A screening of Jane Schoenbrun's horror film, a playful homage to 1980s slasher movies, at Harbour Lights Picturehouse.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma screens at Harbour Lights Picturehouse on Sunday 13 September. It's the latest feature from director Jane Schoenbrun, who describes it as their most personal and perhaps most playful film to date.
The story is a loving, if irreverent, nod to the slasher movies of the 1980s. It reimagines the Camp Miasma franchise through the eyes of Kris, played by Hannah Einbinder, a filmmaker hired to reboot the series. To do it, she tracks down the original 'final girl', Billy, played by Gillian Anderson — a reclusive former star still living on the camp site. Their meeting is the heart of the film, and as it unfolds, the boundaries between fiction, memory and desire start to blur.
Schoenbrun draws on classics like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp and Psycho, using the language of horror to look at identity, embodiment and transformation. It shares a lot of ground with their previous work, We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, both of which were fascinated by portals — those thresholds between different worlds, different selves and different stories. This one carries that same thread, just dressed up in a slasher setting.
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It's a horror film that's as much about the people behind the screen as the ones in front of it, and if you've followed Schoenbrun's work before, this feels like a natural next step. The screening is at Harbour Lights Picturehouse in Southampton on Sunday 13 September.
