This summer has been a historic one for horror, with low-budget indies Obsession and Backrooms setting one box-office record after another while films like Hokum, Leviticus, and Evil Dead Burn solidified the genre’s hold on theaters. It’s rarely been a better time to love scary films, which is why it’s disappointing to find that the season’s latest highly anticipated release—from one of cinema’s up-and-coming auteurs—stops this remarkable hot streak in its tracks.
Jane Schoenbrun makes horror movies unlike anyone else. However, with their first two features—We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow—such novelty produced uneven genre fare about identity, media, and body and gender dysphoria.
Those subjects are again at the forefront of the director’s third feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (August 7, in theaters), whose florid title is in keeping with its self-conscious riff on Friday the 13th and its slasher ilk.
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