both the classic coming-of-age signifiers of exploring sexuality and reminiscing on a not-too-distant childhood while mixing in something far more mysterious and sinister.

This is Schoenbrun’s second feature after 2021's We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, a chilling dive into webcam horror and teenage creepy-pasta obsession that The A.V. Club’s A.A. Down called his “unqualified favorite” from that year’s Sundance festival. Fans of that movie’s soundtrack—penned by indie darling Alex G—are in for a treat here as well. “I want to make the best soundtrack of all time,” Schoenbrun recalls telling A24, I Saw The TV Glow’s producer (via Rolling Stone). With this massive boost in resources, the director commissioned 16 original songs from their “favorite contemporary artists who were doing the kind of things that I was obsessed with when I was a teenager,” they said. “[I] asked them to write the song that they would have written if they had played in the Bronze from Buffy or in the Roadhouse from Twin Peaks.”

This star-studded compilation includes new material from Caroline Polachek, Phoebe Bridgers, Snail Mail, King Woman, Sloppy Jane, The Weather Station, and more. The film will also feature more than a few familiar faces to fans of this genre of music, but we won’t spoil any of those here. You’ll have to see for yourself when I Saw The TV Glow hits theaters May 3.