Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun, 2026)

[The Narrator Returns]

Jane Schoenbrun's next film will be titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which they reportedly described as being a cross between Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Friday the 13th. Additionally, they told Gregg Araki that it will be

all about sex—essentially a movie about learning to enjoy sex after transition. Pre-transition, it wasn’t that I was asexual—I had plenty of desire—but having good sex in the wrong body was impossible. What was available was full dissociation, which is obviously a theme in the first two films. … This is literally what my next movie is about, learning to enjoy sex. Just a fun movie about learning how to overcome sexual trauma and stop dissociating during queer sex.

This will shoot this summer with a release next year from Mubi, and it stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

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Jane Schoenbrun's next film will be titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which they reportedly described as being a cross between Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Friday the 13th. Additionally, they told Gregg Araki that it will be

all about sex—essentially a movie about learning to enjoy sex after transition. Pre-transition, it wasn’t that I was asexual—I had plenty of desire—but having good sex in the wrong body was impossible. What was available was full dissociation, which is obviously a theme in the first two films. … This is literally what my next movie is about, learning to enjoy sex. Just a fun movie about learning how to overcome sexual trauma and stop dissociating during queer sex.

This will shoot this summer with a release next year from Mubi, and it stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

This sounds great. I am begging them to come up with literally any other title for the thing.

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

I'm beginning to get the sense that Jane Schoenbrun is quite the Videodrome fan.

[bdsweeney]

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

I'm beginning to get the sense that Jane Schoenbrun is quite the Videodrome fan.

Despite not being as fond of I Saw the TV Glow as many were, this looks pretty fun.

Anyone recognise which Blue Nile/Paul Buchanan song that is? Shazam isn’t helping.

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I thought the font used for the cast and crew names as well as "Coming To Theaters Soon" was the same used for Twin Peaks.

[Matt]

Oddly, the trailer seems to have disappeared from the EW site linked, so here it is on YouTube.

I thought the font used for the cast and crew names as well as "Coming To Theaters Soon" was the same used for Twin Peaks.

Oh, definitely. Schoenbrun proudly wears her influences on her sleeve and is a huge "Twin Peaks" fan. And apart from the clear references to Lynch and Cronenberg and the Friday the 13th series, there's a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with the punk outfit/mohawk wig.

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Anyone recognise which Blue Nile/Paul Buchanan song that is? Shazam isn’t helping.

Seems that's because it's a new song created for the film called Pain Is the Heart of Love

Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alex G (aka Alex Giannascoli) has composed the original score for Jane Schoenbrun’s upcoming horror feature Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. He has also collaborated with The Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan on an original song (Pain Is the Heart of Love), which is featured in the first teaser trailer

[Never Cursed]

Won the Queer Palm at Cannes!

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Jane Schoenbrun's next film will be titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which they reportedly described as being a cross between Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Friday the 13th. Additionally, they told Gregg Araki that it will be

This will shoot this summer with a release next year from Mubi, and it stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

This sounds great. I am begging them to come up with literally any other title for the thing.

I jumped to this thread precisely because of the title!

[brundlefly]

Oddly, the trailer seems to have disappeared from the EW site linked, so here it is on YouTube.

I thought the font used for the cast and crew names as well as "Coming To Theaters Soon" was the same used for Twin Peaks.

Oh, definitely. Schoenbrun proudly wears her influences on her sleeve and is a huge "Twin Peaks" fan. And apart from the clear references to Lynch and Cronenberg and the Friday the 13th series, there's a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with the punk outfit/mohawk wig.

Trailer.

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The Cannes reactions made it sound pretty distinct (if naturally building) from TV Glow in ways the trailers still seem to be hiding in favor of that same vibe, I would not have guessed from them that this is by accounts an out-and-out comedy in addition to everything else. It’s probably better when I feel confident a trailer isn’t showing me the whole movie.

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I saw this last night and can confirm it’s out-and-out goofy like the trailers do their very best to hide, and looking at the cast list will give you a good idea of that (my favorite is Kevin McDonald not dialed down at all from an average Kids in the Hall sketch). I laughed quite a bit and once again found a lot of truth in the Schoenbrunian ideas about how our favorite art becomes extensions of ourselves; one big scene is about getting a movie’s iconography stuck in your head until it becomes a mental music video for an “uncool” song you love, which may not resonate for you but sure does for me. The whole is a stranger beast than TV Glow or World’s Fair, making the metaphors less metaphorical than ever but with that hammer clarity muddled into dots only a particular movie loser could connect (said affectionately and as a self-diagnosis, though it’s more of an issue that I don’t care about slashers than it was with creepypastas or Buffy). I look forward to August when I can try to sort out this combo of troubling ache, blatant and moving wish fulfillment, and sour satire that it all but admits is out-of-date. And I certainly look forward to hearing the final needledrop again, which calls back to a throwaway line from TV Glow to sum things up clearer than Schoenbrun does.

[albucat]

Glad to hear it. I read Jane's book and it's kinda just TV Glow 2.0 for about 80% of its story, which gave me some worries about Camp Miasma. I'd love to see something much stranger than that.

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I was also worried about this being a retread and, whether you're into what it's doing or not, it's setting its own path while still being recognizably theirs. It feels like a bit of a response to how quickly their style hardened into the generic "Schoenbrunian", and I'm not surprised the book might be the trend towards self-parody that prompted this outright parody.

[Lowry_Sam]

I (regrettably) passed on this a few weeks ago when it closed Frameline (SF LGBTQ film fest), I figured I could spare myself $30 just to see it at The Castro a month or so early (I was getting annoyed with the renovations by the end of the festival which makes the theater noisier). No matter how weird it is I doubt I will find it worse than Rose Of Nevada which I went to instead (and my first walkout in years).