Preview: Bad movie video

Congratulations on the release!

As someone who lives in florida it was certainly a choice to have every character decked out in no less than 10 layers, plus long sleeves, a leather jacket, or just being in all black.

The costumes: I went to an arts college in the early 00s and all the arty kids dressed like these characters. My friends and I called them onions, because of all the layer.

I figured a group of incubus would be called incubi

I ordered a copy off ebay and must let everyone know that before the DVD menu page loads, you're treated to the most insane trailers for similar low-budget paranormal thrillers. an incredible treat

don’t know if anyone has taken a stab at it, but with “a nuance, really” i think she’s going for ‘semantics’??? like “oh they ‘went missing’ ‘we killed them,’ pish posh, it’s all semantics.” that’s the only thing i think she could possibly maybe mean😭😭😭

The gutteral "Oh NO" that left me when I heard she cast her crush as the romantic interest. That is, the /exact/ same shit I did for a school film project. Did not work for me.

"Somebody shear that big guy!" This whole preview is awesome, but that line - chef's kiss.

The full guffaw I guffoed at "i just can't tell bald men apart."

Happy one month anniversary of this video causing me to mutter "a nuance, really" to myself about literally any inconvenience

Am I crazy or does Shayne low-key look a bit like Chappell Roan

Honestly the fact she did all this at 19, was so passionate about it, and even cast her crush in the lead oddly charms me. Like yeah girl live your bliss. Glad it worked out for you (for a while at least)

It’s extremely funny to me that this movie is essentially twilight if Colin Robinson was the love interest

Why are there so many movies called Incubus. I went to IMDB and there’s one from 2006 with Tara Reid and I was so confused

Johnny and Walter have absolutely zero chill between the both of them.

I absolutely respect people who are capable of writing their story at the age of 19. But at the same time, I do think they should not have that writing published in 99% of the cases.

Having now watched this preview several times, I really enjoy how much fun Jenny is having in this video. She's always having fun, but there is clearly a beautiful love for this film alive in her heart and it really makes the video engaging. I can't wait to see the whole thing, I suspect it will be a favourite. Also I completely understand why she has the clip of her repeating the MARNIE ROooOSE YOUKNOWWHATISAIDABOUTCOMINGHOMELATE GIIRRL in there, because I have repeated it with her every time, it's so fun.

I gotta watch the movie before finishing watching the preview. I also score some unique movies when blockbuster closed near but I never sean this one before.

I just started the movie and it's already incredible. Shayne Leighton's name flashes on the screen, fading in from left to right and quickly fading out again, but it's so badly edited that it fades away before her last name can appear. You can tell there IS a last name but it's literally indecipherable!

I appreciate the acknowledgement that this film was clearly a labor of love - if it were just another bad movie, there wouldn’t be anything memorable or interesting about it, but when there’s so much to unpack (whether good, bad, or just oddball) there truly is creativity and earnestness going into it, however misguided.

“Or maybe on a bed of purple sea urchins”

[inside information]

I forgot this was the preview and not the whole thing so when it suddenly dropped out mid thought I gasped. This video is so funny, I absolutely must watch this horrible horrible movie

My brain is forcing me to imagine Uncle Walter preaching in the local church, delivering an unhinged sermon, bathed in sweat. The church staff have to mop up the floor afterwards.

The fashion in this made me super nostalgic bc they were ROCKING my dream aesthetic when I was 13. I remember having so many outfits like it. The cameo necklaces? The ruffles that are still emo? Perfection. Just distilled the feeling of being into paranormal romance in 2010.

My favorite part about Marnie coming home from class, getting yelled at by Walter for coming home late, and then Raphael saying goodnight to her, is that it’s clearly noon and could literally not be any sunnier.

