‘Tingle Monsters’ is the first ASMR horror | short film review
Tingle Monsters takes place in real-time as an ASMR vlogger doing a live stream receives an unexpected surprise
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In the past few years, there’s been a rise of movies taking place fully on a computer screen with the audience as the hapless voyeurs—Searching and the continually underrated Unfriended come to mind. However, what’s most fascinating about Tingle Monsters, a new short film from director Alexandra Serio—she also stars, is how much it feels like an actual ASMR video. Though the two films I mentioned require some suspension of disbelief, Tingle Monsters is as straightforward as they come.
The movie is made to look like an actual livestream of an ASMR vlogger. ASMR or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is the experience of euphoria characterized by positive feelings and a tingling of the skin most commonly triggered by auditory or visual stimuli. ASMR vloggers use this stimuli to help relax their viewers or ease anxiety—though some may find it anxiety-inducing.
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