By MICHAEL GINGOLD
And it promises to be a unique, personal take on the slasher genre.
Variety reports that Jane Schoenbrun (pictured), the acclaimed director of I SAW THE TV GLOW and WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR, will write and direct TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. The film is being produced by Plan B and financed by Mubi, which had a hit last year with THE SUBSTANCE and will distribute in North America and numerous other territories. Hannah Einbinder and THE X FILES’ Gillian Anderson star; according to the trade, “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.”
“I make movies I wish existed when I was a kid,” says Schoenbrun. “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.”
