A BOGUS JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF YOUTUBE
ALEX WINTER RETURNS WITH NEW TECH-DOC THE YOUTUBE EFFECT, AS SCARY AS ANYTHING YOU’LL SEE THIS YEAR
IT’S APT THAT The YouTube Effect is produced by The Terminator veteran Gale Anne Hurd. Because it’s a full-strength tech nightmare, which will have you checking under your bed for malignant algorithms. “Ed Solomon (co-writer of the Bill & Ted films) came to the Tribeca screening and didn’t really know what he was in for,” chuckles Alex Winter, formerly Bill S. Preston, Esq., and now a maker of terrific documentaries. “I saw him afterwards, like, ‘You want to grab dinner?’ And he said, ‘No, I’m gonna grab a drink. That was a horror movie!’”