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We're All Going To The World's Fair (2021) feat. Mary Beth McAndrews

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Horror Queers

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

This week we're covering non-binary trans filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun's screen life film, We're All Going To The World's Fair (2021). Along for the ride is Dread Central's Editor-In-Chief - and found footage expert - Mary Beth McAndrews, who praises World's Fair as a great example of a hybrid screen life film. Using interviews and quotes from Schoenbrun's director statement, Trace adds context to this ominous tale of internet celebrity while Mary Beth shares details of her childhood online, which includes catfishing! Plus: debates about what is real online, predatory behavior vs smart teens, Joe's fascination with Lonely Girl 15, Internet memes and creepy pastas, and our multiple interpretations of the film's ambiguous ending Reference: Orla Smith. "Jane Schoenbrun wants We’re All Going to the World’s Fair to ‘scare you and make you cry’" Seventh Row Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd and/or Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote > Mary Beth: @mbmcandrews / @ScarredPodcast / @WONApodcast Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the bloody disgusting network.

0:10.6

The following show is just horrifying.

0:15.9

Beware. Sheriff, you're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square.

0:33.4

Your lemon squares taste like ass.

0:45.4

And welcome back to horror queers.

0:47.9

We're talking internet horror games.

0:50.8

We're talking Poe, the stuffed lemur.

0:53.9

And we're talking screaming during a dance number. And I'm Joe. And I'm Trace.

0:56.3

And we're talking, I am a marshmallow. So hot. I'm melting. Just a, that's the musical number

1:02.5

that you scream during. Something about the winter. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. A lot of stuff going on to

1:08.7

everyone. And we are discussing a very new film, which is uncommon for the main fee.

1:13.5

But it is Jane Schoenbruns.

1:15.4

We're all going to the World's Fair, which, um, who boy, this is a movie.

1:20.9

Mm-hmm.

1:21.5

Yeah.

1:21.9

It's a sort of found footage screen life film, which is also something we don't traditionally do this is only the

1:28.8

third one we've ever really covered and uh also trace let's not bury the lead we are talking about

1:35.5

a non-binary trans filmmaker yeah absolutely and you know you reached out to me today and you're like

1:42.6

have we ever covered a film with a trans filmmaker and i i't think we have. Although listeners, y'all might know better

1:48.1

than us. So if we're missing, it just ping us. Sometimes we go into a fugue state. We've done

1:53.7

a lot of recordings over the couple of years. I used to be so good at remembering this shit. And

1:57.7

now like three and a half, three plus years in and I'm like, nope, I'm out. I can't, I can't remember what we did yesterday. This is true. But you know what?

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