MUBI’s ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ to Premiere at Cannes
MUBI is going the way of A24 with its arthouse horror Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a sapphic meta-horror film […]
MUBI is going the way of A24 with its arthouse horror Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a sapphic meta-horror film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow).
Described as “Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel,” the film is said to be set in a “blood-soaked world of desire.”
Announced today, the film will hold its premiere at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival.
In the film, “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.”
Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) and Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”) star with Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow) as Little Death.
Also starring are Amanda Fix (Lowlifes), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), Eva Victor (Sorry Baby), Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Sarah Sherman (“Saturday Night Live”), Patrick Fischler (“Twin Peaks”), Dylan Baker (Trick ‘r Treat), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Scream), Kevin McDonald (“The Kids in the Hall”), and Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam).
The trailer is a fever dream of genre trope iconography, sticky erotic metaphorical imagery, literal fountains of blood, and Schoenbrun’s now-staple liminal sensibilities. It’s a spooky cornucopia of weird queerness, and it’s got us fully hyped for the director’s third film, which looks like it’ll be their most directly horror-inspired outing to date.