The Myth of the American Sleepover
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Sep 9, 2026
Timothy McDanielHOST
But he did this.
Timothy McDanielHOST
He did The Myth of the American Sleepover and Under the Silver Lake.
Timothy McDanielHOST
And he did a movie called Virgin.
Timothy McDanielHOST
So, like, the guy has, like, a weird thing with, like...
John AxelradGUEST
Yeah.
John AxelradGUEST
And I should mention the very first feature he did, which was Myth of the American Sleepover.
John AxelradGUEST
I thought it was a wonderful movie, very indie.
John AxelradGUEST
And David, he loves naturalism.
Ben LindberghHOST
Mm-hmm.
Adam NaymanGUEST
And yet I would also say if you've seen It Follows or Under Silver Lake or Myth of American Sleepover, which I really like, his first movie, it's totally of a piece with these films.
Adam NaymanGUEST
Despite the scale and the budget and the dinosaurs, it's very similar to those three movies, I think.
Ben LindberghHOST
It Follows with T-Rex instead of ghosts.
Adam NaymanGUEST
It, It Follows with T-Rex instead of ghosts, or just, like, suburbia as something that's kind of pressurized and anxious and a time of life that feels like it could go either way or that it's gonna end.
Ben LindberghHOST
Mm-hmm.
Adam NaymanGUEST
I mean, to me, that's what Myth of American Sleepover and It Follows are getting at.
Adam NaymanGUEST
And in Under the Silver Lake, the Andrew Garfield character is 35 and feels old, like it's 2000 and whatever, and he's still listening to Monster by R.E.M. and-
Mike WhiteGUEST
Yeah, and I was very impressed, uh, that David Robert Mitchell wrote this.
Mike WhiteGUEST
I do kinda wanna go back and try to find The Myth of the American Sleepover from 2010, which was his freshman film, because it's also set in Michigan, and this one is actually shot in Michigan back when he was living here.
Mike WhiteGUEST
So it's like, okay, cool.
Mike WhiteGUEST
It's funny 'cause when he...
Mike WhiteGUEST
He's very place-centric.
Mike WhiteGUEST
Like, if, you know, like, into this, the, the description of The Myth of the American Sleepover, it talks about, you know, four teens from Detroit or from Michigan.
Mike WhiteGUEST
It follows very, very Michigan.
Mike WhiteGUEST
Under the Silver Lake, though, just, you know, so Silver Lake area-
John AxelradGUEST
Well, there, there were some changes.
John AxelradGUEST
Um, you know, working with David Robert Mitchell, this was my first time, and he, [clears throat] you know, I just idolize his work, uh, Myth of the American Sleepover and, um, uh, It Follows, of course, and then, uh, um, Under the Skin lake.
John AxelradGUEST
And the one thing about his style is he's very into naturalism.
John AxelradGUEST
And I f- do believe, and he's indicated to me as much, that he wanted the beginning of the movie to feel, um, uh, to have a sense of naturalism, uh, to not fully jump right into the story.
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Mark RaymondPANELIST
This is his first time with a really big budget.
Mark RaymondPANELIST
He begins his career with an independent film called The Myth of the American Sleepover in 2010, a film I quite like.
Mark RaymondPANELIST
And then came the prominence of a movie called It Follows, kind of a low-budget horror film that did kind of break out, made a lot of money, was much talked about.
Mark RaymondPANELIST
And then he makes probably his biggest film before this is a movie called Under the Silver Lake with Andrew Garfield in 2018.
Annie MorrellHOST
Mm.
Ryan SaylorHOST
My one shout-out for Myth of the American Sleepover is in this category.
Ryan SaylorHOST
I don't know if it's technically a whole sequence.
Ryan SaylorHOST
I can whittle it down, but I, I wan- wanted to shout out the twins [laughs] and-
Ryan SaylorHOST
Sure.
Annie MorrellHOST
Like, he's, he's truly made some vastly different films.
Annie MorrellHOST
[laughs] You know, we, we got Myth of the American Sleepover is the kind of adolescent teen movie.
Annie MorrellHOST
Obviously it follows horror, Under the Silver Lake neo-noir, and then family adventure film with End of Oak Street.
TrevGUEST
Um, One of my faves for sure.
Kyle BirdHOST
Yeah, he kind of came onto the indie scene with The Myth of the American Sleepover in 2010.
Kyle BirdHOST
And then after It Follows, he did Under the Silver Lake, which I still haven't seen.
Kyle BirdHOST
I've heard decent things.
Stephen GarrettGUEST
He's made four movies.
Stephen GarrettGUEST
The first, The Myth of the American Sleepover, I think is what it was called.
Stephen GarrettGUEST
It was kind of like John Hughes' um but refracted through like a kind of french new wave sensibility and then you had it follows which is very john carpenter and then you had under the silver lake which was very overtly referencing and homaging um filmmakers like hitchcock or douglas cirque or you know like uh you know actresses like marilyn rowe and janet gainer like it was a very hollywoody movie set in hollywood And it was a little on a mystic and it was over, you know, over long and it was kind of too into itself.
Stephen GarrettGUEST
So, and this is his Spielberg movie.
David EdwardsHOST
So basically, David Robert Mitchell is, um [smacks lips] the first film he did was called, um, uh, The Myth of the...
David EdwardsHOST
If somebody's to Google this to get this right, I think it's called the, um, uh, uh, The Myth of the American Sleepover, if you put in.
David EdwardsHOST
And it cost 30 grand and it did very well at film festivals, and it's a coming-of-age, almost a bit Richard Linklater-esque film.
David EdwardsHOST
And, uh, you can find it on YouTube.
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