All My Friends Hate Me is the most brilliant depiction of anxiety ever shown on screen.

The film, written by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton, follows a man named Pete to a "fun" reunion weekend with his friends, where he spends the entire time convinced that absolutely all of his friends hate him. The creeping sensation that something larger is going on looms over the film, giving it the high-stakes intrigue of a horror movie while simulatenously proving that there is nothing actually wrong, giving it a deliciously dark comedic edge.

We got a chance to sit down and talk with both Palmer and Stourton about the film. The pair - who relvealed that most of their work lies in the world of sketch comedy - said they were attracted to this creative horror-comedy cocktail because, when broken down, the science behind the two is quite similar.

Palmer described the tone they sought as, "uniquely unsettling."

"There's something quite interesting about comedy and horror structurally. They're kind of actually very similar, which I think we started realizing when we were shooting it.

You have big build-ups, a moment of suspence, and then in comedy you have a punchline to kind of like, you know, release the tension, and in a horror you have the scare moment that releases the tension. And funnily enough it was fusing both those ideas, but never having that moment of relief, never having the full punchline and never having the full scare moment."

Isn't that all that this specific breed of anxiety is in a way? It's all just horror, but, if you look closer, it's also a comedy.

The truth and reality: The two were able to bottle this pure and real feeling of anxiety due to the clarity of the experience it was based on. Stourton recalled:

"There was this sort of incident that got me and Tom initially talking about it, where I went to a wedding on not much sleep, and it was similar to the film.

"It was these old Uni friends, and I had sort of drifted apart from them, and I got really paranoid during that day that I'd been invited as a joke, basically. So, I was in my own head about it."

All My Friends Hate Me is now playing in theaters. Go with your friends! (They probably don't hate you!)

Tags: Tom Palmer Tom Stourton