A Jane Schoenbrun summer is on the horizon. The auteur behind “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “I Saw the TV Glow” is returning with their third feature film, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” a love letter to slasher franchises with endless sequels that appears to be filled with the themes that have defined Schoenbrun’s entire career.
Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in the film, which tells the story of a torrid romance between a filmmaker tasked with resurrecting a tired horror franchise and its reclusive star. Schoenbrun has previously described the film as the kind of movie they would have discovered in the ignored sections of a video store in their youth.
“I make movies I wish existed when I was a kid and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ is my best attempt at the ‘sleepover classic:’ an insane yet cozy midnight odyssey that beckons to unsuspecting viewers from the horror section at the local video store,” they said in a statement announcing the project. “I couldn’t be more excited to be heading to sleepaway camp this summer with the mad comic genius Hannah Einbinder, the legendary Gillian Anderson, and the daring folks at MUBI and Plan B, who by greenlighting this movie have summoned a plague-like flood of blood, guts, and various other fluids to rain down on us all.”
An official synopsis for the film reads: “After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.”
Fans of Schoenbrun’s distinct style should have no shortage of projects to feast upon in the near future. Their debut novel, “Public Access Afterworld,” will be published this fall by Random House imprint Hogarth Books. They’ll also be making their TV debut on the Netflix series “Black Hole,” an adaptation of Charles Burns’ cult comic book series of the same name.
MUBI will release “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” in theaters on Friday, August 7. Watch the first teaser below.