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Jane Schoenbrun makes horror movies. Exactly what type of horror movies? That’s hard to say. Their 2021 feature film debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and their 2024 breakout I Saw the TV Glow both have something akin to monsters and tense sequences. But the horror comes from something deeper, something inexplicable.
In some ways, the teaser for Schoenbrun’s latest film signals a turn towards more traditional horror concepts. Seconds into the trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a blade stabs through a frightened young woman. Later, a figure wearing what appears to be a television on their head stabs someone in a field, sending a geyser of blood into the air. Yet, these moments only come between lush shots of a filmmaker (played by comedian Hannah Einbinder) walking through a snowy field or Gillian Anderson emerging from the shadows and looking like Carmen Sandiego’s purple-clad cousin.
The trailer teaches almost nothing about the plot of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which is in keeping with Schoenbrun’s own comments about the movie. “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is my best attempt at the ‘sleepover classic,’” they told The Hollywood Reporter in May, 2025; “An insane yet cozy midnight odyssey that beckons to unsuspecting viewers from the horror section at the local video store.”
According to the few plot details released thus far, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma stars Einbinder as a queer director hired to make the latest installment in the long-running slasher series Camp Miasma. When she recruits the star of the original film to reprise her role, the director begins undergoing a series of hallucinations, which will certainly create a sense of existential emptiness and ineffable horror. Also, there will be great music and surprisingly funny jokes.
The former comes via a punk rocker called Little Death, played by TV Glow star Jack Haven. The latter involves the many comedy ringers in the cast. In addition to Einbinder from HBO’s Hacks, the film features Zach Cherry (Severance), Saturday Night Live‘s Sarah Sherman, and Kevin McDonald from The Kids in the Hall. A bit of that humor shows up in the trailer, especially the comically strange Southern accent that Anderson adopts.
However, the real draw to any Schoenbrun film is the way they play with established tropes and concepts. Like recent meta-slashers Bodies Bodies Bodies and In a Violent Nature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will play with concepts made famous by Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, and other ’80s video store fare. But, as demonstrated by a fleshy VHS receptacle straight out of Videodrome and the repeated image of a face staring at a screen, Schoenbrun will also interrogate the viewers’ relationship to violent movies.
Although Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will have elements of movies that came before, there’s no doubt that it will be something completely unique, the type of movie that only Jane Schoenbrun could make.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma releases to theaters on August 7, 2026.
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