Between 2021’s unsettling We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and 2024’s critically acclaimed I Saw the TV Glow, director Jane Schoenbrun has cemented themselves as a key voice in queer horror. Now, they continue to play with horror conventions with their third feature film, the upcoming Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
The film stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson as two women caught in the web of the long-running slasher franchise Camp Miasma.
Once a horror staple, Camp Miasma has fallen prey to underwhelming sequels, losing fans along the way. When an enthusiastic queer director (Einbinder) gets a chance to breathe new life into the films, she decides to visit the original film’s reclusive star (Anderson). According to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma‘s official logline, the two soon find themselves in “a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.”
That world comes to vivid life in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma‘s first teaser. Schoenbrun pays tribute to summer camp slashers past with fountains of blood, knives bursting from lakes, and Einbinder running through the woods, Final Girl-style.
The teaser also sees Anderson deliver the chilling revelation, “There is a hole at the bottom of the lake where the movies come from. He always comes back.”
Like Einbinder’s character, who utters a confused “What?,” we’re bewildered, but intrigued. More than that, we’re ready for our stay at Camp Miasma.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma also stars Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Jack Haven.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma hits theaters Aug. 7.