On the note of "a lesson in editing", it reminds me of when I worked on a bad/mediocre movie myself a few years back. The production was so disorganized and chaotic, but I showed up and did my best possible job as an actor with the material I was given. Upon watching the final cut, I was really confused/annoyed at one particular transition: My character exited one scene mildly concerned, with afternoon light outside the window, and entered the next scene covered in tears, heaving sobs, onto a porch in the middle of the night. On the day we shot those two scenes, during the entire filming process, I was not made aware of how quickly the two shots would be following one another in the final movie (bc there were never any storyboards made). So, I figured the scene where I was sobbing uncontrollably would be cut in a little later. It's typical for movies to shoot super out of sequence. Not the script supervisor, nor director, nor ANYONE gave me any notes about "hey, remember where you're coming from in the previous scene" etc., while we were actually filming, and we were doing take after take of me crying my bloody eyes out. I remember being so mad watching the final movie cause it made my character seem insane lmao. and!! made me wish that someone had kept me on track cause it made me look bad as an actor. So! it's not just a matter of bad editing, it's a lack of forethought for post production, and is also likely indicative of the complete lack of a script supervisor, who are meant to be there to help with continuity and flow in shooting.

Is Marnie secretly Chappel Ronan

So actually, inccubus roughly translates to lay atop some in Latin, while succubus, translates to lay with someone- so a more accurate descriptor would be inccubus = top, succubus = bottom My girlfriend who is obsessed with gay demons made me post this to clarify

being from florida and seeing places i know in the clips is absolutely FRYING me i’m about to spread the word of this film like the gospel

I've watched and re-watched this preview multiple times now and can't wait for the full thing. And I'm definitely going to get a friend to watch the actual movie with me.

I saw that you are not looking for critical feeback but adding a SH warning in the TW warning section would be really helpfull.

JENNY PLEASE WATCH “Disney Made a House of the Future” on YouTube.. it’s so perfect for you and it’s what “Escape from Tomorrow” could only imagine being. It’s from a loving place of female imagineers and is absolutely brilliant.. PLEEEAAASE WATCH

When the video ended I, too, did a slightly delayed "nooo" on a beach

I keep thinking about that scene at 28:58 which from the very first time I saw it really hit me in the heart somehow. Something about the scene, the music, the way Raphael looks up at Marnie and sounds hesitant and insecure as he asks to touch her hand, an immortal being robbed of normal emotions who suddenly feels something human stirring inside him, something yearning for the simple touch of a hand against his... he just wants to see what it would be like to touch her 🥺 I assume it's supposed to be more about their strong bond setting off the energy-sucking powers at the slightest contact, and experimenting with that, but that's just one layer. This scene has at least one more layer, and it's Raphael wanting something simple and ordinary and human again for the first time in, idk probably since he was human himself? And it touches me so unironically. If anyone's wondering who on earth would root for their love, it's ME! (I've commented on this video so many times now, I feel silly but where else can I talk about this!! I promise I'll also do it when the full video is out so it will mean something to the algorithm lol)

That face shirt looks like its from the glo worm x Margaret Keane collection

“A nuance, really”😭😭😭😭 I died

This entire movie makes me think of Tabatha from Gentlemen Broncos

I loved everything about this! I’m so happy for Shayne, she is so cool and she got to live out a dream that feels very familiar to me as someone who was once a teen obsessed with reading and writing monster romance stories. She got to sing with her best friend on Evanescence-inspired tracks that actually rip. She married her leading man. She did it. I genuinely admire that so much. I’m gonna invite all my former vampire kid friends over to watch it. Thank you for bringing this into my life

On one hand I'm laughing at this same as everybody else, on the other I really commend Shayne for putting in such effort to follow through with her writing/twilight adjacent dreams. Like she asked her crush to be in a movie with her and he said yes? And she married him!? And she got her own friends to act in her movie? These are all commendable to me bc as a Twilight obsessed tween/teen I had ZERO fucking friends I could have asked to be in a movie with me and the boy I liked at the time called me a fat dyke when he thought I couldn't hear, so he probably would not have been in my theoretical movie either :') So in my eyes, the eyes of a former teen loser, Shayne Leighton is cool as hell.

