Synopsis
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when teenager Casey, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
2021 Directed by Jane Schoenbrun
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when teenager Casey, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
David Lowery Daniel Patrick Carbone Zachary Shedd Matthew Petock Carlos Zozaya Hannah Dweck Theodore Schaefer Sarah Winshall Matt Petock
Intense violence and sexual transgression Horror, the undead and monster classics Humanity and the world around us scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten thriller, psychological, suspense, twist or disturbing death, profound, symbolism, philosophical or vision teenager, friendship, sad, adolescents or coming of age horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic Show All…
this movie reminded me of two things:
1. this one time i was on shrooms and somehow ended up on a twitch stream by a user named "lil cocksucker" and he was just some like 19 year old kid in a shitty bedroom with his mattress pushed up against the wall getting drunk off a handle of jack and doing yo yo tricks and giving weird dating advice to no one. i started interacting with him and getting him to say or do weird shit and then he put this like, deep bass barry white chopped and screwed vocal filter on his voice and started like, vaguely rapping, so i was like "do a freestyle dude" and somehow got this…
of all the movies that have tried to “get” being online, this is the only one that has actually succeeded at that while still taking itself seriously in the process
loved this, reminded me of some of the worst/loneliest times of my life
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half an hour in I thought this was gonna be scary in the way that after 2am all creepypastas start to sound a little too real but it ended up being scary in the way that we all have internet friends who disappeared one day and we'll never know what happened
at 24 yrs old, i meet people who spent a lot of time on 4chan as teenagers in the early-mid 2010s and turned out normal. we have the same taste in music. we get the same jokes.
you could not pay me to experience the things i felt and experienced as a 14-17 year old again.
unpacks the mythology of adolescence in a way that's so harrowingly familiar and also so otherworldly. speaking of, it reminded me of a couple recent films about teen folklore that i also really liked: Graham Swon's The World Is Full of Secrets and Bertrand Bonello's Zombi Child. but only Jane's film incorporates the internet, and brilliantly. the lonely, very-online teen in me especially has a soft spot for this — strange considering how terrifying the movie is also. We're All Going to the World's Fair transcends genre trappings with feeeeeeling.