In ‘All My Friends Hate Me’, Social Anxiety Is The Least Of Your Worries [Trailer]
Social anxiety is exhausting. If you, like me, grapple with it, you struggle through your days terrified that you did something wrong or that someone is mad at you. And at parties it’s even more difficult to manage. That nagging voice in the back of your head just yells “everyone hates you.” That tortorous existence inspired Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer’s latest film All My Friends Hate Me.
Stourton and Palmer wrote the script for the film, which is directed by Andrew Gaynord. All My Friends Hate Me follows Pete on his birthday. To celebrate, his old friends from college are throwing him a party out in the country. During what’s meant to be a joyful weekend reunion, Pete finds himself increasingly unnerved by his friends’inside jokes and snarky comments. As the atmosphere goes from awkward to terrifying to downright surreal, Pete is pushed to the breaking point. Is he being paranoid or is he the butt of some elaborate joke.
Reading that synposis just makes me anxious. My Friends Hate Me is desribed as a horror-comedy, which honestly is the best description for social anxiety.
Check out the film’s trailer here:
Stourton and Palmer were inspired by true events when writing All My Friends Hate Me:
The genesis for the screenplay of All My Friends Hate Me happened at a wedding of a friend.Specifically, during the best man’s speech. Tom [Stourton] was exhausted at the time, sleep-deprived andpretty inebriated. Halfway through the best man’s speech, he suddenly got it into his head that the speech could and would only finish in one way…with the words ‘and the funniest thing of all is that weinvited Tom Stourton for a joke. And he came!’. He had images of the whole crowd turning around and laughing at him. It was perfect. Such a terrifying but funny idea. It seemed to encapsulate so many fears we all have; how surreal they can get but also how self-indulgent they are.
It’s such a relatable feeling that we’re excited to see that fear translated into the horror genre!
All My Friends Hate Me comes to theaters March 11 and to digital March 25.
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