“There is a hole at the bottom of the lake where the movies come from.”
Jane Schoenbrun gets it. they’ve got their finger on the pulse. Maybe not your pulse, statistically older and grumpy reader, but it ain’t always about you. the director behind We’re All Going To The World’s Fair and I Saw The TV Glow understands something about screen culture that doesn’t quite elude me, but disturbs me; the way curating all your experiences through the screen is inherently solipsistic, the way we can form parasocial relationships not just with celebrities, but with things. Like movie franchises, as a pertinent example. George Lucas got death threats over the Star Wars prequel trilogy, after all. And Hannah Einbinder’s indie director in Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma? Looks like she’s getting something much worse…
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma Teaser
What’s the plot?
As the official synopsis tells us:
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.
In a statement released last year, Schoenbrun said, “I make movies I wish existed when I was a kid. 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. 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.”
Who’s in it?
Hannah Einbinder of Hacks is presumably our eager beaver director, while Gillian Anderson is almost certainly our reclusive doyenne, with Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, and Kevin McDonald in support. And while nobody else gets a character name as yet, Jack Haven is playing “Little Death”, for what it’s worth.
When’s it out?
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma hits Australian cinemas on August 7.
What’s the vibe?
Looks incredible to me, folks.
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