The world’s first ASMR horror film: TINGLE MONSTERS out May 20

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The World’s First ASMR Horror Film By Alexandra Serio

Premiering Online May 20, 2020 

Watch the trailer here:


Praise from the Festival Circuit:

 

“Alexandra Serio has a unique vision” -Unseen Films

 

“Tingle Monsters underlying message is sure to get under the skin and fester like a gangrenous wound” Horror Buzz

 

“An uncomfortable watch, Tingle Monsters leaves a lasting impression prompting every viewer to take a sobering look at just one fraction of the female experience, in all its grisly glory” -Screen Queens

 

“Like Isa Mazzei’s CAM, Tingle Monsters has an authentic, well-informed voice in Serio that I can’t wait to hear more from in the future” -BiffBamPop

 

“Serio doesn’t hold your hand by giving you a completely hopeful conclusion with a typical final girl and a sense of strong optimism. Instead… she begs the question when are we going to create a safe space for women” -Nightmarish Conjurings

 

“Using a current hot internet trend and the toxic environment that bullying males create online for women and girls, Serio has crafted a 10-minute short that delivers in both the social message and fright-fare departments.” -Gruesome Magazine

 

 

Official Selection Sweeping the Film Festival Circuit Including:

 

Cleveland International Film Festival 2020*

Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival 2020*

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2020

Montclair FIlm Festival 2020

Oxford Film Festival 2020

Filmquest 2019

 

*Oscar-qualifying festivals 

  

Tingle Monsters is a short film starring, written and directed by Alexandra Serio. After sweeping the film festival circuit and being screened at Cinequest, Final Girls Berlin and the Cleveland International Film Festival and accepted into Oxford FIlm Festival, FilmQuest, Montclair Film Festival and more, this short film is poised for National release. 

 

The film features an ASMR vlogger with a devoted fan base who returns from an extended absence with a livestream that spirals out of control. Through this context Serio explores her belief that violence against women truly starts with words. 

 

Using the vehicle of an ASMR livestream, Tingle Monsters shows how what people say and think about women affects their real-world treatment. Audiences will witness the consequences of harassment turn dangerous both on-screen and off as her fans, who are watching it unfold from their own screens, comment live.

“I firmly believe that through gender parity and telling women-driven narratives we can begin to change the world. But we must start by taking a sobering look at where we currently are. Tingle Monsters aims to do that.” -Alexandra Serio

 

The most common form of stalking is unwanted phone calls, text, and internet messages. The unconventional format of the film plays on this. Shot in screenlife format with no extra score or sound design, the film is designed to transport viewers into a scenario they are already familiar with—the harassment of women on the internet—ultimately inviting the audience to examine the link between what we say and think about women and their real-world treatment.

 

In 2014, Alexandra Serio founded Nameless Network, a production and media company that makes educational content for the smartphone generation. For Tingle Monsters, Serio was heavily inspired by her own experience making female-driven content and seeing the abusive comments that the female hosts received. They were attacked for everything from their voice to the way the looked.

 

Serio also drew inspiration from an Amanda Hess piece called Why Aren’t Women Welcome on the Internet for Pacific Standard. In the piece, Amanda shares her own experience with online threats of rape, death, and stalking. Says Hess, “None of this makes me exceptional. It just makes me a woman with an Internet connection.”

ABOUT ALEXANDRA SERIO (WRITER/DIRECTOR/ACTOR/PRODUCER):

Alexandra Serio is a Webby-nominated director, writer and producer based in New York City. She is co-founder and chief content officer of Nameless Network, a media and production company that creates video programming for the smart-phone generation. Guerrilla filmmaking and female-driven narratives are her passion. Her latest film “Tingle Monsters” examines the link between internet harassment and physical violence against women.

 

 

CREDITS:

 

Dee: Alexandra Serio

 

Man: Kareem Rahma

 

Director: Alexandra Serio

 

Writer: Alexandra Serio

 

Producer: Nameless Network

 

Cinematographer: Maxwell Nelson


Editor & VFX: Kostyantin Bakalow

 

Sound Mix: Dean White

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