Teen Girl’s World’s Fair Challenge Involves Blood, Mantras, and Too Much Staring
KEY POINTS
- •Jane Schoenbrun's film We're All Going to the World's Fair premiered at Sundance in 2021.
- •The movie features Casey performing the World's Fair Challenge, mixing horror tropes, a creepy mantra, and bloodletting.
- •Jane's recent film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, continues to explore dark, teen-angled narratives.
Jane Schoenbrun’s cult hit, We're All Going to the World's Fair, stars Casey, a girl who turns her room into a one-woman horror show with blacklight-reactive glop and unnerving direct stares. Premiering at Sundance 2021, this film blends the World's Fair Challenge—which is part creepy ARG, part ice bucket challenge, all heavy on cryptic bloodletting—with teen solitude so intense it actually counts as a new quarantine sport. Meanwhile, Jane’s newer flick, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, does indeed continue the trend of overly dramatic film titles. Apparently, horror movie tropes are best digested one unnerving video at a time, especially when audiences are left wondering if blinking is allowed.
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(1 of 3)Nothing says wholesome teen pastime like chanting creepy mantras, slicing yourself, and staring blankly at a camera for internet cult kicks. Who needs friends? Just dive headfirst into horror clichés and maybe your youth will last forever.
She brought the ice bucket challenge to a new low with blood and eerie stares—2021 called, it wants its internet ritual back.
If your teen’s social life looks like a borderline horror game with blacklight paint and whispering mantras, congratulations, you’ve hit peak pandemic adolescence.
Source: Theverge | Published: 8/23/2026 | Author: Terrence O’Brien
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