{"id":112233,"date":"2020-05-12T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=112233"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:06:44","slug":"tingle-monsters-review-spine-chilling-thrill-for-the-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/tingle-monsters-review-spine-chilling-thrill-for-the-senses\/","title":{"rendered":"Tingle Monsters review: Spine chilling thrill for the senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Tingle Monsters<\/strong> <\/em>is being touted as the first ASMR horror\u2026 though that may not be necessarily true, with any Giallo film or indeed Peter Strickland\u2019s meta-giallo, Berberian Sound Studio also fitting the bill.<\/p>\n<p>This short \u2013 written, directed by and starring webby nominated filmmaker Alexandra Serio \u2013 logs a terrifying connection between online harassment and violence against women, and does so with razor-sharp precision.<\/p>\n<p>Playing out like a YouTube livestream complete with an interesting rolling comments section, ASMR vlogger Dee Tingle appears on screen to apologise to her viewers for lack of posting recently. She\u2019s moved house due to her ex-partner\u2019s controlling demand for her to stop vlogging. When the typical trolls appear with sexist nonsense, Dee signs out of the chat, with a vital line of communication being cut off.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous women including, famously, actress Kelly Marie Tran and comedian Leslie Jones, have been bullied off of social media. In <em><strong>Tingle Monsters<\/strong><\/em>, Serio deals with this very current real-world problem with smarts and simply effective execution in a tensely-wound scenario.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tingle Monsters will be released on 20 May.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microphones at the ready! We review Alexandra Serio&#8217;s ASMR-based short horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":112235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[8,6821],"tags":[6822],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tingle-Monsters-Screen-Shot.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127357,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112233\/revisions\/127357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}