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Six Slasher Films That Gave Director Jane Schoenbrun's Meta-Horror Movie ‘Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Its Edge
['Ariel Lebeau', 'Jesse Hassenger', 'Abe Beame', 'Alex Pappademas', 'Corey Atad', 'Frazier Tharpe', 'Gabriella Paiella', 'Esther Zuckerman']
GQ
Their new film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, out August 7, is a winking meta-slasher, both an exaltation and an academic audit of the genre and all its time-honored tropes and sexual subliminals.
As the two get to unpacking their respective relationships to the Miasma movies (and their archly-named killer, Little Death), subconscious fears and desires rise to the surface that can’t be outrun.
Miasma is particularly interested in the refractive link between image and desire: how does media shape our fantasies, and in turn, our fantasies shape media?
It's an incredibly faithful shot-for-shot remake of the original film, keeping all of the '50s pastiche, but kind of casually updated for the '90s.
If you watch these films, they're intensely technical.