The vibe in this movie reminds me a lot of the Vampire Diaries adventure game

This is a ridiculous thing to get hung up on but it is hilarious to me that Spoon River only has one church. My dad's town of 5k had at least 5, not least because you'd have rival sects from the same broader denomination on the same block. Either Spoon River's got pretty bad population drain leading to all the churches closing or Walter's crazy preaching has swayed the whole town into following his church.

The goth go-go dancer makes me think of the disgusting club in the MST3K episode Hobgoblins. Maybe it got remodeled since the 80's, and it's now a kind of boring lounge that is still hosting band performances to try to stay trendy hangout in the 2010's, but the edge is gone. At least the bathroom is less nightmarish these days.

i am so compelled by the johnny actor

I'm trying to decide what 2000s sidekick Johnny is giving me vibes of....Xander? Gordo from Lizzie McGuire if he was a goth? I know there's someone I just can't think of who

Spoon river, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style somedayyyyy

I didn't know Meghan Trainor was so untalented in so many ways!

This movie is the perfect mix of The Room and The Last Vampire on Earth. I anyone hasn't seen the latter, stop what you're doing and watch it on youtube!

Honestly her music slaps -- or maybe I'm terminally gay

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. Haven't watched the movie yet (the DVD is on its way to me) but I just love that it exists. It reminds me so much of the self-insert Twilight fantasies I had as a teenager, except I never turned mine into a movie – which makes Shayne so much cooler than me! I think it's so cool and impressive when teenagers have so much drive to make art. It's really charming to me how this story seems cobbled together from a lot of individual scenes the writer thought would be cool, because that's just how fantasizing works. Olivia is happily evil in one scene and sad about doing harm in another because both are cool scenes! It just wasn't really worked into a coherent story because the writer was 19 (or, realistically, even younger while writing it if she was 19 during production.) I see so much potential in all these snippets of themes that could be made into a really good and interesting story. Part of me wants a remake, I keep fantasizing about THAT now! A moody dark romance about cycles of abuse, whether you can change fate, perceived or supernatural... But also, no remake would have the charm of this movie! It's so interesting in its own way and I think I love it. A more professional movie wouldn't have this "I'm thinking about my self-insert Twilight OC instead of paying attention in class" energy. I'm so excited to watch the movie, and the full video!

AU Chappell Roan

I watched this last night while cooking dinner and it was so good I then had to immediately watch it again this morning giving it my full attention. I was laughing so hard, can’t wait to see the rest!

"MARNIE ROSE!!! What did I tell you about coming home home late, girl!?!"

30:53 i'm fairly sure that what she means by 'nuance' is whatever the american equivalent to the british 'trifle' is, like a brush off of a trivial thing in a "'tis a mere trifle' kinda way. maybe something like 'pff, details' would be closer to what i think it's supposed to be? and i think you're right that she just didn't know what nuance really meant and maybe associated it with similarly sophisticated words like trivial?

As a native swampdweller, I'm 95% sure they filmed in the Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale area. Also, was excited to see Czech representation, but he's 100% playing up the accent and adding more rhotic sounds. Probably to fit into that vampire niche.

I can hardly contain my excitement. A nuance, really.

This video is great, I bet it is going to spread like a wild fire!

This is set in a place called Spoon River? In high school many of us had to read a book called Spoon River Anthology where the ghostly residents of the Spoon River graveyard would manifest and talk about their lives before they died. Exactly the kind of work a dramatic, literary, English-is-my-favorite-subject, goth-curious type young person would draw inspiration from!

What an interesting film. The main character is intriguing a way I can’t describe.

this film was written by chappell roan?!

An hour long preview!? Im super psyched for the finished one!

