Let's Scare Julie is a 2020 American experimental low budget horror film written and directed by Jud Cremata in his feature directorial debut.

[2] The plot follows a group of teen girls in real time who set out to scare Julie, their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don't come back.

[3] Recently orphaned teen Emma (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson) and her 7-year-old sister, Lilly (Dakota Baccelli), are adjusting to living with their extended family.

Late one night, Emma finds herself the victim of a wake-up prank perpetrated by her cousin Taylor (Isabel May) and Taylor's three friends: Madison (Odessa A'zion), Jess (Brooke Sorenson) and Paige (Jessica Sarah Flaum) who have all snuck in unbeknownst to her paranoid Uncle Vince (Blake Robbins), a disturbed man who is purportedly patrolling the house drunk tonight.

The air is charged with mischief and the conversation soon turns to the tragic lore around the darkened house across the street where a stray bullet had killed a boy.

Emma runs into a tortured Uncle Vince who tells a dark story of an accidental gun discharge that killed a boy across the street, presumably Ms. Dürer's son.

When she hears a car parking out front, she frantically calls out to Lilly, but Julie's dad (Bill Timoney) enters, and Emma is forced to hide.

Taylor finally calls back and Emma tells her that Julie was a burn victim who must have had a weak heart and died from fright over their prank.

Emma frets about a girl she bullied named Shannon who ended up committing suicide and theorizes that the spectral Ms. Dürer seeks vengeance on teens who harm others, disappearing them to a dark place and now, wants to do the same to her.

Cremata's experience in docudrama and reality television production helped him prepare for this long take, fly on the wall, almost cinéma vérité approach to filmmaking[4] and to the technical challenge of shooting an entire film in under 90 minutes.

[7] Michael Gursky wrote for MovieWeb that "Cremata's directing doesn't just inspire great acting and an accurate view of late-night adolescent happenings, it elicits heart-pounding anxiety from the viewer."

"[9] Shawn Macomber wrote for Rue Morgue Magazine that "Let's Scare Julie transforms... from a meditation on bullying, peer pressure and the damage teenage alienation and vulnerability – self-inflicted or otherwise – can leave in its wake to something that feels a bit more Insideous-esque.

"[10] Rob Rector wrote for Film Threat that "Considering the number of things Let's Scare Julie gets right (acting, cinematography, score), it feels that if the story was given time to breathe instead of racing to beat the battery life on the cameras, it could have effectively put its audience in a Halloween state of mind.