Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun caught a lot of attention with their debut feature We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. The film even caught the attention of Emma Stone, who produced Schoenbrun’s second feature, I Saw the TV Glow – which didn’t impress our review Chris Bumbray (you can read his 5/10 review at THIS LINK), but did earn praise from Martin Scorsese. Now, Schoenbrun’s next movie, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is heading for an August 7th theatrical released in U.S. theatres… and today, a teaser trailer for the film has arrived online. You can watch it in the embed above.
Background
Even better than the title is the fact that Schoenbrun has described the idea as being like “Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel.”
In case you missed it, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. It told the story of “Marianne, a female painter, who is commissioned to paint a portrait of Heloise, an aristocratic woman, in a wedding dress. They soon fall in love with each other but cannot unite.” And Friday the 13th sequels – well, we all know what they’re about, don’t we? A slasher chopping people up, usually in a woodsy setting.
Plan B Entertainment, the film and TV production company headed by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner, is producing Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, with arthouse distributor and streamer Mubi financing and handling the distribution in North America, Latin America, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Turkey, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Daniel Bekerman from Scythia Films serves as an executive producer.
Cast and Synopsis
The plot is said to involve a queer filmmaker being 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. Here’s the official synopsis: 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) lead the cast. Their co-stars include Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald, Quintessa Swindell, and Jack Haven.
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