Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson
In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Emmy winner Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) moves into big screen horror genre material.
The film is written and directed by queer filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, and is co-starring the estimable Gillian Anderson (TV’s “The Crown”).
What We Know:
Schoenbrun has described the film as a “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.”Jane Schoenbrun described it to The New Yorker as a funny and grisly story. They elaborated that a significant theme would be learning to enjoy sex after transition, noting the difficulty of having good sex in the wrong body pre-transition.
They indicated that the film would engage with the concept of gender deviance in classic horror films like Psycho and Silence of the Lambs.
Schoenbrun intends to both honor and critique how these films created and codified an idea of transness as monstrous.
The director also compared the film’s concept to the acclaimed French movie, Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel.
