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Jane Schoenbrun to Tour with ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Ahead of Theatrical Run
Camp is in session this summer, as Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will embark on a screening tour ahead of its August 7 theatrical release from Mubi.
Revealed by IndieWire, the preview screening schedule is as follows:
- Monday, June 1 – NewFest Pride – New York, NY
- Thursday June 11 – Provincetown Film Festival – Provincetown, MA
- Saturday, June 27 – Frameline – San Francisco, CA
- Friday, July 17 Fantasia Fest – Montreal, QC, Canada
- Saturday, July 18 – Camp Rocky Woods – Medfield, MA
- Saturday, July 25 – Pam Cut Tomorrow Theater – Portland, OR
Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) and star Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) will be in attendance for all but the Medfield screening; that one will be an outdoor double feature with Sleepaway Camp.
The sapphic meta horror film, which also stars Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”), had its world premiere last night at the Cannes Film Festival to open the Un Certain Regard section. It was reportedly met with a nine-minute standing ovation.
In the film, after years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Amanda Fix (Lowlifes), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), Eva Victor (Sorry Baby), Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Sarah Sherman (“Saturday Night Live”), Patrick Fischler (“Twin Peaks”), Dylan Baker (Trick ‘r Treat), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Scream), Kevin McDonald (“The Kids in the Hall”), Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam), and Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow) round out the cast.
Produced by Mubi and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is rated R for “bloody violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and some language.”
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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