We’ve been waiting for more details on Jane Schoenbrun’s next film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, basically since we first heard about it—and now there’s news, and it’s very good news indeed. Variety reports that Gillian Anderson (The X-Files; Sex Education, pictured above) and Hannah Einbinder (Hacks) are set to star in the film, which will reportedly be “funnier and grislier” than Schoenbrun’s previous films.
Variety describes the movie like this:
In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the infamous “Camp Miasma” slasher franchise is getting rebooted yet again. But when the latest movie’s director becomes obsessed with the mysterious, reclusive actress who played the “final girl” in the original film, a whole new kind of slasher emerges from the bottom of the lake.
No details have been offered about casting, though it seems moderately logical to guess that Anderson might be playing that final girl. In a statement, Schoenbrun said, “I make movies I wish existed when I was a kid. … 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.”
Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow was, as Variety puts it, “one of the most acclaimed indies of 2024.” Emmet Asher-Perrin wrote, “It is about transness and queerness, certainly, but it is also about the ways in which fandom can anchor lives, and the places we find ourselves in life that don’t fit. And it is a story about becoming… and about the violence inflicted on anyone who attempts to become in direct defiance of the world that they are crammed inside.”
There’s no word yet on when Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will arrive on screens.