The Dirties

The Dirties (2013) is Matt Johnson's unsettling found-footage drama, one to watch online on iFILM if you're ready for a hard film about bullying.

Matt and Owen are two movie-obsessed high schoolers who get pushed around every day. Camera in hand, they shoot their own project: a comedy in which they fight back against the school bullies they nickname "the Dirties." The Tarantino-style game is fun at first. Then Matt starts losing the line between the footage and his real life, and the joke drifts somewhere it shouldn't.

Johnson directed the film and stars in it, shooting on next to no money entirely on handheld cameras. It took the Grand Jury prize at Slamdance, and Kevin Smith stepped in to help it find an audience. Short and deeply uncomfortable, it talks about bullying and teenage rage without lecturing and without flinching. Stream The Dirties online on iFILM.