I love that you managed to work "self life take" into a video, an insane phrase I have been saying for years thanks to Lindsay's streams. that's my GOAT

27:50 not one single small town (let alone one with a university lol) has ever had only one church. the town where my grandparents live has a population of less than 200 and yet 3 churches (catholic, anglican, presbyterian), down from 4 (the baptist one closed a few years ago)

Lmao I love how she is like "keep your damn opinions to yourself" And she is correct

It is really sad that Marnie goes from living with Walter from the age of, like, seven onwards to living with this ghoul for the rest of her immortal life.

I'm only 1 minute and 46 seconds into The Incubus and it's already delivering on so many levels.

I am so pleased that I paused this video 2 minutes in, watched the entirety of the Incubus, and then came back and finished this. On the costumes- maybe it was an east coast thing but I knew several people in the early 2000s- especially theater kids- who dressed a lot like Marnie. There were a lot of boutique stores that sold lacey fingerless gloves and sort of creepy-french-doll fashion. It was sort of like the mori girl aesthetic- but with some skulls, dolls, and ruffle collars thrown in. I swear I had a tunic dress with a massive doll face on it and the eyelashes were bedazzled. The fashion in this movie was sooooo good! And the goths were great! I love how Raphael’s gloves have MASSIVE buckles around the wrist- it makes them more noticeable and really emphasizes how he has to take precautions to limit himself in order to interact with her safely. I was quite confused when Johnny started shouting at Marnie about how Chris had been asking for her- tbh my impression at the very start of the film was that maybe Johnny was interested in Chris and Marnie was sort of dragged into knowing Chris as an unwilling wingman of sorts. Their conversation in the car where Johnny is really pushing Marnie to go with him to support Chris read to me like “hey I want to go to this thing to support my crush but it might look weird if it’s just me and also I’ll feel awkward being there alone so pls pls pls come with me.” But then he so clearly doesn’t care when Chris starts getting close to Michael, so I have no idea what the friendship-trio dynamic is meant to be. But: when Johnny started shouting at Marnie about Chris dying, I could see it working if the film had leaned more into Marnie using Raphael as a coping mechanism. Like we know that Marnie has horrible nightmares, and we know that Raphael can MAKE her sleep by draining her energy (there’s that one scene where she says she wouldn’t be able to sleep, and then Raphael says he can help and completely knocks her out without her input). So if Marnie, wanting to avoid nightmares, was getting Raphael to knock her out more and more and she was sleeping for these long 12 or 14 hour stints, I could see her friends getting frustrated if they were unable to get in contract with her for hours at a time, even when she knows that time-sensitive emergencies may be happening. But, as the movie stands, Johnny’s words and actions just make no sense lol. Also, why was there one shot where Johnny was wearing little-to-no makeup and wearing, like, a soft blue and yellow plaid shirt? Did I hallucinate that? He's calling Marnie in that scene, so I imagine it's just after Chris died... but then when we next see him he's wearing a new outfit and a LOT of eyeshadow, so was he, like, angrily doing his makeup and hair after his friend died? I have so many thoughts! I think it’s a bold choice for them to have just made Raphael, like, completely evil? I’m not sure if that was meant to be the take away…. but I feel like with a slightly different direction this could have been a very depressing thriller about a young woman suffering from abuse at the hands of her uncle and falling into a supernatural abusive relationship that dooms her to an eternal half-life where she will forever be cut off from her true emotions. And then Raphael himself is perpetuating the cycle too- he might resent being tied to Bianca and how she resurrected and transformed him, and yet he will do it to Marnie and put her through unending suffering as well. I think that the clunky writing, editing, and acting made it quite enjoyable even though the story was rather grim. And Bianca was amazing every time she appeared. I love all the music and music videos! I am excited to add them to my playlists!

