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Updated · The New Yorker · Aug 14
Hannah Einbinder Promotes 'Camp Miasma' at 2 British Columbia Camps, Discussing Costumes and Candy
Updated
Updated · The New Yorker · Aug 14

Hannah Einbinder Promotes 'Camp Miasma' at 2 British Columbia Camps, Discussing Costumes and Candy

3 articles · Updated · The New Yorker · Aug 14

Summary

  • 31-year-old Hannah Einbinder used a visit to East Village costume store Halloween Adventure to discuss her new film, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” a horror-comedy directed by Jane Schoenbrun.
  • In the movie, Einbinder plays a filmmaker rebooting a slasher franchise and shares a sexual encounter with Gillian Anderson’s reclusive former “final girl” before being chased by a spear-wielding killer named Little Death.
  • Einbinder said key details were shot practically, including candy-wrapper set dressing and a blood-spitting scene, adding that neither she nor Anderson broke character during filming.
  • Two British Columbia camps doubled as the movie’s setting, while Einbinder contrasted that with her own Connecticut camp memories, which she described as arts-focused rather than scary apart from getting a tick.

Insights

How do flesh-like practical effects and a candy-wrapper romance redefine the traditional slasher in Jane Schoenbrun’s new queer horror-comedy?
Can the psychological rhythm of comedy perfectly mirror a spear-wielding killer's tension, as Hannah Einbinder claims in her latest film?