We're All Going to the World's Fair

We're All Going to the World's Fair is a 2021 American coming-of-age horror film written, directed, and edited by Jane Schoenbrun. The film stars Michael J. Rogers and Anna Cobb in her debut role. David Lowery served as an executive producer. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. It was then released in U.S. theaters by Utopia on April 15, 2022, and streaming on HBO Max on September 1, 2022. Plot Casey, a lonely teenage girl living with her single father, decides to record herself taking the viral "World's Fair Challenge". She states "I want to go to the World's Fair" three times on camera, pricks her finger, smears some of her blood on her laptop computer screen, and watches a short strobe light video, before saying she will post updates if she starts to notice any "changes." Other World's Fair challengers record and post their own psychological and physical changes. In Casey's next video, she recounts bouts of sleepwalking she experienced when she was younger and says she has begun feeling similarly since taking the challenge. Late one night, she sneaks into her shed, where she finds her father's shotgun. She then watches an ASMR video of a young woman calming someone after a nightmare before a disturbing video made to her from user "JLB" plays, featuring Casey's distorted face along with the messages "YOU ARE IN TROUBLE" and "I NEED TO TALK TO YOU."