Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 debut feature, 'We're All Going to the World's Fair,' is back in focus as their new film 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' hits theaters. The film premiered at Sundance and centers on Casey, a teenager performing the World's Fair Challenge: a creepypasta-style ARG ritual involving a mantra, bloodletting, and a mysterious video.
The setup sounds like a checklist of horror tropes. It is not. The delivery, a lone girl staring directly into a webcam, strips the genre down to something rawer. The horror here is not in what happens to Casey but in how recognizable she is.
The full review at The Verge unpacks why the film's formal choices, not just its premise, make it worth serious attention. If Schoenbrun's new work has you curious about their filmography, this is the place to start.
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