After the cult success of last year’s I Saw the TV Glow, filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun has set their next film, and much like their last two films, it looks like they’re planning to flip an entire genre on its head. The film, titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, takes a meta look at slasher franchises and their legacy, from a “psychosexual point of view.”
At a recent screening of I Saw the TV Glow, according to critic Siddhant Adlakha, Schoenbrun described the film as “Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel.” This lines up well with the logline for the film, which 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.”