45 Degrees
College student Junwoo bought a new “privacy screen protector” for his smartphone because he hated how the person next to him on the subway kept glancing at his screen. It was a cheap, unidentified product sold from a street truck, but it worked perfectly. When viewed straight on at 0 degrees, the screen was crystal clear, but once the angle shifted even slightly to 45 degrees, the whole display turned pitch-black and nothing could be seen.
On the first night after applying the film, Junwoo was lying in bed in his studio apartment, using his smartphone, when he experienced something strange.
He was staring straight at the screen and typing when something about the reflection of his room in the corner of the display seemed wrong. Right beside the bed where Junwoo was lying, in one dark corner of the unlit room, there appeared to be some kind of figure standing there.
Startled, Junwoo lowered his phone and looked toward that spot, but there was nothing in the darkness.
"Did I see that wrong..."
He raised his smartphone again and stared straight at it. On the brightly lit screen, that same figure was reflected once more. This time, it had come one step closer to the bed than before. It was