If you thought Jane Schoenbrun was going to follow up the mind-bending, queer fever dream that was I Saw the TV Glow with something normal, congratulations - you were absolutely wrong and should feel a little silly about it.
The trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has arrived, and yes, that is the real name of the film. Say it out loud at a dinner party. Watch what happens to people's faces.
What we're actually dealing with here
According to Mashable, the film stars Hannah Einbinder (of Hacks fame) and the one and only Gillian Anderson, two names that, when combined with a Schoenbrun script, suggest we are in for something genuinely unhinged in the best possible way.
The trailer signals a meta slasher - meaning the film is very much aware it is a slasher film, and it wants to have a very pointed conversation with you about that fact while also probably murdering someone. Think Scream energy, but filtered through the kind of brain that made a movie about two girls getting absorbed into a suburban television signal.
Why this actually matters
Schoenbrun has become one of the most genuinely exciting voices in American horror precisely because their films aren't horror in the traditional "boo, jump, credits" sense. I Saw the TV Glow used the genre as a vehicle for exploring identity, dissociation, and the very specific dread of not quite fitting inside your own life. It was devastating in a way most mainstream horror doesn't even attempt.
A meta slasher from that same mind is a fascinating pivot. Where TV Glow was slow and suffocating, a slasher framework - even a self-aware one - suggests something faster, sharper, and possibly much more willing to be genuinely funny about the whole thing. Einbinder, who has serious comedy chops, and Anderson, who radiates "I am in control of every situation" energy at all times, feel like very deliberate casting choices.
The title is doing a lot of work
Let's not breeze past the name. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is engineered to be controversial, to get attention, and to immediately tell you this film has absolutely no interest in being polite about what it is. It's a provocation before you've seen a single frame. That's kind of brilliant, honestly.
No release date has been confirmed yet, but the trailer is out and the internet is already having its feelings about it. Keep an eye on this one - Schoenbrun doesn't make films that are easy to ignore, and this looks like it has no intention of breaking that streak.
