After the releases and back-to-back successes of their narrative feature debut, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and their A24 film I Saw the TV Glow, writer-director Jane Schoenbrun has become a name to watch in horror. The latter of the two films, with Justice Smith and Jack Haven starring, was particularly hailed as one of the best in the genre of 2024, and helped solidify the filmmaker in the public eye with a personal story about self-discovery and themes of transgender identity. Now, they’re back with a much-anticipated follow-up that looks to explore that looks to broach similar topics through a very meta horror lens. It also has two big stars at the helm in Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, ready to enter a slasher-centric fever dream.

Mubi has released a first look at Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, spotlighting Einbinder and Anderson in a warm, yet dark setting and giving big Friday the 13th vibes with another shot of an arm shooting out of a body of water with a harpoon in hand. Schoenbrun’s latest follows a young and hungry director (Einbinder) who’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime to spearhead a resurrection of the titular Camp Miasma franchise. Not unlike many 80s slashers, it’s largely fallen out of the public eye after years of slapdash, samey sequels and waning fandom, leaving the new filmmaker with the task of finding a fresh angle. Upon visiting the original movie’s aging star (Anderson), however, she’s pulled into “a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.”