{"id":637778,"date":"2026-05-12T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:19:10","slug":"why-jane-schoenbrun-wanted-to-make-a-queer-focused-slasher-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637778\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jane Schoenbrun Wanted to Make a Queer-Focused Slasher Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

After We\u2019re All Going to the World\u2019s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow<\/a>, fans of boundary-pushing horror can\u2019t wait to see what Jane Schoenbrun<\/a> does next. Excitement over Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma intensified when the cast (Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, and Jack Haven) was revealed<\/a> and then a first teaser arrived<\/a>. The film is premiering at Cannes ahead of its August 7 theatrical release, and Schoenbrun recently talked about why they wanted to make a slasher movie next.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Schoenbrun explained they\u2019ve been a slasher fan since childhood, obsessing over franchises like Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. That fascination became intertwined with Schoenbrun\u2019s experiences and emotions as a trans and nonbinary artist who makes horror films.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis image of the trans monster kept coming up, whether that be Norman Bates or Buffalo Bill or Frankenstein as a constructed body, and there was this lineage of trans people having really complicated feelings about those movies,\u201d Schoenbrun told THR. \u201cIn one sense, those are the places where they saw representations that felt familiar or comforting in some way to their own experiences\u2014but also, those movies are super fucking transphobic and problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma follows a young, queer director (Einbinder) tasked with reviving Camp Miasma, a slasher franchise long divided from the heights of its heyday; part of the plan involves convincing the series\u2019 original \u201cFinal Girl\u201d (Anderson) to come out of retirement. However, as the film\u2019s official synopsis teases, the two women soon \u201cfall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trans actor Haven, who starred in I Saw the TV Glow, plays \u201cLittle Death,\u201d the legendary monster who stalks the Camp Miasma films. Schoenbrun explained, \u201cThe idea of them embodying the power of both the killer and the hermaphroditic embodiment of the orgasm\u2014if I want to see that shit, someone else is going to want to!\u201d<\/p>\n

If it sounds like Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is designed to deliver frights as well as spark thought-provoking conversations, that sounds like what Schoenbrun had in mind\u2014but they also want fans to have a good time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis movie was very consciously designed to be fun \u2026 and to bring in a lot of people to have a discussion about sex and gender and overcoming trauma,\u201d Schoenbrun says. \u201cI don\u2019t know any other movies\u2014certainly any other Hollywood movies\u2014that are having that conversation this way, from this perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma hits theaters August 7.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After We\u2019re All Going to the World\u2019s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, fans of boundary-pushing horror…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,3809,95956,275391,274149,206,275392],"class_list":["post-637778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gillian-anderson","tag-hannah-einbinder","tag-i-saw-the-tv-glow","tag-jane-schoenbrun","tag-movies","tag-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}