Dear David[a] is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by John McPhail, based on Adam Ellis' Twitter thread of the same name.

It stars Augustus Prew, with Andrea Bang, René Escobar Jr., Cameron Nicoll, and Justin Long in supporting roles.

Dear David was released in theaters and to streaming and digital formats on October 13, 2023, by Lionsgate,[2] to negative reviews from critics, who found it generic and lacking in scares.

Adam accidentally asks a third question to David, losing control, instigating a fire; he sees a vision of people criticizing him.

Dear David was based on a Twitter thread created by former BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis in which he describes his encounter with a ghost.

On June 6, 2018, BuzzFeed Studios announced its plan to adapt the story into a feature film, with Mike Van Waes writing the screenplay.

[7] In November 2021, BuzzFeed and Lionsgate acquired the rights to the story from New Line Cinema and hired John McPhail to direct.

[10][11] McPhail, in an interview with Screen Rant, stated that practical effects were extensively used to "make everything feel just that little bit more real".

[13] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 26 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[14] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting also gave a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five, who disliked the pacing (calling it "a rather sleepy affair"), lack of scares in favor of internal character conflict, later telling readers to revisit the original Twitter thread "for genuine frights".

[15] Kristy Puchko, in her review for Mashable, stated that the film "plays like a bad nightmare", further criticizing the lack of coherence and shock value.

"[17] A one out of four star review published on RogerEbert.com written by Monica Castillo stated that "Something is lost in moving Dear David from its native digital platform.

"[18] David Ehrlich, on a review published by IndieWire gave a grade of D+ and wrote "Alas, this low-rent, no-energy, seen-it-all-before genre wank left me absolutely terrified of returning to an era when micro-blogged cries for help could last for half a year and run the length of a novella.