A Summer Slasher With Gillian Anderson And Hannah Einbinder? We’re So In.
Jane Schoenbrun’s ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ brings queer horror and Anderson’s first foray into the genre to theaters this August.
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A summer camp slasher arriving in the middle of summer is the very definition of perfect timing. And on August 7, MUBI will release Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma in theaters, pairing Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder in a queer horror story that already feels like required viewing.
Directed and written by Jane Schoenbrun, the film marks Anderson’s first foray into horror. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Anderson has moved from FBI agent Dana Scully on The X-Files to complex turns in The Fall, Sex Education, and The Crown, while earning acclaim on stage with multiple Olivier nominations. But horror has remained untouched territory.
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The film’s official logline sets the tone: “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.”
Einbinder, known for her sharp, self aware performance as Ava Daniels on Hacks, plays the ambitious young director. Anderson is widely expected to portray the reclusive former scream queen whose legacy looms over the franchise.
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Schoenbrun’s previous features, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, established them as a distinctive voice in the horror genre. According to the press release, Camp Miasma continues their “body of work shaped by themes of trans identity and queer horror.” The project also leans into the meta, exploring fandom, franchise fatigue, and the uneasy relationship between creators and icons.
When the film was first announced, Schoenbrun positioned it as both homage and reinvention: “I make movies I wish existed when I was a kid and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ is my best attempt at the ‘sleepover classic:’ an insane yet cozy midnight odyssey that beckons to unsuspecting viewers from the horror section at the local video store. I couldn’t be more excited to be heading to sleepaway camp this summer with the mad comic genius Hannah Einbinder, the legendary Gillian Anderson, and the daring folks at MUBI and Plan B, who by greenlighting this movie have summoned a plague-like flood of blood, guts, and various other fluids to rain down on us all.”
Mark August 7. Pack your overnight bag.
