Fresh off of a well-deserved win at the Emmys and a dramatic acceptance speech (Go Birds!), Hacks star Hannah Einbinder is set for her first major movie role — and it just might be a big breakthrough for both her and its buzzy director. The movie is called Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and it’s going to be the third film from Jane Schoenbrun, the director of clever, genre-twisting psychological horror movies We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. They seem like a great match, for a number of reasons, and pairing a newly minted Emmy winner with a filmmaker who is on an obvious upward trajectory could make for something particularly exciting.
Einbinder was an up-and-coming comedian before joining Hacks, where she plays a young comedy writer working with an older stand-up, played by Jean Smart (who has won multiple Emmys for her role in the show). Her only movie role before Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma was a cameo in Mikey Alfred’s low-budget skateboarding movie North Hollywood, which starred Ryder McLaughlin, Vince Vaughn, and Miranda Cosgrove. Einbinder also happens to be the daughter of originalSaturday Night Live cast member Laraine Newman, which is pretty cool even if it doesn’t necessarily have any bearing on how good Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will or won’t be.
What Is ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ About?
In early 2025, Schoenbrun told Collider that their next movie was going to have a ton of “blood, gore, sex, fluids, nudity, etc.,” and in case the title isn’t a big clue, it sounds like it’s going to be a spin on Friday the 13th and other slasher classics like that. Speaking with The New Yorker in 2024, Schoenbrun said that it will be about a “queer filmmaker hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise” who wants to cast the original final girl from the old movie in the new one, only for the two of them to end up in “a frenzy of psychosexual mania.” They also said it will “honor and critique” the legacy of transgender identities being seen as “monstrous” in horror movies like Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Gillian Anderson, who is obviously best known for The X-Files, will be starring opposite Einbinder.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma sounds exactly like the kind of thoughtful, meta take on the horror genre that Schoenbrun is building their career on, after We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’s take on self-expression and YouTuber culture and I Saw the TV Glow’s representation of gender identity through beloved ‘90s genre television shows. That being said, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma apparently isn’t part of what Schoenbrun calls their “screen trilogy,” which includes their two previous films and an upcoming novel called Public Access Afterworld that carries the themes of the two movies more explicitly. That means Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is the first step in the next phase of their career, and for horror fans who are looking forward to seeing what Schoenbrun does next, that’s exciting.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma doesn’t have a release date or anything yet, but it will be distributed by Mubi at some point. And, hey, not to tell Mubi how to do its job, but the star of the movie just won an Emmy. It seems like it would be smart to catch a ride on the hype and put a trailer or release date out there.
via Collider