Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the new horror film from director and writer Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair), revealed its first full trailer today. The film made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13, where it earned significant praise from critics.
Mubi released a teaser trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma in February, which was more focused on disturbing, disconnected visuals and building a disquieting vibe. The full trailer is still beautifully, unrelentingly weird (a common theme in Schoenbrun’s work), but it gets more into the plot of the film.
Kris (Hannah Einbinder) is a director hired to reboot the Camp Miasma horror film franchise. She seeks out Billy Preston (Gillian Anderson), the final girl of the first Camp Miasma film, hoping to cast her in the reboot. Kris finds Billy living at Camp Tivol, the abandoned sleepaway camp where the first film took place, which is odd enough on its own, but the “something’s really wrong here” meter starts pushing into the red in earnest when Billy begins spouting cryptic lines like, “Someone’s gotta be here when Little Death comes back.” Little Death (Jack Haven) is the villain of the Camp Miasma franchise—a hazmat-suit-wearing, harpoon-wielding, metal-box-headed being that emerges from the lake.
Schoenbrun has described Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma as both “a new kind of horror remake” and their “best attempt at the ‘sleepover classic.'” In a separate interview with the Hollywood Reporter, they also described it as a film “about learning how to stop dissociating during sex.” The trailer teases a psychosexual connection between Kris and Billy, which is sure to play out in a mind-bending stunner of a climax. We’ll see if anyone makes it out alive when Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma hits theaters on August 7.
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