At Camp Miasma you come for the blood but stay for the sex
The horror-comedy film 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' explores themes of intimacy, the body, and transphobia in cinema. Directed by Jane Schoenbrun, the movie stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson as they navigate a meta-narrative about resurrecting an 80s slasher franchise.
Why it matters
The film highlights evolving cultural conversations regarding representation and the deconstruction of problematic tropes in horror cinema.
Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder share a story of blood, lust and joy in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. ( Supplied: Madman Entertainment )
Link copied Share Share article There are plenty of beheadings and dismembered limbs in slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, but writer and director Jane Schoenbrun lasers in on a different out-of-body experience.
The horror comedy features Hacks star Hannah Einbinder as filmmaker and horror obsessive Kris Williams.
Plucked from indie obscurity, Kris is passed the task to resurrect 'zombie' IP of 80s slasher series Camp Miasma — but without all of the pesky transphobia which came courtesy of the franchise's gender-fluid, vent-headed killer Little Death (Jack Haven).
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