Underplayed Gems

We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)

We're All Going to the World's Fair poster
Directed by
Jane Schoenbrun
Genre
drama film, horror film, found footage film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 157 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage girl in a lonely small town takes an online challenge and films herself. She documents strange mental and physical changes that may or may not be real.

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What happens

We're All Going to the World's Fair is a 2021 American coming-of-age psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Jane Schoenbrun in their narrative feature directorial debut. The film stars Michael J. Rogers and Anna Cobb in her feature film debut. David Lowery served as an executive producer. The film follows Casey (Cobb), a teenage girl who takes the "World's Fair Challenge" and documents the mental and physical changes that it causes her. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. It was released theatrically in the United States by Utopia on April 15, 2022, and began streaming on HBO Max on September 1, 2022. It received critical acclaim and has grossed over $100,000 at the box office. The film is considered to be the first entry into what Schoenbrun refers to as their Screen Trilogy, and was followed by I Saw the TV Glow (2024). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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