Jenny, you’ve done it again 👏

I called my friends over to my apartment and we watched this movie before my shift tonight. I can't wait to watch this video now that I've done my homework!

this feels like low budget twilight x buffy the vampire slayer

This is so good, I'm honestly impressed how jenny finds the funniest way to cut every single movie clip

I can't believe you dyed your hair a sultry auburn just for this video

Obsessed with Bianca just being a proto-Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Adams. She’s kind of killing it

i'm so obsessed with the costumes... inspiration from hot topic and renaissance faires and 80s goths... effervescent

I love the guy at 27 minutes speaking while mostly out of frame

Kind of fascinated that evidently the plot is twilight inspired but there’s more going on with Marnie personally than Bella and yet if you remove Stephanie Meyers load-bearing Mormonism there’s not really any forbidden romance element left, like you can just sleep together the only thing stopping you is the guy’s hot goth sister and it’s like she’s not an actual threat really. So crucially the lead romance becomes it’s just some transfer student guy you dated in uni who turned out to be an abusive dick who strangles people at the first sign of conflict. I think I get the allure Jenny this movie is incredible. It’s a rich text and the music is good actually as a former teenage girl who loved evanescence.

I feel like Shepard walking into the Shadow Broker's inner sanctum for the first time. I tried to guess the secret, always privately, reading others' guesses and weighing the possibilities. And then the secret is revealed and I'm like... what? What is that? I've never seen that before-- I've never even HEARD of that before. I couldn't be happier. What a wonderful surprise! Can't wait for the finished product.

Oh lordy lord lord this is too funny I can't wait until the vid is finished. I actually dropped my phone after Jenny's first costume change but I am getting a lot of ideas for a Halloween outfit lol.

The costume designer has the same last name as the writer/director/lead actor so I think it might be her sister or cousin who knows how to wardrobe actors out of a fever dream. That's weirdly wholesome

I will say as a person who grew up with family in central Illinois that Spoon River is technically a real thing that led to the fictional Spoon River Anthology. In fact, I’m always pleasantly surprised when it gets mentioned, even if it’s an art school kid’s cheeky way of knocking off Forks, Washington.

I just can't tell bald men apart🤣

Dude I thought this was the Lillee Jean girl with the wild mom who's always suing and harassing content creators. But the math wasn't mathing with her age. But man she looks like her.

So much of this movie feels like something that makes sense when written in text as something you'd see on ao3, but just completely collapses when you actually see it live. Fainting scene transitions in a written work? Yeah ok sure. The author doesn't know how to move on so we'll use that. I can accept that. But in a *movie*, it's so much goofier. This entire film feels like someone really accurately imagining a fanfic they're reading which was somehow captured and put online

marnie looks so much like chappel roan so im just imagining chappel roan is the actress

dang, I didn't know hawk tuah played a mean girl in a twilight knockoff film

oh my god this is more incredible than I could've possibly imagined. you had me at someone's singular vision and twilight, but then added 19 and $300,000. now I need to go watch this whole movie blind, and I actually love spoilers. I'm so excited

Justice for Overheating Sheep

Also I know he sucks, but I kinda love Johnny, he's iconic. His makeup is everything I wished mine could've been as an emo tween, and I love that he chose to do like, a half-hearted Jersey accent sometimes? Obviously a loving homage to MCR. I wish the movie had shipped him with Bianca just because I think it would've been extremely funny.

YOOO 'Beastly' is one of my favorite Jenny vids of all time, in the entire catalog! So ofc, this movie and vid are an absolute treasure immediately. Thank you, your Nastiness. 😭🙌

Well on the plus side the sheep survived to the end, I presume?

the Walter performance is so fucking insane, absolutely amazing stuff. I also think it's really funny that Walter has that cartoon Southern accent even though his brother who was presumably raised in the same environment just talks like a normal person in the flashback

lol the fact that this movie was screened in 2020 yet all the footage and interviews look like they were filmed in 2007 is taking me out 😭

>and "emote" about what's going on "marnie. marnie."

