Unsubscribe (2020)

Interesting facts

Unsubscribe is a 2020 horror film created by filmmaker Christian Nilsson and YouTuber Eric Tabach. It stars Tabach, Charlie Tahan and YouTuber Michelle Khare, and other successful YouTubers like Thomas Brag and Zach Kornfeld. The 29-minute film follows five famous YouTubers who are tricked into joining an online call, only to find themselves stalked and hunted by an internet troll on camera.

Production

On May 7, 2020, Tabach called Nilsson to ask how he could potentially get one of his own YouTube videos to become the number one film in the U.S. box office. Nilsson explained "four-walling", the distribution technique where a filmmaker rents out an entire theater which allows them to keep all the profits.

Nilsson knocked out the script for "Unsubscribe" in one day, and filming began Monday, May 11 with Tabach's friends and fellow YouTubers including Charlie Tahan (Ozark, I Am Legend), Michelle Khare (HBO Max's Karma), Zach Kornfeld (Try Guys), Thomas Brag (Yes Theory), Sneako, Tyler Brash, and Lauren Brodauf. A majority of the film was shot over Zoom in just three days.

On June 20, 2020, Nilsson and Tabach premiered the film at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center in Westhampton Beach, NY. They bought out five showings and racked up $25,488 in ticket sales. The following day, the film was listed on Box Office Mojo and The Numbers as the number one film in the U.S. box office.

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