It’s a gorgeous hybrid of what it means to exist as a young person online. Schoenbrun juggles the ennui born of digital isolation with Zoom calls, YouTube videos, ASMR, and more. Recently, Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going To The World’s Fair hit streaming and it’s a gorgeous mix of narrative and in-screen horror. Whether you call it in-screen horror, second screen horror, or screen life, it all boils down to one thing: digital terror. Human monsters have better access to us, and don’t even need to invade your house to inflict living hell. Ghosts and demons can’t be stopped by wires and the ethereal Cloud in fact, they can infect us in larger numbers at unfathomable speeds (see Pulse as one of the first films to tackle such an idea). It’s one that goes inside the computer as it were, with desktops and Zoom calls dominating the frame.

As the digital age has consumed more and more of our daily lives, horror has, of course, taken to adapting that obsession into a new kind of found footage format. It’s a series of tubes that have given us both unlimited access to information and access to some of the most heinous things the world has to offer.

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