Jane Schoenbrun, the writer and director of the much-acclaimed film I Saw the TV Glow, not only has a fantasy novel in the works, but also has the title for their next feature.
In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Schoenbrun shared that their next movie has the title Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The film is “funnier and grislier” than their previous works and is about, according to the magazine, “a queer filmmaker hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise. The director fixates on the prospect of casting the ‘final girl’ from the original movie, and the two women descend into a frenzy of psychosexual mania.”
The article also describes how Schoenbrun has “long been fascinated by the gender deviance connecting its killers—from Psycho’s Norman Bates to Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs—and was convinced that this array of sadists, perverts, and psychopaths had ‘created and codified an idea of transness as monstrous.’”
The director hopes to both “honor and critique” that lineage with their next film. The project is still in its early days, so no news when Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will go into production. We do know, however, that Schoenbrun is partnering with Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave producer Jeremy Kleiner for it.
