We're All Going to the World's Fair

We're All Going to the World's Fair screens at Alamo Drafthouse Village on Tuesday, August 4, at 7:30 PM. It's the debut feature from director Jane Schoenbrun, and it usually gets filed under horror, though it doesn't rely on the usual tropes. There are no monsters here—just the malevolent spirits that haunt the internet. The story follows a young protagonist named Casey, who gets tangled up in online conspiracy content and starts making her own viral videos as she dives deeper into the web's vast and frightening depths.

It's a movie that splits its audience. It sits at 91% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, but only 29% with audiences, so it's one of those that critics loved and general viewers were more divided on. If you're into the kind of horror that lives in the psychological and the digital rather than the jump-scare, it's right in that wheelhouse.

The screening is at Alamo Drafthouse Village, 2700 W. Anderson #701 in Midtown. It's the longest continuously operated Drafthouse, having opened on Anderson Lane in 2001 before the neighborhood became trendy. It's a four-screen cinema that specializes in first-run features and uses Sony 4K digital projection. It also houses much of the American Genre Film Archive, which means they can run 35mm screenings. A recent revamp added new padded chairs, shared tables for food and drink delivered during the show, and a new patio for outdoor drinking. It won the Austin Chronicle's Readers Poll for Movie Theatre in 2025.

The film runs 1 hour and 26 minutes, so you'll be out well before 9 PM. It starts at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, August 4, at Alamo Drafthouse Village.