Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Jane Schoenbrun's latest feature is their most personal film to date, and perhaps their most playful. A loving yet irreverent homage to the slasher movies of the 1980s, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma transforms familiar horror territory into something stranger, funnier and unexpectedly moving. Filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) has been hired to reboot the long-running Camp Miasma franchise. While researching the series, she seeks out its original 'final girl', Billy (Gillian Anderson), now a reclusive former star living on the site of the camp where the films were made. Their encounter develops into an intense emotional and sexual connection that begins to unravel the boundaries between fiction, memory and desire. Drawing on the legacy of films like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp and Psycho, Schoenbrun uses the language of horror to explore identity, embodiment and transformation. Like We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, the film is fascinated by portals: thresholds between worlds, selves and stories. The result is a bold, deeply felt reimagining of the slasher film from one of contemporary cinema's most distinctive voices.