Schoenbrun's Camp Miasma Debuts at Cannes, Out August 7
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- Jane Schoenbrun's 'Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma' debuted in the Un Certain Regard competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with Mubi handling its August 7 theatrical release
- Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson lead the cast, with Einbinder as a queer filmmaker trying to resurrect a fading horror franchise by recruiting Anderson's original final girl
- Alex G composed the score, marking his third collaboration with Schoenbrun following 'I Saw the TV Glow' and their prior work together
- Jack Haven plays a new slasher who dispatches characters from the original Camp Miasma as fiction and reality dissolve into a 'psychosexual frenzy'
- The wider ensemble includes Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Eva Victor, and Jasmin Savoy Brown, with the film produced by Plan B and Mubi
- Deadline's Damon Wise called the film 'an instant midnight-movie classic' in his Cannes review, and the film will close this year's Frameline Film Festival
Why it matters: Schoenbrun's third collaboration with musician Alex G locks in the 'I Saw the TV Glow' partnership as a recurring creative engine, and Mubi doubling as both co-producer and theatrical distributor aligns the August 7 wide release with the arthouse-horror crossover audience an Un Certain Regard selection is designed to court.
