Episode 1295
Megan Is Missing
Wed, 2020-Nov-18 04:05 UTC
Length - 2:27
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With 513,764 views on Tuesday, 17 November 2020 our article of the day is Megan Is Missing.
Megan Is Missing is a 2011 American found footage psychological horror film written, directed, edited, and co-produced by Michael Goi. The film revolves around the days leading up to the disappearance of Megan Stewart (Rachel Quinn), a popular high school student in North Hollywood who decided to meet up with a boy she was interacting with online, and the subsequent investigation launched by her best friend Amy Herman (Amber Perkins). Goi based the film on a series of real life cases of child abduction and emphasized that his reason for highlighting violence in the film was to unnerve people, primarily in order for the viewer to understand the modern risks to which children are exposed online.
Goi issued public warnings to viewers in 2020 when the film went viral on TikTok. Although filmed in 2006, the film did not find distribution until Anchor Bay Films gave it a limited theatrical release in 2011. Marketed as an educational film, Megan Is Missing was banned in New Zealand upon its release and has been heavily criticized for its exploitative nature, poor acting, graphic violence inflicted upon the child protagonists, and oversexualization of young teenagers. Goi wrote the script in 10 days and shot the film over the course of a week. Because of the graphic content, he requested that the parents of the young cast be on set during filming so that they were fully aware of their children's involvement in the project.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 04:05 UTC on Wednesday, 18 November 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Megan Is Missing on Wikipedia.
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