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We're All Going to the World's Fair

We're All Going to the World's Fair2022

So you want to join the internet's scariest online horror game?

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

5.8
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IMDb 5.4Metacritic 78TMDB 5.5
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Year
2022
Runtime
86 min
Box Office
Budget
$15,000
Revenue (worldwide)
$116,523
Domestic
$101,178

🏆 4 wins & 23 nominations

The premise

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

Horror Vault's take

Deep in the quiet of a winter night, a solitary teenager takes the pledge to join the World's Fair — an online horror role-playing phenomenon — and begins documenting the strange changes that follow. What starts as a creepypasta ritual spirals into something far more ambiguous, as the line between performance and genuine transformation grows impossible to read. A mysterious older man watching her videos online becomes an unexpected presence in her unraveling world. This intimate, lo-fi portrait of internet culture and adolescent loneliness is less concerned with conventional scares than with the eerie texture of being young and unseen.

Content: Depictions Of Loneliness And Emotional Distress, Potentially Disturbing Online Interaction Between A Minor And An Adult, Mild Body Horror Imagery, Psychological Ambiguity That May Be Disorienting

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Criterion Channel

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