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. […]
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
