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Jane Schoenbrun has truly done it again. Coming in fresh off of the success of their last film, I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Schoenbrun's next film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes us on a psychosexual rollercoaster through the lens of a classic summertime slasher flick. On Saturday, July 25th, I was fortunate enough to attend an early screening of the film at Portland's own Tomorrow Theater, followed by a Q&A with Schoenbrun and lead actress Hannah Einbinder.
When asked about her first reaction to reading the script, Einbinder stated:
"I think what excited me about it was knowing so much of (Jane's) work is incredibly personal and so many of their emotional experiences or their various like, you know, truths that they have walked through are imbued in their work and so knowing that when I started reading this that maybe this was like ("I Saw the TV Glow"), true to them... parasocially I was like 'Yay! This is awesome!'"Embed from Getty Images
Einbinder goes on to discuss how Camp Miasma is hard to place in a specific category because of its multiple genres and refuses to be defined as one specific thing or place:
"I've stopped trying to categorize it into like a narrow genre definition... You can't really box it in but I was just so moved by it and thought it was really meaningful as a next chapter for their (Schoenbrun's) storytelling".
Jane Schoenbrun talked about their reaction to audiences' response to Camp Miasma so far:
"We were talking at dinner about how most good art probably comes from, like, the fear of embarrassment. If you're not a little afraid that you are going to just totally embarrass yourself, if you're not taking a risk, then the thing will probably not be as good or [as] bad you know?...this movie is, tonally, very different from the other films I've made and similar in some ways but, yeah, just being, like, my full personality and being weird and goofy and, yeah it's a very gay and campy movie. It really did come from what we were talking about, this space of freedom and emancipation from embarrassment which I think is just a really good place to be working from, personally speaking. To bring it to audiences who are able to want to tap into it...that's awesome".Standard code Embed from Getty Images
The film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma premieres in theaters Friday, August 7, 2026.
Head over to the PAM CUT - Tomorrow Theater if you're in the Portland area for more events and exclusive screenings like this one.
