Overview
- The film will debut at the Cannes Film Festival before a U.S. theatrical rollout on August 7.
- Hannah Einbinder plays a queer director tasked with reviving the Camp Miasma franchise, and Gillian Anderson plays the series’ original “Final Girl” whom she seeks to coax out of retirement.
- Trans actor Jack Haven portrays Little Death, the franchise’s monster that Schoenbrun describes as embodying both the killer’s power and a charged vision of orgasm.
- Schoenbrun says the movie aims to be a crowd-pleasing slasher that also invites frank talk about sex, gender, and healing from trauma.
- In comments to The Hollywood Reporter cited by The A.V. Club, Schoenbrun said every major studio passed on the project except Mubi, highlighting how queer and trans stories still face narrow backing in mainstream film.