‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ – Jane Schoenbrun’s Next Film Gives Spin on the Slasher

After delivering one of the year’s best films, I Saw the TV Glow filmmaker Jane Shoenbrun is already working on their next feature project in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. At a recent screening, Schoenbrun teased more details about the film’s grisly and funny story.

It’s Schoenbrun’s description that has our curiosity piqued. Film critic Siddhant Adlakha, attending the event, shared on social media that Schoenbrun described the upcoming film as “Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel.“

The film’s plot, revealed earlier this year by the New Yorker, follows “a queer filmmaker hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise. The director fixates on the prospect of casting the ‘final girl‘ from the original movie, and the two women descend into a frenzy of psychosexual mania.”

That premise alone sounds like an exciting and subversive approach to the slasher that’s also in line with the themes explored in Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Additional comments about the film to Filmmaker Magazine drive home the “psychosexual mania“ aspect of the plot. The filmmaker told the outlet, “My next movie is all about sex––essentially a movie about learning to enjoy sex after transition. Pre-transition, it wasn’t that I was asexual––I had plenty of desire––but having good sex in the wrong body was impossible. What was available was full dissociation, which is obviously a theme in the first two films.”

Furthermore, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will honor and critique the “gender deviance“ associated with some of horror’s memorable killers, from Psycho to Silence of the Lambs, that “created and codified an idea of transness as monstrous.“ 

While the project still appears to be in its early stages, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma already sounds like a unique take on the slasher subgenre. While we wait for updates on Schoenbrun’s third effort, you can now stream I Saw the TV Glow on Max. 

Jane Schoenbrun bts image from ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Credit: SpencerPazer. Courtesy of A24.

 

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