Summer camp slashers usually sell nostalgia in a paper cup—cheap thrills, cheap laughs, a familiar hook dragged back to shore. Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” sounds like it wants to poison the whole thing on purpose, obliterating the genre, then letting desire and dread bleed into the seams until the “movie” part stops feeling safely fictional.
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MUBI has released first-look stills and set a U.S. theatrical date for Schoenbrun’s third feature, which stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson and is produced by Plan B. Schoenbrun—whose work includes “I Saw the TV Glow” and “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair”—writes and directs the film, continuing a body of work that filters trans identity and queer horror through pop-cultural obsession, fandom, and the stories people build to survive.
The premise is a nasty little hall of mirrors: after years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher series is handed to an enthusiastic young filmmaker tasked with resurrecting it. When she seeks out the original movie’s star, now a reclusive actress wrapped in mystery, the two women tumble into a “blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium,” per the official synopsis—suggesting a film less interested in clean reboots than in what reboots do to people who lived inside the original.
The cast also includes Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald, and Jack Haven. MUBI financed the film and will distribute it in select territories, including North America, with The Match Factory handling the remaining worldwide sales.
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” opens in theaters August 7 via MUBI. Check out the images below.
