Candy-Coated Slasher Dreams: Schoenbrun Rewrites Camp Miasma

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Director Jane Schoenbrun uses nostalgia and ritual to deconstruct the slasher genre, framing fear and desire as interconnected and exploring trans identity through candy, campy spectacle, and a meta-horror lens in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
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