Blake Simons

Blake Simons is a film journalist and programmer with a taste for the self-reflexive, sentimental and surreal. Specialising in contemporary Japanese and queer cinemas, they enjoy speaking with filmmakers about what makes them and their films tick.

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: Jane Schoenbrun’s open-hearted slasher is playful about sex and cinema

The American director’s third feature explores the relationship between the spectator and the spectated with a meta story of a young director who has been tasked with reviving a cult horror franchise and goes in search of its original ‘final girl’ Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson).

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: Jane Schoenbrun’s open-hearted slasher is playful about sex and cinema
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