can't believe Benoit Hank was domestic abusive to Chappell Roan

What does it say that when Jenny said the title was “the Incubus,” I thought it was going to be that horror movie Tara Reid made? Which would probably make for a interesting double feature with this one 🤔

Whenever I hear about a performing arts high school I always assume it’s Dreyfoos, and it never is. When you said south florida I checked and was finally right for once. 34:06 Also that pizza place behind them in downtown Lake Worth is still there and it’s trash

The scene where Johnny punches the sign, of which we can only see the word "End" is such a beautiful case of foreshadowing Johnny's untimely demise! Obviously we now need zero in-universe explanation for his random death at the hands of the hero. 10/10 no notes.

The outfits are incredible!! (Yours and theirs!)

I ordered a dvd copy in the first 10 minutes of watching this. I am very excited to inflict this movie on my friends

It does not matter at all, but the plural of "incubus" is "incubi" lol

OH but your Nastiness! This was great! I am very excited for the full release!

I think the reason Raphael kills Johnny is just to make him actually scary and dangerous, and thus thrilling as a love interest in this kind of story. It's like you said about Damon in the Vampire Diaries video: if he's a good guy for too long, he becomes boring and unsexy. Where's the danger in our edgy dangerous romance if our dreamy boy isn't dangerous? I think in this movie, it would work better tonally if the main character wasn't revived – it would be a love story about a love that is doomed from the start because the world is bad and the love interest, even though he loves her, is still a bad guy. She represents good things being snuffed out in the bad world and he can't save her because he's part of it, and there's no way the story could go where they'd be a happy couple. But then he does save her and idk are they a happy couple now?

Wow weirdly I was in a vlogging group with Shayne in the mid-2000s! We never met irl but we were internet friends for years and I have a signed copy of her book lol.

can we place bets on when Shane Leighton will rightfully attain EGOT status??

Woohoo! My first main channel vid preview since becoming a patron in 2024! Exciting! (This is not meant to be a complaint at all because I have been enjoying all of the rambles past and present in the meantime... but I am seriously excited for this! And some more exclamation points to show how serious I am!!!!!!!!!!!)

poob has incubus for you

The budget breakdown for this movie must have been beautiful

Just a note that in the beginning when you’re describing the film being released in theaters you say 2020 where I believe you mean 2010! Around 4:40. Incredible video!!! Every aspect of Johnny is sending me.

It's such a power move to call out youtube's stupid censorship of serious words, demonstrate how ridiculous it would be to use evasion words ("family slapping" as a euphemism is incredible), and then just use normal words like abuse and murder. Hats off to you, hope youtube doesn't act up about it.

the VPD video came out when when I moved into my first home with my husband. now this video is coming out as I'm packing our house to move into a bigger house with our kids

Johnny punching the street sign dramatically was so funny like you know that hurt

You know it's bad when Edward Cullen is a better boyfriend than Raphael. The is fantastic. The cut from "have you noticed anything different abt the bullies" to them sitting looking insane made me burst into laughter 😭😭

Whoa what is Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day doing here?

Yessss, so hyped for this. Since you said you recommend watching the full movie, do you think watching the movie before watching your video would make it more entertaining or would watching your video first be better?

I gotta say I do like that the bad boy appears to do extremely bad things

Town named after a type of silverware. Jenny your little deadpan jokes that you throw out so casually as part of a sentence and just keep talking are my favourite. I've only just started the video and I'm already delighted

this fiiiiiiine necklace from Claires maybe

31:08 "nuance" appears to have been trying to say "trifling detail"

I love that these teens got to live the dream! Thanks for sharing this wild passion project.

This will be joining the ranks of The Last Vampire On Earth in the shrine of my heart.

YES!!! YES!!!!!!

“Do you notice anything different about Lexi and her gang?” 👁️‍🗨️👄👁️‍🗨️ 👁️‍🗨️👄👁️‍🗨️ 👁️‍🗨️👄👁️‍🗨️

This is gold, thanks Jenny!! An Oscar for best cameo to the man walking behind Marnie's head at 19:13.

