Hannah Einbinder has reunited with the entertainment industry following the conclusion of five seasons of Hacks, where her character Ava Daniels developed a complex professional and personal dynamic with Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance. The actor is now taking on a lead role in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a new horror film from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun that explores similar thematic territory of intergenerational connection.
In the film, Einbinder portrays a queer director working on a slasher franchise sequel who becomes fixated on casting Gillian Anderson, who played the original film’s final girl, in her new project. The professional pursuit evolves into psychological and sexual tension between the two characters. Einbinder acknowledged the pattern in her recent work, noting that she gravitates toward roles featuring older female characters and citing a lyric from a Sabrina Carpenter song about this tendency. She drew inspiration from films including Secretary, The Duke of Burgundy, and David Cronenberg’s Crash when developing her character’s dynamic with Anderson.
Anderson, who has previously avoided horror films due to a negative experience watching one in childhood, undertook research into the cultural significance of the final girl trope in the genre. Director Schoenbrun drew on personal experience when conceptualizing the film, describing it as an exploration of sexual self-discovery and bodily autonomy following transition. The director noted that the film’s title came to them intuitively and served as a foundation for the narrative. Schoenbrun referenced their previous features We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow as similarly grounded in personal experience.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is scheduled for theatrical release Aug. 7.
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