‘Don’t Log Off’ Directors On Tackling The Complexities of Screenlife Horror
Screenlife horror is a personal favorite of mine. A subset of found footage horror, we watch our players exist solely within a digital space, as the story unfolds through social media apps, emails, text messages, and so much more. Think The Den, Unfriended, and Livescreamers. With their new film, Don’t Log Off, co-writers, co-directors, and brothers Brandon Baer and Garrett Baer used the pandemic to craft their own shocking screenlife horror tale about a group of best friends trying to save one of their own.
In the new film, “When Sam vanishes mid-video call, her friends race to uncover what happened. As they dig online, they vanish one by one. A sinister force is at play—can they solve the mystery before they’re next?“
Filmed squarely in the middle of COVID-19 quarantine, before Rob Savage’s Host took the world by storm, the brothers got together a group of friends and performers to make a movie when it felt impossible. And the result is a thrilling game of cat and mice as these friends try to solve a mystery in real time.
We sat down with the Baer brothers to chat about working together on their first film, the unexpected challenges of screenlife, and the complications that come with filming in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Don’t Log Off is out now on VOD from Dread, a genre label of Epic Pictures Group.
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