Horror ‘Spoiling You’ weaponises ASMR in unsettling first poster

The poster for Spoiling You has dropped, and it’s every bit as unsettling as you’d hope. This ASMR-tinged horror marks the directorial debut of Megan Tremethick and promises a deeply uncomfortable plunge into digital obsession, parasocial intimacy, and the creeping horror of being truly, devastatingly alone.

Taking cues from J-horror and extreme Asian cinema, with clear DNA traces of Takashi Miike’s Audition, Spoiling You weaponises the modern “comfort economy,” twisting whispered reassurance and online validation into something quietly invasive and psychologically corrosive.

Co-written by Tremethick and Lawrie Brewster, the film stars genre stalwart Laurence R. Harvey alongside Stephen Kerr and Tremethick herself. Harvey, in particular, feels like inspired casting here – a performer long associated with discomfort cinema, now dropped into a story about obsession, loneliness, and manufactured intimacy.

The film follows Drew, a socially isolated insomniac who finds solace in the soothing, carefully curated world of Miss Mutter – an ASMR-style online creator offering comfort, reassurance, and the illusion of unconditional care. When Drew wins a competition to meet her in person, devotion overrides reason, and what begins as digital intimacy spirals into something far darker.

The newly revealed poster – designed by Tremethick, with artwork by Ida Bagus Indra and typography by Jedalias Mendez – perfectly sets the tone: intimate, invasive, and deeply wrong in that slow-burn, under-the-skin kind of way.

Spoiling You will make its world premiere at the Romford Horror Film Festival in Romford on Saturday 21 February at 7:00pm. A festival that continues to champion bold, boundary-pushing indie horror, Romford remains one of the UK’s most vital genre showcases, and Spoiling You looks like it’ll fit right in with cinema that refuses to play nice or safe.