GoKawiilJane Schoenbrun's We're All Going to the World's Fair gets renewed attention amid new release
With Jane Schoenbrun's new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma drawing theater crowds, critics are revisiting the director's 2021 debut We're All Going to the World's Fair. The film follows Casey, an isolated teenager who takes part in an online horror ritual called the World's Fair Challenge and documents her supposed transformation for an internet audience. Her only real connection forms with JLB, an older stranger who insists she's in danger.
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The renewed interest highlights how Schoenbrun's earlier work anticipated a wave of horror films exploring isolation, internet culture, and creepypasta-style rituals as vehicles for coming-of-age stories. It also shows how a filmmaker's breakout follow-up can send audiences and critics back to reassess their debut with fresh eyes.
- We're All Going to the World's Fair is getting renewed attention following Schoenbrun's new film release.
- The film centers on a lonely teen's participation in an online horror ritual as a stand-in for adolescent isolation.
- Unlike typical coming-of-age films, it deliberately avoids sexualizing its young protagonist, focusing instead on online belonging.
We're All Going to the World's Fair Blu-ray (Utopia) — If the article made you want to revisit Jane Schoenbrun's eerie debut, the Blu-ray release lets you watch Casey's webcam-lit descent whenever you like, no streaming rights roulette required. It's a great pickup for physical media fans building an indie horror shelf alongside I Saw the TV Glow.
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