Gillian Anderson Calls ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ an “Uber Meta Slasher’
Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun first caught the public’s eye with their debut feature, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. They then delivered what was one of my favorite films of 2024, the nostalgia-baked I Saw the TV Glow. Their next film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, promises an unconventional take on the slasher…one that star Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”) can’t wait for audiences to see.
Anderson recently sat down with Collider, where she was asked about the project. “There’s this film that I just did that I can’t wait for people to see,” said Anderson. “Jane Schoenbrun directed a film called I Saw the TV Glow, and their latest is [Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma] with Hannah Einbinder. And that’s coming out in August.”
The actress then had some words that should excite fans of both Schoenbrun and slasher films in general. “It is nuts. And it’s so much fun. I really enjoyed the character that I played.“
Anderson then added that the film will be “an uber meta slasher,” teasing, “This is so much more than a slasher. This is like a slasher within a slasher within a slasher.”
Say no more, Gillian. When the star of one of the greatest sci-fi horror series ever made tells us to get excited, I’m already there. And based on Schoenbrun’s wholly unique and mesmerizing work, I have no doubt that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is going to be unlike any slasher movie to come before it. At least, I want to believe.
In the film, “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.”
Also starring are Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Amanda Fix (Lowlifes), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), Eva Victor (Sorry Baby), Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Sarah Sherman (“Saturday Night Live”), Patrick Fischler (“Twin Peaks”), Dylan Baker (Trick ‘r Treat), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Scream), Kevin McDonald (“The Kids in the Hall”), and Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam).
“Experience a new kind of horror remake” when Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma hits theaters on August 7 via Mubi.