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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Preview)
Filmhouse88 Lothian Road
Sun 9 Aug · 19:30
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Members' presale until Friday 24 July, 12pm. This is a special preview screening of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma , ahead of its full release on Friday 21 August . Book tickets for two or more of our Looking Camp Right in the Eye films in the same transaction to receive a discount! Filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) has been tasked with directing a film reboot of the popular Camp Miasma horror films, a slasher franchise losing its audience after many years of poorly put-together sequels. While researching her project, Kris tracks down the first film’s “final girl” Billy (Gillian Anderson), now an eccentric, Norma Desmond–like hermit who lives on the site of the very summer camp where the films were shot. Their connection leads to an unexpected emotional and sexual bond that opens up Kris in ways she never could have anticipated, and leads the two into a world full of blood, lust, delirium and (little) death. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is director Jane Schoenbrun’s most personal film yet - as well as perhaps their most purely enjoyable. Paying homage to disreputable genres, with the eponymous fictional slasher franchise inspired by the hyper-sexualized - and often transphobic - horror films of Schoenbrun’s youth, while imbuing its deeply interrogative nature with a sense of genuine play, Schoenbrun’s film reveals a major turning point in the career of this groundbreaking auteur.
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