I remember getting ads for this movie on Facebook! And literally nowhere else

My favorite bad movie trope is the writer/director starring in their own vanity project. Manos: the Hands of Fate did this, as well as supernatural thriller Soultaker, where human souls are represented as those glowstick bracelets you get at the carnival

You got me something for my birthday?!? You shouldn't have ☺️

The laugh that leapt out of me at the uncle wading towards them. Oh my god.

Maybe the jail was an island that he had to swim from

“A nuance, really” immediately going in my lexicon

Jenny’s gonna break the internet again! It took us months to put it back together after the last time. I have not even heard of this movie! I only watched the beginning of the vid, so I can’t wait to watch the rest after work tonight!

one of my favorite classic bad YA media things is when they put characters in college even though it doesn't make any sense, because i think it's at least partially because they thought it'd be too risque/sad to put minors through such terror and/or sexual situations. my favorite example is that awful Beautiful Disaster book where all of the college characters eat lunch in a single cafeteria but also have to hold their insane fighting ring in one of the campus buildings because i'm pretty sure the main character doesn't have a car

This is awesome. Hugely entertaining. I love that she’s the star & her best friend plays the villain. Johnny’s acting is incredible. When he puts out his hand to shake the Incubus’s hand is my favourite part. I love the background lore they spent time to create, especially the in-universe newspaper article, I can imagine her at her 2010s colourful-plastic computer writing it & dragging the pics into place. I’m glad you gave us the heads up about the costumes. Kept thinking about it whenever they were on screen. I also couldn’t stop thinking about the 8-member student body. I don’t love the magic system though, it’s pretty bland & confusing, or at least for it be more immersive you’d need a Czech model with a bit more presence & charisma. I did like the swimming pool scrying’s sympathetic link to the skylight. But magic system needs heaps more work for the stakes to feel earned I had to turn away from the screen whenever the abusive uncle was speaking because the second-hand embarrassment of his accent was just physically too much to bear. I had to go back & watch the overheating sheep. It made me laugh so much, but also he’s genuinely panting 😮‍💨 but he was probably also taken out by the extinction-level incubus attack Thank you so much Jenny, this rocks!!! 10/10

THE OVERHEATING SHEEP 🫴🏼

Oh dear... Shayne Leighton watched a ton of DCOMs growing up, didn't she. The meet-in-nightclub gave me "Troy & Gabriella meeting by karaoke" vibes from High School Musical, and "Marnie" is the name of the alleged protagonist from Halloweentown.

Few things make me happier than a Jenny Nicholson chapter break costume change and the first one did not disappoint! Can’t wait to watch the rest.

The cut to the three bullies looking like B-movie zombie extras made me do a spit take

to be fair to marnie I might also immediately faint if i locked eyes with a man that looked that crazy

Omgggg an hour long preview 😍😍😍😍

We finally got the answer to the WildFIRE bit

omg I wasn't expecting this :D should I watch the movie first or the preview?

The fashion is such a time capsule!

Awesome preview, I'm very excited!

"It spreads like a wild fire." It's the line you teased in the Internet Horror ramble! We can finally laugh at the reference now!

the sheep is my favorite character

I am so pumped! I'm only a few minutes in but it already reminds me of the book The Prophecy of the Stones, which was written by a 13 year old who got maybe too much publishing support for what was ultimately a pretty mid book outside the context of the young writer. It's important sometimes for young people to be enabled to create weird bad art, imo. ETA: Actually Jenny, I'll give you this one, I also thought those two bald men were the same actor.

the amount of research evident in the first five minutes is staggering. fantastic work as always!

It’s gonna be so hard to not look this up now 😅 so excited!!

This is so exciting!! Thank you for the preview! 💖🥰🥳